RBL GCE Portfolio

What Makes a Hero? Hello, this is RBL and welcome to my third and final action project for my class called Stories. In this unit, we learned about the theories of the hero’s journey and how different characters change throughout different stories. If you don't already know, the hero's journey is a theory made by Joseph Campbell. It is a theory based on the idea that most known heroes in common literature go through. Connected to that, we also talked about the different ways the hero's journey can be different from one another. We also got to talk about different plots for a hero's journey as well. For example, one of our field experiences was watching the movie, "The Matrix" to get a better look at the hero's journey in a really popular movie. We also got to go to Armani's Howard's art studio to see how he encapsulates the hero's journey in his art. This all led up to our action. In this action project, I'm going to take a fictional hero an

Volunteer hours at the Logan center Hello this is RBL and in this blog I'll be sharing my experience volunteering at the reva and david logan center for the arts. I personally really enjoyed my experience working there for the time I did. During the day I helped to lay out story books so the families who came to the event had something fun to do. I also got the chance to work at the front desk to explain to families how the event work and provided them a good experience.

  A trip to Guatemala hello this is RBL and welcome to this blog post. This action project was for my spanish class where we were supposed to create a travel pamphlet. For the pamphlet we all got to choose a different country to learn about their foods, activites, and things you can do in the country. We also had to show different places you could stay or see in the country as well. I chose Guatemala as my country to research for the project. Here's my pamphlet below and in english as well as spanish: English pamphlet: Spanish pamphlet: Sources: “10 Top Tourist Attractions in Guatemala.” Touropia ,  https://www.touropia.com/tourist-attractions-in-guatemala/. LUNAS , DOS. “The Guatemalan Breakfast.” Dos Lunas Airport Bed & Breakfast/Hostel , 24  Jan. 2019, https://www.hoteldoslunas.com/the-guatemalan-breakfast/.  Marshall, Cassie. “Guatemalan Food: Our 25 Most Popular Guatemalan Dishes.” The Kitchen  Community , International Foods, 31 July 2021,  https://thekitchencommunity.org

  The Puerto Rican crested toad  Hello and this is RBL, in this blog I will be looking at the interesting timeline and outline of the Puerto Rican crested toad.  I chose this species because I’ve always liked how they look. I also think that they look very unique in lumps on their skin as well. Puerto rican crested toad (male) - "Puerto Rican Crested Toad, male / Sapo Concho Puertorriqueño,macho" by USFWS/Southeast is licensed under CC BY 2.0 Taken on May 14, 2009 What is the Puerto Rican crested toad? In Binomial Nomenclature, the spider crab is seen as the  Peltophryne lemur. It’s the only toad to be native to different parts of Puerto Rico, but hasn't found anywhere else since. How have they changed overtime? They were first found in the northern parts of the karst belt. The Karst belt is a wetland that lives almost entirely off different karst for its water supply. Karst itself is an underground cave-like center The karst region harbors the richest biodiversity in

 CRT in Public schools hello this is RBL here with another blog post. This blog will be based around a video that I've created. It's based around the topic of CRT (critical race theory) that we've been talking about in my class the war on X. I will also post my script under the video if needed. Without further to do, here's my video and I hope you enjoy it. Video Script: Critical Race in Theory (CRT) in public schooling  Over the past 2 weeks in my class War on X, we’ve been studying different aspects of CRT. In this video I’m going to be doing some more research on the topic of CRT. Slide: What is CRT? CRT is the study of different racist acts in the United states and seeing how racism was built into different institutions and has evolved from it. Today it’s seen as the study of race and the different topics connected to the impact of race. With this in mind some schools now want to teach students about CRT and the impacts of racism in the United States. Transition to

Fable Making- By RBL Hello this is RBL and in this blog I will be sharing a fable to you all. Before I do so I made this fable based off a class I'm taking called stories. Fables are shorter stories that usually have animals as the main characters in them that all have a shared lesson. Fables are also important to a lot of cultures and organizations like the national association of black storytellers (N.A.B.S). There important to them because they might show a lesson or moral that the culture might see as important to them fables give the culture something to live off of. If you don't know what a moral is, a moral is a lesson of a story or something a fable is trying to convey. We also had to learn about   anthropomorphism, which means to give different animals human like characteristics. We also had my mother Emily Lansana come into our classroom and share some of her stories to us. My Mom is a professional storyteller an has been telling stories to people for many years.  Thi