SR GCE Portfolio

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...

Throughout this term of Rhetoric, we have continued to learn and conduct a search about what it means to be rhetorical. This term really focused on the art of rhetorical and what can be demonstrated through art. Through this process, we did some research about different artists, and we had to analyze the rhetorical that we found within the pieces. For this action project, we had to create our own individual piece that tackles some type of global and current issue. When creating this piece we had to make sure that we include the concepts of pathos, ethos, and logos along with rhetorical devices. We were open to many different mediums like poetry, music, visual art, etc. I chose to create a multi-media art piece that speaks upon Puerto Rican independence. SR. PUERTORICOINDEPENDENCE. 2019 ARTIST STATEMENT: I am a sixteen-year-old Puerto Rican from Humboldt Park, Chicago. This piece is focused on the Puerto Rican Independence Movement that is currently occurring in Puerto Rico. The...

In this second and final course of the term in Design and Engineering, we were assigned to design and create a bike according to a specific person's needs. Throughout this term, we have been learning about the purpose of the functions of a bike. We took a trip to Working Bikes where we were able to get the bikes "ready" to be shipped to Jordan for those who are in need of bikes. While we were there we were able to conversate with our host Anna about the importance of bikes and how they are built in many different ways and used in different mechanisms. We also visited a bike shop called Earth Rider. We rode some electric-powered bikes and tested out what made them so different from regular bikes. Through this process, we thought about the possible ways we can change and shape a bike to make it unique while becoming useful and easy when riding it. So for this action project, we were assigned to create a bike that fit a specific person's needs based on their environment,...

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...

In this first unit of Rhetoric, we have been learning about what Rhetoric is and how we use every day without acknowledging it. If you don't know what Rhetoric is, it is effective and persuasive writing or speaking and a language that is designed to hook in a set audience. Within this unit, we had learned Rhetorical devices and the three different concepts you need to use to become a successful Rhetoric speaker. The three concepts we learned were Ethos, Pathos, and Logos. Ethos is creating trust and credibility, Pathos is demonstrating emotion to lure in the audience, and Logos is providing logic to the reader or listener. While learning all of this, we paid attention to the Democratic debate and wanted to use our Rhetoric skills as if we were the Democratic candidates. For this Action Project, we were assigned a Candidate to study and research. We had to create a question for the candidate and answer it using the three Rhetorical concepts and two Rhetorical devices. I was assigned...