Solar Panel- BR
In our second unit of Design and Engineering class, we had to design and build a working solar panel. The purpose of this project was to understand how solar panels work and why they are the better...
View ArticleImagining a Future Utopia Poem- BR
In the second unit of our Countercultures class we had to write and perform a poem about a future utopia. That was the only information given to us and the rest was up to our imagination. I wanted to...
View ArticleWind Turbine- BR
For our final project in Design and Engineering, we had to design and build a working wind turbine. This was probably the hardest project out of all of them because we had to take what was given to us...
View ArticleAbolishing Puppy Mills- Action Project 2
For our second action project in Art of Rhetoric we had to find a problem in the world and fight for it. We did this by choosing a topic that was important to us; something we really cared about, and...
View ArticleThe Rhetoric is Right- Action Project 4
As a bonus action project in our Art of Rhetoric class we were put into groups and had to come up with a skit showing everything we have learned in the unit. My group came up with making a skit about a...
View ArticleSailboat Kinetic Sculpture
In the last unit of our art class we had to make a kinetic sculpture relating to our power animals and our elements. For me, my power animal is a spider and my element is wind. Knowing that we had to...
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The Turtle and The Nightingale
Currently we are in our civic engagement unit which is a four week course on learning about how to be civically engaged in our own community, Chicago. This year’s focus is on making short films having...
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Civic Engagement Journal
In our Civic Engagement unit this year we worked on applying a certain value of GCE to create short films. Each film is very different from the others and displays one of the four values;...
View ArticleCivic Engagement Video
For our final product in the Civic Engagement unit we made a stop motion video which is a cinematographic technique whereby the camera is repeatedly stopped and started, for example to give animated...
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There and Back Again- Mission Wolf
Last July, Gina and I went to Colorado to work and volunteer at Mission Wolf. We went with a group called the Road Less Traveled which is an organization for kids 14-18 that leads them on service and...
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