Humanities

This is a Thinglink that I made explaining life in Athens, as well as greek gods. The sources cited are on the top right corner with the question sign.

Have you always wondered why you don’t always pay attention during class? Why you always get in trouble for getting angry a lot? That is the potential effects of ADHD (Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder). But we can always prevent this from always happening. Percy Jackson is an example of a fictional character with ADHD. Then how can Percy improve? Everyone around Percy has a role in helping Percy improve. From his teachers to himself. Percy can try better to control his emotions, whilst his teachers can adjust the lesson plan to change his attitude towards school and his counselor give better advice on controlling anger. 

For Percy Jackson to make better choices, he needs to manage his emotions by considering his actions, and the consequences of it. His Counselor should also give better advice on how to prevent anger. In page 5 of Percy Jackson, Nancy, Percy’s nemesis, has said something while Percy is trying to concentrate. Percy responded, quote: “Nancy Bobofit snickered something about the naked guy on the stele, and I turned around and said, “Will you shut up?” It came out louder than I meant it to” Because of not controlling his anger, it resulted in him in getting in trouble. But how can Percy prevent that? Another example is on page 9 of Percy Jackson, where Percy again, is having trouble with Nancy. Percy is getting angry again, quote: “I tried to stay cool. The school counselor had told me a million times, “Count to ten, get control of your temper.” But I was so mad my mind went blank. A wave roared in my ears.” Percy attempted to control his anger, but maybe he isn’t doing it the right way. In the end, he still failed to control himself, so what can he do to control himself? Percy could use some tips to control his anger and combine his thinking with his emotional responses. “If you only use one or the other, your decisions may either not be very balanced, or not support your emotional needs. Instead, you need to combine your emotional response with rational considerations.” (Skills You Need, 2019) Percy should combine his emotional response and combine it with his logical thinking to respond. Percy should consider how you will feel as a result of each possible action and consider what might happen as a result and how your decision might affect others (Skills You Need, 2019). The school counselor should also give more reliable and helpful advice to controlling anger, an example by listed by Skills You Need says you should “stop before you decide, to give yourself a chance to think.” Therefore, Percy could combine his thinking with emotional responses, and the school counselor should give more effective ways to combat anger. 

To change Percy’s negative view of school, Percy’s educators can adjust his learning environment and activities to encourage him to learn. Mr. Brunner, Percy’s Latin teacher, is the only teacher that didn’t put Percy to sleep. Why is that?  In page 2, Percy describes Mr. Brunner and how he teaches, quote: “But Mr. Brunner, out Latin teacher, was leading this trip, so I had hopes… you wouldn’t think he’d be cool, but he told stories and jokes and let us play games in class. He also had this awesome collection of roman armor, so he was the only teacher’s class that didn’t put me to sleep.” Percy says that he likes Mr. Brunner’s classes because his teacher used entertaining and active ways to teach class and interests him. Percy describes Mr. Brunner’s roman armor as ‘cool’, which also means that Percy is interested in that, therefore he pays attention a lot to Mr. Brunner. “It is not true that people with a diffused attentional style can never focus on one thing, either. They might be very focused when something interests them, whether it’s Legos or music.” (Gibson, 2018) Percy’s educator should change the learning environment into a more active environment and adapt similar techniques Mr. Brunner uses, quote: “People with ADHD also do their best in stimulating environments. They like to be outdoors and move their bodies.” (Gibson, 2018). Therefore, Percy likes Mr. Brunner’s class, because of Mr. Brunner’s unique learning structure that involves activeness and interests Percy. But why should we implement these strategies? And what is the effect of not having them? In page 17 of Percy Jackson, Percy is being confronted by his English teacher for not studying for his spelling tasks, quote: “Finally, when our English teacher, Mr. Nicolli, asked me for the millionth time why I was too lazy to study for my English tests…” Percy has been avoiding his English tests, but why? Apparently, it is a symptom of ADHD, quote: “ADHD symptoms include… avoiding activities that require focus are also symptoms” Because English tests require focus, Percy has been avoiding them by not studying. Should Mr. Nicolli change the class structure to be more active or interesting, Percy would pay more attention, and give in more effort to learn. Therefore, Percy’s teachers can edit the learning structure to be more active and interesting for people like Percy to learn. 

In this text, we talked about Percy’s emotions and negative view towards school. Percy is just like any kid out there that has ADHD and there is a lot of people that have ADHD. According to Karen Bush Gibson, more than 6 million young people under the age of 17 have been diagnosed with ADHD (2018). So out there, a lot of people are experiencing the same problems as Percy. ADHD may affect certain aspects of our daily lives, but we can improve using different methods. What part of your daily life does ADHD affect, and how can you improve? 

In chapter 1 of Percy Jackson, The Lightning Thief, Percy Jackson is acting in a manner that shows he can quickly get angry, but still able to control himself. On page 9, the book says “I tried to stay cool. The school counselor had told me a million times “Count to ten, get control of your temper.” But my mind went blank. A wave roared in my ears.” This section in the book shows that even with techniques given to control his anger, he still can get angry. “Then, Nancy Bobofit snickered something about the naked guy on the stele, and I turned around and said, “Will you shut up?”” (Page 5). This shows Percy Jackson is short-tempered and also rude at the same time, for example using the term “Shut up” instead of politely asking them to be quiet. Another thing that is unique about this paragraph is that the writer wrote the words “Shut up” in the section with italics (as shown with underlining), which may hint that Percy Jackson may have emphasized that word. The writer may purposely have done that to express the amount of anger Percy is using. Finally, on page 3, Percy Jackson mumbled: “I’m going to kill her.” Here Percy is threatening to attack Nancy Bobofit for bullying his friend. Then later on page 3, after the continuous bullying on Grover, Percy responded: “That’s it.” Percy attempted to get up, but Grover reminded him “You’re already on probation, you know you’ll get blamed if anything happens”. Here, Percy tries to control his anger, but with the assistance from Grover, he prevented Percy to cause disorder even when that disorder is beneficial to him. Without Grover’s help, Percy may have got into trouble already. This concludes that Percy can get angry very fast, but has the ability to control his anger, occasionally with the help of a friend.

Above is my video introduction to Ancient China which focuses mainly on compasses. I used PowToons and iMovie to make this. I made this with Larry and Minh. Enjoy!

In humanities, we did a research project on Early and Modern humans and for my project, I got food. I uploaded my sources and paragraphs to a site called Thinglink and my Thinglink is at the bottom of this blog post.

This is a video of my poem I made for humanities! Hope you like it!?

Credits to:

Garageband for recording

iMovie for screenshot combining and audio combining

Storybird and its artists for poem making and artwork

Dragons Tube for use of uploading

I am happy and confident to start and work on my blog. I am as happy as that emoji to use this blog!