One project we did in APUSH was the yellow pages project, where we worked with a group to create a replica newspaper from the 1900s. The papers included information on American imperialism in places such as Hawaii, Panama, and Cuba. This project taught me about the reasons behind imperialism and the effects on native populations.
This project connects to the pillar of investigating the world because there are many nations still struggling from the impact of imperialism and colonialism. This project allowed me to learn some background on the history of the issue. By learning about different colonized areas, I was able to investigate the world and understand the impact of colonization on developing countries and their people.
This year we read Fahrenheit 451, a novel about a dystopian world in which knowledge and information are restricted by the government and books are highly prohibited. This artifact shows a connection to the communicate ideas pillar of JAGS because it displays the harms of a society that prohibits the communication of ideas. The people in the novel display ignorance, intolerance, desensitization to violence, and other characteristics as a result of living in a state of intellectual control and censorship. This book taught us the importance of free knowledge and how the lack of such freedoms showed a future with the potential for war and chaos as a result of not having such
For our sophomore trip, we went to Costa Rica. We landed in San Jose and traveled up Monteverde. We learned about the wildlife in Costa Rica and were able to see various animals, including sloths, tarantulas, and lizards. Throughout this trip, we also tried many of the foods that Costa Ricans typically eat. We also saw multiple beaches and learned about Costa Rica's government and clean energy system.
This trip connects to the pillar investigate the world because we were able to be immersed in Costa Rica, which gave us a clear understanding of this different nation. We got the opportunity to learn about the culture and speak with the locals of the country. This trip was a great opportunity to investigate the world directly and not through researching the country from the United States.
We did not have many projects in French this year. However, I did get to begin learning how to speak, read, and write in French. I also learned about French culture and compared it to our American culture. This included comparing our holidays, schools, and everyday life. This class connects with the pillars of investigating the world, communicating ideas, and recognizing perspectives. These pillars were shown in how we learned about the French people, and also how the french language has been spread throughout the world because of French colonization. They were also shown because I began to be able to speak some French which gave me more ability to communicate ideas, some of which was used during the Europe trip to communicate with French locals.
In chemistry, we learned about the mole, which is a unit used to express extremely large numbers of atoms in a more simple form. For this project, we had to choose a certain form of art to depict Avogadro's number. This project connects to communicating ideas because we used an unconventional form of media to convey a scientific principle. This project taught us that we can use different mediums to convey ideas about any subject.