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Adjusting to the Afterlife

Welcome back to my blog. This post is for the second Action Project in the Humanities class, Drama. In this unit we continued to explore gender roles throughout history. We also read the play, A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen. Because the play takes place in Norway we looked at how women were treated and their place in society in Norway. We also observed what was going on with the rest of the world during that time period. Leading up to the Action Project, we studied the different components of plays which important to its function and acting it out. This included stage directions, script formatting and story explanations. Using what we learned we had to write a script for a one minute clip in a movie or TV show. I chose to use Obi-Wan Kenobi's confrontation with General Grievous in Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith. Following this, we began working on our Action Project. This AP requires us to bring Nora, a character from A Doll's House, a woman represented on a place setting i

Become a Disease Detective

Welcome back to my blog. This post is for the first Action Project of the STEAM course, Cure. In this unit we have continued our learning of different diseases from last term and started studying treatment, vaccines, and public health. Keeping up with current events, we have looked at the three coronavirus vaccines and how they impact the health of our community. With each vaccine we studied their efficiency rates and combining that with the coronavirus reproductive rate, we found the herd immunity percentage. Herd immunity is the point at which a certain percentage of the population is vaccinated against a disease to keep it from spreading or immunity from developed antibodies. The herd immunity for COVID-19 is between seventy to ninety percent which means our efforts to get everyone vaccinated is at a good pace but can be faster. For this Action Project we were asked to choose a disease and create a “Choose Your Own Adventure” type of game that can be played by other students or any