{"id":458,"date":"2025-05-05T02:50:34","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T02:50:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~NoamA\/?page_id=458"},"modified":"2025-06-05T11:02:26","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T11:02:26","slug":"english","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~NoamA\/narrative-perspectives\/english\/","title":{"rendered":"Narrative &#8211; English"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~NoamA\/narrative-perspectives\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"246\">\u2190 Back to Narrative<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">English served as the root for many projects, as usual.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Research<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our first English unit was focused around research. We were encouraged to find a controversial topic, and find multiple perspectives before building our own argument. Then, in our paper, we were able to present a well-rounded narrative to try and convince the audience on our own conclusions. We read <em>They Say, I Say<\/em> by Cathy Birkenstein and Gerald Graff, which taught us how to react professionally to other perspectives in our own writing in a way that also includes our own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I decided to research social media and censorship, given free speech implications and political finger-pointing. Some of the policies it examined were since reversed. While I&#8217;m not commenting on these changes, please keep in mind that this  work is not up to date. However, I believe that my paper has enough breadth to cover relevant information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!state.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~NoamA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Avrahami_Noam-Worldbuilding-Research-Essay.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of Avrahami_Noam-Worldbuilding Research Essay.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-a174bdd3-e743-4e0d-837e-35bc8265617e\" href=\"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~NoamA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Avrahami_Noam-Worldbuilding-Research-Essay.pdf\">Avrahami_Noam-Worldbuilding Research Essay<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Surreal Composition<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Just like for Reflections in Design, I was to composite images in Digital Media to make a surrealist image. In this case, it was meant to be related to our English research paper. Mine, still about social media and speech, is titled &#8220;Say No More&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~NoamA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/NoamA-1-1024x700.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~NoamA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/NoamA-1-1024x700.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~NoamA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/NoamA-1-300x205.jpg 300w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~NoamA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/NoamA-1.jpg 1170w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After starting design off with a surrealist image, I got to try again in digital media with more skills. This time, since I wasn\u2019t learning, there were not strict requirements on what to put and I enjoyed the freedom to make something with a theme I set. In my case, since my English research was on the potential for censorship on social media, I decided to try and capture a world where it\u2019s prevalent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I started with an image of a phone, using a layer mask to remove the background. One of the main symbols I wanted to use was speech shattering, so I took an image of broken glass and used another mask in Photoshop to make it the ground. I then made a broken speech bubble shape in Illustrator and used that. Since my research analyzed the law, I put a government building (the White House) as the background, and then imagining a world where Big Tech is in control, used blend modes and yet another layer mask (they\u2019re useful!) to overlay a computer chip pattern over the building. Finally, I used adjustment layers to try and make the colors as even as possible. While I wasn\u2019t able to really emphasize the speech bubble while keeping it translucent, the color shifts helped it be visible.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Behind the Scenes: Surreal Composition<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here is a snapshot of how my surreal composition looks in Photoshop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"565\" src=\"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~NoamA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Screenshot-2025-05-19-at-10.59.09\u202fPM-1024x565.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-519\" srcset=\"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~NoamA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Screenshot-2025-05-19-at-10.59.09\u202fPM-1024x565.png 1024w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~NoamA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Screenshot-2025-05-19-at-10.59.09\u202fPM-300x166.png 300w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~NoamA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Screenshot-2025-05-19-at-10.59.09\u202fPM.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The surrealist image was fun because I got to imagine a figurative, hypothetical scenario, as opposed to the research which examined the past and present with limited speculation on a more realistic future. I enjoyed playing with the colors and perspective to make it all one image, and of the details I added to the background image instead of just overlaying the foreground elements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">World Building<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our other major English endeavor was the World Building project. In small groups, we created our own fictional scenario and fleshed out the premise for a narrative work. We read <em>Parable of the Sower<\/em> by Octavia Butler to appreciate its expansive world building from settings to scenarios to causality for world events. My group decided to make a science fiction TV show with an interplanetary setting. We then had to present a pitch as if we wanted to get the show produced, and you can watch that presentation below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"24 25 p6 World Building JuanV LoganN BryceL NoamA\" width=\"950\" height=\"534\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VtI6ZbEprgU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~NoamA\/narrative-perspectives\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"246\">\u2190 Back to Narrative<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2190 Back to Narrative English served as the root for many projects, as usual. Research Our first English unit was focused around research. We were encouraged to find a controversial topic, and find multiple perspectives before building our own argument. Then, in our paper, we were able to present a well-rounded narrative to try and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~NoamA\/narrative-perspectives\/english\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Narrative &#8211; English&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":246,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inspiro_hide_title":false,"inspiro_hide_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-458","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~NoamA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~NoamA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~NoamA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~NoamA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~NoamA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~NoamA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":904,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~NoamA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/458\/revisions\/904"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~NoamA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~NoamA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}