KRM GCE Portfolio

In Forbidden Books, we have been studying the banning of books and why certain books have been banned in certain places around the world. We visited an author, Natalie Moore, and we talked to her about the banning of her book and we asked questions about how she felt about that. It was very interesting listening to how she felt about her book being banned. Sharon taught us why certain books have been banned. Some books have been banned because of religious reasons, political reasons, and diversity reasons. We visited a mosque for the religious reasons on why books are banned because we wanted to know about the banning of books. For this AP, we had to write an 800-1300 word paper about the banning of the book we read in class. The book that I chose to read was Lord Of The Flies by William Golding. Sharon taught us how to make a thesis statement and told us what to use and what not to use in our papers. This was very helpful because I had to make sure that I was following all of the rule...

In Disease, we are working with different disorders that people have. This unit was very fun because I was able to learn new things about different disorders that people have to go through. This is my second AP in this class and I feel that I did better on this project than my first one because I made sure that I was using the rubric properly. We used the DSM 5 to help with this project because it helped us look for symptoms of our disorder. We watched simulations of different disorders and they gave me different viewpoints on everything. When we were watching these videos, I was thinking to myself, just saying that everyone is the same. People with disorders are NOT weird. They are unique. I was also able to realize what it was like to be a person that was the caregiver of the person with the disorder. We have not gone on any FE's in this class yet, but we have learned a lot in these past two units. For this project, we had to show a simulation of our disorder. Some people did a v...