Humanities+MYP5

__ 'Can we create a perfect world?' Reflection. __

For our final assessment for the first half of the second term we had to write an essay entitled ‘Can we create a perfect world?’ which revolved around our unit on politics. I found that this essay was rather quite challenging considering it had to be based on three main types of governments: Communism, Democracy and Fascism. It is clear that any form of politics or anything related to government is quite hard for me to grasp, so before my essay I didn’t think I had a clear understanding of what exactly needed to be included. After doing a good deal of research and using notes from class as well as advice from Mr.Ryan I think that I was slowly understanding what we had to do. Though I don’t think that my essay was exactly what was expected, I think that I tried my best do incorporate what I thought was need. To end our essay we needed to state ( after doing out research) if we thought it was possible to create a perfect world, and I decided that even if it were possible it wouldn’t last for long, due to the fact that everyone would want to be in power. This unit was very difficult for me to understand and I believe that half a term is not enough to grasp the complexity of both the past and present day governments/ politics.

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__ Types of Coral Reefs and Human Causes of erosion Reflection. __

In the first term our unit was focused on costal processes where we learned about different forms of erosion, sand dunes, costal systems, beach replenishment, different types of groynes, long shore drift and much more. For our final assessment we each had to create a video on two topics from the unit and I had to do my video on Types of Coral Reef’s and Human Causes of erosion. I enjoyed this assessment because I thought I really understood what I was writing about as well as the fact that I liked that we had to make a video, so learning how to do that was food practice for the future. Our video had to be three to five minutes long and cover both of our topics. I decided to add a song which I thought was somewhat related to what I had to do, Ruppee’s song ‘I am a Bajan’, because it talks about some aspects of costal processes. I also thought that my range of images as well as the structure in which my video was created was well thought out in a clear coherent manner. So far this was my most enjoyed assessment.