PVU GCE Portfolio

For my final unit, Hero's, in my Humanities class Stories, we learned about heroes and what makes someone a hero. We also learned about the seventeen monomyths. Monomyths are a way to characterize a hero’s journey. Heroes are very opinion based because everyone has their own opinions. Our class took a field experience to the Stony Island Arts Bank. We learned about Theaster Gates , and what makes him a hero to some. For my Action Project, I worked with a partner to choose two people that we thought were heroes. We were supposed to choose one fictional hero and one non-fictional hero. My partner ALA and I chose Jesse Owens, Olympic Champion, and Luke Skywalker from Star Wars. At first, I thought it would not work, but as I went on, I researched my heroes and then everything made more sense. We were supposed to find connections in their lives. Luke Skywalker worked perfectly to the seventeen monomyths we learned about. George Lucas wrote Star Wars basing everyone off of the monomyth...

In my second united of Stories, we studied fables and allegories. We looked at various different types of fables and discussed them in length. Later in our unit, we watched a movie called Endgame by Samuel Beckett. We observed which characters from the play were dynamic, static, flat, protagonist, antagonist, and that shared a lesson. My favorite part of this unit was analyzing fables that I never really got the point of. I did not like creating my own because I am particularly bad at creating stories. Once upon a time, there was a forest where a pack of dogs lived. In the forest, everything was great except the truth. There lived a pack of dogs and these dogs were amazing dogs. One day a dog was born, Brian was his name. Brian was the runt of the litter and was often mistreated. He was excluded from many activities and events that his siblings participated in. Brian felt like he needed to prove himself to his siblings, but he was too afraid to ask. Brian spent several days thinki...

For my first class in Humanities of my sophomore year, I am taking a class called Stories. We learned about stories and where they came and originate from. We studied different religions and did a small group project on a certain religion. We learned about its setting and etiology. Etiology is usually referred to as the creations of a myth. I studied Yahweh with RZD , and learned about the Judaism and its etiological story. For my first Action Project for Stories we were instructed to create our own etiological story. I think my drawing for my planet “Alancha” turned out extremely well. I struggled with creating my own myth using the “Big Bang.” I overcame my struggles by sitting down and just daydreaming, and letting my imagination flow. I then came up with a story about a God who controls a planet. Enjoy! PVU. (September 2016) Alancha Chapter One... In a world far beyond one we can see there was a small planet. The planet was named after Alancha, an idolize...