this project is for my science and math class called cure. the purpose of this project was to go in depth and explain the elements of a surgery that we picked, in my case it was a C-section. I learned a lot in this project like what happens during a C-section and also got inside info from my mom and sister in law. I am proud of the prezi I made even though I am not good at prezis but, I am also proud of all the research I did to complete this project
Thursday, April 24, 2014
Tuesday, March 25, 2014
Does ASL Water Run Down The Mainstream
During the Experiential Term, we learned ASL and immersed ourselves into Deaf culture. We worked as a group to make a micromentary that answered a question that we were passionate about answering. We all had roles that we took on during this project. We learned how to work together and listen to each others ideas. What we are most proud of is how our micromentary came together. We worked really hard on it. Watch our video below!
How May Deaf Culture Become Mainstream Culture? from GCE on Vimeo.
We learned that as early as 1000 BC the Deaf were discriminated against due to their permanent loss of hearing and outrageous claims that deafness was a sign from God to show his anger towards humanity. In the eighteenth and early nineteenth century, there were very high limitations in educational opportunities for Deaf children in America. In the 1800’s there were about 30 deaf schools that opened across America. The Cobbs School, Alexander Graham Bell School and Gallaudet were the first schools to present curriculum based on oral learning and ASL for both educational and cultural purposes.
We watched Sound & Fury a documentary following a 5-year old girl with the desire to learn spoken language by getting a cochlear implant. Her parents were deaf and proud members of the Deaf community and feared losing their daughter to the hearing world. This showcased the struggles of being a member of both the Deaf community and the hearing world. There is much controversy surrounding cochlear implants which is believed to be a cure to deafness. This technology is controversial because it threatens the survival of the thriving Deaf language and Culture.
Today, it is easy to see the importance and prominence of Deaf culture in schools, sports, and Art. We visited the Children of Peace School in Chicago that focuses on integrating hearing and deaf education. We were surprised to see hearing, hard of hearing, and deaf students learning in the same classroom. We also attended a basketball torment for the Deaf where Deaf teams from as far as Boston competed for the title of champion. I was in awe by how highly athletic these players were and how everyone knew each other. We witnessed the same type of talent and friendship when we watched the documentary Deaf Jam, which showed a group piece performed by Aneta, a Deaf poet and Tahani a spoken word poet .They captured the vision of Deaf and hearing worlds coexisting.
How May Deaf Culture Become Mainstream Culture? from GCE on Vimeo.
We learned that as early as 1000 BC the Deaf were discriminated against due to their permanent loss of hearing and outrageous claims that deafness was a sign from God to show his anger towards humanity. In the eighteenth and early nineteenth century, there were very high limitations in educational opportunities for Deaf children in America. In the 1800’s there were about 30 deaf schools that opened across America. The Cobbs School, Alexander Graham Bell School and Gallaudet were the first schools to present curriculum based on oral learning and ASL for both educational and cultural purposes.
We watched Sound & Fury a documentary following a 5-year old girl with the desire to learn spoken language by getting a cochlear implant. Her parents were deaf and proud members of the Deaf community and feared losing their daughter to the hearing world. This showcased the struggles of being a member of both the Deaf community and the hearing world. There is much controversy surrounding cochlear implants which is believed to be a cure to deafness. This technology is controversial because it threatens the survival of the thriving Deaf language and Culture.
Today, it is easy to see the importance and prominence of Deaf culture in schools, sports, and Art. We visited the Children of Peace School in Chicago that focuses on integrating hearing and deaf education. We were surprised to see hearing, hard of hearing, and deaf students learning in the same classroom. We also attended a basketball torment for the Deaf where Deaf teams from as far as Boston competed for the title of champion. I was in awe by how highly athletic these players were and how everyone knew each other. We witnessed the same type of talent and friendship when we watched the documentary Deaf Jam, which showed a group piece performed by Aneta, a Deaf poet and Tahani a spoken word poet .They captured the vision of Deaf and hearing worlds coexisting.
Monday, March 24, 2014
The Art of Signing
During the Experiential Term, I learned so much about Deaf culture and sign language. The purpose of this term, as the school defines it, is to immerse ourselves into Deaf culture and to walk in members of the Deaf community's shoes. In my own words, I believe it was so much more than that. I got to feel sad, proud, inspired, happy and even sometimes stressed out. I believe this is one experience I will take with me for the rest of my life because now I feel that there is another world out there, the Deaf community. I want to explore it to the fullest by continuing to learn ASL and diving deep into the Deaf world. We learned basic ASL such as "Hello, my name is", fingerspelling, numbers, colors, animals, transportation, 5 w's, direction, states, countries, art, school, school years, vehicles, scenery, clothing, technology, disability, weather, food. Honestly I am proud of almost everything I did this term but I am most proud of all the progress I made in ASL language and the comprehension of it.
For an external event I attended the Children of Peace School to get inside information on the Deaf community and also see how Deaf and hearing kids cooperate in school. I attended the Children of Peace School and had the opportunity to visit two different classrooms, one was kindergarten and the other was 5th grade. When I went to the kindergarten class, I saw hearing kids and Deaf kids and also some hard of hearing kids playing together and communicating with each other. Something I found cool was, when I went to the kindergarten class I got to teach the kids new signs and also they taught me some signs. Then, I went to the 5th grade class and got to see them practice their signing and they even had a special time where they practice their speech. When it was time to practice their speech, I loved seeing how the teacher pushed them to do it well and strives for them to have successful speech.
One person that inspired me this term was my ASL teacher Thomas because of the stories he told. He told us how he had to speak, even though he was Deaf until he was 25 because he was never supported to learn sign language. I also found him inspirational because he is so nice and funny and I view deafness differently now because of him. After talking to Thomas, I don't think of deafness as a disability anymore, now I think of a person that is Deaf as normal. He also inspired me by the way he tried and tried to get us to learn ASL even when it got a little stressful he never gave up on us and continued to teach us the best he could. ASL and Thomas has changed my worldview by making me realize that everyone can communicate if you just put in effort and there is nothing wrong with being Deaf.
For the group action project, I found it difficult to work in a group because there was very little communication between group members which made it hard to accomplish anything. One thing I did like was the way we took videos and pictures from FE and put it all together to make a great and successful video. My roles for the group micromentary were interviewer and also editor. In all honesty, I do not feel like I helped much with editing because I only helped a little. But as an interviewer I feel like I got a lot of information and also asked good questions to the guests. I learned a lot but not so much from working in the group but, I learned a lot from the ASL part of the course.
I was able to live another person's life and step into their shoes by breaking the barrier between the Deaf community and the hearing world by learning their language so I can communicate with them. I connected with the culture by talking with deaf students, teachers that teach them, learning about cochlear implants and how the Deaf community feels about the implant.
If the video does not show the captions that I have provided for you, then I suggest you see the video on YouTube.
For an external event I attended the Children of Peace School to get inside information on the Deaf community and also see how Deaf and hearing kids cooperate in school. I attended the Children of Peace School and had the opportunity to visit two different classrooms, one was kindergarten and the other was 5th grade. When I went to the kindergarten class, I saw hearing kids and Deaf kids and also some hard of hearing kids playing together and communicating with each other. Something I found cool was, when I went to the kindergarten class I got to teach the kids new signs and also they taught me some signs. Then, I went to the 5th grade class and got to see them practice their signing and they even had a special time where they practice their speech. When it was time to practice their speech, I loved seeing how the teacher pushed them to do it well and strives for them to have successful speech.
One person that inspired me this term was my ASL teacher Thomas because of the stories he told. He told us how he had to speak, even though he was Deaf until he was 25 because he was never supported to learn sign language. I also found him inspirational because he is so nice and funny and I view deafness differently now because of him. After talking to Thomas, I don't think of deafness as a disability anymore, now I think of a person that is Deaf as normal. He also inspired me by the way he tried and tried to get us to learn ASL even when it got a little stressful he never gave up on us and continued to teach us the best he could. ASL and Thomas has changed my worldview by making me realize that everyone can communicate if you just put in effort and there is nothing wrong with being Deaf.
For the group action project, I found it difficult to work in a group because there was very little communication between group members which made it hard to accomplish anything. One thing I did like was the way we took videos and pictures from FE and put it all together to make a great and successful video. My roles for the group micromentary were interviewer and also editor. In all honesty, I do not feel like I helped much with editing because I only helped a little. But as an interviewer I feel like I got a lot of information and also asked good questions to the guests. I learned a lot but not so much from working in the group but, I learned a lot from the ASL part of the course.
I was able to live another person's life and step into their shoes by breaking the barrier between the Deaf community and the hearing world by learning their language so I can communicate with them. I connected with the culture by talking with deaf students, teachers that teach them, learning about cochlear implants and how the Deaf community feels about the implant.
Thursday, February 20, 2014
Yellow fever And How Fast It Spreads
This action project is for my math and science course called Disease. The purpose of this action project was to show a moving graph of how the disease we chose evolves over time. The epidemic I chose was Yellow fever because it sounded very interesting and I wanted to learn more about it. I learned a lot about Yellow fever and how it can spread very quickly. I am proud of the graph I made because it was very hard to find all the data to put into it, and in the end I finally got the data I needed and made the graph.
Hyper link to data
Introduction to disease
Yellow fever is a transmittable disease that is mainly found in Africa and South America. Yellow fever is a disease that is transmitted by infected mosquitos. The way it is transmitted is, when a mosquito bites a monkey that is infected with Yellow fever it will then become infected and any human it comes in contact with can also be affected. When a person becomes infected with mild Yellow fever they experience symptoms such as, sudden onset of fever, chills, severe headache, back pain, general body aches, nausea, and vomiting, fatigue, and weakness. when a person is infected with a more sever case of Yellow fever they may have symptoms such as, high fever, jaundice, bleeding, and eventually shock and failure of multiple organs. If you are young or old you are more susceptible to a more severe case of yellow fever. Another risk factor is, if you live in a place with a lot of forests you will come in contact with mosquitos more and be more at risk of transmission.
2009
Hyper link to data
Introduction to disease
Yellow fever is a transmittable disease that is mainly found in Africa and South America. Yellow fever is a disease that is transmitted by infected mosquitos. The way it is transmitted is, when a mosquito bites a monkey that is infected with Yellow fever it will then become infected and any human it comes in contact with can also be affected. When a person becomes infected with mild Yellow fever they experience symptoms such as, sudden onset of fever, chills, severe headache, back pain, general body aches, nausea, and vomiting, fatigue, and weakness. when a person is infected with a more sever case of Yellow fever they may have symptoms such as, high fever, jaundice, bleeding, and eventually shock and failure of multiple organs. If you are young or old you are more susceptible to a more severe case of yellow fever. Another risk factor is, if you live in a place with a lot of forests you will come in contact with mosquitos more and be more at risk of transmission.
2009
In the graph above it shows the Yellow fever cases and deaths in 2009. I started my graph in 2009 and what my research shows is that the cases and death rate starts out very low. In 2009 DR of the Congo started at 1 and Cameroon started at 13 in cases. For Sudan it was much different because it actually started at a higher number which was 36. Since Yellow fever is transmitted by mosquitos and the cases were low, I am guessing that not many people got bitten by infected mosquitos the year of 2009
2011
Between the years or 2009-2011 Sudan fluctuated mildly in deaths, but the number of cases grew rapidly as two years passed. DR of the Congo and Cameroon went at a more linear rate in deaths and also in cases. One risk factor that is important for the rise in Sudan is age. 41.4% of the population in Sudan are kids and usually kids have a lower metabolism and also spend more time outside and are more likely to get bitten by a mosquito with Yellow fever.
2013
In the years leading up to 2013 the rates in all the countries fluctuated a lot. Sudan in specifics rose to about 733 cases in the year 2013 and then dropped down to about 55. Also in Sudan, the deaths went down rapidly from over 100 to below 50. One thing that caused the spike in deaths in 2012 in Sudan was the access to vaccines. What I found from research is that in Sudan in 2012 they did not have a lot of access to vaccines. In 2013 there was a surprising rise in deaths in Cameroon and DR of the Congo. As DR of the Congo and Cameroon rose, there was a huge drop in deaths in 2013
Citations
"Increased Risk of Urban Yellow Fever Outbreaks in Africa." WHO. N.p., n.d. Web. 23 Feb. 2014.
"Yellow Fever Outbreak in Sudan | HealthMap." Yellow Fever Outbreak in Sudan | HealthMap. N.p., n.d. Web. 24 Feb. 2014.
How Does One Spokane Indian Challenge Divesity?
Hello world! Welcome to the 3rd Action Project for Forbidden Books. The third unit for this course was all about diversity and how many people don’t accept it. For the project, we had to write an analytical essay about how a character in our book goes through a transformation of accepting diversity. My book, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, fits the theme of unit three because the book is focused around a boy and his story of coming to accept diversity.
Monday, February 10, 2014
The Expulsion Of Jewish And Islamic Religions
This unit was about dogmas, which is an absolute truth that you will defend no matter what. An example is in order to be considered a Christian you have to believe that Jesus was the son of god. Some people believe that Jesus is the son of god and nobody can sway them to compromise their beliefs. In this unit we closely studied the Qur'an and the Bible and why they were considered dangerous and controversial. As we went through the passages we learned that the Bible and Qur'an have started many conflicts because of the content and how people interpreted the text.
I chose to research the Spanish Inquisition because I do not know anything about it and it is always good to know something new. While I was researching the Spanish Inquisition I learned that it was started back in 1478. Another thing I learned is that back in 1478 there was a large amount of Jewish and Muslims in Spain and when the Spanish Inquisition started the Spanish Catholics wanted to exile or kill all non-Catholics.
In this unit I learned about different religions and also I broke down all stereotypical barriers that I had. In this unit we visited a Mosque and learned more about the Islamic religion and what their religion means to them. We also visited a church and learned about Christianity and their practices. Another thing I learned while at the church is why they put stained glass windows. Their reason for putting stained glass windows is back in the day most people could not read, so they put stain glass windows to tell a story using pictures. In some other churches they do not put stained glass windows because they believe that it takes away from the actual purpose of the praying.
I chose to research the Spanish Inquisition because I do not know anything about it and it is always good to know something new. While I was researching the Spanish Inquisition I learned that it was started back in 1478. Another thing I learned is that back in 1478 there was a large amount of Jewish and Muslims in Spain and when the Spanish Inquisition started the Spanish Catholics wanted to exile or kill all non-Catholics.
In this unit I learned about different religions and also I broke down all stereotypical barriers that I had. In this unit we visited a Mosque and learned more about the Islamic religion and what their religion means to them. We also visited a church and learned about Christianity and their practices. Another thing I learned while at the church is why they put stained glass windows. Their reason for putting stained glass windows is back in the day most people could not read, so they put stain glass windows to tell a story using pictures. In some other churches they do not put stained glass windows because they believe that it takes away from the actual purpose of the praying.
Friday, February 7, 2014
Focus On This ADHD Lesson !!!!!
Explanation
Scientifically Defined: Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (AD/HD) is a neurobiological disorder. Typically children with AD/HD have developmentally inappropriate behavior, including poor attention skills, impulsivity, and hyperactivity. These characteristics arise in early childhood, typically before age 7, are chronic, and last at least 6 months. Children with AD/HD may also experience problems in the areas of social skills and self esteem.
My Definition: I believe that ADHD is a disorder that effects your ability to pay attention and also effects your ability to sit still. From my experience with ADHD I have realized that it is very hard to keep up with grades in school and also pay attention because people with ADHD have trouble paying attention to things that are boring or repetitive to them. A lot of people may think that you can never pay attention, but if the task is fun or engaging then you will pay attention. So basically I don't think this disorder is necessarily bad but it may interfere with your attention and also your hyperactivity.
Lesson
Flier
Scientifically Defined: Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (AD/HD) is a neurobiological disorder. Typically children with AD/HD have developmentally inappropriate behavior, including poor attention skills, impulsivity, and hyperactivity. These characteristics arise in early childhood, typically before age 7, are chronic, and last at least 6 months. Children with AD/HD may also experience problems in the areas of social skills and self esteem.
My Definition: I believe that ADHD is a disorder that effects your ability to pay attention and also effects your ability to sit still. From my experience with ADHD I have realized that it is very hard to keep up with grades in school and also pay attention because people with ADHD have trouble paying attention to things that are boring or repetitive to them. A lot of people may think that you can never pay attention, but if the task is fun or engaging then you will pay attention. So basically I don't think this disorder is necessarily bad but it may interfere with your attention and also your hyperactivity.
Lesson
Flier
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