This interdisciplinary course, taught by Mrs. Small, combines literature, history, and cultural analysis to explore the central question: What does it mean to be human? Through reading, writing, discussion, and group projects, we examine how ideas of humanity have evolved across different historical and cultural contexts.
During the education unit, we were assigned to create our very own concept for a school.
Working with Mohammed Golji, Nichelle Thinagar, and Arnav Prabhudesai, we created Alea Academy. Our presentation for this project is on the left!
To cap off our unit on satire, we were assigned to analyze a satire of our choosing, and to write about how it failed or succeeded. The satire that I chose to write about was Shrek, and I wrote about how it deconstructed various tropes in the fairy tale genre.
This was one of the most fun assignments of the year in my opinion, not just because I got to watch Shrek three times, but also because it gave me a much deeper appreciation of a childhood favorite of mine.