Blog 20- Interview Prep 4

1. Who do you plan to interview? What is this person's area of expertise?
I plan to intervier Arthur Levine who works at Huerta De Villa in Ontario. He has started a community garden there that has flourished. I find it important to understand what is the best way to create a community program that doesn't feel intrusive.
2. Post 20 open-ended questions

 you want to ask an expert in the field concerning your senior project. Your focus should be finding answers to your EQ. If you have already interviewed someone two times, you aren't allowed to interview that same person without House teacher approval.

1. Why do you find it important for this community to have a garden?
2. How do you make a community program feel non-intrusive to the public? 
3. What are some of the effects of your program on the community?
4. How does one go about setting up a community space for people? 
5. How did you decide to start a garden?
6. What is the most important thing to starting a community space?
7. What are some of the reactions you have received in regards to the garden?
8. What do you do with the food you produce? 
9. Why do you think its important to have these community spaces?
10. What is your response to people who believe community gardens aren't helpful?
11. How do you incorporate the local community into the project?
12. What does a good community garden look like and what does a bad community garden look like?
13. Who will take over the garden when you are gone?
14. Did you receive any corporation support for the garden?
15. Is there a way to teach people about a healthy life style with respect to their different backgrounds and privileges? 

Blog 19

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EQ 

How can we close the food gap between the middle class and people in poverty?

Answer #3 (Write in a complete sentence like a thesis statement)*

Attacking healthism is how we can close the food gap between the middle class and people in poverty. 

3 details to support the answer 

• When people come and try to help communities in food deserts and such, they are faced with the reality of the unknown. When this occurs, people try to tackle what they see. However telling people to eat kale is not a good way to teach people to be healthy. 
• Very much like colonialism. Important to find ways to create community X that are actually run by the communities. 
• Accountability is important in volunteership and dedication to the project. 
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The research source(s) to support your details and answer

# 39, 40, 28, #6 

Concluding Sentence

Healthism makes people feel more inhuman.

Blog 17 Interview #3

Interview Audio


1. What is the most important thing I learned from the interview?  
The most important thing I learned from this interview was my three answers to my eq. I found that I also learned a lot about the vocabulary in my book that I didn't understand. 

2.  How has your approach to interviewing changed over the course of your senior project?
I feel like I am more comfortable blindly emailing people and calling asking to conduct interviews. I do more background research on their topic so I have more in depth questions. 

Blog 18 : Answer 2

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1.  What is your EQ?
How can we close the food gap between the middle class and people in poverty?

2.  What is your first answer? (In complete thesis statement format)
Reducing food waste is a way to close the food gap between the middle class and people in poverty.

3.  What is your second answer? (In complete thesis statement format)
Using oppositional politics to address economical inequalities are an important way to close the food gap between the middle class and people in poverty. 

4.  List three reasons your answer is true with a real-world application for each.
Oppositional politics
-The best way to participate in oppositional politics is to address issues such as the wage gap. Money is definitely the biggest factor in making food accessible and by giving people a living wage it therefore makes it possible for the food gap to close. 
- An important way to close the food gap is to treat farmers better. This involves eliminating the pesticides that get continually sprayed on people who work in the fields. 
- Destroying the stigma of fat people because many people lose out to job opportunities and such because of their fatness. It is important to look beyond those stigmas and into the underlying  reasons there.
 5.  What printed source best supports your answer?
Weighing In By Julie Guthman
6.  What other source supports your answer?
Food Politics by Marion Nestle
7.  Tie this together with a  concluding thought.
I think that these two sources that were written specifically to talk about how to use oppositional politics to combat food stigmas will definitely help me. 

Blog 16 Independent Component 2

1.  Describe in detail what you plan to do for your 30 hours.
For my 30 hours of independent component I want to either start a composting site or system at the school with approval from Flores, or if that does not work, I want to start a compost at my home. 

2.  Discuss how or what you will do to meet the expectation of showing 30 hours of evidence.
I will be taking photos of the compost progress, hopefully in a time lapse fashion. To meet the 30 hour requirement I expect it will take 3 or so hours to do the research on how to compost. I plan to meet with the people who run Pomona College organic farm for information on the best composting materials. I want to meet with Flores to discuss a possible compost plan. All of these things will already take close to 10 hours. For the other twenty hours... it will take at least 15-30 minutes a day to maintain the compost ( turning the soil, keeping pests out.) and even more if I do the compost at school because I will need to moniter the bins and such to make sure people are composting the proper things. I will also need to move the soil once its done to another location. All these things will take approximately, take 3 to 4 hours a week. 

3.  Explain how this component will help you explore your topic in more depth.
This really addresses my food waste answer to my EQ. It delves into the systems that would help eliminate food waste, and illustrate how difficult it is to get these programs off the ground. Furthermore, it would limit my own, and the schools food waste. 

4.  Post a log in your Senior Project Hours link and label it "Independent Component 2" log.


Independent Comp Log 2

Independent Component 1

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(a) Write: “I, Kyle Levin, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 30 hours of work.”
(b)Michelle Torres and Megan Nehamen from Foothill Family Shelter guided me through my 30 hours of mentorship.
(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)Through out my time working at Foothill Family Shelter I continue help to reorganize the shelves, work with other volunteers, and sort through donations. During the holidays especially I find that volunteer work is the most important. Over the break, we received more donations than we possibly knew what to do with. 
• INTERPRETIVE 
  Well, I have a log that tells the reader exactly how many hours I have done and what I did during that time. Independent Comp Log.    I was not allowed to take photos at my mentorship due to confidentiality purposes. My mentor only verified that I may take photos last night. 
  
• APPLIED
  I found that while I was working at Foothill Family Shelter, that I was looking at my project all wrong. Through careful research and observation I realized that there are many misconceptions that the public and myself had about obesity, food justice, and overall the food system that we have in America. I felt that it was highlighted especially in my work at Foothill Family Shelter due to the lack of resources and understanding that I personally found through my mentorship. In a way... it is like I was focusing in on one leaf of the tree ( Foothill Family Shelter) when there is a whole system of charities, companies, food programs that contribute to figuring out a solution to the food gap problem. 

Lesson 2 Reflection

Content:

1.What are you most proud of in your Lesson 2 Presentation and why?
I am very proud of the presentation I gave because it had a lot of content and it was ordered in an understandable way. Throughout the presentation I felt very confident and that felt really good. 

2. a.     What assessment would you give yourself on your Lesson 2 Presentation (self-assessment)?

       AE       P          AP       CR       NC

     b.     Explain why you deserve that grade using evidence from the Lesson 2 component contract.
I filled all the requirements and I kept the audience very engaged. I was not boring. I hit all the points hard with confidence. 

3. What worked for you in your Lesson 2?
My powerpoint really guided the presentation and the content. 

4. What didn't work? If you had a time machine, what would you have done differently to improve your Lesson 2?

I forgot to mention why my hook was important. 
5. What do you think your answer #2 is going to be?

Policy change.