In my class Creative studies we had to study Romeo and Juliet, and after doing that we got to pick our groups and what we did as long as it revolved around Shakespear's play. In our version of the play there are two high schools Montague and Capulet high and their rival football teams, in Verona school district. We filmed it in the style of the Office and Parks and Rec, because we took a modern comedic take on Romeo and Juliet , and just like in these shows, Shakespear's characters often break the fourth wall by turning and talking to the audience. To still keep ties with the original work we have one character who speaks entirely in Elizabethan, and characters insult each other using insults from that time. There a couple of characters and scenes left out, but generally we did the entire play, so please enjoy! (Also make sure to subscribe to Anika Fair, she was the one who filmed and edited this video!)
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This semester in my BioFitness class we had has make a ‘wellness plan,' where we had to pick three aspects of wellness to focus on and make a plan on how we were going to carry out with them, hence the name ‘wellness plan’. Among other things I chose ‘stress management’, and the reason I’m choosing to talk about this one, is because stress management is the main one that I wanted to focus on this year. I’ve always been an easily stressed person, but coming to high school has only made it worse. I actually read an article on Health Harvard that says when too much stress is provoked it can lead to health problems, such as a low immune system, increasing susceptibility to illnesses, but also high blood pressure - a major risk factor for heart disease. To make sure I never reach a point where my stress is causing me major health problems I have developed my own coping methods. Almost always the root of my stress is caused when I feel that I have too much to handle, so when I start to feel overwhelmed I run through my head and try to find the root of my stress and from there I separate whats out of my control and what is in my control and I what I am capable of doing. From there I prioritize what needs to get done. I know that in the school years to come they will get harder, and that my stress will never actually go away or “disappear”, however knowing this basic coping method, and trying new ones every week (like exercising, diaphragmatic breathing) will help me tackle my stress and know how to handle a stressful situation when it arises. In fact websites like Health Harvard have articles saying that a little stress is good, it can give me the motivation I need to finish a project or this article for example on time, and invokes the fight or flight response, however I don’t want it to get to the point where stress is having a serious effect on my health. Here is a poster I made in my BioFit class that, about an easy FREE way of coping with stress, for more information please visit the website at the bottom. Throughout my freshman year at New Technology High School I think that some things have stayed the same, but I feel that in many departments I’ve grown. Like for example I think I have gotten better at critical thinking. English is a strong suit of mine, but reading a sentence or paragraph and trying to decipher the symbolism the author put behind it had always been a difficulty of mine. It’s something minor I’ve grown in yes, but through this year in class having to read the Odyssey and perform a play about the lesson/ values it teaches really helped understand how to find the symbolism the author wrote.
Recently my BioFitness class did a project on invasive species, and my team chose English Ivy, something that is very common and we see everyday, but is very deadly and a threat to our ecosystems. For more information on English Ivy, and how it is a threat, what to do about it, and overall what my team learned, please visit our website!
http://englishivy-informative.weebly.com/ Recently for my Computer Science we were given a mini project with CsUnplugged where the gave my team and I a topic -ours was error detection- and we had to teach our class about it. So what is error detection? Well to give a brief summary it starts with one computer transmitting data in a sequences of 1's, and 0's known as bits ,and as we know sometimes when the data is being transmitted it does not go as planned, and the data is changed. To recognize that the data has been changed is error detection. How it does this is a single row, known as parity bits is added to those 1's and 0's (bits). A single parity added to the row of bits allows the computer to detect where and when an error has occurred, if a bit has been changed and if there are an even amount of 0's.
Our team showed this through a comedic video- we thought if we used comedy it would be a way to engage people- and in the video we did a card game that represented bits, where we laid the cards out in a 6 by 6 grid. One side of the card was white, representing 1, and the red side represented 0. We had one person turn away, so they wouldn't see someone flipping the card, and when the turn back they had to figure out which card had been flipped. They would figure this out just like a computer would, by looking at the 6 by 6 grid and detecting which column had an uneven amount of 0's in it. Once they figured it out they would flip the card back just like how a computer would change a bit back. I think the most important thing I learned from this project is that you don't need a computer to learn and/or teach about computers. Here is my video if you would like to check it out! https://drive.google.com/a/nvusd.org/file/d/0BwBd7w4lRj2EbHF6TjlHeFdFblU/view?usp=sharing |
AuthorHey guys! I don't know how many of you are reading this since this isn't a tinder bio, but I'm Isabel and the main purpose of this blog is for school. Its a portfolio I'm going to use to document my four years of high school-maybe even after! Archives
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