Humanities 11th Grade
Food Project
For this food project, we researched our own food ethics, this means we realized what we value in our food and how it's made. I discovered that I already have quite a strong food ethic supporting organic, natural, and clean Foods. Is Project was interesting because we had such close access to our food during our quarantining and it really made us think about what goes into it.
Personal Philosophy Project
For this project we studied many different kinds of philosophies and ideologies. We did this in the hope to find one that we connected with and felt was our own. My big realization with this project with that I really didn't know why we are here or what are we doing on this Earth or what purpose we have but I think that we should just enjoy our time here to the fullest and live full lives.
I don't know
By Sam Atchison
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I don't know
I really don't know why
Why we were put on this earth
To live, laugh, love and die
To have pain, no gain, and hate just to have it all end
I want to say I have some knowledge to lend
But I cant
I can't say why we are all here
Because it is up to us to find in a couple of years
But never mislead
Only you can find your purpose
So don't you dare drink
From another's life, religion, spirit or philosophy
You are the only one who can see your own prophecy
Now I'm not telling you what to believe
But don't let anyone determine your life's worth or creed
You are special, amazing, and loved over all else
Keep that in mind when you judge yourself
Because we are all here on this rock just trying to get along
Remember that just because I'm different and I don't know
does not mean I'm wrong
I am trying my best to tell you what I am thinking
It's our lack of communication why we are not linking
Why are we are so quick to just blame the other side
why can't you see that this hypocrisy is just trying to get us to divide
because when we are apart we cannot stand together
and then they will have the power to do with us whatever
So what we need to ask is why, why, why
because a lack if of knowledge is never power
but we shouldn't be afraid to admit
that we do not know, that I don't know!
But as we get older and we continue to grow
We might just turn those I don't know into
yes I know.
Rhetoric Project
A Single Shot
A single shot
A single shot it’s all it takes
A single shot that takes a humans life away
With the cascade and shells laying upon the floor
How many bodies have fallen and how many more?
I ask myself
I ask myself these questions
Because what a fucked up norm to live in this generation
Do you know my peers who have been shot and have fallen
Do you know how many more will fall
Before we get a reaction from congress
But even more
Do you know my friends who have turned the gun on themselves
Is this a problem of gun control or mental health
How should we try to mitigate this terrible tragedy
Why can’t we agree on some basic decency
I wish I could say it is easy to see
I am not putting this on a single side
The two-parent of this nation can’t seem to decide
While they’re bickering their children continue to die
There seems to be no point game of tug and pull
Why have shooting become such a part of the status quo
Is there lobbying not stopping this?
how can they deal such a low blow
Why can’t these laws seem to be boulder
Don’t we have the boys in blue protecting from over the shoulder
Or does it have to rely on boy ready to give his life so his peers can grow older
But how wrong
How wrong is that for is that for them to make that decision
Because someone is so filled with hate that there is no mental precision
If we had given him options would there be no collision
Though it might be more complicated than the world’s pollution
But we need to find so sort of conclusion
But please
Let’s try to keep our guns from the freaking insane
Our current background checks are looking too plain
It seems so easy to just explain
please help keep away the tragedy and the pain
34,844 people fallen in all our land
Though that numbers probably been changed by another hand
Too many of my peer is lost in an attempt final stand
Why is there no decisions when there’s such a demand
I know I can only say so much because I am just one man
No, I am a kid
I am a kid growing up in this generation
And it seems like we are the only ones with the motivation
We can seem to change to political tide
But, it’s are peers who are continuing to die
Only one bill has passed for guns control this year
And our president says he will veto it if it comes to his ear
So, please
Make your actions and vote with your heart
I’m not saying no to guns at least gun control to start
I may not know what I always say is right
but use your power in this country for good and not fright
With this democracy, let’s guide it into the light
So I am going to as you tonight
Let use something other than guns in this country to fight