Grade 8 Humanities Capstone

The Impending Doom of Climate Disaster             According to a study by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, for every 1°C (1.8°F) of warming, 1 billion people will either have to migrate to cooler regions or adapt to extreme heat conditions. (Helen). With the already very present threat of overpopulation, land to live […]

The Journal of François Astor

Why hello there! My name is François Astor. Of course, you would most likely know about that, since this is my journal you are reading, after all. Well, I’ve always wanted to contribute to history books, after all, details about life and events in certain periods of time have a habit of… dying off, so […]

Reporter Woman Does Cool Things and Gets Clout

Ten Days a Madwoman by Deborah Noyes is about Nellie Bly’s rise to fame, discrimination against the mentally ill during the nineteenth century, and how a young female journalist raised awareness about political corruption, poverty, and abuses of human rights during her career while also dealing with sexism and society’s expectations for women. The book […]

“Larry is Dead and we Have Killed Him” -Not Harambe Title: The Gospel According to Larry Author: Janet Tashjian Theme: The theme of the book is about how optimism often motivates people to make a meaningful change that impacts the world in a good way. This book talks about how when people work together, they […]

Our stories make history

https://sway.office.com/2BUMqixNCaDGFzL3?ref=Link A one or two-sentence summary of the unit, “Our Stories Make History,” and the project you created. Explain how you organized your project and why. Our stories make history is when we take our experiences in the pandemic so far and put them into a collective “story”. My project is how I handled it […]