SON GCE Portfolio

In the first unit of the Humanities elective term, Ollywood, we have been learning about the elements of pre-production. Pre-production comes before a movie is made. Two important roles in pre-production are the Location Scout and Production Designer. Location Scouts find places where a movie or scenes from a movie can be filmed. We went on a field experience to Lower Wacker Drive where a chase scene from The Dark Knight and Blues Brothers were filmed. We took pictures of places where one could possibly shoot a movie. Production Designers help the setting, background, and characters stand out with props and costumes. For this AP, we were assigned to watch one of a selection of movies and summarize the plot, characters, dialogue, inspiration, stage production, and costume design through our observations. I chose to analyze the 1985 classic - Back to the Future. I hope you enjoy! -------------------- Wdwdbot. (2016) "Back to the Future Logo" Back to the Future begins w...

Welcome to my AP for the third unit of Population. For this AP, I made a video about how human population growth is affecting the chosen organism's population growth. The organism I chose to research was the elephant. The reason why I chose to research elephants is because of their unique behaviors and how their population is quickly decreasing because of humans. You will learn more about what is happening to them in the video below. My math equations appear after the video. They reflect how I got the data for the elephant population on my graph in the video. It is called a geometric sequence - a type of sequence using multiplication and division. Before we get things started, I just want to say that the things we learned in this unit are arithmetic and geometric sequences and symbiotic relationships, which are discussed below. This will be the final AP for my first STEAM class of my sophomore year. I hope you enjoy! Preserve The Pachyderms from S N on Vimeo . This is...

Hello, I am SN and I will be talking about two separate heroes and their journeys. One of the two heroes will be fictional. That means that he/she is not real and is from either a book, movie, tv show, video game, etc. The other hero is real and is someone I know and interviewed for this AP. What do these two heroes have in common? Well, they both follow the steps to Joseph Campbell’s monomyth of a hero’s journey. First, heroes have to go through separation from their own world, figuratively or literally. Second, they go through a vast majority of tests of any kind to claim the title of ‘hero’. Third, they have to return to their world after achieving the ultimate boon, symbolically or physically. The fictional hero I chose to analyze is Scott Pilgrim from “Scott Pilgrim vs the World”. One of the main reasons I chose him is because he is an awesome comic book character, and “Scott Pilgrim vs the World” is one of my most favorite movies of all time. However, I also chose him because e...

Egg Stage I wrote this piece in my house on a Sunday. It was calm and peaceful, just like all the other times I wrote a journal prompt. Then, I thought of how calm and peaceful my whole neighborhood was. It was around the time when the temperature started to drop this year, which gave me the realization of what my neighborhood had in common with itself throughout all seasons. I have always found my neighborhood to be calm and peaceful, so this is what I chose to write about. I used some descriptive language to help the reader capture the setting and what the surrounding scenery was like. Such as, "Fog is like a sheet that gets cast across all of Wilmette, covering up all sound." What you get from that sentence is that the fog is bigger than my neighborhood, and things are much quieter whenever it arrives. That is the power of descriptive language, you can tell what things are like without it being boring. The main theme of this piece is the fog. It is one thing that c...

Welcome to my second Action Project blog for Population class. In this unit, we studied how species thrive in their natural habitats and how their special traits allow them to do so. A Field Experience to the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum taught us about many different landscapes and the animals that live in them. The purpose of this AP was to discover if a certain species or organism could survive in a habitat different from it's own. The species I chose to study was the Chinese Water Dragon, also known by it's scientific name  Physignathus cocincinus. I, hypothetically, altered the Chinese Water Dragon's tropical Asian climate by drying it out. I made inferences about how this change would impact the species and how it would survive in this new climate. ---------------- Chinese Water Dragons are beautiful green lizards reminiscent iguanas, only smaller. They originate from the tropical environments of Asia, but can also be found at nearby pet stores around the...

Welcome to the second Action Project for Stories. For this AP, we were instructed to write a fable. A fable consists of a protagonist, antagonist, symbol, and lesson to teach the reader. The underlying lesson is one of the main identifying factors of a fable. Also, all of the characters in fables are animal-based. Animals help the reader to understand the traits of each character. The protagonist of this story is a mouse named Remey. He has nightmares and is afraid of anything bigger and stronger than he is. The antagonists of the story are his fears getting in the way of him making new friends. The lesson and symbols of the story are something you are going to find out yourselves - they are things with deeper meanings that I do not want to spoil for you. Do not worry! This story will be easy to understand. I really enjoyed making it, so hope you enjoy reading it.  Illustrated by "SN" Once upon a time, there was a mouse named Remey. Remey had a hard time making frie...

Welcome to my first Action Project for the class Stories. In this class, we learned the term "etiology" and what it means. Etiology is the story of how something came to be - like mankind, for example. We have been reading a lot of mythological stories on how things came to be. For this Action Project, we were instructed to create our own stories about the etiology of how something came to be. It didn't have to be real. In this Action Project, we can make up our own world. When I made this action project, I put in too many words. I struggled all night taking out words while trying to keep this story good. I did well creating the it though. I am good at setting my imagination free. If I were to re-write this story, I would have focused less on introducing all of the characters. That is probably one of the reasons why I had too many words. Anyways, we all learn from our mistakes. I hope you enjoy! "Ancient Cave Painting of  Man and Chimera Together" Illustra...