“When every man is torn apart/With nightmares and with dreams/Will no one lay the laurel wreath/When silence drowns the screams”-Epitaph, King Crimson Hi everybody! In our most recent Humanities project, we made a comic book about WWI. Let me tell you about it. To begin the project, we watched documentaries and the movie 1917, which was very good. To introduce us to the idea of a WWI comic, we read “The War to End all…
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“Bleating and babbling we fell on his neck with a scream/Wave upon wave of demented avengers /March cheerfully out of obscurity into the dream”-Pink Floyd, 1977, Sheep Ideas are what drive human progress. But what happens when people start to question the ways of life that they have been accustomed to? This is what we learned about in Humanities: revolutions! According to Crane Brinton in “Anatomy of a Revolution,” a revolution has four distinct stages.…
“And all the people bowed and prayed/to the neon god they made/and the sign flashed out it’s warning/in the words that it was forming/ and the silence said the word of the prophets are written on the subway walls/ Teniment Halls” -The Sound of Silence Recently in Humanities, we worked on a project about advertisements and did our Spring Exhibition. Keystone 1 For our first keystone, we did a survey on advertising and how it…
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The Winter Exhibition Twice every year, we have an exhibition were we get to showcase our learning. At exhibitions, we have a different theme; this year it was Avatar. The driving question was “What does James Cameron’s ‘Avatar’ reveal about our own society?” Here is the process of our project and the winter exhibition. The Project For the grade 8 project, we made a theme box to represent a theme present in Avatar. I chose…