Here is my audio reflection in which I reflect on how being in the boxing club has made me rethink the role of collaboration in combat sports.
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The Great Gatsby and the motif of the green dock light
Francis Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby is set in 1920s New York, USA, in the semi-fictional neighbourhoods of West and East egg. This is when the Western part of the mainland (now called California) had just finished being colonised by European settlers and...
Generation. Education. Period. CAS Reflection #3 – International Women’s Week
For the last few weeks, GEP has been working with Because I Am Focus Group, I-India Global Concern, and Daraja Global Concern, 2 other services in our school, to organise a week of activities celebrating International Women's Day. We are all services that relate to...
Generation. Education. Period. CAS Reflection #2
Today I reflected on how GEP has made me much more aware of my weaknesses as a leader, pushing me to become a more assertive and knowledgable one. For this, I am very grateful that GEP has a co-chairing system in which 2 people, one year apart, are co-chairs together,...
HS Leather Art Making CAS Reflection #1
This afternoon I had my first session of HS Leather Art Making. In this session we explored various types of leather, their textures, smells, and thicknesses. We also begun on our first project: A book cover and a pencil case. We learned how to use an awl to sketch...
Practice Mini IO Recording and Self-Assessment
Here is the audio recording of my mini IO on Wire by Paul Nash. My table-mate, who can be heard asking me a question in the recording, assessed me on the class rubric like so: I then used the IB rubric and assessed myself like so: I only spoke for 3 minutes 30 minutes...
Leaders of Environmental Initiatives CAS Reflection #2
My video reflection can be found here. The images used (without captions) can be found in this folder.
The Future of Food is Now – Being Among the First People in the World to Eat Cultured Chicken
About a week ago, I read the headline in the Straits Times: "In a world first, cultured chicken meat approved for sale in Singapore". I was immediately thrilled. Cultured meat, which is meat made by propagating animal cells and thus requires no slaughter, was finally...
A Reflection on the First Term of Grade 11
I have linked this video reflection here.
Comparison of Hannah Höch and Paul Nash’s Artistic Responses to the World-War One Era Cultural Changes in Europe
This post and the outline for it can also be read in google doc form here. Cut With The Kitchen Knife Through the Last Weimar Beer-Belly Cultural Epoch in Germany by Hannah Höch (1920) The Menin Road by Paul Nash (1919) Cut With the Kitchen Knife Through the Last...