Dylan's Journal

Teenage Trials and Tribulations: From Rock and Roll to Hashtag Was life easier for teenagers in the 70s and 80s “then” or today, as in “now”?                                            Dylan Ephron Ms. Salem, Ms. Brodsky, Ms. Reyes English 9D January 11th, 2018 Dylan Ephron Ms. Salem, Ms. Brodsky, Ms. Reyes English 9D January 11th, 2018 Teenage Trials and Tribulations: From Rock and Roll to Hashtag In the film, “Back to the Future”, the main character, Marty Mcfly, is accidently brought back decades to the time of his parent’s teenhood. The movie depicts the extraordinary differences in education, home life and social interactions that occur in the short time gap between the generations. Although the movie is fictitious it hi...

Throughout the course of this semester I have grown as a student in numerous ways such as becoming a  Resilient, Persistent, and Adaptable Achiever, a Critical and Creative Thinker and an innovative problem solver. This semester has brought about numerous strengths, weaknesses, confusions as well as many successes and failures, all of which have contributed in my maturation and development as a learner. I have encountered many strengths over the semester and I strongly believe my biggest strength over the whole semester was the vital assist being able to create a spreadsheet from my random cricket statistics into meaningful, useable and accurate summarised data which allowed me to be develop and improve different areas of my cricketing skills. For example, from the data I was able to recognise that my wicket keeping skills needed to be honed in on as I did not not take as many stumping as usually would and therefore needed to work on my agility and quick reflexes. The reason ...

Over the first semester, I have committed to numerous projects of community service such as Save A Child's Heart, Food for Families, Make a Wish, Tassel and The Schoolhouse. Over this semester, Make a Wish entailed brainstorming ideas and possible events in order to fund raise and will be further implemented in the second semester. Tassel has just begun and we have recently started practicing and learning the skills required to give feedback to the students we will be grading. The Schoolhouse is a program that myself and Joy Konfino will be heading and whilst we get the program up and running this year, we have started to conceptualise ideas with regards to fund raising and they will be put in place in the second semester. Save a Child's Heart and Food for Families have been very humbling experiences. Save a Child's Heart is project that spans over the year and occurs at the SACH centre in Holon. We split up into two groups prior to visiting the centre and were give...