WH GCE Portfolio

For this second unit of our Forbidden Books class, we learned more about books that were banned, but the main part of the unit was reading a book that had been banned for out Action Project on it, which is the paper you see below. We also went on Field Experiences to a mosque, or a Muslim place of worship, and to a feminist book store, to learn more about history and why books might be banned. Below is my paper that I wrote for my Action Project, as well as a picture of the book cover. Schoolastic, The Outsiders Book Cover , 2019 In conclusion, I thought that this project was really enjoyable to do, as well as being a good amount of challenging. I really enjoyed the book that I had to read for it, and the paper went together quite easily. 

During this term for our Humanities class, Forbidden Books, we learned about Socrates and ancient Greece. We also learned about certain books, and the reasons that they were banned from places such as libraries and schools. We even read one of these books,  Fahrenheit 451 , which was a banned book at one point. For this Action Project, we were tasked with creating a video, based on a Socratic Dialogue between two characters with different opinions. One character convinces the other to their side, with a convincing argument. Below is the video that me and my partner, BA , filmed together. In conclusion, this project was difficult to finish, but was enjoyable to film and act out. It was also pretty easy to wing it and go off script with this project, but I think that we for the most part stayed on the script. I learned from this project on how to use lighting and framing effectively, and also how to use a script as a base and elaborate on top of it more in the actual recor...