The Social Studies standards I’m addressing are Culture, Economics, Civic Literacy, and History. I have done this exclusively through COMPLETING (!!!) the Social Ecology class I am taking. When I write exclusively, don’t worry, I still have been doing way too large amounts of tangent learning that technically are included in these standards but aren’t a project or anything and I’m FINALLY doing legitimate projects so I don’t feel the need to document every tangent I’ve gone on this quarter (in my narrative, that is, in my blog though there’s probably at least ¼ of my tangents documented). As I touched on last paragraph, the Social Ecology class is the most rigorous work I have done in Pilot and I’m super psyched about it. It consists of eight units, each being a few different readings and video lectures. I have also written a paper showing how Social Ecology addresses each of the standards. I have written a reflective blog post for two of the units and I’m going to do it next quarter for the rest of them. This timing is perfect because I will then be using that freshly stirred-up info in my brain to create a lil pamphlet about Social Ecology! I also made a new learning plan for Social Studies, and possibly the most exciting thing I’ve done in my life was not on there :) As a part of what ended up being the largest global climate mobilization in history (!!!) I organized a walk-out from U-32 to the State house to protest climate change inaction. This involved making a flyer, putting the flyers everywhere, getting other people to put flyers everywhere, being interviewed, collaborating with other schools, getting involved with Green Team, advertising on social media, getting in an almost-first amendment battle with the admin, doing research and much more. I have never planned a walkout before or performed a speech so it was a super valuable experience. I GOT LIKE 100 PEOPLE TO COME!!! And once we got to the state house after the speeches winded down I ended up finessing into a group of students that was meeting with the Speaker of the House so that was uber cool. Experiencing the dynamic between protester and policy maker was interesting, as well as any policy-maker dynamic because that lingo is pretty unknown to me but pretty important! As a result of these two main projects, I feel confident in what I want for this world, and not that I have an idea of everything to do to get there, but as super solid idea for starting and a framework for organizing dissent I didn’t have before (also getting a crowd hyped!).