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Portfolio #3 Antigone

Diploma Program, IB Lang & Lit, Literature

For this Language and Literature unit, we focus more on a specific Greek play written by Sophocles called Antigone. It is a Greek play that demonstrates a rebellion movement by the female protagonist to emphasize the importance of culture, identity, and community and how an individual connects to society. Throughout the unit, we accomplished two paper 2 writing, discussion, and the Morality and Marginalization Project which these three tasks are considered the most essentials materials to learn in this unit. For Paper 2, we did an untimed and timed one while writing prompts that focus specifically on investigating implicative or potential ideas that occurred in Antigone and to have a clear interpretation and demonstration of our thoughts on those prompt ideas. The work that I present underneath is the outline of the paper 2 untimed versions which is formed base on breaking the context, structure, and ideas separately in order to organize it efficiently, therefore, creating a better thesis statement and strong arguments with clear interpretation in the writing. I become to be more familiar with forming a decent thesis statement that can clearly be proven by evidence in the text and other symbolic representations, ultimately helping me in writing literature writing overall.

The discussion we did in this unit also helps me discover and found out the hidden ideas or implications represented in the play which help me better understand the perspective and identity of characters in the play. We have completed three discussions in this unit and each discussion we discussed the play in distinct perspectives and objectives in the play which help me interpret symbolic literature evidence in the play while also present personal connection and opinions in the discussion. Moreover, we also make connections to other literary work that we have studied such as A Doll’s House which we compare and contrast the similarity and difference within two plays, ultimately finding the purpose of the playwrights on presenting such ideas in the play.

Through the discussion, new ideas I had were the contemporary tension that links back to the literature text we studied. While I am doing the connection between modern and past well, as I continue in my literature studies and discussion, I want to focus on improving the interpretation and implication of the literary text. I will do this by exploring various ideas in the text, which help me on justifying the purpose of depicting the characters in a specific way from the playwright.

Lastly, we did a project called the Morality and Marginalization Project which we were divided into groups and present rebellion ideas either by debate or video. For my group, we chose to do a debate because we feel like it is better to understand arguments from both sides in order to identify if it’s a rebellion or not. Moreover, we chose “Greta Thunberg” to be the person we discussed in this debate because her climate change movement has been controversial in society and resulting in whether her action is a rebellion or not. We chose to work on the “climate change” global issue because we feel like this issue is somehow not been considered as much essential as other global issues and actions should be more actively taken. Our debate topic is about whether Greta Thunberg is a positive impact on society which I stood as the negative side of this debate. Consequently, we formed a website for this project and put up our works onto the website, “Making of a Rebel“.

Throughout this unit, I was able to investigate the relationship between society and individuals in-depth by different materials such as the play Antigone or the project. I realize the importance of the system of society can do to an individual’s identities and morality. Furthermore, I learned about the power of rebellion and the impact it could deal on society, which I believe a balance should be taken between upholding individuality and orderly society. Thus, we should cherish the rights we have nowadays to be able to express our individuality through a freedom society and democracy.

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Fitness Factory

Diploma Program, IB Core

For this CAS experience, I would like to participate in a fitness-kind activity which I will be specifically focusing on core muscle training in this experience. In order to accomplish it effectively, I went to a gym and use mechanical types of equipment that help to specifically improve core muscles with more efficiency. I planned a set of training lists ahead of time which I will be doing 5 mechanical types of equipment to improve core muscles. The equipment I used is for example “SBE”, “abdominal crunch”, and “V-Crunch”. Usually, I did 15 times in a set and I will be doing 3 set for each equipment. I decided to pursue better core muscles because I had taken a body test and it shows that my core is weaker than other muscles such as legs or chest, therefore, I attempt to use this CAS experience to act as a motivation to go to the gym and improve on something I am weaker at. Thus, I will have better performance while doing ball-related sports in the future.

 

 

Basketball Plays

Diploma Program, IB Core

As being the point guard of the team, it is essential to know efficient and effective plays to score on the opponent’s defensive position. Although this year’s basketball season has already ended, I would like to investigate some basketball plays that I could potentially use in the next season, which I went to research about some of the most effective plays that can be used under “man to man” defense. For the first play, it is called the “elevator door” play which it is for the shooter to get a wide-open situation to shoot the ball. The play will start at the side and end it up passing to the middle 3 point line to make the shot. The shooter will first stand at the corner position and moves towards the middle and goes up to the 3 point line. While the shooter is moving in action, two forwards will be screening for the shooter so that the defender guarding the shooter will be late to catch up when the shooter shot the ball. This play is named the elevator door because it looks like how the shooter can go through the door but the forwards, act as the elevator door, will close up that opening and block the way of the defender from catching up the shooter. Therefore, the shooter will be able to have that wide-open opportunity to shot the ball. This play is commonly used in “Golden State Warriors” since they have good shooters in the team and I believe our team can try it as well.

The second play is called “flare slip” which is aiming to create an open layup for the wing players. The play will start up at the top and the wing player will be screening a fake screen for another wing player while immediately cut into the middle after setting the screen. It results in miscommunication of the defense to be able to catch up with both players at the same time. The timing of setting the screen is essential so that the confusion of the defensive players can be made. It can be applying to our team as in high school level basketball, there will be more frequent miscommunication in defense especially in man to man defense which I believe this play will work. Thus, I will be starting to physically demonstrate this play through practices with some of my classmates to be able t memorize and be more familiar with these plays in the following years.

“Elevator Door” –

“Flare Slip”