Persuade Me: Speech Summative For this speech unit, students were able to train multiple skills. At the beginning of the unit, students learned about rhetorics, or the art of using words effectively and persuasively. The three persuasion appeals, coined by Aristotle, were learnt and used throughout this unit, which are logos, ethos, and pathos. Logos […]
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Where Do I Belong?
For the summative assessment of this unit, we are supposed to write two TIEAs, one based on the author’s choice, and the other based on the illustrator’s choice. We were in small groups of 3 or 4, and we discussed about a graphic novel. The book for our group was called Marzi: a memoir. Below […]
Bias in Media
Part 1: Commercial Annotations Music Video “Locked Away” Annotations TV Show Glee – Season 2 Episode 1: Audition – Annotations Part 2: This video shows how biases and stereotypes can alter people’s judgments and thoughts towards the society and the people around them. We interviewed several eighth-grade students to see how gender bias and racism […]
Literature during Medieval Japan
Literature in Medieval Japan by Yu Sunny Fang
Explore KAS Differently • IT website
For seventh graders, our MYP project for the year is to build up a website with a group. My groupmates were Melody Tai, Jonathan, and Ethan. This website was progressed through 4 criteria from the MYP Design assessment criteria: Year 3. From finding a solution, research, designing, actually coding, testing, and improving, we spent a lot […]
Non-fiction Book Review
Helping Endangered Animals by Rebecca E. Hirsch. ★★★★☆ To be honest, I’m never a big fan of non-fictions. I think they’re lacking emotion and personal thoughts. The book Helping Endangered Animals isn’t a challenging book at all, but yet it changed the way I look at non-fiction books. Its cover appeared to be an easy book that […]
Pledge to Only Wear YOUR Skin! • PSA
For extra credit, my partner Henry Sha work on a PSA together. We wrote our own script and recorded it together. Both of us have a strong belief that animal cruelty shouldn’t exist in the fashion industry. Pledge to only wear your skin!
Fashionable or cruel? You Choose. • Op-Ed Essay
Catwalk on Drops of Blood: How Animal Cruelty Matters in the Fashion Industry