Poverty Today, there are 1 billion children all around the world living in poverty. In that, there are nearly 22, 000 children who are dying each day due to poverty. Global poverty has decreased by half over the last decade, but 71 percent of the population is still living on low income or poor conditions(Helpers […]
Tag: humanities
Mexican Revolution Journal
This unit, learning about the Mexican Revolution allowed me to learn many new things about the revolution that I didn’t know before. For this project, we were assigned to create a narrative journal based on a person that lived during the revolution, similar to the Russian revolution journal we did before. With this project, I […]
Mexican Revolution Common Craft Video
For this revolutionary unit, I chose the Mexican Revolution since it was the one I was interested and wanted to learn about. After learning in this unit, our task was to create a video talking about the revolution we chose. For me, it was the Mexican Revolution. In this video my partner Elaine and I […]
The 57 Bus
The book I read for this book club unit is called The 57 Bus, by Dashka Slater. This book is based on a true story that focuses on the topic gender identity. The book begins with telling a story of two high schoolers from different schools, Richard and Sasha meeting for the first time. Richard […]
The House You Pass on the Way- BookTalk
In this book, the author Jacqueline Woodson describes the importance of friendship and what it means to love someone. The main character Staggerlee lives in an African- American district with a white mother. She struggles finding a real friend that she can share her thoughts and feelings with after her friend Hazel stopped playing with […]
Am I a Renaissance Humanist？
In this humanities unit, we talked about “The Renaissance” and we have discussed the main elements of humanism. We also read articles about the main concepts of being a humanists. For this task, we made an infographic to show the main elements we think are important in humanism, and also explain whether we think we […]
Conflict in “Thank You Ma’am”- Found Poem
In the story “Thank you Ma’am” by Langston Hughes, the boy starts off trying to steal a woman’s purse because he wanted to buy a shoe and he needs money. The woman got the boy trying to steal, but instead of getting mad at the boy, the woman understood the boy and led him to […]