Humanities English History Final Portfolio
Our first assignment was our descriptive scenes project. This project was easy because we were doing the scenes based on real life experiences. After we were done with that in History we began to talk about religion, and spirituality. This led up to our first benchmark of the year for History. In English we started to read a book called lord of the flies. To me this book was really boring. We had many class discussions about this book, and in one of them I made the comment that “Piggy is a punk because he is afraid he would get in trouble by the adults even though they are not on the island.” We wrote an academic paper about the book, and this was our first quarter benchmark for English.
In
the second quarter for History we learned about the Renaissance. During this
process we went to the Art Museum, and we saw renaissance art. I think the art
was cool because they really didn’t have the tools that we have today, and
their art was still on point. We also did a trial for Hernan Cortes, and The
Aztecs. This was very fun, we learned, and we got to act like lawyers, and all
of the other people in court. In English we read Their Eyes Were Watching God.
I loved this book. I think this was the best book we read all year. We started
to right Poetry this Quarter. I honestly can’t write poetry, because when I
think of poetry I think of rhyming words, and I learned that not all poems have
to have rhymes. There are different styles of poetry, but to people like me
rhyming poetry is the most common poetry to me. This was our second quarter
English benchmark. I surprised myself during this process.
In
the third we started out Monologue projects. Mrs. Kate came to class, and
taught us how to write really good monologues. I started this project with high
hopes, then those hopes got crushed, and I eventually gave up on the project. I
really wish we could do that over because I would be more into it this time. We
had another trial this quarter, but this one was about sweatshops, and who is
really to blame for the sweatshops. I was apart of the group called the system.
The system really should have been found guilty but it wasn’t. In English this
quarter we read a book called passing. Passing was an okay book to be honest I
really stop reading it after Clare let her husband call her nig, because she
was darker. Our benchmark this quarter was about crossing boundaries, and we
did podcast interviews. I interviewed my great-grandmother on her life, and her
encounters with racial discrimination.
In
our fourth and final quarter in History we read a book call Things Fall Apart,
and this led off to us talking about colonialism. For our benchmark we had to
pick a place that was affected negatively, or positively by colonialism. I
chose Madagascar. We made museum exhibits for the benchmark. In English we the
book Night. The Holocaust was our topic of the quarter. I believe that the
holocaust was wrong, but the people who were being tortured were hopeful, so I
commend them for that. We wrote an academic paper for this quarter’s benchmark.
I did pretty well on it. Then we performed in the A.I.O. This was a fun
experience also. I feel that my group did well. Now to end everything off I am
doing this final portfolio about my year in English/History. #DoubleBlock
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