SR GCE Portfolio

This term, I decided to explore photography to demonstrate expression by doing portrait photography. Before choosing my independent study, I was contemplating if I should continue photography or do something a bit different like surreal face painting. While contemplating my options, I thought it would be a good idea to do surreal face painting, and take it a step further with professionally documenting my work by taking photos. My goal throughout this independent study was to improve the way I shoot and become more comfortable with snapping pictures and editing them. Additionally, I wanted to learn some skills and techniques when it came to face painting. Instead of using a regular canvas I wanted to see what it would be like to use the face as one instead and to become familiar with face painting in a different sense. I was really excited to learn new things about these two different kinds of art, but I was also excited about reaching out and working with people I know and new people ...

Unfortunately, this is the final unit of our STEAM class, Cure. Throughout this unit, we learned how to prevent diseases before being diagnosed with them. We briefly learned about probability and the ways it can affect the possibility of getting a disease or illness. In class, we created a family tree by talking to our parents or any family members about our history of diseases or a common disease that may run in the family. For example, diabetes, heart failure, cancer, Alzheimer's, etc. I found this activity interesting because I have never really thought or even looked into the diseases that are passed down in the family or any diseases that have occurred in the family. For this action project, we created a patient profile where we played doctor and patient. We had the option to either create a fictional patient or a real patient. For the profile, we had to create a medical history for the patient and list the risk assessments, nutrition recommendations, lifestyle advice, etc. Fo...

In the third, and final unit of our class, Drama we read the play, A Raisin In The Sun. Which takes place in the 1950s in Chicago while there was blockbusting, segregation, and discrimination. This play focuses on a black family that lives in the South Side of Chicago with many different dreams of kinds of dreams. In class, we have been learning about what is the matriarch and how it can be perceived with some people dividing gender. A matriarch is described as someone or something that strong, decision maker, and the leader. An example of a matriarch is Mama from, A Raisin In The Sun. She was the head of the house, the matriarch. For this action project, we had to choose a scene and a character from, A Raisin In The Sun and create a commentary of the acts of the character throughout the scene. We had to comment on the negative and positive qualities the character we chose demonstrated in the specific scene. At the end of the commentary, we had to give a lesson that we learned from tha...