MODEL united nations
PROJECT DESCRIPTION :
This project was all about learning the protocol and the system of a real United Nations conference. Each student took a role as a delegate in the United Nations. During this unit learned how to write policy papers and come up with resolutions concerning the Venezuelan refugee crisis. We had to act in the interests of the country we were assigned, and converse about realistic potential solutions to the economic and humanitarian crisis.
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POlicy paper :
conference reflection :
HIGHLIGHTS : I honestly really struggled to find anything that was interesting or engaging during this project. I did not enjoy doing the research at all. I did not find it fun writing the essays or the speeches. This project pushed me to my limit and in the end I found that none of it was worth my time.
GROWTH : My growth during this project was minimal. I discovered new publications, that are global and are known to be neutral. The night before the conference I discovered the Christian Science Monitor, and I was able to write somewhat of a speech for the next day.
CONFERENCE PREPARATION : I will be honest, I was unprepared for the first conference. I could not find anything that could tell me what my country’s view on this situation was, so I didn’t have anything to write or talk about. I was lost during the entirety of the project.
REFINEMENT : I am honestly dreading the thought of having to do another conference. Having to do all of it all over again. Having to put myself through what did all over again. Doing the research again, the essays again, the speeches again. Next time I know which sources I will jump to, in order to get good information.
GROWTH : My growth during this project was minimal. I discovered new publications, that are global and are known to be neutral. The night before the conference I discovered the Christian Science Monitor, and I was able to write somewhat of a speech for the next day.
CONFERENCE PREPARATION : I will be honest, I was unprepared for the first conference. I could not find anything that could tell me what my country’s view on this situation was, so I didn’t have anything to write or talk about. I was lost during the entirety of the project.
REFINEMENT : I am honestly dreading the thought of having to do another conference. Having to do all of it all over again. Having to put myself through what did all over again. Doing the research again, the essays again, the speeches again. Next time I know which sources I will jump to, in order to get good information.
teenagers : the good the bad and the ugly
project description :
During this project we studied adolescence. We studied what the brain does during adolescence, and what the biological needs of adolescence are. We interviewed somebody about their adolescent years, and then wrote an essay about what they experienced and what they learned.
Adolescence essay :
Project reflection :
One thing that I am most proud of in this project are the quotes, that I pulled from my interview, in my essay. They supported the claims that I made about how her experiences shaped her, as an adolescent and as an adult. They also put her voice into the essay, which was one of my goals for this piece of writing. Her quotes have so much emotion and passion, making them real, a quote from an article doesn’t make it as authentic.
When I was starting my first draft, I found it very hard to define adolescence, because honestly, it’s almost impossible. I decided to focus on how your experience affects your adolescence, and how it affects you later in your life. It took me a while to get started, but I overcame this obstacle by giving examples that should correlate with the majority of people’s experience of adolescence instead writing a specific perspective statement. For example, what lessons people can learn their from their mistakes. What kind of influences help to form their own values. By giving more specific, less open-ended examples, it made the essay easier to write and easier to give fair evidence that supported those claims, because I could pull quotes straight from my interview. One of the most important things that I learned during this project is how many things influence the adolescent self. Social relationships most of all, friends, classmates, parents, siblings, all have a role to play in determining who we become. And each social influence plays a different role in the traits we learn and carry into adulthood. According to this rubric, I would probably fall at a nine. Sometimes I don’t have the mental capacity to be pay attention to everything, every single day of my school career. I forget things, I don’t pay attention in class some days, I have things going on outside of school that I think about. I try my best in school to be engaged, sometimes it just doesn’t happen like that. It depends on the day. I don't know if there is one specific thing that I can do to improve my performance in school, I think I am fine right where I am. |
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