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...

We are in a STEAM class called Disease. In this class, we are learning about the 11 body systems and how they work. For this project, we had to interview someone that we knew or someone that knew someone with a disease. I interviewed someone in my family for my project because I was able to see some of the effects the condition had on my family member it was hard to come up with questions to ask my interviewee because I had to find symptoms, and I had to try and feel the same way they felt when they had this condition. Before I started my interview I needed some research so that I would at least know what I was interviewing my person on. I had to draw a body outline for the disease I chose because I had to show an image of the body systems that this condition affects. Everyone in the class chose a different disease and they talked about how their disease affects people and how the disease also affects certain body systems. We had to figure out keywords for the disease and symptoms tha...