Adolescence Project
During this project we did a deep dive into adolescence as a whole. We started off by taking notes, then diving in to Erickson's stages of development. We then begun on our essays and masks which focused more on our personal adolescence experience.
MUN Project
During this project we focused on the Humanitarian crisis that is going on in Afghanistan. Everybody was assigned a country and had to figure out their country's view on the crisis. We started off by getting two sources just about the Afghan crisis to get our knowledge updated on it, then we got three sources about our country's view on it
Policy Statement:
Although Nigeria wants to stay away from this crisis, they should help considering they have delt with their own terrorist group
Paragraph 1: Problem Description
The humanitarian crisis that is going on in Afghanistan right now is a problem that needs to be solved immediately. This crisis all started with the USA having their troops leave Afghanistan and the Taliban taking over which led America to freeze billions of dollars in Afghan currency reserves which has led to starvation, Covid 19 cases, and healthcare on the verge of collapse. Along with all of that there is a very serious drought and the Taliban has a complete disregard for women's and girls rights. The reason for my policy statement is Nigeria wants to stay away not only to keep allies because some of their allies share different views but also because they find it better to not feed in to terrorist groups seeing that they have delt with their own terriost group in Boko Haram.
Paragraph 2: Potential Solutions
If I am being honest I do not have a solution to this Humanitarian Crisis Because If I am looking at this from my country's view then I am more focused on what benefits my country the most, not for the greater good of the whole world and my country is more interested in staying away.
Although Nigeria wants to stay away from this crisis, they should help considering they have delt with their own terrorist group
Paragraph 1: Problem Description
The humanitarian crisis that is going on in Afghanistan right now is a problem that needs to be solved immediately. This crisis all started with the USA having their troops leave Afghanistan and the Taliban taking over which led America to freeze billions of dollars in Afghan currency reserves which has led to starvation, Covid 19 cases, and healthcare on the verge of collapse. Along with all of that there is a very serious drought and the Taliban has a complete disregard for women's and girls rights. The reason for my policy statement is Nigeria wants to stay away not only to keep allies because some of their allies share different views but also because they find it better to not feed in to terrorist groups seeing that they have delt with their own terriost group in Boko Haram.
Paragraph 2: Potential Solutions
If I am being honest I do not have a solution to this Humanitarian Crisis Because If I am looking at this from my country's view then I am more focused on what benefits my country the most, not for the greater good of the whole world and my country is more interested in staying away.
MUN Project reflection
During the exhibition I would say that though I believe that I was engaged I was not engaged to my fullest potential because I did not complete my speech which prevented me from stating my country's view on the crisis and the chance to put forth a solution. A piece of evidence of my contribution is when we were in the unmoderated caucus I made an effort to collaborate with people and come up with resolutions and even helped write a resolution with a group of people.
If I was given a chance to go back in time to the start of this semester, something that I would do differently is put in effort all the way through the semester instead of starting off strong and turning all of my work in, to just getting lazy and not turning in my assignments. I feel like this would not really affect my learning as much but it would definitely impact how I did on the project because if I put 100% effort towards the end of the project not only would I be able to contribute more I would also be more prepared and therefore done better in the Exhibition.
I would say that I I think our way of solving international problems is a very simple and effective way. Doing this project really just helped me get more insight on what exactly they are doing at these conferences, because in the conference we had good conversations and collaborated in coming up with good solutions. As far as what is needed to tackle complex global issues I would say not only collaborating with everybody and coming up with ideas but also finding people who share the same ideas as you so that you can come up with a solution and get votes.
The most challenging part of this project for me was definitely the speech because I missed a lot of school and I missed the class where we went over how to write the speech so the speech was something that I really struggled with. Somewhere that I could have improved my performance was really just speaking more because although I didn't do my speech I feel like i still knew where my country stood and I knew a lot about the crisis in general
Poetry project
During this project we all wrote poems and worked on them for weeks, and preformed them at all school exhibition in front of peers and family. We made learned about poetic devices and poem structures.
My Mamma
I was raised by an African woman
Who was like a lioness protecting her children
Who always pushes me to be my best
But also takes care of me when I need it and even when I don't.
While other parents were like pandas not giving their kids any support,
My mom was probably my favorite person
Because she never led me astray and always was on my side,
But she also let me figure some things out
Like a turtle laying eggs and letting them walk to the ocean by themselves
I was raised by an African women
Who says what's on her mind no matter the situation
And gets so loud it sounds like she on a loudspeaker(even when she is quiet)
She always tells me “Mother knows best”
I was raised by an African women
Who raised me with values such as it is important to always be respectful
That you should always accept people no matter what
You should always work hard and try your best
I was raised by an African women
Who always takes care of her family
Cooks dinner every night
And celebrates with tacos every Tuesday like we're Lebron
I was raised by an African woman
Who was like a lioness protecting her children
Who always pushes me to be my best
But also takes care of me when I need it and even when I don't.
While other parents were like pandas not giving their kids any support,
My mom was probably my favorite person
Because she never led me astray and always was on my side,
But she also let me figure some things out
Like a turtle laying eggs and letting them walk to the ocean by themselves
I was raised by an African women
Who says what's on her mind no matter the situation
And gets so loud it sounds like she on a loudspeaker(even when she is quiet)
She always tells me “Mother knows best”
I was raised by an African women
Who raised me with values such as it is important to always be respectful
That you should always accept people no matter what
You should always work hard and try your best
I was raised by an African women
Who always takes care of her family
Cooks dinner every night
And celebrates with tacos every Tuesday like we're Lebron
Artist Statement
My poem is about my mom because she is very important part in my life and like I say in my poem, “Who was like a lioness protecting her children, Who always pushes me to be my best, But also takes care of me when I need it and even when I don't” And I chose to write my poem about her because I really love my mom and always have.
As far as poetic devices I did not have a real structure to my poem, but I used a lot of similes. I feel like all of the similes really help to deepen the feeling that I am going for. I also used repetition when I started off every paragraph with, “I was raised by an African woman,” and I think this really gets the point across that I was raised differently than most of the people in our school, if not town.
During the process of writing my poem, I got to a point where I was stuck, really distracted, and I really didn't know what to add to my poem. Even though I had gotten critiqued and had feedback, I was just kinda stuck. In order to get through this period I went and had a meeting with Lori. She elaborated and helped me get my ideas from my head down on to the paper.
My poem is about my mom because she is very important part in my life and like I say in my poem, “Who was like a lioness protecting her children, Who always pushes me to be my best, But also takes care of me when I need it and even when I don't” And I chose to write my poem about her because I really love my mom and always have.
As far as poetic devices I did not have a real structure to my poem, but I used a lot of similes. I feel like all of the similes really help to deepen the feeling that I am going for. I also used repetition when I started off every paragraph with, “I was raised by an African woman,” and I think this really gets the point across that I was raised differently than most of the people in our school, if not town.
During the process of writing my poem, I got to a point where I was stuck, really distracted, and I really didn't know what to add to my poem. Even though I had gotten critiqued and had feedback, I was just kinda stuck. In order to get through this period I went and had a meeting with Lori. She elaborated and helped me get my ideas from my head down on to the paper.
Growth as a poet reflection
The perspective that I communicate in my poem has shifted a little bit from my first drafts all the way to my final draft. In my first draft I think that you could tell what perspective that I was attempting to convey but it wasn't really specific to me, I just used three similes and nothing personal. In my next draft I attempted to get more specific but I was kinda stuck on what to add but then I talked to Lori and she really helped me get much more deep and specific to how exactly I view my mom. After talking to Lori and making adjustments to my poem I feel like I really advanced my poem.
The first big change that I made was adding the repetition of the “I was raised by an African woman”. I did this because in my first draft I had a really short poem and I was kinda stuck so in my final draft I repeated “I was raised by an African woman” four times. I feel like when I made this change the emotional message of my poem was much more clear because you could see that I was trying to express that being raised by an African woman shaped me differently. This change also impacted the experience of the reader because I feel like it pushes the fact that she is African.
Another big change that I made was actually writing stuff about my mom and not just using similes and metaphors. This is because when I was not writing about specific memories or things that my mom does it felt like a very bland poem that was just comparing her to animals. In my first draft it felt kinda incomplete because I just basically said “my mamma is like a lioness protecting her kids”, something with turtles, and something with panda, and in my second draft I got more specific about how exactly my mom by saying things like “ Her voice is as loud as a loudspeaker(even when she is quiet). I think that this change impacts the experience of the reader because it gives them more perspective.
The last big change that I made was breaking it up into different stanzas. When I first started writing it was just one big chunk of writing almost as if it was an essay, so in my later drafts I broke it into 5 different stanzas and this also led to me adding the repetition “I was raised by an African woman”. This change affects the reader because I feel like even though these are tiny little line breaks it dramatically changes the whole experience of the reader because it slows down there pace at which the reader reads my poem.
The perspective that I communicate in my poem has shifted a little bit from my first drafts all the way to my final draft. In my first draft I think that you could tell what perspective that I was attempting to convey but it wasn't really specific to me, I just used three similes and nothing personal. In my next draft I attempted to get more specific but I was kinda stuck on what to add but then I talked to Lori and she really helped me get much more deep and specific to how exactly I view my mom. After talking to Lori and making adjustments to my poem I feel like I really advanced my poem.
The first big change that I made was adding the repetition of the “I was raised by an African woman”. I did this because in my first draft I had a really short poem and I was kinda stuck so in my final draft I repeated “I was raised by an African woman” four times. I feel like when I made this change the emotional message of my poem was much more clear because you could see that I was trying to express that being raised by an African woman shaped me differently. This change also impacted the experience of the reader because I feel like it pushes the fact that she is African.
Another big change that I made was actually writing stuff about my mom and not just using similes and metaphors. This is because when I was not writing about specific memories or things that my mom does it felt like a very bland poem that was just comparing her to animals. In my first draft it felt kinda incomplete because I just basically said “my mamma is like a lioness protecting her kids”, something with turtles, and something with panda, and in my second draft I got more specific about how exactly my mom by saying things like “ Her voice is as loud as a loudspeaker(even when she is quiet). I think that this change impacts the experience of the reader because it gives them more perspective.
The last big change that I made was breaking it up into different stanzas. When I first started writing it was just one big chunk of writing almost as if it was an essay, so in my later drafts I broke it into 5 different stanzas and this also led to me adding the repetition “I was raised by an African woman”. This change affects the reader because I feel like even though these are tiny little line breaks it dramatically changes the whole experience of the reader because it slows down there pace at which the reader reads my poem.