SR GCE Portfolio

In this independent study, I chose to grasp my focus on different art professions that I was interested in. I decided to this because I have always loved art, and want to choose one of these professions as a career. As I have gotten older I noticed that I don’t exactly know about the different art careers that are out there, so that is what I have been doing for this independent study. At first, I started to take a look at different careers that involve art to get a better understanding of what I am actually into, and what I want to focus on. Throughout this independent study, my goal was to pick a profession that I wanted to focus on since I didn’t really know what I was specifically interested in. My plan was that when I picked the professions I wanted I would speak to different people who are in that field. Throughout, this independent study it was actually very difficult to find working artists who were willing to speak to me about what they do. As I started to take a look at

In our second unit of Forbidden Book, we were studying diversity, and how it's implanted into books. Throughout this unit, we took a look at the different meanings a book has. For this action project, we chose a banned book that we wanted to read. We had to read and analyze the book to understand the reasons why this book was banned, and who exactly banned the book. I chose to read the book Of Mice and Men which is a book written by John Steinbeck in 1937. This book is about two men migrating from Alabama to California to work on a ranch in 1937 during the Great Depression.        CC.OFMICEANDMEN.2019

In this STEAM class called Disease, we have been looking into different mental diseases and the struggles others have to experience. During this second unit, we read the book, The Reason I Jump by Naoki Higashida. This book is about a young boy who has autism. In this book, the author answered some questions people have about autism and the way he deals with his autism. In class, we also learned how to create a piecewise function by using a graph and the different brain waves people produce at any time of the day. For this action project, we had to choose a disorder to focus on and research. I chose to research insomnia. When doing this, we had to conduct a simulation for our class and demonstrate how it is to have that specific disorder. We also had to record the brainwaves of our classmates during the whole session. Definitions of insomnia According to MedicineNet, insomnia is, “The perception or complaint of inadequate or poor-quality sleep due to a number of factors, such as