Humans of Sophomore Honors: Elias Ladika

I interviewed Elias Ladika in my Sophomore Honors English class. Eli is very laid back, busy, active, and kind. He goes by the nickname of Eli and was really interesting to talk to.

By Shaya S. from Eureka High School in California

“ I don’t really have much free time, i usually get out of school, go to soccer practice for two hours, and have games on the weekend. But when i do have free time i usually like to sleep, go biking with my friends,or just watch tv.” 

“One time I lied was when I told my parents that I was caught up on all my work and i wasn’t i had like a 60% but then when my report card came i ended up getting in big trouble”

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Eureka High School

Soph Honors, 1st Period

Sophomore Honors English

Humans Of Sophmore Honors: Nelson

For our Humans of Sophmore Honors English assignment, I interviewed Nelson to learn more about his life and what is important to him. I learned some facts that I didn't know before even though I have known him for many years.

Our Democracy

For my our democracy assignment, I chose to take a picture of the sky to represent democracy.

Humans of Sophomore Honors: Clark Green

For my Humans of Sophomore Honors project I interviewed Clark Green. He talked about nature and how he like the outdoors. We also discussed the challanges he faced when he was younger.

Humans of Sophomore Honors: Grace Allen

My interview with Grace Allen was short and intriguing. I got to learn what she would change in her life, and how she wants to be remembered.

Our Democracy

Education is the key to "Our Democracy."

Our Democracy: Shaya Sells

Naomi Garcia and Lexi Blackwell after the voting for homecoming queen at our high school.

Humans of Sophomore Honors-Symphony

For my Humans of Sophomore Honors assignment, I interviewed my classmate Symphony. She talked about her goals, beliefs, and life.

Our Democracy

A simple tree can represent our democracy in many ways. It symbolizes growth, the people, and our elected officials. Our democracy is a pivotal part of our culture and there is many ways to represent it.

Our democracy

I wrote about how peoples houses and differences represent our democracy.

Our Democracy

"Democracy is the recognition that we are all equal and the power to remind ourselves of that when it is forgotten." This post about "Our Democracy" describes my definition of democracy.

Humans of Sophomore Honors: Maia

For a project, I interviewed Maia Hales about her life, what she pictures for her future, and some words of wisdom. Maia talked a lot about her family, what she wants to do after high school, and how she would like to be remembered.

Humans of Sophmore Honors: Shaya

I Interviewed Shaya in our Humans of Sohpmore Honors assignment. She talked a lot about family and what she wasts do do when she grows up.

Django Everta

Danielle Anderson Humans of Sophomore Honors interview

Humans Of Sophomores Honors: Solveig Lyssand

For our Humans Of Sophomores Honors assignment, I interviewed Solveig Lyssand.

Our Democracy

Democracy is a people, not a government.

Our Democracy

In this post I talked about what democracy means to me.

Humans of Sophomore Honors: Kairi

For my Sophomore Honors English class, I interviewed Ashley about a childhood memory that stuck with her.

Our Democracy

My post is on what I think Democracy is and something that I have seen that shows my thoughts.

Our Democracy

For our democracy project I talked about how my picture of me and my friend represent democracy.

Humans of Sophmore Honors Sidney

For our Humans of Sophomore English project. I interviewed Sidney Caampued and learned that she is all about her family and culture. She is very proud of where she came from and of her family.

Django Everta

This is my post for the "Our Democracy" assignment for my 1st period Sophomore Honors class.

Humans of Sophmore Honors: Samantha Sweet

For our "Humans of Sophomore Honors" interview project, I interviewed Samantha Sweet. I found that she had a deep passion for animals, engraved in her since the beginning of her life.

Humans of Sophomore Honors: Lily Williamson

For this project, I interviewed Lily and got her thoughts on what she wants to do when she grows up and how her father helped her strive for things in life.

Our Democracy

For our democracy project, I explained how my soccer team shows what democracy means to me.

Our democracy- Sophomore Honors

I choose to write about a local protest that happened at my school because I feel like it really shows democracy in our community.

Humans of Sophomore Honors: Annabelle Hiscox

For our Sophomore English Honors class, I interviewed Annabelle Hiscox. She shows her love for family and an important lesson she has learned.

Humans of Sophomore Honors: Haley Foster

I interviewed Haley Foster and I learned she is a very kind and caring person. I learned that she is a black belt in martial arts and wants to perssure a career in engingering.

Humans of Sophmores Honors: Nicolo Costanzo

I interviewed Nicolo Costanzo for their opinion on the process of distance learning. We touched on subjects about Covid and personal preference.

Humans of Sophomore Honors: Tomas Paoli

I interviewed Tomas Paoli and I learned that he is from Indonesia, is very self driven, and doesn't let anything stop him from achieving his goals.

Humans of Sophomore Honors: Nate

For Humans of Sophomore Honors I interviewed Nate. I learned that Nate is a family oriented person with an optimistic outlook.

Our democracy

Democracy to me is my team. we all get a say and we all work together.

Our Democracy

My picture represents democracy in my eyes, the ability for people to work together. The ability to hear everyone's voice in order to function.

Humans of sophomore honors: Grace N

This document is my Humans of sophomore English interview, with Grace Nelson. I asked her about family school and how they have affected her at a young age.

Humans of Sophomore Honors: Nova

For humans of Sophomore English I interviewed my classmate Nova. She talked about her life growing up, morals, and values.

our democracy

our democracy

Humans Of Sophomore Honors : Brooke Boone

For this Project, I interviewed my classmate Brooke Boone and asked her some questions. These are some of the responses that she replied with that I thought were pretty important so I chose these quotes to represent her.

Humans of sophomore Honors: Ava

For our humans of sophomore English assignment i interviewed Ava Jones.

Humans of Sophomore Honors - Kairi Cox

For my peer interview, my focus was Kairi. Our converstion focuse on how others' perceptions could influence your sense of self. But her take was different, it didn't challenge what she understood about herself. It´s admirable to those struggling.

Humans of Sophmore Honors:Jordan Phanh

For this project, I interviewed Jordan Phanh. We discussed how his life changed as he grew into young adulthood and the people who helped him along the way.

Our Democracy

Should costumes be allowed in school? Who should be allowed to make that decision?

Sophomores Honors English: Sonia Vang

In class, we interviewed each other for a journalism project. When I interviewed Sonia, she talked most and highly about her family and how good they make her feel. Family is very important so that is why I chose this quote to represent her.

Our Democracy

How my image means Democracy to me.

Humans of Sophomore Honors: Django

For my Humans of Sophomore Honors, I interviewed Django. He talked a lot about influences and what he wants to do when he gets older.

humans of softmore honors:Kata Pardoe

for this assinment i interviewd kata pardoe

Our Democracy

Democracy means many things. What matters is your perspective and how wide and broad it is.

Our Democracy

In this post, I express what democracy means to me. Democracy is who we are and allows us to have many rights we didn't have before. Democracy allows different forms of freedom, power, and equality.

Humans of Sophomore Honors: Kai Riggs Turpin

A interview of Kai composed and written by Kate. About him as a person. He talked about his failures, experiences and goals.

Our Democracy

We chose a photo that represents democracy to us.

Our Democracy

For the Our Democracy project I chose a picute of Luiz Romero's Homcoming Royalty poster.

Humans of Sophomore Honors: Christy Wilson

For my Humans of Sophomore Honors project, I interviewed Christy Wilson. She talked a lot about her family because family is important to her, and some of the happiest moments of her life.

Our Democracy

For our democracy project, I talk about the importance of our voice and community. We have one of the most important jobs in the world as citizens and sometimes we don't even realize it.

Humans Of Sophomore Honors

For our Humans Of Sophomore Honors I interviewed Dylan. Dylan spoke all about what he wanted to do as a career, he wants to do something involving Science.

Our Democracy

For my Sophmore Honors English class, we were assigned with taking a picture and showing how it represents democracy to us, as well as what we think Democracy is. I chose a picture of the Eureka FFA Officer Team.

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Humans of Sophomore Honors - Kairi Cox

For my peer interview, my focus was Kairi. Our converstion focuse on how others' perceptions could influence your sense of self. But her take was different, it didn't challenge what she understood about herself. It´s admirable to those struggling.

Our Democracy

In this post, I express what democracy means to me. Democracy is who we are and allows us to have many rights we didn't have before. Democracy allows different forms of freedom, power, and equality.

Humans of Sophomore Honors

In this interview i interviewed Miles Sorensen about his family and how they impact him. Some of the questions i asked were "Who is your favorite relative and why?". In conclusion the point of the interview was to get to know more about the person.

Humans of Sophomore Honors: Lily Williamson

For this project, I interviewed Lily and got her thoughts on what she wants to do when she grows up and how her father helped her strive for things in life.

Our Democracy

For our democracy project, I talk about what democracy means to me and the connection between education and democracy and how it has affected me.

Humans Of Sophomore Honors

For our Humans Of Sophomore Honors I interviewed Dylan. Dylan spoke all about what he wanted to do as a career, he wants to do something involving Science.

Humans Of Sophomore Honors : Brooke Boone

For this Project, I interviewed my classmate Brooke Boone and asked her some questions. These are some of the responses that she replied with that I thought were pretty important so I chose these quotes to represent her.

our democracy

our democracy

Our Democracy

"Democracy is the recognition that we are all equal and the power to remind ourselves of that when it is forgotten." This post about "Our Democracy" describes my definition of democracy.

Our Democracy

For our democracy project, I talk about the importance of our voice and community. We have one of the most important jobs in the world as citizens and sometimes we don't even realize it.

Our Democracy

I found a notebook that represented Democracy, I wrote how it represented it and what it means to me.

Humans of Sophomore Honors: Ella Tollefson

I interviewed Ella Tollefson, One interesting thing I learned from our interview was that Ella had been playing soccer practically her whole life to reach her goal to play D2, or D3 soccer in college.

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Humans of Sophomores Honors:Daniel King

I interviewed Daniel King a fellow student in my class about his family,academics, and cultural background.I was surprised by how spread out his family was and how well he knew them.He also told me how he loves languages and academics.

Humans of Sophomore Honors: Clark Green

For my Humans of Sophomore Honors project I interviewed Clark Green. He talked about nature and how he like the outdoors. We also discussed the challanges he faced when he was younger.

Humans of Sophomore Honors: Joseph Morris

I interviewed Joseph Morris about some of his goals in life, I learned a lot about Joe including his love for music and his love for sports while also trying to be stellar in academics.

Humans of Sophomore Honors: Ella Tollefson

I interviewed Ella Tollefson, One interesting thing I learned from our interview was that Ella had been playing soccer practically her whole life to reach her goal to play D2, or D3 soccer in college.

Our Democracy

My name is Baeden Schinke and this is my views on Democracy below.

Humans Of Sophmore Honors: Nelson

For our Humans of Sophmore Honors English assignment, I interviewed Nelson to learn more about his life and what is important to him. I learned some facts that I didn't know before even though I have known him for many years.

As long as memory lives

On Memorial Day, flags identify the fallen & veterans who served—symbol of gratitude & sacrifice for democracy. Across my community, flags fly year-round on homes, pick-ups, at the road’s edge. What other aspects of democracy is symbolized?

our Democracy

I chose the flag to represent democracy because it constitutes the freedom that is offered in america; which is organized by a democracy.

Our Democracy

In this response, I talked about what democracy means to me, which is rooted in being equal, having freedom to be ourselves, and the importance of education.

Humans of Sophomore Honors-Symphony

For my Humans of Sophomore Honors assignment, I interviewed my classmate Symphony. She talked about her goals, beliefs, and life.

¨Humans of Sophomore Honors¨

I interviewed my friend about his life and identity.

Sophomores Honors English: Sonia Vang

In class, we interviewed each other for a journalism project. When I interviewed Sonia, she talked most and highly about her family and how good they make her feel. Family is very important so that is why I chose this quote to represent her.

More responses about "home", "identity", "past", "present", and " schools"

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Humans of the Valley

Interview questions to an acquaintance.

Humans of Sophomore Honors: Kylee Waldvogel

I interviewed Kylee Waldvogel about the important lessons she has learned through life, and how it has affected her views of the world.

Humans Of Sophomore Honors: Miriam Mende

I interviewed Miriam about her upbringing. She had a lot to say about how she has become more confident through the help of those around her. She goes into detail about who helped her in what situations.

Civic Journalism

My idea to better the community is a late running bus to transport children that need transportation after after school activities.

Humans of Sophomore Honors: Kai Riggs Turpin

A interview of Kai composed and written by Kate. About him as a person. He talked about his failures, experiences and goals.

Humans of Sophomore Honors: Victoria Shilts

I interviewed Victoria Shilts about her life experiences and how they impacted her views, happiness, and beliefs. This interview expresses how one's experiences can leave a lasting impression on an individual, even years later!

humans of sophomore honors Megan Barry

I interviewed Megan Barry about herself. Her responses were very intriguing and made me realize just how much there is to a person that doesn't meet the eye at first glance.

Analytical Community Project

Bettering the school library

Humans of Sophomores Honors:Daniel King

I interviewed Daniel King a fellow student in my class about his family,academics, and cultural background.I was surprised by how spread out his family was and how well he knew them.He also told me how he loves languages and academics.

Our Democracy

This post is about my beliefs on what democracy really is. It explains how people are the core of democracy.

Humans of Sophomore Honors: Sophia West

In this interview, I asked Sophia West some questions about herself and what she wanted to do with her life. I then recorded them below.

Sophomores Honors English: Sonia Vang

In class, we interviewed each other for a journalism project. When I interviewed Sonia, she talked most and highly about her family and how good they make her feel. Family is very important so that is why I chose this quote to represent her.

Humans Of Sophmore Honors: Nelson

For our Humans of Sophmore Honors English assignment, I interviewed Nelson to learn more about his life and what is important to him. I learned some facts that I didn't know before even though I have known him for many years.

Humans of Sophomore Honors English: Kaitlin Giacone

In an interview I had with Kaitlin Giacone, you get to know about her inspiring story of how she wants to help change an issue she is passionate about. She explains a past issue of hers, and how she is planning on preventing others going through it.

Humans of Sophomore Honors: Lily Williamson

For this project, I interviewed Lily and got her thoughts on what she wants to do when she grows up and how her father helped her strive for things in life.

humans of softmore honors:Kata Pardoe

for this assinment i interviewd kata pardoe

Django Everta

Danielle Anderson Humans of Sophomore Honors interview

Human's of Sophomore Honors: Sutton

I interviewed Sutton about what one of her biggest failure was, what she learned from and what she had experienced in that past. Here's what she had to say:

Humans of Sophmores Honors: Nicolo Costanzo

I interviewed Nicolo Costanzo for their opinion on the process of distance learning. We touched on subjects about Covid and personal preference.

Humans of Sophomore Honors: Kai Riggs Turpin

A interview of Kai composed and written by Kate. About him as a person. He talked about his failures, experiences and goals.

Humans of the Valley

When prompted to do a "Humans of New York" style interview of someone from the Penn-York valley region of the Twin Tiers, I went to interview Rebecca "Becky" Williams, long-time employee of the Athens Library and citizen of the Valley.

Humans of Sophmore Honors Sidney

For our Humans of Sophomore English project. I interviewed Sidney Caampued and learned that she is all about her family and culture. She is very proud of where she came from and of her family.

Humans Of Sophomores Honors: Solveig Lyssand

For our Humans Of Sophomores Honors assignment, I interviewed Solveig Lyssand.

Humans of Sophmore Honors: Shaya

I Interviewed Shaya in our Humans of Sohpmore Honors assignment. She talked a lot about family and what she wasts do do when she grows up.

Our Democracy

The Our Democracy Education Project is a partnership with the National Writing Project and PhotoWings. PhotoWings' mission is to help photography to be better understood, created, utilized, seen, and saved. The project is also supported by the National Geographic Society and Catchlight, and explores the question, “What does democracy look like?” through the creation of a multimedia record of the state of local, everyday democracy today.