Introduction to Tribalism    This unit was launched by the exploration of the meaning of the term tribalism, and what connections it has to our society today, and in the past. Here formed our driving question:  “What is the role of tribalism in society”   Before we worked towards creating a definition of tribalism for ourselves, and an answer to its role in society, we had to do some research,…

  An Introduction Crazy, a word I’ve ought to have said about ten thousand times by now but here I am saying it again. From the very beginning of this unit I thought that the word crazy had many different meanings in different contexts, some of those contexts not being too cheerful. But over the duration of this unit, I realized that it wasn’t a dictionary definition we were looking…

  Why does it take a crazy person to change the world? To start off our inquiry into this question we watched Apple’s “Think Different” campaign, as the people in that video would be the “crazy” people we’d be studying. We also made sure to confirm what crazy really meant. There are 3 main categories of crazy, such as mentally insane, a change maker and someone enjoys dangerous activities.  https://youtu.be/cFEarBzelBs…

What is a synthesis essay? Our task at hand was to finally answer our driving question, how do authors use text to teach us more about our selves, completely in our own words. We completed this task with our in-class synthesis essay write. Using my knowledge from More Happy Than Not and Persepolis, and Wab Kinew, we answered our prolong driving question.    What is the most difficult step when preparing for…

During our recent humanities unit, we kept in mind our driving question, how do authors use text to teach us more about ourselves? It was a broad question at first, but each and every assignment brought us closer and closer to our answer. In order to start our search for this answer, we had to use literature and filmmaking. First thing, we were assigned a book group along with a…