In class we watched multiple videos regarding world religions, and what each religion consists of. The topic of learning World Religions really made me pay more attention in class, because religion is an important part of society and it definitely plays a huge role in my own life. I believe in Hinduism but I realized I really do not know anything about what I follow. I know what each god represents and what each tradition means, but I didn't even know the basics such as Brahman, Dharma, karma, etc. I recognized Hinduism was just what I am supposed to believe in as I was born, but with the realization that I do not have a proper understanding of all of it, I researched heavily on the religion. Due to us learning world religions I was able to learn many new things about Hinduism, and it makes me feel part of my Religion more than it did before, because I understand what many things mean now.
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Julius Caesar Log (Part 1)
September 29:
We had multiple classes where we worked on our project together. In the beginning we started with gathering information and researched the play Julius Caesar more deeply. Everyone did a good job and kept their consistency, and did what they needed to do to make our project successful. On September 29, it was the bus ride back, and together we discussed the themes we believed the play portrayed. We all basically had the same idea, and changed our main topic a little bit. Along with ambition we decided to also talk about “What makes a person good”, since there was a lot of shift of who you think was the good person in the play. In class, the first day we got together was October 2nd and on this day we just shared a document to each other to share our thoughts and researched more deeply about philosophers and how their ideas related to Julius Caesar. This day we did a chunk of the work and managed to finish quite a bit. The next class we began to add everything to a google slides, because that was the program we were using for presenting. At home, after getting multiple slides done, we began to write a script which held most of our information and the bits of more critical thinking. The next classes that we had after that were just to add more details for our project, since we were already close to done. Julius Caesar Journal (Part 2) Julius Caesar has many themes, but we wanted to focus on the ones that stood out the most. The play was fairly easy to understand, because we already had an idea of what was happening due to a prologue given to us. A theme we picked before we watched the play remained one that we would talk about in our presentation, and that theme was ambition. In my point of view I found ambition was the idea of what lead everything to happen in the play, with the murder of Julius Caesar, and everything that occurred after the killing. I knew Julius Caesar’s ambition was to gain more power, but the difficulty I had was to figure out Brutus’ drive. By doing some research and also talking to fellow peers, I learned his ambition was to keep Rome the same and maintain his status. He feels he is doing the right thing by killing Julius Caesar. Now with this in mind we have to think who is in the right, and this is what lead us to our second theme. Our second theme is the question, what makes a person good? This is a very hard topic because everyone has their own opinions on it. My personal feelings toward this topic is that no one is good, but people have their own reasonings to think why they are good and why others are bad. This was my personal thought and it kind of related to what Socrates believed as well. Overall I feel our group did a very good job, because we all worked together very nicely, and ended up creating a good project. Our ideas were also very thought out and the discussion we created for the class was good and whenever there was a problem in the presentation or during our work periods, our troubleshooting was great, to fix the error or get passed a barrier. The only thing I would change of our group, would be the presenting style, because the google slides was a little bit disorganized, and also to go more in depth of our themes. We basically touched the themes on the outside of the circle but didn’t go as in depth as I would’ve liked. I was happy with the project and with everyone in our group. For the first project of the year, we were organized into groups of 4-5 people. Since we are working in class on the unit philosophy and going on a Mini School trip at the same time, Ms. Kwon decided to assign a project involving searching for themes of the plays we were going to watch. We would also have to incorporate the ideas we thought of, with other philosophers and their ideas about these themes and morals. Here is the finals product of our project.
Hi, this is the area of my portfolio, to show the work and progress I have made this year, 2017-2018, in Social Studies 11. I hope to learn many cool things, and am especially interested in learning about philosophy because it is a subject I have never touched and encountered upon. I'm looking forward to see what this year entails for my Socials Studies experience.
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