SR GCE Portfolio

For the second to last unit of our class, A Nation's Argument, we have been looking into the Bill of Rights and the ratification in it. In the unit, we were able to gain a better understanding of the US Consitution and the fifteenth Amendments. With this investigation, we were able to get way deeper into this topic by watching the documentary, 13. This documentary was focused on the 13th Amendment, which states, "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction." We then continued to look and start thinking about American citizens and the rights that are given coming into America, and how these rights apply to immigrants. We also asked the question about how Amendments also address that topic. For this action project, we were able to go through our student handbook to amend a current school rule. I chose to amend the...

Welcome to my first Action Project for my Humanities course, A Nation’s Argument. For this unit, we looked into America's Declaration of Independence and different types of premises. Throughout this unit, we learned how to create an effective argument when using inductive and deductive premises and what the word argument really means. For Field Experiences, we went to Alderman Walter Burnett and sat in on a city council meeting to watch an ordinance being passed or not on legalized marijuana usage in Illinois to get a real taste of what argument is and how it is used in the city we live in. For this Action Project, we were able to declare our independence to create our own syllabus to create a structured independent study as a common course/class. I chose to create a course based on learning about Caribbean history. With my personal experience, I have noticed that American education is very black and white. There is not much of an in-between or outside to really inform and expose...