In our 9th grade literature class, after reading the Odyssey, we created a collage to show a connection between a character in the Odyssey and a modern counterpart. We compared the lotus eaters to drug addicts. When Odysseus land on the land of the lotus eaters, some of the crew meet the lotus eaters, and eat the lotus flowers. They become addicted to the flowers soon after. This shows that the lotus flowers are addictive, and the lotus eaters soon stop thinking of much other than the flowers. Similar to that, drug addicts can become focused on the drugs, and find other parts of their life deteriorating because of it.Like the lotus eaters, drug addicts become focused on an addictive substance, neglecting other parts of their life.

My map was an outline of Mississippi, with a picture of farmland, with a servo making the corn rotate, a picture of a chicken, the capital, with an LED in the center, the capitol building, and a pie chart of the demographics, with a motor making it rotate. It connects to geography because It is a map of a state, and it has an aspect for each part of SPEED, it has technology because It has the hummingbird components, and the coding related to them. In STEAM, it connects to technology, hummingbird components, Engineering, we did lots of drawing and cutting and gluing, Art, The shape was cut out and glued together, kind of like a collage, and Math, the demographics part has percentages. It made a connection between technology and geography by making the moving parts part of the map. My opinion of the project was that It was okay, I didn’t hate it, but I didn’t like it either, since I never really like doing things in school. I did well on my project, although the name of the state was just drawn on a piece of paper at the last minute, I would want to have done that earlier. The presentation wasn’t great, we weren’t prepared and there was lots of background noise, but other than that it was fine, we got all the information that was supposed to be said.