For our final presentation, I wanted to talk about the nationwide epidemic, COVID-19 or better known as Coronavirus. I made a presentation for the topic and question: How can epidemics be contained?
In our second unit of Forbidden books, we learned about books that have been censored for big or small reasons. We went on a trip to see an author's book was banned in Illinois jails and was able to ask questions of why her book was banned. We also learned dogma. Dogma is a principle or set of principles laid down by an authority as incontrovertibly true. Then we were able to choose a banned book to read and interview with a character. I chose The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas. this book has won many awards and even had a movie less than a year later. This young girl named Starr carter experienced her close friend, Kahlil Harris being shot by a police officer unarmed. Then she chooses to go through the pressure of being a witness and go through code-switching with her friends at her all-white school and her home in the projects. I chose to instead of doing a podcast I will be doing a radio show. Tran script Passionfruit fades out Enjoli: Aaaaand we a...
In our second unit of our STEAM class Cure, we learned about surgeries. During that time we learned what each suffix and prefix in each surgery name mean and we have talked to two professionals about surgeries and how it connects to 2020's pandemic that caused the world to stop, COVID-19. We were supposed to show the process of the surgery from beginning to end Interview with C-section patient The interviewer in regular font Erika Howard Bailey in a special font I'm interviewing Erica Howard Bailey on Wednesday, May six at 3:55 PM. On April 19, 2004, she had a C section, the official name of that C-section, and it's called cesarean section. It's a ceremony and section is where during the birth of a baby, if the baby can not be delivered through the vaginal opening, the doctors will have to surgically cut, open the stomach to the uterus a bove the pubic hairline. The first decision is to cut through The stomach to expose the uterus. The second incision is w...
In my last unit of my sophomore year, we learned about racism and segregation. During this pandemic, we have dealt with racism by police brutality and violence from the authority who abuse their power. we also had a lawyer or attorney who experienced racism in the real estate business and had to work with others who suffer from racism. The story we were assigned to create a perspective letter is the famous play, Rasin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry. This play, set in the south side of Chicago, is about a 5-person, black, family suffering from a 2 bedroom apartment until they receive a $10,000 check from the mother's late husband's life insurance. Throughout the play, the family goes through many obstacles before the mother spends her money on a new house but it is in a place where it is majority white and it’s his choice if he moves into the house and lives in a nice-sized house or sells the house to a white man who says the community around their house is “uncomfortable” for...
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