SOI

This week in our SOI advisory we interviewed our last major interview for the documentary we are filming about what it means to be open minded. Now all that is left to do is shoot various candid interviews of other students in the hallways about how they think open mindedness effects people and what they think open mindedness means. Through these interviews i have learned a lot about both how to organise the production of a film like this but also I've learned more about open mindedness and different cultures, which was something i did not originally think would happen.

Spirit day sound

On October 30th, i successfully set up the sound system for the Spirit day festivities that we held at the green. Through this i proved to myself that i would be able to do this in future school productions. I was slightly nervous volunteering to set up the sound at first because if the sound system didn't work, it would have been my fault. But now that i've successfully set up the sound on two occasions i am much more confident and am looking forward to setting up the sound system for the other school productions this year.

Open Mic night, sound guy

For the open mic night last week i took on a new challenge, because Alex Setzko graduated last year, nobody else knew how to set up the sound system. I had some previous experience with sound systems so i volunteered to help out. I did eventually get the sound system to work after finding the right cables with help from Connor Reed. I took a major risk volunteering to set up the sound system because i had never done it wthout the help of someone who was more experienced then me. Now, because i have figured out how to work the sound system, the student council wants me to help out on Friday 10/30 for the spirit day festivities.

Sturgis Organic initiative.

in our advisories for SOI we have been primarily discussing how we should move forward in constructing our documentary about open-mindedness. Recently, because we have been having open discussions about the documentary, i believe i have achieved learning outcome number 7, considering the ethical implications. In these discussions i have to help our advisory come to a decision about the documentary that everyone can approve of, to do this i have to figure out ways to pull ideas and being careful not to exclude anyone from the discussion.

Greek Club 10/29/08

Last week in greek club we worked mainly on vocaublary. We already translated one story in the Athenaze book and we thought it would be useful if we learned some first declension vocab words now to familiarise us more with the language. This will greatly benefit my to my final goal for this club because i am learning vocabulary that will help me eventually improve my translating skills for Greek, a task that is new to me as of joining this club.

Sturgis Organic Initiative

This week, our SOI advisory we discussed the idea of open-mindedness in regards to the IB learner profile. Eric and I volunteered to work on making a documentary about what open-mindedness means to Sturgis students and how we can be more open-minded. We'll also explore situations where open-mindedness would be useful. Also, this week in SOI we held our first bake-sale of the year. We sold organic tea and baked goods.

Greek Club 10/8/09

Yesterday in Greek Club we practised first declension nouns for most of the class. Now, i feel confident that i have memorised the endings used in the first declension, this will help me achieve my goal of being able to translate and read ancient Greek texts. In class, we also began working on the second declension to familiarise ourselves with it. Hopefully, by next week, i will have memorised that declension as well.