In Humanities we had a project called "Started From The Bottom Now We're Here". We had to up cycle objects to make new objects. Up cycling is when you take a used item and Make it new again. My group members and I decided to make a bean bag out of duck tape, trash bags, and Packing peanuts. We filled the first bag with the peanuts and tied the bag. Then we put multiple layers of trash bags over it and the covered it with colorful duck tape. At the end of the project I was really proud of the bag. I was really disappointed in one of my friends that decided me wanted to stick a hole in the bag with a pencil, but that's not important.
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We also had a project called The "Who Am I". Basically our teacher told us about social injustice, personal image, and how you are viewed by other people. We made masks that blocked our features and we put what we were really like on the inside on the front of the mask. On exhibition we and to hold up artist statements that explains our mask. We were taught about the Ice burg problem. It explained how people only judged people on the 10% of the person that they can see. We related this to an ice burg because you can't judge an ice burg by the 10% that you see. We also made a finger print writing where we wrote a real story that changed us forever. I wrote about how I swallowed a penny. I later had to shape it in your finger print.
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In the Return to the wild project In we had two parts in each class. In Humanities we read a book called In To The Wild and I feel like I have learned a lot because of it. I learned that the closer we get to technology the farther we get from nature. We tried to find a way to reverse that statement so we signed a document that prevented us from using a certain piece of tech. We also took a survey that measured our happiness in school. Then we went on field trips in nature and took the exact same survey to test how happy we were in nature. We could comprehend then what the difference between our happiness in nature and out of nature.
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When the Community Carpenters project first launched we learned about different community developers like John F. Kennedy and Herriot Tubman. We learned the different types of communities developers and destroyers. we tried to find a way to improve our school by changing one aspect and we had to pitch our ideas to Mr. Torres. We made deliverable showing our data and your reasons. When we pitched our ideas to Mr. Torres it went really smooth. Now it was time to take it to the whole community and make it better my group is trying to spread awareness about GM foods and we are having an exhibition on June 9th. We got a booth at the Escondido farmers market on grand drive and I hope it will go well.
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