KRM GCE Portfolio

In my Humanities Class, Policy, we finished our last term of this class. I am so happy that I was able to take this class because I now know what I want to be in life because of this class. This class helped me realized that I willIn class, we have been learning a lot about the Supreme Court and the types of power that this court has. For this AP, we had to chose a certain case and talk about how that certain case was involved with this case. I learned so much from this case because the one that I chose actually deals with my life as a teenager in school. I chose slideshow format for this AP because they help me gather more information and I actually understand the work that I am doing. We visited the Veteran's Arts Museum and it was so interesting being able to see actual clothing and letters from important wars gives you a different look on it. Down below is my slideshow, hope you enjoy! In conclusion, I really enjoyed making this AP. Being able to learn about my rights...

In my humanities class, Policy, we finished our second unit, Executive. We have been learning more about the Supreme Court and the different wars that took place that dealt with America. An FE that we went to during this unit was a murder trial at the Criminal Court House. This FE was very eye opening to me because I want to become a lawyer, mostly a prosecutor. It was amazing watching the prosecutor ask questions that all dealt with each other but she asked them in ways that she knew that the witness would know the answer too because the defendant would try to object but the judge would let the witness answer the questions only if she had any knowledge about it, which she did. It was so inspirational but it made me think about how the prosector worded her questions because it made it easier for me to understand what was going on and she asked them in a way where the witness had to explain everything that was going on when he crime went down. For this AP, everyone had to choose a w...

In my Humanities class called "Policy", we have been talking a lot about the US Constitution and all of the important people or groups that help with the government. For this AP we had to write a letter to someone that represents us in some type of way and we had to give them our opinion on if we agree if a certain bill should or shouldn't be passed so that she can or can't become laws. I chose a senator of my state. Her name is Toi Hutchinson. I chose her because she is actually a friend of my moms and I thought that it would be cool if she read how I felt about something and if it should have an impact or not. Toi Hutchinson is a senator for the state of Illinois. She is a Democrat and represents the 40th district and assumed office January 5, 2009. Hutchinson was appointed to take over Senator Debbie Halvorson's seat. She serves in the Agriculture and Conservation committee, Labor committee, Local Government committee, State Government and Veteran Affairs (V.C...

This is my last AP in my humanities class called A Nation's Argument. In this class we have been learning about thesis, antithesis, and synthesis. For this AP, we decided to hold a police assembly in our class with four guest. Some of our guest had deaths in their families and the reason why they do what they do with their community is because of the death that happened. My role for this assembly was to be the MC. In the beginning, I had everyone introduce themselves and then we went into an icebreaker to get to know our guest better. There were 4 prompts that were used for this activity because we wanted to make sure that we still had time to actually talk about things that we have been discussing in class and still had questions on. the 4 prompts were: How do you view Chicago for the development of the youth? What inspired you to attend this forum? What do you hope the next mayor does for Chicago? How are you going to use your talents to benefit the people around you? I ga...

In my Humanities course called "A Nation's Argument", we have been learning about immigration and what immigrants have to go through just to become a US citizen. We visited the city hall and we listened to the city council committee and what they think about public charge. Something that we learned about immigrants wanting citizenship is that they have to take a test about the history of America and important days or facts about America. In class, we had our own citizenship test and no one passed the test with a 100%. When I was reading the questions off for another classmate to answer, I didn't know some of the answers to the questions myself and I am a US citizen. So I can understand how hard it is for other people to study these questions because if it doesn't connect to you or your family or something that you care for, then why should you have to know some of the questions that have to deal geography or in the 1800's? For this AP, we have to think of ways...

In Argument, we have been focusing on what an argument really is and why an argument can be a great thing for certain subjects. For this AP, we had to make an argument about a class that GCE should have at the school. We learned about inductive and deductive reasonings and how those have to deal with arguments. I changed the subject that I wanted to do for this project because I wanted to have a class that everyone should want to take because I know that a lot of students want to attend college and perferably the college of their choice. Now that we have different people in the government some people have to work harder for things than others. Down below is an argument that I made for a class that I feel should be taught at GCE because everyone deserves to be successful in life.  GCE Lab School is totally different from a regular high school. In GCE, we as students learn about different things that you can do as careers. Careers make a huge impact on people’s lives. Everyone wan...

This is my last AP in my Humanites elective class called Global Peace. In this class we have been working on nonviolent acts that help with violent acts that are going on all around the world. We had to creat some type of challenge as our nonviolent act. I chose to do turns that most people can not do in the world. I will have people come and give away their clothes to drives that are taking clothes because there are people in this world that need the clothes more. We hade to write a paper with 500 words or more to explain what you are doing and how your act helps with the world and we also had to create a slideshow or video to show the challenge that we decided to take. I hope you enjoy my project and hopefully you want to give away clothes that you no longer need to people that really need these items in life. Paper Video In conlusion I enjoyed working on this AP and I hope that the rest of this year teached you something from my AP's. 

In Rhetoric, we are on our last AP. For this AP, we had to create a piece of art that for all of the things we learned in Rhetoric. For the piece of art, I chose to dance. I chose the dance as my version of art because I am a dancer and I can dance and be able to tell a story with out saying anything. My candidate was Willie Wilson. It was kind of hard to dance to something for Willie Wilson because the way he presents himself is not in a musical way, so I chose to dance to a song that I performed at an open mike that Chance The Rapper hosts on a Monday every month because he is helping another mayoral candidate and I wanted to show that he also cares about the youth. The mayoral candidate that Chance endorsed is Amara Enyia. Chance has recently endorsed her online, and this is really important to me because Chance is closer to younger people, teenagers, and this will help Amara on the long end because the more people get to know her from Chance, the more people she have who will vote ...

In Rhetoric, we are on our second Action Project. For this project, I had to select a mayoral candidate. I chose Willie Wilson. The reason I chose him was because I didn't know anything about him at first. For this project I had to use either pathos, logos, or ethos and explain why it relates to a quote that he said in his video. I created a slide show that tells you who Wilson is as a person and how he feels about wanting to become the mayor for Chicago. I decided to create a short slide show because I wanted to talk about Willie but in a short way. This project is going to help with the peoples assembly that we are having because we, as students, are trying to understand our mayoral candidates more and ask them questions on how they feel about certain things that we care about as Juniors that are in Chicago. Down below you will see the slide show that i prepared and I hope that you enjoy and learn new things about Willie Wilson. 

In Rhetoric, we have been talking about why people don't like rhetoric and what rhetoric really is. For this class, we have visited Marqueete Park and talked to Alia Bilal. We also had two people come in to talk to us. We had Troy LaRaviere and Ted Miin. For this AP, we had to create a speech about a question that really bothered us. We had to use logos (logic), ethos (trust), and pathos (love) in our speech because we want for our audience to feel what we are feeling. I chose a topic that means a lot to me because it has to do with my ethnicity of people. In my audio, I tried to show that I was demanding but I was very sick when I made this audio so it may not sound like I was trying to be demanding and show the emotion behind the words that were coming out of my mouth. But I do hope that you enjoy my speech about police brutality.

I have been taking a Humanities class called Drama. In this class, we have been reading plays and talking about them in class. We have been visiting the Goodman Theatre and my class and I have been learning about the theatre and all of the equipment that the theatre has. I have learned a lot in this class. Something that I learned in this class was what a patriarchal society was. A patriarchal society is a society that men have control over everything. Women weren't able to do things for themselves. They had to make sure everything in the house was ready so that when the man comes home he can do whatever he needs to do for himself. This had an impact on me because as a growing woman, I never had a man tell me what to do and when to do it. For this project, we had to write a script with three characters. One of the characters had to be from The Taming Of The Shrew, another character had to be from A Doll's House, and the last character had to be a modern-day character. We ...

In Drama, we have been focusing on a play called The Taming Of Shrew that was written by Shakespeare. This play takes place in a patriarchal world, this means that men control everything that women do in this type of society. In this play, there are two women that are sisters, Katerine and Bianca. All of the men in the story want to marry Bianca because they think that her older sister, Katherine, is a shrew. A shrew is a bad-tempered or aggressive woman. The men in this story don't like Katherine because they do not like the fact that she speaks her mind and she does not want to listen to any of the men. Katherine's father, Baptista, tels the men that none of them can marry Bianca until Katherine gets married first. Sooner or later, a man named Petruchio was told by two men that Katherine was an angel and that she is a beautiful woman. Petruchio goes for the set up that these two men tell him and he wants to marry Katherine. Later on, in the play, Petruchio and Katherine get m...

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...

I am in a class called Forbidden Books. In this class, we talk about the banning of books and we also get the chance to read some of them. The first book that we read was called " Fahrenheit 451 ". This was an interesting book and I was really interested in this book. This book was not banned but it was basically about the banning of books, except they said it in a way that was really cool and interesting. We had to base our project on Socrates and how he was a gadfly. A gadfly is an annoying person, especially one who provokes others into action by criticism. Sometimes a gadfly can be a bad person because they may try to convince someone into doing the wrong thing and that can be really dangerous for people. What we had to do was come up with a topic and we had the chance to work with a partner because we were going to have a conversation with another peer that could have been at school, home, or anywhere else. We had to make a script for this project because one person ...

In Poetic Justice, we have been working on poems that deal with political issues. For our last AP we had to try to memorize our poems. This was the hardest part about the poem because I was so used to reading off of the paper. I will honest, I tried my hardest to memorize but it wasn't working. I had to change up some of my poem because it was way too long. We haven't went on any FE's for this project but on 1/19/2018, Amy from the poetry foundation came in and we talked about poems and how they make us feel. I tried to make sure that I used a lot of emotion and change up the tone of my voice but that was pretty hard because I was trying to remember words while reading my poem. This was a very interesting class. I enjoyed making poems and I loved how I was able to relate some of this stuff to me. As a poet I feel like once you are able to put yourself into a situation it makes things look different to you. It is amazing how I was able to relate to poem, and since I was able...

In Poetic Justice, we have been working on our poems that needed to have a message, talking about political issues.  We have went to libraries, Capitol One Cafe, and other places so that we could work on these poems and have peace and quiet.  Instead of being at the school for 2 hours.  For this unit we had to make a video of us saying our poem, but not only are we saying it, we are PERFORMING it.  When it comes to reading a poem you need to have lots of emotion and some movement.  We talked about the type of performance you want to give when you are reading a poem or when you are reading anything.  When you are reading to an audience, you need to make them engaged and always make sure that you are acting out some of your poem.  Your audience has to be able to imagine what your poem was all about.  Like a movie playing in their head.  In my video, you will see movement and a different tone in my voice when I am reading my poem. DSC_0140 ...

In Poetic Justice, we have been working on political poems in class.  When I write poems I like to rhyme because it sounds better to me.  We went on FE's that really helped me write these poems.  We talked about the different types of poems and how you can write them, and that helped me a lot.  My poem is very interesting, especially since it has something to do with me.  I love the way Hiu and Sharon helped the class write out our poems.  We've done classroom feedback, and I felt that it wasn't as helpful because I feel like I could've received more feedback, but I didn't get that from my class or from the other students that are apart of this class.  My poem is very touching and I hope that, you, the reader enjoys my poem. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Being a color is now a bad thing Go listen to Dr. King’s “I have a dream” The huma...