Monthly Archives: September 2021

HASS Project Progress Update One

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As part of our Year 10 Humanities course we are able to research a topic from either History, Civics, Geography or Economics, and create something that we can showcase at our final exhibition on the 11th of November, in Term 4. The topic I got was Civics which I was really happy with because I am interested in law, and with that murder and crime, which was what I wanted to do for my project as soon as I found out about this project. The crime I decided to research on was the Zodiac Killer because I have always found his case really interesting as he is one of the only serial killers that has ever managed to get away with no one knowing his identity.

So far I have found all 10 resources for my annotated bibliography. My annotated bibliography includes links to sources I found containing information for the Zodiac Killer as well as a brief description for each link of what was on the source, the authors purpose and how useful I found the source. I have also completed some pages in my booklet like the timeline, which gives me an idea of the tasks I need to do to be able to complete the project by the exhibition date in Week 5 of Term 4.

My plan for continuing my project is to get more onto the side of writing down points and using my links to gather all of the information about the Zodiac Killer in one place. Very soon I will start planning different ways that my project can be presented for the exhibition. I was thinking presenting it with a bloody dark/theme to match the crime.

I have started and plan on developing further, many capabilities from the capabilities wheel. These include:

  • creativity
  • organisation
  • inquisitive.

English Capabilities

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Our most recent task in Year 10 English was to write a play as a group based on a problem that is shown in our society. The problem we chose was drug addiction, and how it can affect not only the person using, but also the relationship between friends and family. In our play, our main characters were a drug addict father, his wife, son, and the drug dealer. We showed in our performance how drugs can be deteriorating for a family, but also how reaching out and getting help can turn everyone’s lives around to create a healthy, happy family environment. My group members and I developed many of our capabilities from this task.

Problem Solving and Effective Communication:

On the day of the performance two of our group members were sick, so we had to figure out how we could do the play with only the 3 of our remaining members. We had to problem solve by communicating with each other what we needed to change. As both of our absent group members played significant roles, we had to divide their parts amongst the 3 of us, which we managed to do effectively. It was difficult but our performance managed to run relatively smoothly considering.

Creative

In our play, we included something where someone says “pause” and then the people currently acting in the scene pause what they’re doing, and someone gives context to what is going on in the scene as sometimes it can be hard to tell what is going on. We also would give facts on drug use and how it effects users and their family. This was a very creative aspect of our play and we found that it allowed for the audience to follow along better and pay attention to what was going on.

Overall, from this task I developed some of my capabilities including problem solving, effective communication and creativity. I found that this was a very beneficial task that taught me many new things.

All Saints College’s Capabilities Wheel