Independent Component 2

Hannah Leonard

North 12

April 27, 2015

Independent Component 2

LITERAL
(a) Include this statement: “I, Hannah Leonard, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 30 hours of work.”
(b) Cite your source regarding who or what article or book helped you complete the independent component.

Ashley Solis, the Preventions Coordinator at the House of Ruth
(c) Update your Independent Component 2 Log (which should be under your Senior Project Hours link)
(d) Explain what you completed. 

I completed 30 hours of work in the form of mentorship at the House of Ruth with Ashley Solis, the Preventions Coordinator.    
INTERPRETIVE 
Defend your work and explain the component's significance and how it demonstrates 30 hours of work.   Provide evidence (photos, transcript, art work, videos, etc) of the 30 hours of work.  

At my mentorship I do a lot of office work, making copies, organizing files, stocking the presentation carts etc. However even though that's the majority of what I do I am still constantly learning. I ask questions and they are answered in great detail. Whatever holes I have in my understanding of a particular area is filed in. 
APPLIED
How did the component help you answer your EQ? Please include specific examples to illustrate how it helped. 

This component helped me answer my EQ  by making any information that I felt I was missing easily accessible. Whatever questions I had my mentor was more than happy to answer.  This helped solidify my answer and make them more concrete.  

Blog 15: Independent Component 2 Approval

Hannah Leonard

North 12

Blog 15: Independent Component Approval

Content:

Please review the component contract on page 12 of the senior project packet.   The Independent Component 2 is an opportunity for you to add a dimension of creativity and/or an additional outlet for research.  The goal of the component is for you to explore your answers in more depth.  On Friday, April 24, 2014, you will be turning in the following to your blog to prove completion of this component:

·       Log of hours on an digital spreadsheet (with total number of hours included)
·       Evidence of the 30 hours of work (e.g. transcript, essays, tests, art work,    

        photographs) as digital artifacts
·       LIA

The senior team expects that your log will be on the right hand side of your blog in the Senior Project Hours link.   In addition to this,  we expect that you will be able to prove the total 30 hours of work by submitting evidence to the blog by the due date.  For this blog post and approval, please answer the following questions.

1.  Describe in detail what you plan to do for your 30 hours.
I will do 30 mentorship hours at the House of Ruth.
2.  Discuss how or what you will do to meet the expectation of showing 30 hours of evidence.
I will volunteer for 30 hours at my mentorship, helping plan and set up events, organizing files, and going over informational packets, videos, and presentations.
3.  Explain how this component will help you explore your topic in more depth.
So far I have gotten my best research material and the most depth while being at my mentorship. Even when I think I've learned everything I need to know, they teach me something new.
4.  Post a log in your Senior Project Hours link and label it "Independent Component 2" log.

Your answers to the questions should be supported with details and examples for the senior team to understand what you plan to do.   Once we review your Blog Post 15, your house teacher will discuss with you the approval of your plan.  If it is approved, please start working on it.  If it is not approved, your house teacher will explain why.  It is your job to address the concerns so you can get your component approved. 

Blog 14: Independent Component 1

Hannah Leonard

North 12

Independent Component 1

• LITERAL
  (a) Write: “I, Hannah Leonard, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 30 hours of work.”
  (b) Cite your source regarding who or what article or book helped you complete the independent component. Marina Wood, Ashley Solis
  (c) Update your hours in your Senior Project Hours link. Make sure it is clearly labeled with hours for individual sessions as well as total hours.
• (d) Explain what you completed.    
• I completed 30 hours of mentorship at the House of Ruth for my independent component 
• INTERPRETIVE 
  Defend your work and explain its significance to your project and how it demonstrates 30 hours of work.   Provide evidence (photos, transcript, art work, videos, etc) of the 30 hours of work.  
  
• My mentorship has always been my best source of information and did expand my knowledge of my senior project topic significantly.
• APPLIED
  How did the component help you understand the foundation of your topic better?  Please include specific examples to illustrate this. 
• The House of Ruth specializes in domestic violence and gave me any and all information that I needed.
• My mentor gave me a book "Why does he DO that?", which goes into detail about why batterers do what they do and how they think.

Blog 7: Independent Component 1 Approval

Hannah Leonard

September 17, 2014

North 12

1.  Describe in detail what you plan to do for your 30 hours.

I plan to volunteer at the House of Ruth. I plan to work with the preventions coordinator plus a number of the councilors at the House of Ruth. This will help to expand my knowledge on Clinical Psychology additionally domestic violence and its impact on the victims of it, such as PTSD.  

2.  Discuss how or what you will do to meet the expectation of showing 30 hours of evidence.

I will take photographs, write summaries of my experiences there, as well as keep my hours logged.  

3.  And explain how what you will be doing will help you explore your topic in more depth.

Being at the House of Ruth you learn a great deal about domestic violence; signs of an abusive relationship, signs that someone is an abuser, signs that someone is being abused, how to get help, how to help someone else who is being abused, the mental and physical effects of domestic violence, how to take care of yourself mentally.

4.  Update your Senior Project Hours log.