KRM GCE Portfolio

In my STEAM class, Cure, we have been working on our second AP for this class. For this project, we had to think of a bacteria/disease that we wanted to know more about and we had to find different ways of curing the bacteria's that we chose. We had to find different names for the medicaments and drugs that we chose for this bacteria. I learned that there are three different kinds of ways to treat yourself:  Over-The-Counter (OTC) Drugs. OTC's are drugs that have less restriction but they are regulated.  Prescription Drugs. These are drugs that need a recommendation from a professional, like a doctor or surgeon. Treatments. These are drugs that are everything else but they are unregulated. We learned the difference between drugs and medicines, and we also learned the difference between treating and curing and intended effects and side effects. We got to look at box's of medicine and we were looking at the drug facts that are on the back of the medicine. ...

This is my last AP for the class and sophomore year! I am so proud of the work that I have completed in this class and I am really thankful for all of the work that I have received in this class because this class has helped me notice what I want to become when I get older. I would like to thank Aaron for giving me so much helpful information this year and I would like to thank him for teaching me this year. For this AP, we had to create a profile for a patient that is worried about having a disorder or disease because someone in their family had it. My role in this project was to be a doctor and give advice and help to my patient so that I can make sure that the disorder or disease that she is talking about; she doesn't get it. I had to put their information down so that we could learn about their medical history and what type of medicines we should give them and what not to give them so that we aren't messing up their body in any way. Another thing that I had ...

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...

This is my first AP for Cure. In cure, we have been learning about the body but focusing more on the cell, how it works, what it looks like, and how there are different types of cells. We have done experiments in class so that we could look at cells under a microscope. We swabbed different areas in the school to see if they had any bacteria on it and we put them into containers that show us the bacteria so that we can see them. It was pretty cool but gross at the same time. Some of them had fungus inside of them and it shocked me because I did not know that fungus would grow inside of the container. We learned how to use a microscope, how they work, and how many different types of microscopes there are. We were looking at different viruses that were put on slides so that we could put them underneath a microscope. It was interesting looking at these viruses because they were so different and I did not know that they were different colors. We looked at the ce...

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 ...