ROGATE Passion Project

In my ROGATE class, we are working on a project. This is an update on the progress that I have made.

First, I would like to say that I'm very excited and happy that I was able to interview the high school psychologist, Mrs. Hayes. I learned a great deal on the information I was seeking which was psychological disorders. She was very helpful in helping me find the information and gain that information that I needed to know 

I have not gotten very far in my powerpoint but have done around 4 slides. I have been doing more research and have almost finished that and I will finish my powerpoint soon. These final weeks I will work on my passion project powerpoint.  

The progress I have made is good and I'm very excited about the interview because it really helped me find a great deal of information through one person. 

This is my passion project progress report.     

Passion Project Reflections

ZZZZZZZZZZZZ.   This describes how I felt when I first started the passion projects this year. I started off wanting to do my passion project on anything sports related. For example, basketball, baseball, soccer, or anything else. Obviously, that was a boring and uninteresting topic. So, when I started surfing the internet, I saw an article and someone who had killed multiple students. I thought at that very moment my topic should be on violence. 

               I started off researching what violence is. But I only could put a slide of information on what it actually is and its definition. I had to explain how violence is caused and why it is such an important part of our world and a issue that we need to fix. 

               I would say that my progress, on a scale from one to ten, is at about a 7. Considering how I started off my passion project and how I made very little progress, I would say this an improvement. I have achieved being able to describe what violence is and a great example of someone who was affected and resorted to violence. I have faced obstacles. Violence is a very deep subject and very complicated. Many big words that I may not know are used in articles to explain violence. This was a challenge for me to understand the topic to the best of my ability.   

               I plan to overcome this obstacle. I am moving very quickly in understanding the words and definitions. I also plan to get an interview with a psychologist. I am very happy in my topic and I'm very exccited about presenting this topic to my classmates. AT first I was bored and now I am :). 

Grades

            They circle in our brain when we sleep, they haunt us, sometimes they kill us. Grades. Our worst nightmare.
            In my opinion, the purpose of grades is to measure how much someone has learned or their enhancement in a subject. Grades are not only in school but also in society. In society you can be graded on performance. 

            I believe the 100 point scale and the current system is a realistic system to base everybody's grade. I say this because it is easy to remember a 90 and above is an A, an 80- 89 is a B, 70-79 is a C, 65-69 is a D, 64 and below is F. These numbers help students show how quickly they are improving. For example, if I have 85 and I want an A, as the numbers going up it will show me how I'm improving and making progress. The numbers are also an easy way for colleges and schools to look at how good you are. If we use a couple numbers to represent intelligence, then the schools will not be able to know if one of the most intelligent or OK student. All they would have is your SAT scores which is in most cases not enough. I believe we should just forget about a different system and keep the current one. 

            Keeping the current system is also a simple easy way for teachers to grade you. The number can push many students to be the top in their class by getting better grades. A few numbers won't be able to tell how intelligent you are.
            Sometimes grades can fool us. Lets say you are really smart in math. You get an 79 and it brings your grade down from a 97 to a 93. This does not show your full potential and your knowledge in that department.
            Sometimes we get grades we don't deserve. For example, if you got a 81 and you add 9 extra credit points then you got a 90. You go home and tell your parents you got an A when you really got a very low B. Sometimes this can help you. But do you really want o get something you don't deserve.
            So, going back to how we grade. I will once again mention that the current system is easy and simple and effective and we should not switch to the new standard based grading system. 

                                                                                                                                               Surya Reddy

My school year is going really well. My grades are very good and all my teachers are very nice. There really hasn't been a disadvantage to school so far. If there was a disadvantage, it would be having lunch at 10:00 in the morning. Sometimes I barely eat because lunch is so early. I think that is really ridiculous. Along with school going well, my life is going well too. I made new friends, and I also am about to join a new baseball team. Life and school is amazing.