SON GCE Portfolio

Welcome to the final Action Project for my first HUMANITIES class of Junior year - Rhetoric. Rhetoric is the art of persuasive speaking or writing, using figures of speech and other techniques in order to make it effective. Compared with previous units, in this unit we learned more about the history of rhetoric and how it has been used over centuries and has evolved. One of the biggest topics we went over was the history of the British Parliament versus the colonists of the United States. There was a war of words between America and England long before the revolutionary era. Although they were arguing with one another, they seemed to use the same rhetorical devices we use today to get their points across. For this action project, we were assigned to either write or create a piece of RhetoArt that symbolizes a current issue affecting the world today. I hope you enjoy! __________________ I am someone who cares about the world and the mental state of which it's people are in. The ...

Welcome to the final Action Project for my first STEAM term of Junior year - Design and Engineering. For one of my favorite FE's, we visited Working Bikes - a shop that recycles used bikes. Some are repaired and sold on the floor, but many are donated to developing countries around the world. We helped prepare a shipment of bikes for delivery to Jordan. In class, we learned about gears, gear ratios, circles and ellipses, etc. For this action project, my entire class was split into groups of two. I was paired up with JC. Using empathy, we were to design a bike for a persona assigned to us. The first thing we did was split up the different tasks in order to work through the project. JC and I had to consider all of the needs and obstacles of our assigned persona in order to design the perfect bike. Now, here we are, a complete action project about a bike that hasn't been invented for a kid who doesn't exist! Ha ha. My partner and I worked really hard and tried to be as though...