Grow a pear!

Welcome to the first of the last APs of my freshman year! In this AP I thought about radical gardening and growing food for everyone. I learned about symbiosis, photosynthesis and phototropism. We discussed Charles Darwin and Fukuoka's principles of farming. While we didn't go on any FE's we did start mini can gardens. My group had Dill and currently, the plant has grown to be 3 inches tall!

Get Woke! (about your CO2 consumption)

This is the last AP for Fuel. In this unit, Future, we discussed chemical equations, pollution, reviewed graphing inequalities. We had an AP guest, Christa Markgraff from Nicor gas, we reviewed everything we learned this term and competed to win candies and bragging rights. This AP is to wake readers up and have them realize how much CO2 we are actually emitting and how we are throwing off the
carbon cycle.

 

 As we are getting closer to the end of the year I think it is important to have projects where we are promoting a cause and introducing readers to a call to action. This AP was challenging yet, fun to complete especially because it's in a different format than I am used to.

Solar express

In this unit of Fuel, we dove deeper into renewable resources like Solar power, wind power, and hydropower. We went on an FE to ComEd where we reviewed things like how electricity gets to your home. In this action project, I made an infomercial convincing you to invest in solar power. Have you ever wondered about the amazing power of solar power!? If you have continue watching!


In conclusion, This unit of fuel was extremely productive I learned a lot about how I can clean the world and More!

Questioning Energies and Identities

Hello and welcome to unit 1 of Who Am I is a humanities class where we discussed philosophers like Plato and Socrates who I talk about in my podcast.




Script
My name is Tymony and I’m an activist, I’m a feminist, I’m a female, and I’m a person of color. Those are my identities and I’ve come to question my identities with questions like...

Do I have a reason an activist for my community? I have privilege, I am privileged
I’m middle-class, from morgan park and I attend a private school on the north side

But I’m black

Do I have a reason to be afraid of the police because I’m Female-bodied and Identifying, but so was Sandra Bland. I love being black and I assume the best of all black people.
But should I? What if the jail pipeline is fake and “we” are really just destined for violence.
Is the pay gap real? Is modern day feminism even necessary?

Who even am I?

Am I asking myself these questions because the shadowy darkness of my dream-like existence finally being pierced by the light of reality? Wait, let me explain. In Plato’s Allegory of the cave, he (basically) claims that the so-called reality we are experiencing isn’t the true reality but in fact, is a “warped perception” of it. What I take from this is that while we all might not be experiencing a quote on quote true reality we are experiencing what we believe is reality.

What we believe. What I believe. I have really had to do some introspection lately simply because I’m entering a new chapter in life and my past beliefs don’t match my current life. Plain and simple straight out and to the point I didn’t really know what I believed in until recently, when everything in my life finally felt like it had fallen into place, but then fell right back out of it not long after I had gotten comfortable in my space.

A lot of what I believe in spiritually come from my mother and Grandmother as they’ve always believed in the Christian god but never forced me to. However often when I was in crisis my mother did stress how important it is to be “grounded” by a higher power. I feel like it was the same for my grandmother just not those words. She would say that my words affect how everything thing would turn out and of course, 13 year old me did not want to hear that “in the long run all things work out for good”. I wanted to hear that everything would work out how I wanted when I wanted. Of course, I’ve realized that this is not necessarily how things work I’ve learned that (at least in my reality) that my energy attracts what I want or what I need.

I’ve questioned this a lot as well because what about the outside world the world that currently progresses even when I am not conscious of it. The world that has an easy way to stop killing people but refuses to give it up because it’s a hobby for some people. I’ve questioned If my energy and my words control what happens in my world then why do bad things happen, why is the world unfair if I control my reality, why does history exist if I didn’t exist when it was occurring, why is there a whole preset world that I have just randomly spawned in as a female person of color who identifies as such and is a feminist and activist in America. I’m purposefully leaving you with no answers to these questions as I don’t have them and probably never will have these answers. However, I will leave you with this, when the time comes for your reality to be forcefully punctured by the true reality or the truth will you react willingly or violently.

What the Frack!?

Hello! Welcome to my first winter term AP in the STEAM course Fuel! In this unit we talked about different ways different types of fuels fuel the world around us. We went to a Tesla showroom and learned about how electricity is transformed into fuel for the 100% electric cars. In this Action project I'm going to be selling you on Natural Gas and telling you why I think you should invest in it.

Can we map our neighborhoods' present and future

In our Thin Red Lines class we discussed maps on a deeper level, we discussed maps' intentions. Which is something that I wanted to keep in mind for this Action Project. In my AP I kept in mind what my community is now, what the people want it to be, and what it could be in the future. I made 1 base map and three layers, the three layers were a current map, a dream map, and a future map.
I go more in depth about each layer in the video.

                                                           TN Current 2018

This layer I call the "current layer". It shows restaurants, churches, and stores in different neighborhoods. It reads, "87% of people in Mt. Greenwood identify as white" "62% of people in Morgan Park identify as black" and "57% of people in Beverly identify as white." in each corresponding neighborhood.

                                                             TN Dream 2018

This is the layer I call "dream" because it takes ideas from people in each community and puts what they would want into the map. Heres what people said, by neighboorhood. Morgan Park; Art Studio, Vetranarian, A theater, a Chain restaurant, and A dentists office. Mt. Greenwood; Dollar store, Pet store, Computer repair, Clothing store. Beverly; another Bank, bookstore, grocery store, computer repair, hair salon, and an art supply store.

                                                          TN Future 2018

This is the layer I call "future" because it shows what our community could be.
It adds more blue (black population) to areas like mt. Greenwood and adds a new color, red, to the map which represents the Latinx, Asian, and mixed race population.

Three- Dee

For our last action project in Rapid Prototyping we partnerned up to create a 3D model that will help in the school in some way. I was really looking forward to this AP but it ended up being more stressful than I anticipated. In my slideshow I talk about our Powerstrip holder which my partner and I thought was needed because there is a hazard of tripping over different powerstrips in different classes. We made 3 different versions of the each model; 3D, cardboard, and clay. Cardboard being the most frustrating material to work with. In my slideshow you can read about the difference between PLA and ABS plastics aswell as the optimal uses for each different model material. Enjoy!
 

In conclusion though stressful at times, I did enjoy this class aswell as this last AP. The next time that I work with a partner I hope to have better communication and to work more as a team. You can check out my partners AP Here!