Impromptu A-Term Planning

 March 23, 2020


Creativity 


Our school has many different A-Term courses that people can choose from. I opted to be a part of “Exploring Historical, Political, and Geographic Landmarks in London, England” where we would travel to London and do a lot of interesting things there. However, due to COVID 19, we had to cancel the trip. This put me and the other 11 students in it in a rather difficult situation. We had around a week and a half to plan an entire 2 week A-Term course. In this week and a half, we went through tons of ideas ranging from a trip to New Orleans, a leatherworking/boot making A-Term, a photography A-term, and a trip to Austin to explore the art and music scene there. Little did we know that the work that we were doing was not going to matter at all. When we got off of school for spring break, we didn’t return to in-person school and we switched to online, a change which will probably stay for the rest of the year. Even though all of it ended up being for nothing I am still proud of the ideas that we came up with and fleshed out as they could be considered for a J- or A- Term in future years. I believe that this demonstrates Learning Outcome 6 as I had to consider the impact that our actions/travel could have on the world both at large and in terms of our world here at home as we evaluated the risks associated with any sort of trip.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

J-Term

  January 20, 2021 I have been working on Purella (our spin off of Cinderella) and we have added parodies of ABBA songs to it which has not only been challenging, but also really really entertaining. It is incredibly fortunate that “Dancing Queen” and “Quarantine” rhyme and have the same amount of syllables. Here’s the chorus of our first song   (To the tune of dancing queen) “Cause this is quarantine A-void-ing, Co-vid 19 Quarantine Wash your hands, make sure you’re clean, ooooo yeahahaha You can plant, you can bake, look at the things you can make See the news, watch the streets It’s quarantine!” This was absolutely creativity and I believe that it fell under learning outcome 5 as this entire musical was a collaborative piece put together by the whole J-Term group
Read more

The Freeze

  February 18, 2021 Well, this week has been an ordeal. I had planned on going camping over the weekend but every single plan had to be changed due to the weather. We had a huge freeze come through and basically take everything out. Roads were dangerous, power went out, water went out, the whole 9 yards. First of all this was an awful situation as it got incredibly cold incredibly quickly as our houses here in Texas were designed to get rid of heat as fast as possible and when the heaters don’t have power the temperature dropped pretty quickly. Luckily I had had all of my camping things but we went to work trying to make sure that we could deal with outages as best we could. I passed around my jackets and flashlights and we all had one with us before the power went out because we knew it was going to go out soon and wanted to be ready. I also went with Nathaniel to the grocery store to pick up food and water when we had a chance because we didn’t know how long it would all ask. I d...
Read more

Online School

  October 5th, 2020 As school has been starting up online I have started going on walks with my mom in the morning as we did in the mornings during online school at the end of last year. It has been really nice and having this consistent exercise is undoubtedly good for me. However, it is a stark reminder of the fact that I am not at school in person as due to how far away from school I live it is not realistic for me to have time to go on walks before school during a regular year. It has been very hard for me to continue online school while others are going in person (with many changes from last year, masks, distancing, barriers, one-way hallways, no lockers, no using the fridge or microwaves, and lunch is only allowed outside and very far from others) but it doesn’t seem like going in person would be the best thing for me at this. My brother is at pretty significant risk of health issues if he happened to get covid so we are all being extra cautious for his sake. While online sch...
Read more