I haven’t decided what I want to do for my passion project yet. I have had quite a few ideas that seemed good to me at the time but I realized today that I don’t really like them anymore. My previous idea was to make a cake, but in order to make the cake I […]
Reflection on media campaign
I think our campaign went quite well, I don’t know whether our campaign had a big effect on the people who were eating the food, but I think we made a good attempt at reducing the food waste in this school. I think the most effective part of our campaign was definitely the video, we […]
TED-talks
In Language Arts we have started a new unit about communication. We will have to make our own campaign about an environmental issue and to give us ideas for our campaign we watched a few ted talks. Ted talk 1 I started watching one on global warming and how if all the ice melts, a […]
Reflection: Power and Leadership
We finished our unit of power and leadership today by submitting our essay on turnitin and writing our reflection. We have worked since the beginning of the year towards writing the essay that summed up all of our gained knowledge about the unit of power and leadership. Connect- How was this unit connected to […]
Reflection on my project
For this unit we needed to do a project that analyses and shows our knowledge about power and leadership that we have learned through this unit. I read “Lord of the Flies” and “Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad” which gave me a better idea of what exactly power and leadership are. We got to […]
Harriet Tubman
I finished the biography about Harriet Tubman called “Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad” by David A. Adler. Harriet Tubman to me is a very inspiring woman who lived her life to help others. She was born as a slave and remained one until she was about 28, after her owner died, she was […]
Lord of the Flies
I finished the novel “Lord of the Flies” by William Golding. The story is about how a group of children is stranded on an island with no adults. They decide Ralph can be the leader but Jack does not agree and picks fights with Ralph because of jealousy. In the beginning everybody is focused on […]
Power and Leadership: Lord of the Flies
In Language Arts, we are doing a unit about power and leadership. For this unit we are acquired to read one novel and one biography, we also have to watch two movies. For the novel I chose to read “Lord of the Flies” written by William Golding. I have only read the first few chapters […]
What spurs people to explore the unknown?
We were assigned to do a project that is related to the topic “pushing the boundaries” but also to the novel of Frankenstein. Eilin and I teamed up and looked at the websites Mrs Taynton put on edmodo. At first, Eilin and I wanted to do our project about cloning because it seemed interesting and […]