SR GCE Portfolio

In this first unit of our STEAM course Cure, we learned about cell biology and the functions of a cell. We started off this term reading, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. This book is about how HeLa cells came to exist. In the 1950s, Henrietta Lacks was a woman who was diagnosed with cervix cancer. After she passed scientists discovered that her cells kept on reproducing. By doing so we also learned how cells multiply and the importance it has in humans. For this course, we also learned about different surgeries and how cells are affected by the many different procedures. For this action project, we had to conduct a slideshow about a specific type of surgery following the procedure, the cells affected, what type of surgery, post-operation, etc. For my project, I chose to learn about an enucleation which is the removal of the eye, and the process of it contains behind the operation. While conducting this project I learned so much more than I expected to. When picking t...

For this first spring unit of Drama, we did some research about Shakespeare, who he was, and he affected the way we look at literature today. We learned that Shakespeare was not only a playwright, but he was also an author of many sonnets. In class, we read one of Shakespeare's well-known plays called, The Taming Of The Shrew.  This play focused on gender roles, and "jobs" men and women had back in the 1500s. As we read this play we learned that the work that Shakespeare created was based on what was happening around him. For this action project, we had to create our own sonnet that speaks to one of the characters in the play, The Taming Of The Shrew. In the sonnet, we had to agree or disagree with the character and give them advice. While creating this type of poem we had to think about the iambic pentameter which is having ten syllables in each line, and in sonnets, we have to rhyme with every other line following the format of four lines for each quatrain. SR.TheT...