Capture the Moment

On our final project, we talked about the preservation of species. Most importantly, why it is important to preserve animals and the type of method we choose to preserve them. On one of our FE’s, we all observed our own owl pellet which are small leftover rodents, birds, and bugs an owl might have eaten. This experiment was interesting as I was able to find all these cool looking bones and teeth to try and figure out what its last meal was. Surprisingly my owl ate a lot of rodents. This unit felt like a wrap up of the whole course as it summarized how important population is. This course showed me different ways to view the term population than just an old picture of the “evolution” of humans. I was able to understand the meaning of evolution from the beginning of when they first existed from ancestors all the way to the end where they may become preserved. I can honestly say I had no major struggles in this unit everything moved at a good pace making it possible to understand the math and science part of this course.

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My Heroes!

For our last unit in stories, we analyzed the journey of heroes. The purpose of this unit was to apply Joseph Campbell’s hero mono myth to our own real and fictional heroes journey. The main guiding question of this unit was how do you analyze a hero? One of our major concepts that lead to our guiding question was Joseph Campbell's hero mono myth this made it possible to analyze the character journey more profoundly to make connections on their journey.

In our final AP we compared a fictional heroes journey and a real persons heroic journey. In my slideshow I analyzed Nacho Libre journey with my dads journey and made connections throughout their experiences. The reason I choose Nacho Libre was because my family grew up with this movie. Nacho Libre was a real person that just cared for the kids and that really just connected with my dads call to adventure. Nacho Libre and my dad had similar characteristics that helped them with their journey. Nacho and my dad did not give up completely during there abyss and showed strength from the positivity they have as a person. Overall Nacho Libre has a lot of heroic symbols that are seen in real people  just like my dad. My dad and Nacho both went through trials with the help of god as a supernatural mentor, allowing them to persevere.

IndependANT Environment

For our second unit of our fall term class called population, we took a longer time than usual. The reason for this was to really grasp this unit and overall understand our organism through evolution. We learned about standard deviation, statistics, permutation and combination, box and whisker plot, and most of all evolution. Throughout this unit, I can honestly say I have enjoyed learning the math concepts and how they tied in with our organism. For this Action project, I decided to stick with my organism from my first project of this unit which was black ants. I wanted to learn more about black ants since we see them in our everyday lives. In this AP I will be showing you how black ants do in my environment and how it will affect them in the future.

Busy Beaver Bill

For our second unit in our humanities class stories, we learned all about fables and moral lessons. In order for us to really grasp on this AP, we learned about an Aesop's Fables, character analysis which we discussed personification on different animals and even made our own observations to get a feel for what are AP might consist of. I personally found this really challenging knowing I don't have the biggest interest in fantasy stories but as we got to analyzing more on the characters and the setting I really like the idea of adding symbolism in fables.

GA, "Busy Beaver Bill", 2017

Did you ever hear the story of the busy beaver Bill? Well, I'm here to tell you this story. It all started in the great lakes of Beaverville where there is always work to be done leaving no room for chit-chats with friends. The beavers that lived in the great lakes were not the nicest when it came to new incomers, making no exception of the new kid in town Bill. Bill walked through town making himself at home skimming through trees seeing the beautiful dams watching how the sun glistened on his polished tale he was ready for a fresh new start. As Bill started adapting to his new home he decided he needed to make friends despite the fact that he is incapable of having normal conversation although you must admit small talks are the worst. As Bill spent the whole day thinking he finally decided he will make the kind gesture to help the beavers in Beaverville with anything they need in order to make friends.

On the very next day, he hurried to blow dry his fur, polish his tale, and sharpen his sharp pearly white teeth. As he steps out of his dam he was surprised how every beaver in town is already working so diligently. Bill starts to walk towards the group of beavers working on cutting up trees

“Hey, guys need any help” stuttered Bill.
The beavers were looking at each other with smirks on their face.
“Sure kid what can you do? ” asked one of the beavers in a intrigued manner.
“I can do just about anything whatever it takes too kindly help”- said Bill
“How does this sound you cut down this tree and we will see how much of a help you can really be to us,” said one of the beavers
“Let's get chopping,” said Bill excitedly.

As bill chops down the tree the group of beavers notices how fast and precise he does it.
“Wow, that is amazing work, you can come and help anytime you want kid,” said one of the beavers
“thanks, I try my best, and oh, by the way, I’m Bill,” said Bill.
“Haha well, nice meeting you Bill,” said one of the beavers.
Bill smiled and walked away bursting with joy knowing he made friends that day. Bill ran home to get ready to sleep as he could not wait for what tomorrow beholds for him.

Morning arrives with the same routines Bill does blow dry his fur, polish his tale, and sharpen his pearly white teeth only this time he sharpens them twice to impress his friends on his big chompers. Bill heads out to the same place as yesterday as he sees the group of beavers he rushes with a big smile to see if anyone will notice.

Before Bill can say anything one of the beavers interrupt saying “ Hey Bill hope you don't mind us making a list of the things you can do today”
“No problem buddy whatever it takes to lend a hand,” said Bill.
Bill felt a little down that nobody asked how he was feeling or about his teeth he was so eager to show. As bill starts working busily as a beaver he notices the group of beavers isn't working. Bill didn't think much of it and went back to his chores. Once Bill was done he was ready to say his goodbyes to the beavers, strangely enough, they were not in plain sight Bill found it really odd. As he gave up he left to his dam disappointed of how boring today was. But knowing Bill’s pure heart he cannot wait until the next day and help out his friends in need.

Morning comes like every other Bill jumps out of bed to do his daily routine and walks out his door. As Bill walks towards the group of beavers he says “ hey guys I wasn't able to find you guys last night, what happened?”
“ oh..we went to catch a game… we weren't sure if you wanted to come you looked busy next time tho” said one of the beavers
“Wow that sounds like a lot of fun yeah guys it’s okay there is always a next time right,” said Bill.
“ We were able to see the great work you did yesterday and decided to do a bigger list knowing you have a good eye for this kind of stuff.” said one of the beavers.
“Umm...sure  why not I am the handy helper after all,” said Bill.
As Bill left the gang to work on the list he started to feel different towards his friends. He wasn't sure on what was going on but he was too delusional to admit anything.

Days went by with no change what so ever unless you count the list of things I had to do every day. One night Bill was not able to sleep and was up all night thinking why were his friends treating him that. Bill was not sure if he should be happy because he's helping his friends or sad from never going out with his friends. Until he had enough from everything and decided he will not be treated like this anymore.

The very next day he jumps out of bed excited to see his friend but this time for a different purpose. So as always Bill blow dry his fur, polish his tale, and sharpen his pearly white teeth and rushes out the door. Bill walks over to the gang ready to rip.
“Ay Bill ready for today?” said one of the beavers laughing.
Bill gets the list and doesn't say a word. He walks over to the station and started chomping everything down bits and pieces destroyed tearing apart every single thing written on the to-do list. Once Bill felt satisfied he calmly walked over and ripped the paper and front of them. BEfore anybody was able to say anything Bill had left back to his damn feeling happy he stood up for himself the way he knew he could and peacefully went to bed.

“Goodnight,” said Bill.

Moral: Don't let people take advantage of you.