KRM GCE Portfolio

This is my last AP for my STEAM class called Light, Sound, and Time. In our last unit, we have been focusing on time and how there are different devices made to tell time. For this AP, we had to design a new version of a clock and add something to it so that it is an original. At first, I felt like this was going to be hard because I didn't know what exactly to add to a clock. My design is based off of a couple different devices that are already made that people use on a daily basis. We had to make a video explaining what our device is and how it functions. We looked at different types of clocks for this unit as well. Some examples that we looked at were sundials, candle clocks, incense clocks, hourglasses, atomic clocks, and water clocks. We learned a lot about latitude and longitude and how these two can help you find out the time without a clock available. Down below you will see the device that I designed and I hope that you find my device interesting! This Time Has Everyth...

In my STEAM class, Light, Sound, and Time, we have been focusing on the vibrations that come from guitars. We visited Chicago Music Exchange for an FE, and we learned about the different guitars and why some cost much more then others. We learned about the guitar and how each part of the guitar does something to help produce sound. The guitar strings can be made with different materials, which would give the guitar a different pitch because each different material produces a different sound. It can also have a different pitch based off of the thickness, tension, and length of the string. For this AP, we made a Diddley Bow for our project. We had to bring in a can and battery and Adam gave us wood, screws, and guitar strings. Making the Diddley Bow was the hard part. I struggled with making sure that the guitar string was tight so that there could be a noise coming from the Diddley Bow. Adam helped me with making sure that the string was tight so that the instrument can produce sound. D...

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 my elective class called "Game Changers",we have been working on creating our own game. We went to stores for materials that we will need for our game. We went with the idea that I made up for the game because Aaron thought that it was a great idea. The game consists of learning how to dance and memorizing dance moves. While I was designing this game I was thinking about it becoming a party game or a family game because you can have fun and you will have to interact with other people for this game. The age range for this game would be 7-adult because I test played this game with younger children and the people who played were 5-adults. I saw that the 5 and 6 year olds were not understanding what to do and the 7- up were able to remember the steps easily and didn't need help with the dance choreography that was given to them. This game was very fun to make and I enjoyed creating a game that I thought would be fun for people to play because a lot of people enjoy dancing ...

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 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 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...

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 ...