Before going to Florida we did a novel study on Alice in Wonderland and as a result of that study we had to write an in-class essay. We were given two topics: 1) How does Carroll create a real imaginary world for his reader? 2) How are readers/viewers drawn to imaginary worlds? I chose the second … Continue reading Alice and Her Adventures in Wonderland have Given me Cause for Lots of Stress
At the end of November we went down to Seattle to work on our past unit, Cray Cray Yay Yay. We never officially finished the project but it was meant as a segway unit to get us ready for the Fantasy unit. On the first day we went to Microsoft which was really cool. We … Continue reading Seattle and The Frisbees
In the past little bit we have been exploring wonder, here is some of the work I have been doing on the subject. Here is the answers to a couple of questions we answered after reading an article about wonder. 1. Prinz’s experienced the circus as a place of wonder and curiosity while his parents … Continue reading The Wonder of Wonder
The metaphor machine project has come to an end. It was a great project that really showed what PLP is all about with the creation, design, the history aspect as well as all the blog posts and other parts of this unit that we have done. I really enjoyed the historical aspect of this project … Continue reading Metaphor Machine Final Blog Post
Lately in class we have been starting to construct a Rube Goldberg machine and each piece of the machine had to be a metaphor for a revolution as well as everything has to have a steampunk aesthetic and we also had to include a circuit. We started off with getting a revolution to base our … Continue reading The Metaphor Machine Midway Blog Post
So for the last week and a half we have been making a visual essay using explain everything about the cause and consequences of the invention of trains and railroads in Britain during the Industrial Revolution. We created three drafts for this mini-project. The first draft was critiqued by peers as well as the second … Continue reading Railroad Visual Essay
So, after finishing the first blog post we have to do another, of course. This blog post is about the amazing genre of Steampunk. Lately we have been reading a book called Leviathan by Scott Westerfield (great book) all about Steampunk and World War One. We read this book because of our beautiful project called … Continue reading Comparing Steampunk Stories To Other Story Genres
Since returning to school (sadly) we started a new unit all about revolutions. We talked about some different famous revolutions including the French, Industrial and more. After discussing various revolutions we were introduced to a theory by a historian with the name of Crane Brinton. Crane looked at six different revolutions; French Revolution, American Revolution, … Continue reading Current and Recent Revolutions compared to Crane Brinton’s Theory
In the last week and a half, in humanities, we did a maritime exploration unit. We first looked at how the motivation to explore came about. Which includes the Islamic conquering of Constantinople and blocking the Asian trade route from Europeans. This then made the Europeans start to think about going the western way to … Continue reading Maritime Exploration is Deeper Than You Think
When we were done the explain everythings we started an iBook. As a class we were assigned roles. I was assigned to the writer group along with Adam and Makyla. The writers job was to write introductions for each religion and also the big introduction for the IBook. I did the introductions for the new … Continue reading IBooks, The books of the future