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Finding the images and coming up with the ideas to tie them together with globalization was by the hardest part of the project the second hardest part was trying to locate the places I wanted to go to after I found them on the internet. My process of selecting photos was the easiest part I just went to Chinatown and started taking random pictures the only hard about that was finding places like the school. My favorite image is the culture picture, mainly because it was food and I got to eat the food after I took the picture. Philadelphia could use a little more evidence of globalization, all we is Chinatown and little Italy, I think it could be better if there was more sign of different cultures all over the city.
Favorite Stats Benchmark
During Stats I had a hard time really understand what was going on, it took a long time for me to really understand the subject that was being taught. During the 3rd Quarter we had a benchmark on probability. At first I thought it would be hard and I didn't want to do it but after reading over the project description again I knew I could do it. After doing the project my understanding of how probability and statistics go hand and hand grew.
Inquiry: What is the probability that a person can win three games of “Skip-Bo” row.
Collaboration: This was a solo project, I needed three or four players, that actually know how to play the game well.
Presentation: I presented this project on a iweb that will teach people how to play the game.
Reflection: After doing the project I understood that it is hard to really tell the chances of a person winning three times in a row.
Day in the Life: Thailand
Baby Boy Remake-Camille Morton, Eddie Abbott, Alexis Beckton and Patricia Parker
5 Photo Story: Iceland
Globalization 3Q Benchmark: Collapsing Knowledge
This is my benchmark!
The two countries that I selected to compare and contrast were Iceland and Chile. My main reasons behind selecting these countries was I had an interest in the two countries. I didn't know much about the two and I wanted to see how they compare to each other. My process during this project was a little poor. I wasn't aware that we had a benchmark coming up due to the fact that I was out sick during the time it was due. I found out a day before the project was due that we actually had one. So if I could change one thing I would change how I communicated with Ms. Laufenberg. I shouldn't have emailed her and told her that I was going to be out for a week and asked if we were going to be assigned any projects. One of the most challenging parts of the project was locating information on the environmental damage and how both countries are trying to fix the problem.
The two countries that I selected to compare and contrast were Iceland and Chile. My main reasons behind selecting these countries was I had an interest in the two countries. I didn't know much about the two and I wanted to see how they compare to each other. My process during this project was a little poor. I wasn't aware that we had a benchmark coming up due to the fact that I was out sick during the time it was due. I found out a day before the project was due that we actually had one. So if I could change one thing I would change how I communicated with Ms. Laufenberg. I shouldn't have emailed her and told her that I was going to be out for a week and asked if we were going to be assigned any projects. One of the most challenging parts of the project was locating information on the environmental damage and how both countries are trying to fix the problem.
Lobbying Post 4-5: Sex Ed 101
Post 4: Communicate with your representative
FOR THE BLOG POST -
Detail your plan for communicating and report in on the steps you conducted, reflect on the process, effectiveness, etc.
To communicate with my representative I think writing a letter is the best method, since this is a big problem I think it would best to start small. Meaning the first letter would be to the director of the Philadelphia School District Dr. Arlene C. Ackerman, this letter would talk about the class and what will be taught, how sex ed can help young people and showing that without knowledge on the topic teens are more likely to act it risky behavior.
Detail your plan for communicating and report in on the steps you conducted, reflect on the process, effectiveness, etc.
To communicate with my representative I think writing a letter is the best method, since this is a big problem I think it would best to start small. Meaning the first letter would be to the director of the Philadelphia School District Dr. Arlene C. Ackerman, this letter would talk about the class and what will be taught, how sex ed can help young people and showing that without knowledge on the topic teens are more likely to act it risky behavior.
Post 5-
Dear Dr. Ackerman,
I am a student at Science Leadership Academy, as a young female I believe we should have a class that teaches sex education. We do take a health class but we didn’t spend much time on pregnancy, birth control, STDs and safe sex. In my opinion if there was a class that taught these things the teen pregnancy rate may go down along with the amount of young people with an STD. The class would be a year long course that would be set up in sections, section one would be on what sex is, the next section would be on the safe sex, the last two would be on pregnancy (life after the baby is born and school) and STDs.
After watching the show 16 and Pregnant I felt that schools should step up and educated the students on what their parents didn’t want to talk about. This is a class that students can pick to have, so if they don’t feel they need the education or their parents wish for them to learn it in the household they didn’t have to take it. Many of the actives would be project based and hands on. I truly hope that you read this and see that as a young female that I would us this class to my benfite.
Sincerely Camille Aliyha Morton
Dear Dr. Ackerman,
I am a student at Science Leadership Academy, as a young female I believe we should have a class that teaches sex education. We do take a health class but we didn’t spend much time on pregnancy, birth control, STDs and safe sex. In my opinion if there was a class that taught these things the teen pregnancy rate may go down along with the amount of young people with an STD. The class would be a year long course that would be set up in sections, section one would be on what sex is, the next section would be on the safe sex, the last two would be on pregnancy (life after the baby is born and school) and STDs.
After watching the show 16 and Pregnant I felt that schools should step up and educated the students on what their parents didn’t want to talk about. This is a class that students can pick to have, so if they don’t feel they need the education or their parents wish for them to learn it in the household they didn’t have to take it. Many of the actives would be project based and hands on. I truly hope that you read this and see that as a young female that I would us this class to my benfite.
Sincerely Camille Aliyha Morton
Lobbying: Sex Ed 101
2nd Quarter Benchmark
Reflection:
When the benchmark was first assigned I thought that it would be very easy to do and I would be able to finish in no time, but as I started and looked into different branches I saw that it would be hard to find how they affect my life. I would say that finding different court cases that affect my life negatively was the hardest part of the project. I knew right away which cases affect my life positively but thinking about ones that had a negative impact was hard. Before doing this project I didn’t think my life was really affected by the government but after doing the project I learned that a lot of my life is affect by the government for example it has a input on the time I have to be in my house and when I can start drinking.
Juvenile Justice System in Philadelphia
The task that we had to do was reorganizing the original flow chart for the Juvenile Justice System in Philadelphia. The process I took to do this project was first understanding what they were trying to say in the original chart, then organizing in a way that I would understand it. If I could change anything I would have started the project on time and would have been more organized. One reason I think that the systems are so complicated is it is meant to show a lot of information and sometimes wording it can be a little hard.
Voting in 2010...What I saw at the Polls
When I went to polls I talked to several people, I asked many of them the same question...."why are you voting?"Some of them said they wanted a change, others said they wanted things to stay the same. I was kinda hard talking to some of the people, most of them were in a hurry to get to work and could only give me one word answers for example telling me who they were voting for or why they were voting. Overall I kinda got an idea as to why some of them were there, most where there because they wanted to change the health bill or taxes and others wanted it to stay the some.
American Government: Abortion Law
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