SR GCE Portfolio

In my class, Rhetoric we have continued to use what we have lived in unit 1 into, unit 2 by studying the status quo and how we are able to change that. In this unit, we wanted to push out Rhetoric skills and analyze the situation while using them. For example, we took a look at the Nixon v. Kennedy debate, spoke to striking teachers, and a mini-debate we had between De Las Casa and Christopher Columbus. Throughout this unit we had some Field Experience guests (Ugo Okere and Troy LaRaviere) come in to speak to us about how they might use Rhetoric and how it affects their everyday job/life. We also spoke to them about what the status quo means to them and what they do to challenge it. For this Action Project, we were influenced by one of our Field Experience members (Troy LaRaviere) to create an op-ed (opposite page of an editorial page). We were able to choose a topic and speak about how it challenges the status quo. For my op-ed, I decided to write and study the US's decision t...

In my first unit for my STEAM course Design & Engineering, we started off the year with going to the garden, picking up trash, and planting some flowers. After we completed that task we talked about what it means to use tools and the different things that we are capable of when using them. We went on and discussed how we can calculate the area, volume, and surface area of the garden we were working on. By doing this we also learned about vectors, Pythagorean theorem, and SOHCAHTOA and implemented these concepts in our work. Now, going into what we learned about tools, we discussed what simple tools are and how they make up different day to day objects and what it means exactly to be a designer and engineer. Throughout this process, we compared and contrasted different tools, pointing out how some parts of the tools contain simple machines inside of them. We paid close attention to this because we thought back to the tools we used to use and the common tools we see today. Some examp...