Blog 23 Exit Interview.

Please be advised.  The senior team will not conduct any exit interview in which the student has not turned in a passing notebook count and completed this blog.  In addition, you are expected to dress as you would for a job interview.

Content:

(1) What is your essential question, and what are your answers?  What is your best answer and why?

How can we close the food gap between different socioeconomic classes. 

1) Addressing food waste

2) Public Policy

3) Cultural Competency

All three answers because food waste is a short term solution to immediate hunger. Cultural Competency is important so organizations can properly advocate what should be put in bills. And changing public policy is important for the long term solution. 

(2) What process did you take to arrive at this answer?

I figured out each answer through examples and then I looked at the overarching theme of the examples. Then I tried to think of how that could be turned into an answer. 

(3) What problems did you face?  How did you resolve them?

I had a really bad mentor so I sought outside assistance from Professors and educators. 

(4) What are the two most significant sources you used to answer your essential question and why?

" How a National Food Policy could save millions" by Michael Pollan

Weighing in: Obesity, Food Justice, and the Limits of Capitalism by Julie Guthman

Be prepared with evidence and specific examples to support any response.  It is also significant to cite sources as you explain.

Blog #22 Independent Component 2

LITERAL
(a) Include this statement: “I, student name, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents ___ hours of work.”
I Kyle Levin affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 33 Hours
(b) Cite your source regarding who or what article or book helped you complete the independent component.
3)Hirsh, Jesse, and Reyhan Harmanchi. "Food Waste: The Next Food Revolution - Modern Farmer." Modern Farmer. Modern Farmer, 30 Sept. 2013. Web. 10 Feb. 2016.
(c) Update your Independent Component 2 Log (which should be under your Senior Project Hours link)

1)"A Guide to Starting a Composting at Your School." A Guide to Starting a Composting Program in Your School (n.d.): n. pag. Green Mountain Farm to School. Green Mountain Farm. Web. 10 Feb. 2016.
2)Cochran, Soni. "Vermicomposting - Composting with Worms."Vermicomposting. Nebraska Extension, n.d. Web. 10 Feb. 2016.
(c) Update your Independent Component 2 Log (which should be under your Senior Project Hours link)
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ak9gS11eCj2b6EwDruGGuzSKWN1hG6KCDfrNwRKDAB4/edit?usp=sharing
(d) Explain what you completed.    
I attempted to complete a compost. However after I already got over zealous on my project, I noticed that it takes months for worms to break down the food.... so I would have needed a lot more worms to get the dirt that I was going for. 

(e) 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.   

(f)How did the component help you answer your EQ? Please include specific examples to illustrate how it helped. 
This project made me realize how difficult my first answer to my EQ was. I thought it was a slam dunk get rid of food waste, but it turned out to be far more difficult than I anticipated and more time consuming. Some may think its easy to get rid of food waste, but it takes hours to up keep a compost and a lot of people aren't willing to dedicate that type of time. 

Blog # 21 Fourth Interview Reflection

1. What is the most important thing I learned from the interview? 
The most important thing I learned from this interview is how big of a boundary language can be when looking at cultural competency. I was trying to learn from this woman who only spoke spanish, so I needed to bring a friend to help translate what she said or else I would have not been able to communicate with her at all. 
2.  How will what I learned affect my final lesson?
This interview really taught be about my third answer to my EQ. I feel that it has helped me shape my final presentation. 

Interview

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.