Cr. A Investigation

This unit is named 'Modern Shakespeare'. In this unit our class is going to make a video about a play by Shakespeare to appeal to modern day viewers. To make a play about Shakespeare we will research and learned about Shakespeare. AOI for this unit is ATL, because the unit helps students to look at new ways of interpreting old material in order to increase our understanding of it. We decided the learning profile for this unit. We chose communicators as the learning profile. We are going to collect information from internet. Also, some students are learning about Shakespeare in English class. Shakespeare is the most famous writer. He wrote many famous plays and stories. I read and learned about him and his works in Korean. I read some of his stories and plays. I know that Shakespeare is not a exact person. It could be a group of writers or another writer who lived in same era. His stories and plays are not able to written legally in that time in UK, so some people consider him as another writer in same era or secret group of writers. I expect to learn more about Shakespeare and his works. Actually, I read some of his novels, but I have not seen his plays. I expect to see some plays of him and learn how to film. Of course I expect to learn more about Shakespeare and his works. In English A they are writing script for ‘Much to do about nothing’. However I’m not in English A and I’m not reading or learning about Shakespeare and his plays. I don’t know the story completely. So, my job would be helping to set up the video and some other things. The materials that we need are computer, camera and some stools for play.
This unit will be interesting and important unit. Shakespeare is the best playwright. Since now, no one was as good as Shakespeare.
The unit question is ‘How can we create a video presentation of a Shakespeare play that will appeal to modern day viewers’. I think to appeal Shakespeare play to modern day viewers, the language and words that he used should be changed a lot. Because he’s the person who lived in 400 years ago, and some of words that he used are not using anymore or using very rarely. To appeal to modern viewers the play should be fixed in form that will be easy to understand to modern people. Also, to make the play to be loved by many people, the play has to be appraised by many people. There are many kinds of people in the world who have different character and preference. Before you perform the play if you show your play to other people around you and ask them advice, it would be nice.

Evaluation

Evaluation

I presented about penicillin which is invented by Alexander Fleming. I wrote an essay about penicillin because I thought that writing essay is the way that would include lots of information. By writing essay, I could more information than poster. I collected information from paper that Mrs. Wilson gave me and internet.

Because I couldn’t follow the plan, my essay was a little rushed. I should start writing essay on March 8, but I didn’t and I started it on next day. I had enough time to write an essay, but I didn’t have time to revise my essay. If I had time to revise my essay would be better.

Cr. A – Investigation

Investigation for this project was much easier than other projects. Most of important information was already given to use by hand out that Mrs. Wilson gave to us. The paper included lots of information, but I needed to find more information and I found it from internet. Because Penicillin is very common medicine, I could find information that I wanted easily. Before I searched internet, I made some questions by myself and while I was searching internet, I tried to answer the every questions that I had. Some questions were easily answered by information in hand out, but some of them weren’t answered well. However, I collected most of information that I wanted.

Cr. C – Plan

Plan is not difficult part of project, but important. Before I worked on the final product I made the plan which I should follow. But I missed some process that I had planned to do. There were no big changes on my final product, so there weren’t any big troubles. My final product was rushed because I didn’t follow the plan. My plan was pretty simple because all I needed to do was finding information and writing an essay.

Cr. D – Create

For this unit you could choose the final product whatever you want, if the final product answers the unit question. I chose essay as the final product before I started searching information. Because I wasn’t prepared well when I chose my final product, I wanted to change my final product to Power Point. But When I thought about changing to other final products, I had only 2 days. So I didn’t change my final product. Essay didn’t include any pictures, but it included lots of information and I thought that essay is the best way to explain or describe something to others. And I just kept working on essay. My essay answered the unit question and included history of penicillin, invention of penicillin and some other information about penicillin.

Improvements

My final product could be a lot better. My investigation was good and answered many questions that I had. But plan was not so detailed and I couldn’t follow the plan in some parts. I didn’t have big changes because I didn’t change my final product. Also my plan was not so detailed there were any big changes. And my final product could be better. I didn’t have enough time to revise my essay. And it is rushed a little. If I revised my final product it would be better than now.

Test

Test

1. Did I answer the unit question?

Yes, I did. The unit question was that ‘How do inventors come up with ideas and create their inventions?’ I mentioned how the inventor got the idea. At that time people already figured out that many infections and illness are caused by bacteria, but they didn’t know how to make medicine to kill the bacteria. His idea was this. He tried to invent new drug that would kill bacteria. But penicillin is created by accident.

2. Did I follow the plan?

For some parts I couldn’t follow the plan. Last Monday was Woman’s day and school closed. According to my plan, my essay must be almost finished by that Monday. But I was at my home and didn’t work on my essay. So I had to finish my essay on Tuesday.

Cr. D

Outline

Introduction – Brief information about penicillin and antibiotics

Body 1 – History of penicillin

Body 2 – Benefit of penicillin

Body 3 - Answer of unit question

Conclusion

Essay

Antibiotics are medicine that inhibits the growth of certain type of disease and infection. As humankind found out that bacteria or germs caused many illness, people started searching drugs that would kill the bacteria. And penicillin which is produced naturally by a mold was the first drug that people figured out. It was noticed by English medical researcher, Alexander Fleming, by chance.

Penicillin is invented by Alexander Fleming, but there were some experiments to invent antibiotic before him. In 1896, Ernest Duchesne, a French doctor, noticed that some molds killed bacteria. He recorded what he found, but he wasn’t able to carry on his research. In 1929, Alexander Fleming accidentally noticed that a blue-green mold which is produced by juice in lab killed all the bacteria around it. However, he couldn’t know how to make enough molds to treat people. In 1938 researcher at Oxford University who read Fleming’s journal about his discovery experimented with Fleming’s idea. Finally in 1941 they could make enough penicillin to treat a few patients. Before World War Two started it was not easy to get penicillin. It wasn’t produced in large quantity. But mass production of penicillin started during World War Two and the soldiers and people who got injured could be cured with penicillin.

Although some people are allergic to penicillin and it doesn’t have any effect on some kinds of bacteria, it is considered as the most popular antibiotic. One reason that makes penicillin popular is the cost of penicillin. Compared with other antibiotics, such as cephalosporin, amino glycoside and tetracycline penicillin is very cheap. Average cost of 250g of penicillin is less than 15 dollars, but same amount of cephalosporin costs more than 50 dollars. Also penicillin is relatively non-toxic and has excellent tissue penetration.

Actually the inventor of penicillin had appropriate idea, but it was invented unintentionally. Also, it was invented by one people, but it was improved by many people. The idea of inventor was inventing new drug that would kill bacteria. Before the invention of penicillin, people already noticed that bacteria cause lots of disease and infection. But they didn’t know how to inhibit or kill the bacteria. Many medical researchers started to research and experiment and some of them finally got what kills bacteria by chance.

In this unit I noticed that in inventing something, you need luck besides knowledge and skill. Usually lots of inventions were invented on purpose with correct process. But some inventions like penicillin were invented accidentally. Also, I realized that one great invention could improve people’s life style and save people. Because of penicillin lots of people had been cured during World War Two. For the last I realized that inventions could be invented by people who are not extremely smart. With some knowledge and idea everyone can make something new.