CJH GCE Portfolio

Welcome to my blog. This is a final presentation of the term that shows a certain project I enjoyed doing and wanted to go into more detail about. This term, we have learned about mental disorders and physical disorders in our STEAM class. In our Humanities class, we learned about banning books and the censorship of books. For my final presentation, I had to pick a guiding question from one of our core classes. The guiding question that I picked was from my STEAM class. The question is "How can epidemics be contained?" I took this question and redefined it into a new question, "What is an epidemic and how can we prevent one?" Below you will find the slideshow based around this question. Each slide explains a different part of epidemics and how they relate to what is going on now (COVID-19).   I enjoyed this project because I was able to understand more about what was going on in our lives today, and also I am now able to give details to people about the sp

Welcome to my blog. This is an Action Project for my core class Forbidden Books. In this unit, we have been learning about diversity and how it relates to a book being banned. In this action project, we have picked our banned books from the last unit and studied them and why they were banned. We have taken all of the research about our books and turned them into research papers. We were tasked with first, researching why the books were banned, who banned it, and what the author has responded to their book being banned. My author was Jack London, and he didn't say much about his book being banned, so I had to take one of his quotes about literature instead. I have also taken a side in this paper about whether or not the book should or should not be banned. You will hear my side in the paper and I hope you enjoy it. CJH. The Call of the Wild Book Cover. 2020. Above is my own book cover that I made from my other class Fine Art.

This is a blog post for my second Action Project for my core class Disease. This class is about diseases, both physical and mental diseases. We have been studying different diseases and a couple main ones we have been looking at are Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). We also learned about the DSM-V. The DSM-V is a Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. So it shows you all about the mental illnesses in the manual. For this action project, I had to choose a disease from the DSM-V and study it. The disorder I chose was Agoraphobia. Agoraphobia is the abnormal and persistent fear of public places or open areas, especially those from which escape could be difficult or in which help might not be immediately accessible. My definition for it is the fear of crowded places without being able to find a way out. In the panic disorder/agoraphobia spectrum, several studies appear to converge on effects in the amygdala, Adenoid cystic carcinom