SR GCE Portfolio

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...

In class, “Who Am I?” we have been talking about Truth (The reason why I capitalize the "T" in "Truth" is because Truth has importance and has a meaning just like how our names have the first letter capitalized) and what it means to us and what is our own personal Truth. We would have class discussions about our own experiences that have impacted us as a person. We have been also reading a book called "Sophie's World" which relates to the class many ways. We have been also studying some philosophers, such as Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, etc. We have been talking about their allegories and how they might connect to us. We even went on an exciting FE to the Goodman Theater to watch the play "The Blind Date." The reason why we went there is because it talks about Truth, which is what we are focusing on in class. We had a special guest come in named Katie Moody who is a dog trainer. We had her come in so she can teach us about behavioral actions t...