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Sharing my learning in PK4!

October 24, 2024
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Humanities ” Am I a Humanist?” Infographic

Do you know who is responsible for you going to school and learning academics like science, math, and humanities? It is the humanist during the Renaissance, in the 14th to 15th century. Even though you probably aren’t pleased with humanists for this, at least you don’t go to Church everyday to learn about religion, as this was the actual society before the arrival of humanists.

Except that, humanists have made many more crucial actions which have changed our society in which we are familiar today. Some of these actions include the promotion of secularism and individualism, the readings of many classical books from Greek and Roman ages, spreading academic education across Europe, as well as asking different probing questions. These actions by the humanists still directly influence our lives today.

For example, as I stated before, if it weren’t humanists to promote basic education outside of the Catholic Church, I would still be going to Church every day to learn about religion and probably being illiterate ( as many people in the mediveal ages were). Not only, but the education humanists started was key to many other discovories and inventions later on in history. For example, every year, I travel to Europe to see my family members. By plane, this journey is less than 12 hours. However, if it weren’t for the humanists, planes would likely not be invented, meaning it would take me months or even years to travel with ships across Asia and Africa to get to Europe.

However, I don’t agree as much with other decisions that humanists thought were needed. For example, humanists thought that we should question everything. I don’t think that is needed, as nowadays, most facts which we learn or know have been prooved multiple times, making it unlikely to hear frauds like in 15th century, when people were scammed by the Donation of Constantine, when people didn’t realize that the donation’s latin didn’t match the latin used at that period of time. In fact, it took nearly 4 centuries for people to realize that they had been scammed. Now, with better governments and smarter people, it is nearly impossible for this to happen.

Still, I pretty much agree with most decisions introduced by humanists. After calculations, I am around 88% humanists, with the only 2 categories I didn’t fully agree on being individualism ( 4 points) and questioning everything ( 3 points).

The following is the link to my canva infographic I designed.

https://www.canva.com/design/DAGUWfH5Uy4/QkLSB_AY3qxmtYWxsr-0ow/view

August 25, 2024
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Scotch Tape of Justice

The Found Poem above was based on the short story by Adam Bagdasarian, ” My Side of The Story” from the novel ” First French Kiss”. The story talks about the main character’s search of justice when his brother puts scotch tape on his head. Wanting to protect his rights, he goes to find his mom, but ends up talking to his dad instead. His dad believes that the narrator is making too much of a deal about this incident and gets extremely mad, directly pulling the scotch tape from the narrator’s head. At the end of the story, the narrator didn’t get the justice he deserved. We can see this from a quote from the end of the story ” Where, I wondered, was the justice in that? Obviously, when I burst into my mother’s room, I had entered a larger world of justice, a world where screaming, whining, mother dependence, not knocking on closed doors, and startling one’s father were serious crimes.” From the story, I chose a Person VS. Person external conflict between the protagonist- the narrator, and the antagonist- the narrator’s brother Skip and his dad. We know this due to the antagonists’ inhumane behaviors towards the protagonist which the protagonist couldn’t change. The Found Poem I created according to this short story emphasizes the protagonists inner feelings after realizing that everyone was going against him as well as his search for justice when he was treated unfairly by his brother. My found poem is also written in a way, to let readers realize, that life may not always be fair, and that justice promised may not always arrive. For the background of the poem, I chose a small replica of the Lady Justice Statue which can be found at New York City. I chose this background because it clearly links to the main idea/theme of the story- justice. The color of the words in the poem, as you can see, are red. I did this in order to show readers how cruel the narrator’s dad and brother are dealing with him. Red represents the color of blood, and even though they aren’t physically hurting him so much, emotionally, the narrator is bleeding. He is emotionally hurt by them. You may notice some words 0f the poem’s letters are all capitalized. I did this in order to emphasize important words.

February 7, 2023
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Cardboard Arcade

This is the G6 cardboard arcade project in Design for the grade 4 students to play with.

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