Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night's Dream:
Reflection:
Poetry Conversion:
Shakespeare Essay:
Model United Nations:
For this project we were assigned a country to represent that is in the United Nations and we had to express our country's views and positions on the different problems. During this project, the issues that we addressed and conferenced about were the North Korea Nuclear Weapons issue and the Palestinian Right of Return issue. Each student was required to write policy papers addressing their country's view on the issue. Each student was also required to write a resolution that would be presented to all the country's saying how to resolve the issue and how their country would help. For the final exhibition, we had a UN conference like the official ones that the actual countries have.
Project Reflection:
What would you tell another student if they asked why the MUN project was important?
The MUN project was important because it taught us how the United Nations work and how and how the UN meetings are run. I also thought this project was important because it taught us about some of the current events that are going on in the world right now. My country was Turkey and I had to learn how to take the information that I could find about their opinions on the different issues and turn it into either a policy paper or a resolution. This project gave more insight on the different political and governmental views of the different countries and their respective perspectives on the different issues we learned about.
Which habit of heart and mind were you most proud of using during the conference?
I am most proud of using perspective during the conference because of all of the different amendments, opinions, and views that were being presented. For example, when amendments were being presented to change my resolution, I had to have perspective to understand where that country was coming from and why they wanted to make that amendment. Having perspective was important to me during the conference because without it, the conference would not have gone very smoothly because I wouldn’t have been able to see where the other countries were coming from and what their stances were on the situation. And without having perspective it would have been impossible to get the other countries to come to and agreement.
What was the greatest challenge you faced in the project and how did you work through it?
During this project, I struggled the most with perseverance because the project was so long and because I was not very interested in the topics that we were discussing. I felt that towards the end of the project I started to lose my focus on the topics we were working because we had already been focusing on them for so long. For example, when we were writing our resolutions for the Israel/Palestine conflict, it was at the very end of the project so I didn’t have much stamina left for working on it. Yet even because of this I still persevered through to the end.
What was the most interesting speech, resolution, amendment, or comment made by one of the delegates?
I think that the most interesting amendment was the amendment presented by Israel to Turkey’s resolution. The amendment stated that 40 percent of the land would go to the Palestinians and 60 percent would go to the Israelis. I found this interesting because in reality, the Israelis wouldn’t want to have only 60 percent of the land and they would want more. Because of these reasons, this is why I think that this amendment was the most interesting during the speech.
The MUN project was important because it taught us how the United Nations work and how and how the UN meetings are run. I also thought this project was important because it taught us about some of the current events that are going on in the world right now. My country was Turkey and I had to learn how to take the information that I could find about their opinions on the different issues and turn it into either a policy paper or a resolution. This project gave more insight on the different political and governmental views of the different countries and their respective perspectives on the different issues we learned about.
Which habit of heart and mind were you most proud of using during the conference?
I am most proud of using perspective during the conference because of all of the different amendments, opinions, and views that were being presented. For example, when amendments were being presented to change my resolution, I had to have perspective to understand where that country was coming from and why they wanted to make that amendment. Having perspective was important to me during the conference because without it, the conference would not have gone very smoothly because I wouldn’t have been able to see where the other countries were coming from and what their stances were on the situation. And without having perspective it would have been impossible to get the other countries to come to and agreement.
What was the greatest challenge you faced in the project and how did you work through it?
During this project, I struggled the most with perseverance because the project was so long and because I was not very interested in the topics that we were discussing. I felt that towards the end of the project I started to lose my focus on the topics we were working because we had already been focusing on them for so long. For example, when we were writing our resolutions for the Israel/Palestine conflict, it was at the very end of the project so I didn’t have much stamina left for working on it. Yet even because of this I still persevered through to the end.
What was the most interesting speech, resolution, amendment, or comment made by one of the delegates?
I think that the most interesting amendment was the amendment presented by Israel to Turkey’s resolution. The amendment stated that 40 percent of the land would go to the Palestinians and 60 percent would go to the Israelis. I found this interesting because in reality, the Israelis wouldn’t want to have only 60 percent of the land and they would want more. Because of these reasons, this is why I think that this amendment was the most interesting during the speech.
Turkey's Israel/Palestine Resolution:
Turkey's Israel/Palestine Policy Paper:
Turkey's North Korea Resolution:
Turkey's North Korea Policy Paper:
Graphic Novel Project:
Graphic Novel Project Reflection:
In this project, both partners had to depict a scene from the novel Brave New World in graphic novel format. One partner was the artist and had to draw the graphic novel and the other partner was the author and had to write about the scene. I think the Learning Objective that improved the most in would be teamwork because with this project I had to collaborate with my partner a lot in order to make the project. I had to collaborate with my partner to know what I was going to write next and to tell her what she should draw next. A Content Skill that I think I improved the most in would be revising for clarity because when writing everything for the project, I had to revise the drafts multiple times to make them clearer and to make sure they made sense.
Something that I would like to improve on for the next project would be participating more in socratic seminars. I would like to improve on this because I think that if I participate more in the seminars then I think it will give me a better understanding of what we are reading and what we are supposed to be getting from the text.
Something that I would like to improve on for the next project would be participating more in socratic seminars. I would like to improve on this because I think that if I participate more in the seminars then I think it will give me a better understanding of what we are reading and what we are supposed to be getting from the text.
Mask Project:
Socialization Project Essay:
Teenage Girls in the Modern Society
“Why do you mountain bike? It seems like a pretty tough sport for a girl to do,” a classmate had said to me one day. My reply was simple. “I do it because I have a passion for it, and because it’s not just a sport for men.” When it comes to sports and being strong and tough, girls are just as capable as boys. In today’s society, teenage girls have been shaped to act, think, dress, and do things a certain way. We have been socialized to think that teenage girls are not supposed to be tough or strong, but to be the ‘Damsel in Distress’. When in reality, women can be just as strong or even stronger than men. As I’ve grown up, I’ve been positively socialized to be the person that I want to be, I’ve been told that I can play the sports that I want to play because they aren’t just a ‘guy thing’. I can dress the way that I want because I don’t need to be another stereotypical girl, I don’t have to conform. I think that it is important to show and tell other people about the stereotypes that are directed towards women because it will show more people the effects the society has when it puts these stereotypes on the female population.
The society and the media tells a girl how she is supposed to dress and how she is supposed to look, but conforming to these stereotypes can do more harm than good. Sometimes when a girl is socialized to dress a certain way, she feels like she can only dress with those closes and dress that way only. This is also harmful in the way that teenage girls feel like they have to fit into the perfect ‘cookie cutter’ shape. The perfect ‘cookie cutter’ shape means that girls are supposed to be skinny, and that they can only eat certain things. You also have to be pretty to fit in this model formed by society. And to do this, girls wear lots of makeup to get that way. This can be harmful because it can make a girl very greedy and leave her always wanting more because she will never be able to appreciate what she has, or be comfortable in her own skin. She won’t be able to appreciate what she has because she and her friends have been socialized to think to always want more too and to act the same way as her other friends. When a girl feels the pressures of having to fit into the perfect ‘cookie cutter’ shape, some girls resort to becoming anorexic or bulimic which is very harmful on a persons body, and can cause permanent damage, and even death (Kam, “Eating Disorders in Children and Teens”). There is no such thing as beauty without makeup and the perfect body without a diet.
Throughout history, women and teenage girls have been portrayed as weak, can’t be tough, and can only do ‘girly’ sports, but why should they have to be classified as that kind of girl? You see it in the media and you read about it in books and in magazines, women are weak and helpless. In the movies Shrek (Dir. Vicky Jenson and Andrew Adamson, 2001) , Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Dir. Larry Morey, 1937) and other classic princess stories, the woman in the story is always the ‘Damsel in Distress’. They need to be rescued by their ‘Knight in Shining Armor’ from the evil because they are too helpless to do something about it themselves. In the movie Mean Girls (Mark Waters, 2004), there is a social group called the Plastics. The Plastics are your stereotypical girly girls that can’t go and do sports or rigorous activities because they could break a nail or mess up their makeup or their hair that they spent hours doing. Because of these stereotypes, a picture is painted for how the entire female population is supposed to be. These stereotypes make it hard for any girl to go her own way because she feels that she has to be in this box. A box that no girl deserves to be in.
Giggling, twirling your hair, and playing dumb are just some of the ways that a stereotypical girl is supposed to act, but why? In most common television shows and movies where a girl is trying to get a guy to notice her, she is told to ‘dumb it down’. She is told to ‘dumb it down’ so that the guy will notice her and help her understand what they are doing even if it something that she already knows. Although, in most of the occasions that this is happening, the guy ends up finding out and he feels like he was played. Like he was used at the girl’s expense then thrown away like a piece of trash. In other instances, the girl will pretend to be injured so that the guy will carry her and take care of her. Or she’ll pretend that she is scared and cower into the man’s embrace. All of these things are just the effects of how the society has changed us to think about women and teenage girls. We have been socialized as a whole to think that they are helpless and weak. That they can’t do sports that are strenuous and that their figure is everything. Their clothes and their body image are the most important things along with getting a boyfriend that is the most popular guy on the football team.
‘Cookie Cutter’ girl versus ‘Individual Personality’ girl, what do you pick? For my mask, I am showing the different portrayals of teenage girls, ‘Cookie Cutter’ and ‘Individual Personality’. On one side of the mask, it will show the stereotypical girl. The girl that has to fit in and has to be like every other girl. This side will have a face of a girl that is covered in makeup what you would expect from a girl that fits inside of the ‘cookie cutter’ stereotypes. On the other side of the mask, it will show a girl that doesn’t want to fit into the ‘cookie cutter’ shape and a girl that wants to be her own individual person. Her own individual person that doesn’t have to wear tons of makeup or have to wear the best clothes to feel good about herself. I personally fit into the non-stereotypical girl side, I do sports and try to be as physically fit as I can be. Why be on the stereotypical girl side when that means that you will just be like almost every other girl? In making this mask, I hope that fellow classmates and other people from the community will start to look at stereotypes directed towards teenage girls differently and try to go against them.
Today in this modern society, I have been socialized both positively and negatively as a teenage girl. I have been socialized negatively with all of the stereotypes that state that a girl has to look a certain way and act a certain way. That she has to be skinny and wear makeup and ‘girly’ clothes because that is how a teenage girl is supposed to be. Yet, I have been positively socialized by all of my friends and family that tell me that I can be my own person and that I don’t have to listen to all of the stereotypes that are being directed toward teenage girls and women. I think that these stereotypes can be stopped if more girls felt like they could break away from the stereotypes and become their own individual person. I think that if we work together to change the way that media portrays a teenage girl, then we can stop the stereotypes that are harming the teenage girl population.
Eating Disorders: Kam, Katherine, “Eating Disorders in Children and Teens”, http://children.webmd.com/features/eating-disorders-children-teens, 1-3.
Shrek: Dir. Vicky Jenson and Andrew Adamson, Per. Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz. DreamWorks, 2001. Film.
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs: Dir. Larry Morey, Wilfred Jackson, Ben Sharpsteen, Perce Pearce, David Hand, William Cottrell, Perf. Adriana Caselotti, Harry Stockwell, Lucille La Verne. Walt Disney, 1937. Film.
Mean Girls: Dir. Mark Waters, Perf. Lindsay Lohan, Amanda Seyfried, Rachel McAdams, Lacey Chabert, Tina Fey. Paramount Pictures, 2004.
The society and the media tells a girl how she is supposed to dress and how she is supposed to look, but conforming to these stereotypes can do more harm than good. Sometimes when a girl is socialized to dress a certain way, she feels like she can only dress with those closes and dress that way only. This is also harmful in the way that teenage girls feel like they have to fit into the perfect ‘cookie cutter’ shape. The perfect ‘cookie cutter’ shape means that girls are supposed to be skinny, and that they can only eat certain things. You also have to be pretty to fit in this model formed by society. And to do this, girls wear lots of makeup to get that way. This can be harmful because it can make a girl very greedy and leave her always wanting more because she will never be able to appreciate what she has, or be comfortable in her own skin. She won’t be able to appreciate what she has because she and her friends have been socialized to think to always want more too and to act the same way as her other friends. When a girl feels the pressures of having to fit into the perfect ‘cookie cutter’ shape, some girls resort to becoming anorexic or bulimic which is very harmful on a persons body, and can cause permanent damage, and even death (Kam, “Eating Disorders in Children and Teens”). There is no such thing as beauty without makeup and the perfect body without a diet.
Throughout history, women and teenage girls have been portrayed as weak, can’t be tough, and can only do ‘girly’ sports, but why should they have to be classified as that kind of girl? You see it in the media and you read about it in books and in magazines, women are weak and helpless. In the movies Shrek (Dir. Vicky Jenson and Andrew Adamson, 2001) , Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Dir. Larry Morey, 1937) and other classic princess stories, the woman in the story is always the ‘Damsel in Distress’. They need to be rescued by their ‘Knight in Shining Armor’ from the evil because they are too helpless to do something about it themselves. In the movie Mean Girls (Mark Waters, 2004), there is a social group called the Plastics. The Plastics are your stereotypical girly girls that can’t go and do sports or rigorous activities because they could break a nail or mess up their makeup or their hair that they spent hours doing. Because of these stereotypes, a picture is painted for how the entire female population is supposed to be. These stereotypes make it hard for any girl to go her own way because she feels that she has to be in this box. A box that no girl deserves to be in.
Giggling, twirling your hair, and playing dumb are just some of the ways that a stereotypical girl is supposed to act, but why? In most common television shows and movies where a girl is trying to get a guy to notice her, she is told to ‘dumb it down’. She is told to ‘dumb it down’ so that the guy will notice her and help her understand what they are doing even if it something that she already knows. Although, in most of the occasions that this is happening, the guy ends up finding out and he feels like he was played. Like he was used at the girl’s expense then thrown away like a piece of trash. In other instances, the girl will pretend to be injured so that the guy will carry her and take care of her. Or she’ll pretend that she is scared and cower into the man’s embrace. All of these things are just the effects of how the society has changed us to think about women and teenage girls. We have been socialized as a whole to think that they are helpless and weak. That they can’t do sports that are strenuous and that their figure is everything. Their clothes and their body image are the most important things along with getting a boyfriend that is the most popular guy on the football team.
‘Cookie Cutter’ girl versus ‘Individual Personality’ girl, what do you pick? For my mask, I am showing the different portrayals of teenage girls, ‘Cookie Cutter’ and ‘Individual Personality’. On one side of the mask, it will show the stereotypical girl. The girl that has to fit in and has to be like every other girl. This side will have a face of a girl that is covered in makeup what you would expect from a girl that fits inside of the ‘cookie cutter’ stereotypes. On the other side of the mask, it will show a girl that doesn’t want to fit into the ‘cookie cutter’ shape and a girl that wants to be her own individual person. Her own individual person that doesn’t have to wear tons of makeup or have to wear the best clothes to feel good about herself. I personally fit into the non-stereotypical girl side, I do sports and try to be as physically fit as I can be. Why be on the stereotypical girl side when that means that you will just be like almost every other girl? In making this mask, I hope that fellow classmates and other people from the community will start to look at stereotypes directed towards teenage girls differently and try to go against them.
Today in this modern society, I have been socialized both positively and negatively as a teenage girl. I have been socialized negatively with all of the stereotypes that state that a girl has to look a certain way and act a certain way. That she has to be skinny and wear makeup and ‘girly’ clothes because that is how a teenage girl is supposed to be. Yet, I have been positively socialized by all of my friends and family that tell me that I can be my own person and that I don’t have to listen to all of the stereotypes that are being directed toward teenage girls and women. I think that these stereotypes can be stopped if more girls felt like they could break away from the stereotypes and become their own individual person. I think that if we work together to change the way that media portrays a teenage girl, then we can stop the stereotypes that are harming the teenage girl population.
Eating Disorders: Kam, Katherine, “Eating Disorders in Children and Teens”, http://children.webmd.com/features/eating-disorders-children-teens, 1-3.
Shrek: Dir. Vicky Jenson and Andrew Adamson, Per. Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz. DreamWorks, 2001. Film.
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs: Dir. Larry Morey, Wilfred Jackson, Ben Sharpsteen, Perce Pearce, David Hand, William Cottrell, Perf. Adriana Caselotti, Harry Stockwell, Lucille La Verne. Walt Disney, 1937. Film.
Mean Girls: Dir. Mark Waters, Perf. Lindsay Lohan, Amanda Seyfried, Rachel McAdams, Lacey Chabert, Tina Fey. Paramount Pictures, 2004.
Socialization Project Reflection:
After making my mask, I am very proud of how I was able to show the symbols that I wanted to in the way that I wanted to. I believe that I painted the face on really well and I painted on all of the gender signs really well to go along with it. I am proud of this because I think that it was important to be able to show the symbols in your mask because your mask portrayed what your essay was about. It also showed how you felt about your topic in artistic way.
“Throughout history, women and teenage girls have been portrayed as weak, can’t be tough, and can only do ‘girly’ sports, but why should they have to be classified as that kind of girl? You see it in the media and you read about it in books and in magazines, women are weak and helpless. In the movies Shrek (Dir. Vicky Jenson and Andrew Adamson, 2001) , Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Dir. Larry Morey, 1937) and other classic princess stories, the woman in the story is always the ‘Damsel in Distress’. They need to be rescued by their ‘Knight in Shining Armor’ from the evil because they are too helpless to do something about it themselves.” I am the most proud of this part of my essay because I feel that I got my point across on how the stereotypical girl is supposed to act based on the media. I think this because I have a very strong opinion when it comes stereotypes directed towards teenage girls so I felt that I really put my emotion into this part of my essay.
The things that I will most remember about this project is the fact that I was able to say what I wanted to say about my topic in a way that the public would be able to read it and understand it. Another thing that I will remember the most will be that reaction of the public when they read my essay and when they asked me their questions about my views on stereotypes and other questions related to my topic.
A Habit of Heart and Mind that I need to work on more for the future projects that we do would be advocacy. I chose advocacy because I am not always able to speak up for myself and say why I need an extension for my work or when I am having a problem. In becoming better at advocating for myself, I will then be able to make my projects better because I was able to get more time for myself or clear up a part of a project that I didn’t first understand.
“Throughout history, women and teenage girls have been portrayed as weak, can’t be tough, and can only do ‘girly’ sports, but why should they have to be classified as that kind of girl? You see it in the media and you read about it in books and in magazines, women are weak and helpless. In the movies Shrek (Dir. Vicky Jenson and Andrew Adamson, 2001) , Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Dir. Larry Morey, 1937) and other classic princess stories, the woman in the story is always the ‘Damsel in Distress’. They need to be rescued by their ‘Knight in Shining Armor’ from the evil because they are too helpless to do something about it themselves.” I am the most proud of this part of my essay because I feel that I got my point across on how the stereotypical girl is supposed to act based on the media. I think this because I have a very strong opinion when it comes stereotypes directed towards teenage girls so I felt that I really put my emotion into this part of my essay.
The things that I will most remember about this project is the fact that I was able to say what I wanted to say about my topic in a way that the public would be able to read it and understand it. Another thing that I will remember the most will be that reaction of the public when they read my essay and when they asked me their questions about my views on stereotypes and other questions related to my topic.
A Habit of Heart and Mind that I need to work on more for the future projects that we do would be advocacy. I chose advocacy because I am not always able to speak up for myself and say why I need an extension for my work or when I am having a problem. In becoming better at advocating for myself, I will then be able to make my projects better because I was able to get more time for myself or clear up a part of a project that I didn’t first understand.