My essential question departed significantly from the original project, where I knew I wanted to explore communities and the relationships between people and physical spaces, and courts and the written[…]
Category: Learning
Mawena- CR 6
I’ve learned a lot over the course of my senior project. My essential was: how can I best learn Twi, and how are language and culture connected. My plan was[…]
Skyler: CR #6
Question: What did you expect to learn and how does that compare to what you did learn? I’ve been thinking a lot about the books I’ve been reading on how[…]
Max Zinman: Critical Reflection #6
Name: Max Zinman Essential Question: How does teaching while learning affect how one learns? Prompt: Final reflection on Senior Project. Throughout my Senior Project, I was able to learn a[…]
Mawena- Terms of Endearment
I’ve spent some time learning terms of endearment, and they are very commonly used in Twi- much more than they are used when speaking English in the U.S. My mother,[…]
5/17 – Bay
Towards the end of this week, I decided to watch a documentary called The Farm: Angola USA (1998). The documentary follows the lives of six inmates in Angola (the colloquial[…]
Max Zinman: Final Update
I have thoroughly enjoyed my Senior Project. Every single aspect was an utter joy from beginning to end, and I learned a TON while doing it! First, some answers to[…]
Mawena- Paralanguage
Language and culture are intertwined because when you learn a language, you have to learn customs and practices, in addition to learning the alphabet, words, and grammar. One thing that[…]
Skyler: Blog post #7
This week, since I’m not with my siblings, I’ve been taking the Intro to Psychology lectures (which I’ve been taking throughout the course of the project). I’m finding that the[…]
Mawena- Pronunciation
In Twi, proper pronunciation of words is extremely important. Tones vary from word to word, and like many languages, the way that one says a word can have more meaning[…]
Mawena- CR 5
Over the course of my senior project so far, I’ve learned quite a bit about myself. I’m more productive when I set aside a time to work everyday, and stick[…]
CR #5 – Bay
My project was always intended to be an independent study, so I was prepared to do a project that required self-motivation the whole time. However, I was going to be[…]
Max Zinman: Critical Reflection #5
Name: Max Zinman Essential Question: How does teaching while learning affect how one learns? Prompt: Metacognition Incidentally, my entire senior project is actually about metacognition. My question is mainly about[…]
Skyler: CR #5
Through my project I have discovered that my ideal form of learning is through experience. My project is very much based in experience. I find that when I read excerpts[…]
5/10 – Bay
This week I read a Supreme Court case for my class, Martin v. PGA (2000). A professional golfer, Casey Martin, sued the PGA under the ADA because they wouldn’t allow[…]
Max Zinman: Blog Post, Week of 5/4
This week in senior project, I continued to work on my essay, learned about circuits in Sustainable Energy and led discussions on homework problems more in class. On the note[…]
Skyler: Blog post #6
Since remote school started, Lazer has had multiple people readily available to help him with his work. I’ve noticed that he often uses this to his advantage. When he has[…]
CR #4 – Bay
This week I read a few articles in The New York Times covering the Supreme Court arguments scheduled for the next few weeks in May. Some of the cases are[…]
Mawena – Two Articles (Critical Reflection 4)
The first article I chose was an article about the Akan Twi alphabet. This article detailed the creation of the alphabet, and talked a bit about the sounds the letters[…]
Max Zinman: Critical Reflection #4
Name: Max Zinman Essential Question: How does teaching while learning affect how one learns? Prompt: Text investigation of outside sources Source 1: https://ideas.time.com/2011/11/30/the-protege-effect/ Source 2: https://effectiviology.com/protege-effect-learn-by-teaching/ In both of the[…]
CR #4–Skyler
Essential Question: What are the most effective methods of conflict resolution for young kids? This week I read an article from Today called “How to Discipline Kids: New Research Shows What Works”.[…]
Mawena – Tafa on being a polyglot
Mawena: I chose you for this interview because you’re a polyglot. You speak 7 languages, correct? Tafa: Yeah. Mawena: Which languages do you speak? Tafa: I[…]
Mawena – Tafa on how culture impacts language
Mawena: Sometimes when Mami is saying something, she says “please” beforehand. For example she might say, “please, have you finished doing your chores” or “please, for dinner we’re having[…]
Mawena- Twi words and Phrases
During the first week of my senior project, I continued to learn the Twi alphabet, and basic phrases in Twi. I was already familiar with some of them through talks[…]
4/3 – Bay
This week I watched the TV show The People vs. O.J. Simpson. The show was adapted by the journalist Jeffrey Toobin from his book, The Run of His Lifetime, about[…]
Max Zinman: Week of April 27
At this point in my project I have started made some decent headway into writing my paper on lasers. I’ve also noticed something about where I’m finding answers to my[…]
CR #3 – Skyler
Yesterday I took the 5th lecture in my online Intro to Psychology course. The lecture was titled “What it’s like to be a baby” and covered the basics of the[…]
CR #3 – Bay
I definitely feel like I’m exploring answers to my essential question, just not in the way I had originally planned. All of the different things I’ve done have sort of[…]
Max Zinman: Critical Reflection #3
Name: Max Zinman Essential Question: How does teaching while learning affect how one learns? Critical Reflection #3: Now that you’re three weeks (half way) into your senior project experience, are[…]
Mawena- CR 3
One of the challenges I’ve faced so far is finding the motivation to learn Twi for four hours everyday. While I enjoy learning languages, doing it for four hours everyday[…]
Max Zinman: Mini-Post #1
This is the first of hopefully at least a few mini blog posts that I’ll write during the rest of senior project that I personally won’t count towards the two[…]
4/26 – Bay
This isn’t exactly related to my project, but today I had a conversation with my dad and brothers about the criminal justice system that was really interesting. My dad was[…]
Max Zinman: Week of 4/20 – Teaching Anxiety and End of Research
This week was a fantastic week for me, both in terms of my experience teaching and my laser research. In the 10th grade physics classes this week, we spent a[…]
Skyler: Blog Post #5
Essential Question: What are the most effective methods of conflict resolution for young kids? I noticed yesterday that my parents will often give in to my siblings if they continue asking[…]
CR #2 – Bay
This week I read John Locke’s Second Treatise of Government (1689) for my online class. Locke’s entire theory of the State of Nature and the State of War were very[…]
Mawena- CR 2
When I was younger, I always wanted to have a secret language with my siblings that my parents couldn’t understand. I thought that it would be so cool to be[…]
Skyler CR #2
Essential question: What are the most effective methods of conflict resolution for young kids? On Friday I played hide n seek with my siblings. I was seeker first and I found[…]
Max Zinman: Critical Reflection #2
Name: Max Zinman Essential Question: How does teaching while learning affect how one learns? Prompt: Describe a moment and analyze In week one of senior project, I started working on[…]
Skyler: The Faults of My Project
I came into my COVID revised senior project thinking I’d be able to test the strategies I learn about through research, on my little siblings. I have come to the[…]
4/19 – Bay
This week in my online class I learned about the theory of libertarianism, and specifically the libertarian doctrine of Robert Nozick in the 1970’s. I found that the aspects that[…]
Max Zinman: Week of 4/13: Taking the Lead in Discussions
This week, the two classes I’m helping teach (Physics 10A and 10C) had whiteboard discussions about the momentum card sort we’d been working on earlier in the trimester, and Preethi[…]
4/16 – Bay
This week I read John Stuart Mill’s “Utilitarianism” for my online class. “Utilitarianism” is a manifesto that attempts to address the criticisms of Jeremy Bentham’s Greatest Happiness Principle. In the[…]
“When a language dies, a way of understanding the world dies with it. A way of looking at the world.” -George Steiner
Mawena- Exploring Language and Culture (Critical Reflection 1)
Mawena Tafa April 15th, 2020 SP Critical Analysis 1 Sergei Mikhelson & Jonathan Segal During the next six weeks I will be exploring the connection between language and culture, the[…]
Max Zinman: 4/15 – Changes in Note-Taking
For both the Sustainable Energy class I’m taking and my lasers research project, I have been doing most of my learning through resources like articles, videos, and podcasts. At other[…]
Freud’s Theory of the Unconscious (Skyler)
In my CR I mentioned Freud’s theory and how it changed my thinking about my senior project. Since including the theory in my CR would make it too long, decided[…]
Skyler CR#1
My essential question is: What are the most effective methods of conflict resolution for young kids. As a part of my project on early childhood development I am taking a[…]
CR #1 – Bay
This week I spent a lot of time reading Dead Man Walking (1992) by Sister Helen Prejean. As I wrote about in an earlier blog post, the book is sort[…]
Max Zinman: Critical Reflection #1: What I Know vs. What I Don’t Know
Name: Max Zinman Essential Question: How does teaching while learning affect how one learns? Critical Reflection 1: What I Know vs. What I Don’t Know There are a couple things[…]
4/12 – Bay
This week I intend to finish my first book for the project, Dead Man Walking (1992) by sister Helen Prejean. The book is sort of memoir/non-fiction with a lot of[…]