MY NAME IS DAJALI WILSON AND I AM A SENIOR AT CENTRAL YORK HIGH SCHOOL. I TOOK APOLLO BECAUSE I WANTED TO EXPRESS MY CREATIVITY OUTSIDE OF A NORMAL CLASSROOM SETTING. TAKING APOLLO HAS ALLOWED ME TO DO THAT AND SO MUCH MORE. APOLLO HAS GIVEN ME THE OPPORTUNITY TO RESEARCH AND CREATE PROJECTS I GENUEINLY CARE ABOUT. IN APOLLO I AM ABLE TO EXPLORE OUTSIDE OF MY COMFORT ZONE AND GENERATE PROJECTS AND PRODUCTS THAT ARE MEANINGFUL.
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Project 1
Our thinking skill for project 1 was contextualization. To me contextualization is having one idea or concept and turning into something bigger or have multiple meanings. For this project I focused on College. For art, I decided to recontextualize a dorm room into what I believed would be the best dorm room for a college student. For English, I Wrote my college essay.
Project 2
For project 2 our thinking skill was perspective. I chose to create a project on 9/11 perspectives with my partner, Becca Mauck. To begin our project, we set out to go to New York, New York to visit the 9/11 memorial as well as interview New York visitors on their perspectives of 9/11. While there, Rebecca and I gathered interesting footage and images to create a vlog. We used the data we gathered from our interviews to put together three poems following the perspective of the different interviews.
Project 3
For project 3 our thinking skill was reasoning. To start off this project I decided to think of three very controversial topics that would be easily debatable. I then decided to partner up with Rebecca Mauck to conduct two different types of debates about the three topics. The first debate was between just the two us, focusing just on the research we gathered. The second was a whole class debate. This debate was based on the ethos, pathos, and logos of each topic.
Project 4
Our thinking skill Four our fourth project was Synthesis. Synthesis is taking different ideas and turning them into something new to give them a new meaning or purpose. For this project I combined the ideas of Physical Therapy and Cheerleading to show how both can intertwine with each other. Cheerleading and PT are both something I am passionate about so pulling different ideas from each of these topics helped me gain knowledge on both of these topics.