CDH GCE Portfolio

 This is the first official action project of my senior year at GCE . For the first two weeks in "Journalism" we have to establish what fake news is and how to identify a good source of information. After deciding that the best way to tell what is solid information is by research, we had to ask how and what do we research? When looking at study results for example, you should look at who is conducting the study and how credible they may be by ethos but also who might be funding the study. We talked with a journalist from the Wall Street Journal named Julie Wernau . She talked primarily about what a journalist does and some personal experience which helped out one of my classmates, JH, that is a writer. For the AP I will be trying to work as a journalist by establishing an issue or event in my community by interview and research.  Vaccine hesitancy is leading us back to quarantine Throughout the Covid-19 pandemic (2019-2021) , the country has seen many people remain hesit...

 As I make my way into my senior year at GCE, orientation sets us up for our first action project of the year. While looking into "what a classroom is" we found much similarity with little change to traditional classrooms in the last 2000 years. To test what could work as a classroom, we went down town to the Pritzker Pavilion to listen to an installation made for "sound testing" proving even an open field can be a learning space.  As myself an others started to walk up to the pavilion after getting our ID photos taken, we immediately felt as if we were walking into the final stage of a battle tower or if we stood in the center of a colosseum to fight a big boss. The teiko drums of the piece "Sonorous Admitting's" written by Kioto Aoki, could be described as surprising. From the idea of fighting a boss to traditional vibrating tones, the thunderous drumming could be heard very well all over. That was only the beginning. When we finally sat down in the ...