Humanities



Link to Camerons page from MYP1

Great work with this Cameron - nice choice of images with good accompanying text.
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[|Hurricane.pptx] : this powerpoint is about hurricanes and their effects around the world





The Most Terrible of all Terrors

While William is eating he hears one of his sons coughing. He wonders if the disease has come to Melton, but soon dismisses the thought. That night he discussed his day with his wife without knowing that he would be the only one in Melton to see 1351. The next day was only scaring him more as he heard more and more rumors of this disease which people were calling the Black Death. While he was working out in the fields he heard someone screaming yelling out “my child is dying!” This only made him more frightened. That day he was let off early because of this and came home to find that his son was terribly sick and coughing terribly all through the day. This was terrible news to him and he began to be concerned for his children and decided that it would be best for his family if he lived away from them while his son was sick. He stayed in the church during the day and slept on a bale of hay outside during the night. The next day his son died. He had died in the church shortly after praying. People were saying that it was because of god being angry at them but he did not believe this because his son died in the church. He decided that it must be something else. He had heard about some people saying that it spread with the people that had it and thought that this was a logical explanation. He had come home from the church with terrible news. When he told his family that his son had died they were all scared and began to worry. Five weeks went by without anybody else in the in the family contracting the disease. This time was spent inside the house hoping that nothing would go wrong. While people went by with large bumps under their arms and the occasional cry of pain. One day I went to the village meeting in the church. We all gathered in the center of the hall and sat in a circle. To start the meeting we prayed to god to that we would survive these hard times. During the meeting multiple theories were discussed however the most common one was that we had displeased god and that he had done this as a punishment. I still did not approve of this theory and did not think that that could be possible. They had also discussed multiple ways which could be used against the plague. One of them is to apply a toad to your underarm, this had been said to work by multiple people. The next issue however I did not agree with. It was the matter of when to stone Mad Agnes. I did not believe that she was a witch. Nobody had ever come up with a reason to think so people just thought it. Until now, people were saying that it was her fault as a witch that the plague had come and blamed it on her. At the end of the discussion they had decided that they would stone her on the next Wednesday. He decided that he would stay home that day. Next as a way to prevent the plague from continuing they had decided to whip themselves while walking through the streets to cause god to take pity on them. Another terrible week went by with the tragic death of many and the stoning of Mad Agnes. It was a day like any other when he came home to find the all three of those remaining in his family had gotten the buboes under their arms. He knew that it was only a matter of time before they would die, the disease could not be stopped as long as you were around it. Then he came up with an idea. He would travel to the mountainous regions were there were few people and nobody with the plague. He decided that he would wait until his family either died or survived and then bury them or bring them with him. Unfortunately they were not getting better over time. On the second day all of them were vomiting for the entire day. On the third day they found dark purple patches around their bodies, these were caused by internal bleeding. On the fourth he could do nothing but cry for their pain as he watched them cry out in pain as their nervous system was attacked by the vicious disease and they would fall on the floor every hour or so. Unfortunately there was no fifth day for Mary and the children. He had buried them in the cemetery in the church that day and had packed and left in late night. In the mountains he had no problem surviving off of the game in the regions. It was very rare for him to see a traveller passing by and often tried to make him scarce. He had lived there until the year 1351 when he decided to go back to the village of Melton to see what it was like. When he had got there, few of his friends were living however those that were seemed happy. He found it so strange for people who had just survived a terrible curse upon mankind to be smiling. He found one of his old friends, joseph, which was still alive and asked him why he was so happy. He said that the lord was paying them three times the money to them. He was excited at this news. He ran straight to the lord and asked if this news was true and the lord had comfirmed. Due to the amount of people dead, the lords in England had to pay more for the work to be done. This was a major improvement in the history of England and although the plague killed off most of England it was severally overpopulated and needed for some of the people to die. This was the most terrible of all terrors in England during the medieval ages. 1348-1451

Concepts: (time) Facts about past societies || The piece contains many instances of fact relating to the time that gives a good idea of village life and the black death || The piece contains good amount of fact about village life and death || The piece contains certain items of fact about either the black death or village life but not both. || Limited amounts of factual information from the time. || Well written story Cameron. Lots of good information about the plague. Need to add a bit on how it made the poorest people freer as well as richer
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 * Thoughts about The Black Death || V. Accurate description and Middle ages thoughts about causes and possible responses to BD || Good description of thoughts on causes and responses || A description of either thoughts on causes or responses but not both || Very limited description on thoughts or inaccurate and not related to thoughts of the time. ||
 * Effects (cause and consequence) || An understanding of the improvements for peasants explained well. Explain consequences on freedom and wealth || Improvements explained well through cause and consequence, although concentration will be on either freedom or wealth || The benefits for peasants are described but not explained very well. || Only basic descriptions. ||
 * Presentation and organisat//ion// || Flawless grammar and spelling. Use of paragraphs. || A few issues relating to grammar and spelling. || More issues || Very untidy and spelling and grammar poor ||

The green belt is often seen as a good place and is thought to keep in the urban sprawl however we need to build more homes to accommodate the increase in population in Newcastle. In Newcastle the decision to build new homes is supported and put down by many but building in the green belt offers many advantages.

One of the multiple advantages of building in the green belt is the location. Due to its location Newcastle Great Park is directly linked to the A1 Highway. This highway runs all the way from London up to Edinburgh. This also gives it a link to the national motorway network. It is also only 4.3km (2.7 miles) from the Newcastle International Airport. In addition to this both of the two universities in Newcastle are within 32km on the development.

Another advantage in the proposed development is the business opportunities that will be available. Sage a software company is planning on expanding its staff from 1600 employees to nearly double the number (3000 employees) and without the new site they might have left Newcastle to develop their business in an alternative area. According to the recent plans the Newcastle Great Park will host 500 new ICT firms of small and medium sizes. This will provide up to 1600 jobs over a time period of ten years. In addition to this there will be a large number of other jobs to support these new firms.

However there are some disadvantages to this new development. One of the most concerning is that there will be no more secondary schools built in the area for the new population. This means that people could become less intelegent.

It seems that although there are some disadvantages. In weighing up the evidence for and against that the evidence given that is of my knowledge for is much greater than that which is against. This is the reason why the city has chosen to build there.





MYP3

This is my answer to the question what is oral tradition and what is a family story that I have: What is oral tradition? Oral tradition is a story or tradition which is passed down through time by speech

In the case of my family an example of oral tradition could be a story I heard about my grandfather’s brother being killed in WWII while flying back to England after being scuttled around underground tunnels through Europe.

This is a powerpoint presentation that I did about my family history:

This is a document reflecting on my presentation and inquiry on my own personal history:

This is a brief family tree that I had done on my family:

This is the plan for my interview with myself:

This is my interview with myself: media type="file" key="mobile.m4v" width="300" height="300"

This is my answers to the conclusion questions that we were given:

Here is the file if you want it:

What have I learned? During this assessment I have learned a lot about my family history and myself. I got to know a lot more about the rev, which I had been very curious about for a while. For example I had never known that my family had its own clan. Some other examples of this could be that I did not know specifically where in Scotland my name came from and exactly when. I did not know that my name came from before 1066. I found out that my name came from people who ring bells or make bells. I found out many interesting things during this project that I did not know before.

How have I been affected by my own personal history? I think that I have been greatly affected by my family history as I look very much like where my family is from originally. I think this because I have ginger hair and freckles. This makes me look either Irish or Scottish and that is exactly where my family comes from. Other ways that I have been affected by my family history are that my father was very smart and I have inherited that.

What events have made me who I am today? The events that made me who I am today are moving to Barbados, meeting James and coming to Codrington. I think that another one of the very important events that has had an overall effect on me and my entire family is when the bell family moved to Canada. This has affected me because if it were not for that event then I would probably be in Scotland, not here.

What are the strengths and weaknesses of my research? The strengths in my research are that I went quite in depth into the actual topic and that I took a great interest in the topic. I think that the weaknesses is that I did not have a great amount of modern examples of people in my family and therefore lacked the aspect of tying all of it into how this actually is happening today.

Would I do anything different? If I had to redo the project then I think that I would probably focus and concentrate much more on the future and present as apposed to only the past. I think that in terms of my poster that I would definitively

Do you view yourself differently now? I honestly don’t view myself that differently than I did before because I generally do a lot of reflecting about topics like this one in my head quite often. I think that because of this that I have in a way already done parts of the reflective and mental part of this assignment

How has my celebrity been influenced by their history/geography? My celebrity came from southern California and I think that this may have had an effect towards him becoming slightly more rebellious. I think that also the music scene in the area where he lived was not the kind of place that you would want a kid to be in and therefore that may have had a negative effect all of which eventually lead up to him becoming a great drummer and I drug addict.

This is my own review on the documentary HOME: Here is a link to the actual movie: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqxENMKaeCU&feature=watch-now-button&wide=1 This is my short list of a couple of the worlds problems: This is my powerpoint on the current situation which is happening in syria: media type="custom" key="11333412"

Unit reflection:

This unit we looked at being a responsible citizen and what it means to be a responsible citizen, we started off the unit by looking at the documentary HOME, which is a documentary about how unsustainable human practices are. The documentary looked at issues such as farming of cattle and other animals on a huge scale and how it damages the earth and wastes resources. The documentary also looked at issues of fishing and for a part of it, focuses on the effects of the waste of the wealthy on the poor and nomadic people of the world. After we watched to documentary we wrote a review on the movie. In the next lessons we watched videos of Al Gore speaking about global warming and then we made a presentation on global warming. After we had done this we made a PowerPoint presentation on an issue of our choice, I chose the protests and murder of the protesters in Syria. Once we had done this we had to right an article on how an issue could be solved, I chose North Korea.

The final task that we were asked to complete in the unit was to write a manifesto for a hypothetical green party of Codrington running in a Barbadian election. I thought that I have done well throughout the unit as I was very interested in the it. I tried to make my manifesto look appealing to the eye because if you are running for an election you want for your manifesto to be eye catching and yet still look bright enough to reflect the green theme of party. I tried to focus mainly on the issues that I was more concerned about personally like housing, hospitals and power.