Humanities - Final Portfolio
We
were asked to write Descriptive Essay about something that happened in our life.
I chose to write about the summer earlier that year. “Out in the 90-degree
weather and a storm we were up on the roof trying to prevent the resistant
leaks”. As I realize now this
first assignment in English was really the backing of the whole year. I had to
learn to be more descriptive and creative at the same time. It was a bit
challenging at first because I did not write like this before. As time went on
and the projects called for more and more I
started writing better and better.
Oddly
enough the project that I surpassed my standard for writing was the Monologue
Project for History. For this
project we had to pick a human rights struggle. I had to do a lot of research
to understand and convey the topic clearly. I had chosen drug trafficking because of the different
reasons to do it and how some people don’t really have a choice. “I know she
needs the money but its drug money!”(Scene-1).
The daughter had kidney disease and the family needed fast money to pay for her
medical bills. This project forced
me to be very original, descriptive and creative. Though, we had a little help from Kate from Young
Playwrights. She helped most of the class and I our plays. Even still it really pushed my ability and raised the bar for
realistic fiction writing that will come in the future.
The
Sweatshop trial that we as a class did in middle of the year was probably the most
enjoyable activity for history.
The class split up into groups to take positions on the real world
problem sweatshops. Each group was
questioned on the amount of control that they had on the situation and why it
was still going on. “U.S.
Consumers - If you wanted these “sweat
shops” to end, you would have to stop buying into these companies”. As well as,
each group had to present opening and closing statements on their
position. Finally, as a class we
voted to see which group we thought had the most guilt. My group was the Poor
Country Ruling Elite. We had to
research a ton of statistics, information and articles to fathom our position
and perspective on the issue. This
assignment taught me about perspective because we had to really see from a
group of people’s point of view on a hard issue.
Overall this year has been very enjoyable and memorable. I learned many new things and polished others that we rough. I hopefully will remember the experiences or the hard earned skills. English and History class in sophomore year was a wonderful opportunity.
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