During a recent project in my English class, we explored the concept of theme, as well as many writing strategies that authors use to enhance their work. As a final product, I created a personal narrative that describes an important event in my life. I chose to write about an incident that occurred when I […]
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Le projet de vêtements
In my French II class, we just completed our clothing unit. For a final project, my partner, Jean, and I created a video using verbs, possessive adjectives, colors, and clothing vocabulary. In the video we produced, we talked about the clothing we were wearing and visited a department store where we reviewed and purchased a […]
Was J.P. Morgan a Captain of Industry or a Robber Baron?
In my History class, during our Industrial Revolution unit, my group members and I put the Industrialist J.P. Morgan on trial. J.P. Morgan was a financier, who combined companies to save them from bankruptcy. We set up a mock trial, with three witnesses, a prosecutor, and a defense attorney. The goal was […]
What is Bipolar Disorder?
During our Mental Health unit in Health Class, my group and I created a presentation about a mental illness. Our group chose Bipolar Disorder, which is an illness including mood swings that range from depressive lows to manic highs. This disorder affects nearly 2.3 million American citizens today. Embedded above is the presentation we created, […]
The Anti-Federalist Papers
In a recent project about the U.S. Founding Documents, my group and I created a presentation on the Anti-Federalist Papers. The Anti-Federalist Papers were the collective voice of the local and state politicians who disagreed with the ratification of the Constitution, the papers argued that a Bill of Rights needed to be added first. To […]
Personality Collage
Personality is defined as the emotional, physical, and mental characteristics of an individual. Each trait in an individuals personality is determined by one of four factors. These would be the persons’ self-concepts or beliefs, their environment, cultural influences, and hereditary traits. In Health class, I was tasked with creating a collage that represented how I […]
Mon Arbre de Famille!
In my French 1 class, we just finished our third unit, La Famille (the family). The unit covered family members, descriptions, personality, -ir and -re verbs, showing possession, and adjective verb agreement. Once we finished La Famille, we did an End of Unit Assessment on verbs and family vocabulary, and were then given a project. […]
Ankle Foot Orthosis Design Challenge
In my PLTW (Project Lead the Way) Design and Modeling class, my group and I were given challange to design, build and test a prototype of an Ankle Foot Orthisis for a patient with Cerebral Palsy. We created an innovative AFO to restrict downward movement of the ankle by our patient and solve thier walking […]
Identical Quadratics!
For this week’s Portfolio Problem, I chose to work on the Identical Quadratics situation. This problem tasked me to fill in blank spaces in order to create three equation that would result in the same parabola. To fill in the blanks, I could only use whole numbers between 0 and 9, and I could only […]
Racing Cars! Interactive Desmos Activity
This week in math class, we challenged to solve one of four different math problems that dealt with equations and inequalities. The goal was to go in depth in finding the solution to the problem and then reflect on how we solved it. I chose to complete a Desmos Activity called Racing Cars! that was […]