9th Grade
This year I am taking Band, Literature, Geography, Technology, Algebra 1, Personal Fitness/Health, Physical Science, and Spanish. Each class has been fairly easy.
This year I am taking Band, Literature, Geography, Technology, Algebra 1, Personal Fitness/Health, Physical Science, and Spanish. Each class has been fairly easy.
Our group chose to compare the fall of Troy and 9/11. We chose this because we see that they have many similarities. They both depict a tragic story of a whole community being torn apart by an outside group of people that don’t like them. These groups are the Spartans that went to war with Troy and the Al Qaeda, a terrorist group that has destroyed millions of lives in 9/11. The day of 9/11 the state of New York and Washington D.C. were in complete shock and probably horrified because three planes crashed into the Twin Towers and the Pentagon. The whole nation was very scared and many people’s families were shattered because of all the lives taken by the Al Qaeda. The Trojan war is just the same or maybe even worse because the Spartans took all the lives of the people in the village meaning that they killed off more people than in 9/11. Obviously these events were two acts of p[ure cruelty, but for the people in the midst of everything that was happening, it probably means more than this. It marks a day of anger, sadness, and empathy. I’m sure if you put survivors of these events or witnesses of these events in one room, they would connect on a very deep level which justifies how much the Trojan War and 9/11 are the same.
In class we studied states and used the acronym SPEED or learn about issues in the states. SPEED represents Social, Political, Economics, Environmental, and Demographics. By using the lens of SPEED we were able to gain more insight into issues that affected assigned states. We used the Hummingbird robotics to animate various elements related to SPEED.
The state I was assigned is Illinois. Our project was about Illinois and its SPEED aspects and we used a vibrator and orange and green lights. We used the vibration to show the vast movement of the large population and to give off an illusion of a busy sidewalk, the orange light to show the actual fire that the Kaskaskia Dragon shoots out to show the social aspects of the state because many tourists come to see the dragon, and the green light to show the economical aspects of the state.