CJH GCE Portfolio

This is an Action Project for my core class Light, Sound, and Time. For this unit, we learned all about sound and how it works in the world around us. We mainly focused on instruments in this unit and how sound waves work inside of the instrument. We have also learned about how to calculate sound waves in different objects, in different temperatures, and in different distances. We also learned about the pitch and frequency of sound. If you press on a part of the string, it shortens it which makes it have a higher pitch. There is also something called harmonics. These are marks on the instrument to mark points like the half way, the quarter mark, and so on. For this action project, I have been tasked with creating an instrument from scratch. My classmates and I went in-person to create our instruments. I created something called a diddely bow.   Below are photos of my homemade Diddley Bow. I created this out of wood, nails, a can, a battery, and a guitar string. As you can see in th...

This is an Action Project for my core class A Nation's Argument. For this unit, we have been studying about the Declaration of Independence and what makes it an argument. We have also learned about the structure of an argument and how we can create our own. For this project, I have been tasked with making my own argument. An argument shaped as the Declaration of Independence but with something I want to study independently. I chose to study the history of electric guitar. This is something that I feel heeds to have more light shed onto it. Not many people know a lot of the history of why the electric guitar was made or why distortion is now something that is used from an electric guitar. Introduction: Electric guitars are something that has influenced many people to go on and make their own historic songs. Whether it be a lesser known song or a song that is stuck in our head for days. They use electric guitars for fame and fortune but never know the history behind it why amps were ...