MN GCE Portfolio

This is my third and final action project for my humanities class called Rhetoric. In this class we learned and discussed different way of presenting arguments, ideas and truths. We talked about how rhetoric plays into not just campaigns and in politics, but how everything is a form or rhetoric. In this unit we focused mainly on the rhetoric and meaning of art. We talked about outside artists, who are people who are not part of the mainstream or the art world elite nor conform to the confines of the typical art form. For this action project we had to create a piece of art that related to a social issue of our choice that we felt that we had something to say about. After creating it we had to explain why we created what we did and what we were trying to express and start a discussion about. In the images you can see images of the two pieces of art that I created for this project. MN ("I Will Not Be Silenced" Art #1) 2017 MN ("BE YOUR OWN F**KIN HERO" Art #2

This is my third and final action project for my humanities class called Drama. In this class we read plays and look at the historical context and what we can learn from them. In this unit we read A Raisin In The Sun. While reading it we learned about the different forms of racial inequality that were going on at the time, specifically the housing crisis.For this action project we had to write a prologue addressing a scene in the play and give our opinion on the story as well as the opinions of the people that we interviewed in the external part of the unit. I chose to address the scene between the character Beneatha Younger and Asagai. Asagai is an exchange student from Nigeria who goes to school with Beneatha. In the scene Beneatha is trying to talk to Asagai about his culture and learn about it from his perspective. Instead of answering her questions he dismisses her as an appropriator. I disagree with his opinion so that is why I chose to write about that. We also had to take a p

Student Showcase (2017) Over the course of this school year I took a class called Health and Wellness. In this class we learned about self-awareness, community building and goal setting. For the culminating event for this class we volunteered at a student showcase that demonstrated the forms of dance that the schools that participating learned. My role was mostly working on sound, although I did help out with a few other minor jobs as well. Before working on this event I didn't know much about the intricacy's of working in a sound booth so it was quite a new experience. I also had to use communication skills to get all of the information needed to run sound. If I were to do this again I would have sent out requests for all of the songs prior to the event so I would not have been as stressed out the day of.

This is my second action project for my Humanities class called drama. This is was about reading different plays throughout history and looking at the context of the story and what we can learn from that. In this unit we read a play called A Doll's House set in Norway in the late 1800s, it is a story about a woman named Nora and a part of her marriage. For this action project we got into groups of three and write a script and then make a video acting it out. For this video I worked with MDS and KM . The video that we made had to have three characters, the first being Nora from A Doll's House, the second character had to be a historically significant person and the third and final person had to be a person acting as themselves with there own beliefs. In the video we had to have a discussion about the question "Should men & women have different roles in society?". My role in this scene was myself, MDS played the famous Carrie Fisher and KM played Nora. A Q

This is my first action project for my Humanities class called class called Drama. In this Class we read different plays and sonnets to learn the meaning behind them and how to interpret them. In this unit we read Shakespeare's play The Taming of The Shrew, about the Lady Katherina and it is set in Victorian Florence. Lady Kate is a strong willed woman who doesn't want to give into the standards that women are held to at the time, and she most diffidently doesn't want to get married. Throughout the story she is beaten down until she can no longer fight back and eventually becomes 'tamed'.  For this action project we had to choose a character from The Taming of The Shrew and write a sonnet giving them advice. I chose to address Lady Kate because I wanted to speak about the strength that she proved the had but still gave up. When writing this sonnet I struggled with trying to use a Shakespearean vocabulary. I was only able to do that by going back through the play a

This is my second action project for my STEAM class Stage Chem. This project is a follow up to the previous AP, where we chose a space we had access to and turned it into a blueprint for a theater. For this project we turned the blueprint into a scale model, that demonstrates two elements of our choice. The elements I chose were the doors that serve at the curtains and the stage lights. I enjoyed doing this project because it was challenging, but it was still fun. I struggled when measuring out the cardboard because the length of the walls all ended in fractions of inches. MN (Mar 28 2017) Model Stage Birds-Eye View MN (Mar 28 2017) Model Stage Right View MN (Mar 28 2017) Model Stage Left View The first element that I chose to represent was the doors doors that retract into the walls that function as the show's curtains. On of the main reasons I chose this space for my theater is because these doors are already there. They take up 1/3 of the 22 1/2 f

This is my first action project for my STEAM class called Stage Chem. In this class, we looked at the layout of different theaters, the amenities that they have and what makes a good theater. The theater that we look at the most was the Goodman theater in downtown Chicago. For this action project we had to choose a space that we had access to and turn it into a theater for a show of our choice, then turn that into one big blueprint and six smaller ones looking the micro details of the space. I chose to tell the latest story from the Harry Potter world, The Cursed Child, and show it at my house. I had quite a bit of trouble getting all of the measurements for the space, because there are so many rooms with quite a lot of detail. Eventually I managed to get help from other people and I even found a few accurate but time saving tricks to get all of the measurements. I did like the challenge that this project posed, because of all of the work that was entailed, even though I got less sleep

This is my third and final action project for my Humanities class, Forbidden Books. This unit was about diversity, and although this was a very brief unit we looked at the importance of diversity in literature, and how the lack of it can affect a society. We also read The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian , which is a story that depicts racism from the perspective of a young boy living in the modern world. For this action project we watched the movie based off of the novel, The Color Purple and then look at why the novel was banned in so many places. Flower Cranesbill Bloom Blossom Flowers Blütenmeer (2016) Web: Max Pixel When Celie was just 14 years old her father gave her away to Mister in place of her sister, Nettie. Not too long after Celie was forced into a life of servitude as ‘Misters’ wife, Nettie runs away from their father and takes refuge in Celie’s new home. While she is staying with Celie and Mister Nettie finds herself at the end of unwanted and unwelcom

This is my second action project for my STEAM class Disease. In this unit, which is called Mind, we studied mental disorders, brain waves, and how the mind and body are interconnected. We took a trip to UIC to talk to Dr. Ronayne about his work and to walk through how doctors diagnose both mental and physical diseases and disorders. The purpose of this action project was to create a simulation to demonstrate what a daily experience of someone with a mental disorder could be like. I chose to simulate Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, because I personally have ADHD so I already had an idea of how to display it. I had enjoyed this project immensely, mostly because I was able to accurately explain the way my brain works to my classmates on a scientific and personal level. A quote that feel perfectly my experience with ADHD was spoken by Rowan Moon, the sister of a YouTuber I watch regularly: "It’s like you’re in a corridor, most people get an empty one, they can think in