ER GCE Portfolio

          These past few weeks in unit 2 of our Humanities course called stories we have been learning about the intricacies of fables. During this time we learned about the use of anthropomorphism, and dissected its use in various texts and film. Some things we dissected for this include Roald Dahl’s ‘Fantastic Mr. Fox’, The Panchatantra from India, and Aesop's fables. Lastly we talked about different types of characters like static or dynamic, and symbolism in these stories. We went in depth on the utilization of all these things so that at the apex of our unit we could adapt them to our own Fables to teach a moral. My fable is about Mr. Bear who wants to repair his family name at all costs. I loved writing this story, and I hope you enjoy it just as much as I did.                                                ...

This second unit of our population class was rather uneventful as far as FE experiences so we stayed in and watched the Martian to see how one may adapt to an unlikely environment. We saw the main character survive the desolate rock of Mars.  We then learned a lot about data sets and ways to organize and visualize them. We even learned the difference between combination and permutation which we implemented in our action projects.  This action project was on picking an animal and changing something about its natural environment. Also we adapted what we learned this unit to a dataset related to the creature of our choice. Lifespan of serval dataset A- 19 B- 19 C- 19 D- 6 E- 16 F- 12 G- 20 H- 18 I- 18 J- 17 K- 2 L- 8 M- 16 2, 6, 8, 12, 16, 16, 17, 18, 18 19,19,19,20 Maximum: 20 Minimum: 2 Range: 18 Mean: 174.941176 Median: 16 Mode: 19 Box and Whisker Plot: The Box and Whisker Plot is a helpful graph that shows how the data is distributed. You will find that this plot is very comp...

  For this action project we had to create two different codes to help you with STEAM and Humanities courses.  For my my action project I coded my own 'US to EU Conversion Pack', and an Animal Trait Picker.  For the first one I made an 'If Then' code that gives you options of which conversion you need help with.  The second one picks random traits for an animal.  It allows you to simulate an animal and use it to practice deciphering between dominant and recessive traits in animals. (We worked on this in our humanities class called 'Population') Here's the US to EU conversion pack: Here's the Animal Trait Picker: Conclusion: This project was certainly a difficult one as far as exploring and adapting new python concepts.  On one hand I enjoyed thinking up cool uses for python, and actually seeing them come to life and function. On the other I experienced the excruciating struggles that all coders suffer from; such as the code not working because you m...

9.25.22 This week in Unit 1 of my STEAM class called population, we learned about many different animals and how scientists use the defining characteristics, and taxonomy (studying living organisms to classify them in different categories to study further and identify) to identify and categorize organisms. We also learned about elements of a set which is any collection or group of objects which may be mathematical (In our case it was not mathematical but instead about organisms and their taxonomy) . For our first action project we had to pick an animal and research its characteristics and taxonomy. Additionally, we were assigned to create a collage representing those characteristics. We next had to compare each other's organisms to one another to create a Venn diagram comparing their features. For the math portion, we had to come up with 5 math statements about our animal using the sets and elements we learned. I decided to research the Serval (L. Serval). Here is my table on the c...

In our humanities class 'Stories' we have done lots of writing work and metaphor analysis. This past three-or-so weeks we have been working a lot with figurative language, and etiology (the study of causation or origination) specifically in mythological standards.  For instance we examined Norse, Greek, and Roman mythology to find origin stories like the formation of earth through the dead body of the giant Ymir in Norse mythology.  Using this as a basis we moved on to our action project.  Writing our own creation story for something and creating etiology for how it got its name.  I personally loved this Norse story for the creation of earth or Midgard, so I wrote the creation story for Earth with my own twist.  Hope you enjoy...                In the beginning there is only MT (Em - tee), a vast blank place with nothing but a void. MT was created when the Gods breathed life into the void. From this came a cataclys...

 Today my class finished up the first action projects of  our sophomore year!  We have begun the first week of our Humanities core class: Stories.  Since we had little under a week to learn about and complete this 'trial AP' we focused mainly on a mini-unit that involved mythological creatures and their symbolism. On Wednesday August 31st we took a trip to the Poetry Museum where we explored the Monica Ong exhibit.  We visited this exhibit to try and elicit some inspiration for the project.  Monica Ong had unique ways of portraying her poetry and artistry.  She used things like tarot cards and a 'viewmaster' to display her work.  Unfortunately due to lack of time I was not able to implement any of the ideas this trip provoked... Perhaps in a future AP or FP something inspired by this visit may still  come around.  Our project was to create a mythological creature of our own that symbolizes positive change in one of the sustainable develo...