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          This term in our humanities class called 'Forbidden Books' we learned all about religion and the history of book bannings.  During this time we read two books.  One was the 'The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian' and the other was a book of our choice.  Both books were banned somewhere and at some point in time.  These books helped us to better understand the ideas, dogma and motive of those who want to ban books like these.  Through this we took a step into their shoes whether or not we agreed with them.  Exploring points in the book that could be considered controversial helped us to later take stance on the controversial statements and decided if those things warranted a banning.  Personally in my read through of these books I found that such small misdemeanors could not possibly outweigh all the good the book offers to a reader or class of readers.  In most cases the 'bad' parts of the book were so integral to the underlying message of th

       This past month or so in my STEAM class titled 'Disease' we entered a new unit called World.  In this unit we explored how a disease spreads and defined the terms to describe the spread.  In this way we are now able to classify the severity of the disease through words like endemic, epidemic or pandemic.  In addition to all this we learned a lot from epidemics in history such as the black death and the current Covid-19 Pandemic.  we learned read about the spread of these diseases and about the experiences of living under such conditions.  Lastly we watched contagion which was a movie that scarily predicted what the Corona virus would be like.  This movie was interesting because it went over the governmental response to a disease and talked about the R0 and how the infection spreads.  After this we worked on the Action project.  We had to pick a disease to research and write a phony news article about.  Heres how it turned out... 'News Article' ER - 2023