Poetry Project
Project Description:
We started this project by reading and learning about the different kinds of poetry and varying poetic elements that important to have in our poems. We learned about metter and different styles of writing can have an impact on the message of your poem. When got to pick our topics for our poem we had a lot of freedom, and we had a lot of time to write and get critiques. To prepare for our exhibition we split into exhibition prep groups, the exhibition was run by the students.
Me Preforming
Poem
Growth as a Poet
Happiness Project Reflection
Project Description:
In the happiness project there were three different sections. The first part of the project was learning about what make can make us become happier by reading a book called Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, watching videos, and reading articles. The second part was learning about what creates happiness in life and to learn about what we can do as a society to become more happy. The second part was writing an essay on our personal opinions on what gives people happiness, and making a personal art piece that relates to our essay.
In the happiness project there were three different sections. The first part of the project was learning about what make can make us become happier by reading a book called Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, watching videos, and reading articles. The second part was learning about what creates happiness in life and to learn about what we can do as a society to become more happy. The second part was writing an essay on our personal opinions on what gives people happiness, and making a personal art piece that relates to our essay.
Happiness Easy
Project Reflection:
I feel that this project has helped me grow as a student because I realized how important it is to use my time wisely. It was hard to make my art piece and essay refined and well done if I don’t have enough time to work on both of them. We hard work time in class but if I did not use my time wisely then I would have less time to get my work done. Learning how to use my time effectively will help my future at animas, and I know that working on this skill will help me grow as a student.
My plan for this summer is to put into action the knowledge I have gained for the happiness project. The biggest thing I have learned and started to realize was how much people take what makes them happy for granted, like the things such as meaning and value. In order to work on making sure I don’t take the things that create meaning and value in my life for granted I plan on becoming more aware of the things that make my life have meaning and value. I will do this by realizing what builds meaning and value in my life and I will start to appreciating the things that create meaning and value in my life.
My biggest take-away is from reading the book Brave New World. The reason this is my take-away is because I did not understand half of what was going on in the book which made it very hard for me to comprehend the whole logistics to the book. It also make it hard for me to grasp the different things that create happiness in the character's life, and the main point in reading this book was to start see the things that can make us humans happy or happier.
I feel that this project has helped me grow as a student because I realized how important it is to use my time wisely. It was hard to make my art piece and essay refined and well done if I don’t have enough time to work on both of them. We hard work time in class but if I did not use my time wisely then I would have less time to get my work done. Learning how to use my time effectively will help my future at animas, and I know that working on this skill will help me grow as a student.
My plan for this summer is to put into action the knowledge I have gained for the happiness project. The biggest thing I have learned and started to realize was how much people take what makes them happy for granted, like the things such as meaning and value. In order to work on making sure I don’t take the things that create meaning and value in my life for granted I plan on becoming more aware of the things that make my life have meaning and value. I will do this by realizing what builds meaning and value in my life and I will start to appreciating the things that create meaning and value in my life.
My biggest take-away is from reading the book Brave New World. The reason this is my take-away is because I did not understand half of what was going on in the book which made it very hard for me to comprehend the whole logistics to the book. It also make it hard for me to grasp the different things that create happiness in the character's life, and the main point in reading this book was to start see the things that can make us humans happy or happier.
Model United Nations
Project Description: This project was designed for students to learn about the Untied Nations and comprehend and debate on current issues like North Korea and Israel-Palestine confidence. In this project every student except two were assigned a country to research and determine their current stance on the issues. The two students who weren't assigned a country were the chairs. This exhibition was a mock of the United Nations Generally Assembly.
UN Reflection:
I am most proud of the resolutions, speeches, and country research essays I wrote. I personally thought that my final product off all these writings was better than anything else I have ever written. I am not the best writer by after I finished writing my speech I realized how much I have grown on my writing skills during this project, I feel that my writing was stronger because I was able to get deep understanding of what I was writing about.
I connected the most with the Israel-Palestine conflict for a few different reasons. For starters I enjoyed researching and reading a lot of different articles on what Syria’s perspective was on the conflict even thought I was very tough to find good articles. Second I liked choosing the side that Syria was one based on the knowledge I gained for the articles I read. Lastly I enjoyed writing my speech because I had a strong opinion on the right of return for the Palestinians and so did Syria. The one thing that I think made my speech strong was the history and strong wording I put into it.
The most important thing I learned in this project was the writing learning about the UN and the understanding of the world issues about North Korea and Israel-Palestine conflict. Before this project I was not aware of the world issues that were happening, but only did I not realize what was happening but I didn’t know how they were getting taken care of. I also learned more about independent research and how it was key to use your wording.
I am most proud of the resolutions, speeches, and country research essays I wrote. I personally thought that my final product off all these writings was better than anything else I have ever written. I am not the best writer by after I finished writing my speech I realized how much I have grown on my writing skills during this project, I feel that my writing was stronger because I was able to get deep understanding of what I was writing about.
I connected the most with the Israel-Palestine conflict for a few different reasons. For starters I enjoyed researching and reading a lot of different articles on what Syria’s perspective was on the conflict even thought I was very tough to find good articles. Second I liked choosing the side that Syria was one based on the knowledge I gained for the articles I read. Lastly I enjoyed writing my speech because I had a strong opinion on the right of return for the Palestinians and so did Syria. The one thing that I think made my speech strong was the history and strong wording I put into it.
The most important thing I learned in this project was the writing learning about the UN and the understanding of the world issues about North Korea and Israel-Palestine conflict. Before this project I was not aware of the world issues that were happening, but only did I not realize what was happening but I didn’t know how they were getting taken care of. I also learned more about independent research and how it was key to use your wording.
Resolution
Policy Paper