Why does Jem have to read to Mrs. Dubose? What is actually happening as he reads? Why does Atticus say Mrs. Dubose has “real courage”?
bc he destroyed her garden
she is correcting him but slowly falling asleep and not listening
bc she faces a challenge that would normally be impossible and knows what she needs to do.
There are clear gender roles during this time period. How are girls and boys supposed to act? How to these expectations complicate Scout’s life?
they make it hard for her to go through life without people criticizing her tomboyishness
her quick to fight attitude is made to seem even worse because she eshould be a "yound lady"
Why doesn’t Dill visit in the summer?
he has a new daddy and is buidling boats with him
Discuss the kids’ trip to church with Calpurnia? What do they notice about Calpurnia during this adventure? How are the kids treated at the African American church? What do they find out about Tom Robinson while they are there?
They were treated like outsiders at first especially by lula but eventually were seen as equals especially the line "it's the same god"
Calpurnia talks like she is uneducated around other people of color as not to make them uncomfortable
tom robinson was a regular church-goer and his sentencing is causing struggling for his mother and her other children
this is the first time the children have really been around poorrer people and the lack of adornmants and hym books suprise them
the linen form of hymnals is confusing at first but is a solution to not beng able to read or afford religiooous texts
Other questions or observations?
the ewel that accusing tom of rape is the same family that scout beat up the son of
According to a report by the world economic forum on plastics, “The ocean is expected to contain 1 tonne of plastic for every 3 tonnes of fish by 2025, and by 2050, more plastics than fish (by weight)” ( ). This is just one of the appalling yet interesting things I learned during NEW Core’s environmental/ecology unit. While participating in this unit I broadened and refined my knowledge of how, as humans, we are affecting the world around us by reading The Sixth Extinction, learned about the major issue of municipal waste management, and applied newfound technological skills to my work.
Reading The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert spurred my interest and exploration of environmental issues and their causes. This novel introduced me to some of the overarching themes of humans impact on Earth’s biodiversity. For example, when reading about how global warming has an impact on biodiversity in jungles I took the following sketchnotes:
My sketchnotes for a chapter of the novel
I not only showed my comprehension of the chapter in sketchnotes, but showed the desire to learn more about the topic by trying to apply differential geometry to find the rate of habitat change experienced by tropical organisms due to global warming. This level of attention to detail was constant in sketchnotes for the book. This compelled me to investigate advanced mathematics’ ties to ecology. By understanding and connecting the small scale examples provided in this novel, I gained invaluable knowledge that led to an interest in the effect of plastic on the environment.
I expanded my knowledge about the failures and consequences that come with the way we recycle and prototyped a viable solution to this problem. I had always known that recycling is important and that it does not always happen, but the full extent of this issue was not revealed to me until I was asked to research and prototype a solution to an environmental issue. Threw my research I investigated the cause and effect of improper waste management. For example, when researching the amount of plastic that gets recycled, I found this alarming graph:
This particular piece of evidence was included in both my research paper, and presentation, and exhibits the problem excellently: people are not recycling what they need to. As I learned, this causes myriad problems for the environment and its inhabitants. This compelled my group to design a trash can that tells the user what bin the piece of waste belongs in. It integrated an internal electronics system. This project needs the support of a tech firm called scio to become a reality because our prototype needs the functionality of their affordable molecular scanner ($250) This solution showed a deep understanding of the problem that came from extensive research and the application of JAVA coding.
The prototype for "The Better Bin" minus the Molecular
While exploring human impacts on the environment I was simultaneously developing my coding, mathematical skills, and getting the opportunity to apply them to real life problems. I have loved coding ever since I was introduced last year, but I never had actually related the coding to anything less trivial than website design for the sole purpose of website design. As the better recycling can became a project I had to start thinking of ways to incorporate electronics into the model to make it functional. Here is an excerpt of the code I wrote to develop my groups model.
A couple lines of code from the arduino in the prototype
After a recommendation from a friend, I looked into the arduino as a way to start prototyping the electronics. While searching around the internet I started to realize how much coding is involved in the creation of a prototype. So, while creating our recycling can, I started to use a borrowed arduino and JAVA to code for the prototype as you can see in this short snippet of code that is actually running in the Arduino right as this is being read. This widened my view of coding and how it can be applied to real life constructions. This process also has shown me how complicated yet simplistic coding for prototyping is.
AddItionally, I am watching a series of UCI mathematical biology lectures:
These lectures turned me on to field a mathematical field new to me: mathematical modeling of real life. Watching these lectures has encouraged me to continue exploring the applications of the seemingly isolated science of mathematics in an environmental lens. This is one of the biggest pieces of experience that I will take with me because it relates two of my favorite areas of study and presents me with a possible career path that I could use my mathematical skills to make a difference in the world issues. This exploration of these two mathematical based sciences has allowed me to start to apply them to the real world.
A teach back made using my newfound skills and sharing my mathematical and technological skills with others.
This environmental unit has allowed me to grow my knowledge about the Earth, the issues it faces, and how mathematical sciences can be applied to these problems. This unit was vital to study in our current political climate and showed me the issues that both the Earth and all its inhabitants will face if humans don't change their ways. This realization prompted me to prototype a feasible solution to a large environmental problem, and improve my own recycling habits. Now that I now the true extent of the problem and its effects, I applied my technological and mathematical experience to educate my peers on how to leverage sheets as a possible data representation platform. This has led me to believe that to improve our environment, humans need to educate the young about the issues that they will face and cause if they do not change human practices for the best. If the already powerful do not want to recognize the impacts, then the best thing to do is to influence and educate the people that will eventually hold power. With this being said, by studying this unit, my peers and I have become fully aware of the problems that we will face, and this is, in my opinion, the most lasting chunk of information we will ever learn.
Works Cited
As You Sow. Unfinished Business: The Case for Extended Producer Responsibility. Asyousow.org/. As You Sow, 2012. Web. 16 Mar. 2017.
I have a deep interest in math, and when asked about what we would like to learn more of in our Ecology unit, I obviously wanted to know about math, so I found a playlist on youtube with about a day and a half worth of lectures from a UC Irvine Professor on mathematical modeling biology and ecology. They are done by UCI's Professor of Math and Biology, German A. Enciso, Ph.D. I was able to watch half of the Intro lecture in the time provided. Since the videos are published by UCI's educational youtube account and are presented by a qualified professor, I am able to consider the info credible.
In the beginning of this video, I learned how to model an equation for exponential growth in a population using differentials. This can be used for population growth and bacterial growth. When it comes to mathematics, I enjoy a neatly structured lesson like this one. It helps me follow the linear pattern of this type of math. This video appealed to my interest in advanced math and its application. It made the complex concepts easy to follow. The only hard thing was the audio, the marginal quality mixed with a European accent makes it difficult to understand at points.
Today I got the chance to go back over my previous lab reports.
I found one major glaring mistake on my part, I am not the best with English conventions. I need to focus on proofreading for punctuation. I also like the way double spaces after periods look but was told to remove them. Next lab I will pay more attention to punctuation conventions and proofreading. Both of my claims and thesi were strong. I would like to start adding more pictures to clarify my procedures and start integrating more specific materials into my reports. over all i think i deserve a 3 on both assignments due to mediocre writing and a few grammar and spelling mistakes.
My elf asset is based off of this rubric.
My groups consensus on our most common mistakes and skills we learned.
The other day we watched a documentary about climate change called the inconvenient truth. here ar some answers to the questions provded to us hiel watching
