MN GCE Portfolio

In every person's life, each person is presented with a challenge. When faced with that challenge they must surrender or endure. For my class Endurance, we discussed and studied how others have endured challenges great and small. For our first project, each of us decided upon a mission for ourselves. The mission I set for myself was to become a better artist. For this project, we had to dedicate 12 hours to our mission and document the process. I spent my time working on one painting and it was both easier and harder than I expected it to be. I have worked on a number of paintings in my life and going into this I was already aware of the mental blocks that come with creating art.  The greatest challenge of this painting was the size and scope I set out with. With a 4x7ft canvas and 6 figures in the composition, I started to regret my ambitious planning. I am also unhappy that I was unable to finish the painting in 12 hours, though it was not a surprise. I am planning on finishing i...

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 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 ...

This is my first and only action project for my humanities course called Ollywood. In Ollywood we learned about the history of film and the process of producing them. We had 3 sections to this class, called Pre-Production, Production, and Post-Production. In Pre-Production we learned about how to write a screenplay, location scouting, set and costume designing and a number of other jobs. In production we learned all about directing, cinematography, lighting and the the jobs of the actors. In Post-Production we learned about editing, soundtracks, and the creation of sound effects. Since this class was only 5 weeks long and we had so many topics to cover I had a hard time keeping up with all of the information that we were given. I eventually adjusted to the fast pace of this class and really enjoyed learning about the complex process of creating and reviewing a film once this happened. For this action project we were put into groups to review a film of our choice by looking at the Pr...