PROJECTS
In the fall semester of 2013, the Pat Holder/Paul Lopez team took on the Speculative Fiction project. We explored science fiction stories, social movements, visual and audio art. We asked ourselves how science fiction- or speculative fiction, as we like to call it- comments on the problems in present day society. We each wrote a research paper on the social movement we chose to study and later used our knowledge of these movements to inspire our very own short speculative fiction stories.
This project was a collaboration between humanities and Spanish. In pairs, our team researched and wrote plays about different Latin American countries during the Cold War. We also wrote individual research papers about our assigned countries. Four plays (two from each class) were chosen to be produced and performed on exhibition night. My partner and I wrote a play about Chile in the mid 70's and we were fortunate enough to have our play produced.
This project was a collaboration between humanities and Spanish. In pairs, our team researched and wrote plays about different Latin American countries during the Cold War. We also wrote individual research papers about our assigned countries. Four plays (two from each class) were chosen to be produced and performed on exhibition night. My partner and I wrote a play about Chile in the mid 70's and we were fortunate enough to have our play produced.
In the fall semester of 2013, the Pat Holder/Paul Lopez team took on the Speculative Fiction project. We explored science fiction stories, social movements, visual and audio art. We asked ourselves how science fiction- or speculative fiction, as we like to call it- comments on the problems in present day society. We each wrote a research paper on the social movement we chose to study and later used our knowledge of these movements to inspire our very own short speculative fiction stories.
CURRENT PROJECT
This project was a collaboration between humanities and Spanish. In pairs, our team researched and wrote plays about different Latin American countries during the Cold War. We also wrote individual research papers about our assigned countries. Four plays (two from each class) were chosen to be produced and performed on exhibition night. My partner and I wrote a play about Chile in the mid 70's and we were fortunate enough to have our play picked by the teachers for production.
We studied three different philosophies during the first semester; Utilitarianism, Libertarianism and Egalitarianism. We read exerts from Michael Sandel's Justice about each philosophy and then discussed each one in a series of Socratic seminars. We wrote numerous essays about these three philosophies and later applied them to our Faces of Consumption project. We wrote our final papers on which philosophy would be the best in terms of decreasing over consumption as a whole.
Our team partnered with the Ruben H. Fleet Science Center to exhibit art that exposed our personal over consumption habits, as well as our plans to decrease our environmental footprints. The exhibit also included an interactive kiosk where visitors could discover the truth about the impacts of their own over consumption. The exhibit was open to the public from December 19th, 2012 to February 10th, 2013. Prior to creating our museum pieces, we each wrote research papers about our personal consump
Our exhibit is an electric and acoustic guitar in one. We are demonstrating how the magnetic pickups amplify the steel string (a string one might find on an electric guitar) and not the nylon string. Visitors will be able to pluck each string and formulate their own ideas about why the nylon string’s sound is not amplified. We will also be demonstrating how different types of pickups affect the sound of the string. We will attach a humbucker and a single coil pickup, both connected to a switch.
The goal for this project was to illustrate our journey to High Tech High. At first glance you might not understand how this collage has anything to do with school, but to me it makes perfect sense. My journey to High Tech High was like a dance. There were twists and turns, leaps and falls, failure and success. No matter how bad the toe shoes hurt, I still had to keep going. I had to persevere in order to be successful at this school, and that is what I tried to convey in this collage.