It’s come to that time of the year again when it’s time to reflect on what I have done. So far grade ten has been interesting. For good and bad, that’s why today I will be talking about what I am most proud of, my skills, all of my PLP classes and also answer the driving question which is, How are you going to progress as a learner before the end of the school year?
So to start it off I will be talking about the work I am most proud of, which is my human rights podcast which I did in humanities.
I am most proud of this because of the effort and time I put into this podcast. I feel that even though my first draft didn’t come out amazing I tried my hardest and put lots of effort and time into the final draft and I am happy with the outcome I got. Also even though my group had its ups and downs which if I were to repeat the project I would improve I still found the unit about the human rights and more specifically homelessness very interesting and it taught me a lot.
The next subject I want to talk about is math. And more specifically my project on the golden ratio. This project I feel shows what I can improve on.
From the beginning of this project I was uncertain of what I was supposed to do. I didn’t understand the concept of the golden ratio, nor how to make it into art. Because of that I feel I didn’t produce the best work I could have. In the past I have always struggled with asking teachers fo help and I know that in the future I have to and will start asking more questions when I don’t understand something.
Know I would like to talk about science and how in a specific project it showed my growth as a learner. The project I am talking about is my identical twin project.
I feel this represents my growth as a learner because at the beginning of the project me and my partner weren’t share how to make a podcast about science and dna. Though once we wrapped our heads around the idea we got a sense of what we wanted our podcast to be like. Also I feel we were creative and I was happy with the results we got.
And finally my maker class. I would like to talk about the unit Everyone has a Story.
I feel that in this project it showed my growth as a learner, some of my weaknesses as well as that I am proud of it. The reason for all of that is because of how much time and effort I put in. One of the downfalls though was that I could have planned my time more effectively.
Also I feel that myself and my group could have more effectively planned our room since I feel that it was thrown together at the last minute.
Overall I know in the months to come I have things to improve such as time management, group work and more. Though to end this MPOL I would like to ask you how you feel I could improve my blogposts in general. Since term one I have really tried to improve and put more time and effort in my blogposts and I want to see if you have noticed it and how I can thus improve it.
Recently in class we have been working on a project called everyone has a story. We were to pair up with a grade twelve PLP student who would then be our DRI for the entire project. A DRI stands for directly responsible individual, my dri was Chloe. This whole project was based on Story Corps, a website that is about spreading peoples stories.
So the first thing we were to do was interview our grade 12 partners and turn it into a story. Me and my partner talked about many different ways we could take this podcast. Here was our first attempt at making the podcast.:
We made a joint decision though that this wasn’t really a good story, so we decided to choose a different aspect and story that Chloe had.
The next story that we had was a family podcast. At first I didn’t know what to do, since my family has multiple interesting stories. Finally though I decided to ask my grandfather about a story that I had heard a few times before but didn’t know the entire story. I figured then that this was a perfect opportunity. Here is what I came up with:
Recording this I was really interested and intrigued by all the facts that I was given and didn’t know about. Plus it also made me grateful for my family and made me realize how important family truly is.
The next and final podcast was about a random stranger and there story. The two previous stories were leading up to this one because our whole year is based around podcasts. Also this podcast would be done at our annual winter exhibition. Where all the PLP students present one thing or another. The grade 8’s and 9’s had blue sky about Star Wars, as I did in grade 8. So to get the stories we needed we didn’t simply interview them in the middle of the hall, but rather set up “recording rooms”. We were to be in pairs and make the room feel comfortable. This is what ours turned out to be like:
That night we were to get three stories and then take the best one. I got three interviews and two of them turned out good. I decided to go with one that I got from Janet Maxwell Russel, who is actually my teachers mum. Her story was really interesting and about being a teacher. Here is her story:
That was the final draft but before we got to that point I got this critique:
Comments From the Grade 12 TA’s:
– Lower audio on your voice is that it is the same as your interview person
– Storyline was great and your questions helped her to develop her story flow
Overall this was an interesting project and I know it will help me in the future since I will be making podcasts. Also it taught me about my family and some interesting facts I didn’t know.
On May 4th 1961 a group of seven African Americans and six white people left on a greyhound bus. These thirteen people were part of a civil rights movement named the Freedom Riders to change the segregation in interstate transit terminals. This was a massive movement that changed equality rights and peoples lives around the world.
The reason this is important because recently in class we have started a new coarse called disruption. With the main idea question being: How has technology acted as a disruption with its creation throughout history?
We have also read Little Brother, a book about when a terrorist attack goes on in San Francisco and a teenage boy named Marcus uses technology to help and save the day. So what we were supposed to do is relate a real life event that happened in the book to our main question. In the book there is a big civil rights/humanitarian aspect which mentions the freedom riders. Here is the part in the book where they are mentioned:
“You’ve heard about the civil rights movement to end segregation, white and black kids like you riding buses into the South to sign up black voters and protest against official state racism. California was one of the main places where the civil rights leaders came from. We’ve always been a little more political than the rest of the country, and this is also a part of the country where black people have been able to get the same union factory jobs as white people, so they were a little better off than their cousins in the southland.
“The students at Berkeley sent a steady stream of freedom riders south, and they recruited them from information tables on campus, at Bancroft and Telegraph Avenue. You’ve probably seen that there are still tables there to this day.”
Excerpt From
Little Brother
Doctorow, Cory
What the freedom riders did was on may 4th 1961 thirteen activists left on a grey hound to travel across the southern states such as Alabama, South Carolina, and other southern states. They wanted to allow all people to access anywhere they wanted on busses and bus stations. This was based off of the 1947 Journey of Reconciliation. The main difference between the two though is that the freedom riders included women as well.
Here are some of the freedom riders, multiple of them being women.
These people and many others were treated terribly for what they were doing. On may 14 1961 a greyhound entered Anniston Alabama and was welcomed by 200 angry white people who surrounded the bus until the bus went past the station blew its tires and then once it stopped someone threw a bomb in the bus where the freedom riders left the bus in flames. And since the freedom riders didn’t believe in fighting back they couldn’t do anything.
The bus that was set on fire
After the bus was set on fire there was another bus that was coming into town. They had to take a detour and once they stopped were attacked and harmed by many other protestors.
A news paper article about the bus
There were multiple other incidents in the following six months of the freedom riders. Many freedom riders going to jail, being harmed and even being attacked by the group known as the KKK.
A freedom rider who was injured because he was attacked on May 12th, they would use iron pipes,chains and clubs to harm people, occasionally even attacking innocent bystanders
That very same night Martin Luther King Jr. had a sermon at a church where multiple freedom riders attended. That night Martin Luther King asked Robert Kennedy for protection. Mr.Kennedy helped and pushed for it.
The freedom riders lasted six months. By the end though they won when the inter estate commerce commission issued regulations prohibiting segregation in interstate transit terminals. Meaning after they changed the law anyone could sit or go in any area in public transit.
This was an amazing thing to learn about and I learned so much. It reminded me of Rosa parks and here sitting at the front of the bus. The reason for that is because not only are they both based on busses but these people made such a stance. They changed the world we live in today, showing that everyone should truly be equal. As for how has technology acted as a disruption with its creation throughout history? Though they may have not physically made technology they changed the world dramatically. Internationally equality improved because they made such an impact. It’s also similar to little brother because Marcus (the main character) improves and changes his environment even if many people don’t agree with him.
Overall this was an amazing thing to learn and I have so much respect for the people who changed the world we live in today.
Recently in class we learned about the golden ratio. If you don’t know what that is then it is if theratio is the same as the ratio of their sum to the larger of the two quantities in rectangles. This is commonly shown as the ratio of 1:1.61803398875. We were to show this as an art project that showed an example of the golden ratio. Why is it important though? Well you can find it all around you, here are a few examples.
This is the golden ratio:
To start off what type of math project I wanted I looked for inspiration. I looked at all different types of art that featured the golden ratio.
I found a painting that I specifically liked:
This is what I made:
With the measurements:
Overall this is very interesting and I didn’t realize that the golden ratio is in so many places.
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