ER GCE Portfolio

                  This week in our STEAM course called 'Cure' we took a very different route and delved deep into the question: How do our OTC and prescription medications do what they do? First, we took a look at the inner workings of different compounds and chemical equations. At this point, we learned to balance chemical reactions, name ionic compounds, and identify organic and inorganic compounds. Next, we learned that many medications work by halting a certain chemical or process to provide results such as pain relief. We explored this idea by further researching the effects anti-inflammatories and antihistamines have on the body. We learned that both are inhibitors that block a reaction of a bodily process by either shutting it down completely or taking up room within it thus blocking anything else from doing the same. The most interesting part of this was an experiment we did to simulate the shutting down of a bodily process. We did this by trying ‘Miracle Berry’ which i

      This unit in our humanities course Drama we asked ourselves the question: What does it mean to be called a doll.  At first this seemed like a pretty simple question.  More than likely you would have heard a gruff man with a funny accent call some woman a doll.  like "You look pretty as a doll" or "Hey, be a doll and grab me a _______."   This old phrase would be one to stick with us all throughout our unit.  Usually you might characterize a doll as pretty, young, unintelligent or completely without a will of its own only to be played with.  If you pictured barbie the idea moves to a doll for little girls which is controversial because of the hyper realistic beauty standards it insinuates.  Basically any way you cut it the phase is a bit of a red flag.        This question was the best thing to get us thinking as we began to dig into the play 'A Dolls House' by Henrik Ibsen.  This book was set in 1870's Norway during a tumultuous time for women wher

  This unit in my Spanish 2 class we talked a lot about food and cooking food. One might think that's strange for a Spanish class but it was quite on topic because topics like preterit tense of -ar, -er and -ir verbs or tú commands fit well in the format of (insert drumroll) a cooking tutorial.  As we learned these things we practiced everything separately before putting all together.  We enjoyed practice by COMMANDING people to go here or do this.   ER - 2023 "Spanish Menu" In conclusion this was a fun way to put everything together, cook a fun meal and learn more spanish.  The hard part for me that I really struggled with was writing the script because the commands are still a bit of a pain for me.  I overcame this with a little help and advice that set me on the right path towards understanding and perhaps mastery.  

 The last few weeks we have been learning and drilling the basics of calculus.  We learned about using the derivative and power rule to uncover the proper function to graph. This was definitely the most difficult AP ever.  I thought I had the main concepts down well enough but figuring out the steps was like pulling teeth.  To get though it all I had to receive some help but once I got it I felt a bunch better about the whole concept in general.