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Thursday, April 21, 2016

Shakespearean Sonnet

For the first Unit of my Humanities course Drama at GCE, we read the play The Taming of the Shrew and studied sonnets. After reading the play, I felt my understanding of Shakespearean language had increased by a lot. For our Action Project, we created our own sonnets and recorded a video of us preforming it. The hardest part of this project was making sure the poem followed iambic pentameter for most of the poem. What I am most proud of is how I incorporated Shakespearean language.

LS Shakespearean Sonnet from LS on Vimeo.



How canst thou have such a quick change of heart
One man, some words, and soon thy mind was new
I used to think that you were rather smart
At least you are no longer seen as “Shrew


How can you even think you want to stay
If all Petruch’io thinks is that you are
only e’er “bound to serve, love, and obey”
Oh how this new Kate is so rather mar


What grates me most are not your shrewish ways  
I understand his threats and how you’re forced
Snap out of your husband's controlling daze
Make him stop or quite simply get divorced


Let’s see this not as man’s despotic crime
Rather a lesson, meant for all life’s time

Wednesday, April 20, 2016

Appendectomy

For the first unit in my STEAM course Cure at GCE, we studied cells and how surgeries affect the body. A large portion of our research in the internal and external focused around cell theory and how hospitals and doctors preform surgeries. For this Action Project, we were asked to pick any kind of surgery we want and preform research on the body systems, organs, tissues and cells affected. I chose an Appendectomy (removal of the appendix) because I've known people who have had it preformed. My favorite part of this project was getting used to Prezi since I had never used it before. One thing I struggled with was finding in depth information about the appendix.