Poetry Project
Reflection
During this project I wrote a song for my final exhibition and I preformed the song on the piano while I sang. I enjoyed this project because I got the opportunity to combine music with my education. This was an amazing opportunity where I got to incorporate poem techniques along with writing my own song. I started the process by first finding an inspiring image where I could then write a poem about the image. After I had a poem written down I then began to think about how much father could I take this project, causing me to draw myself to the piano. After coming up with a chord progression I played around with melodies until I found the right melody that fit with my lyrics. After endless hours of me trying to collaborate my chord progression with my melody and my melody with my lyrics I then had an amazing song which I then proudly preform at the all school exhibition.
Exhibition Song and Poem
Inspiring Photograph
Globalization Project
Reflection
Project Description:
In Humanities we read a complex-text to get a better understanding of what globalization is. After educating ourselves on the topic we got to choose a focus question that was both interesting to ourselves along with focusing on globalization. Since my mother got offered to go on a Medical mission helping clinics along the coast of Lake Atlint, Guatemala. I am fortunate enough to be able to join her on her journeys. I would be helping my building gardens to support good eating, along with helping construct houses that can with hold durable climates and questionable weather. For this project I focused on the negative effects of foreign-aid impact on indigenous cultures. I focused on how foreign-aid can negatively impact native cultures especially focusing on in Guatemala to tie into my trip this April to help give foreign-aid while not hurting the native culture.
Learning Reflection:
After completing this project I have become more aware that there are negative ways to support or give to a foreign-aid foundation. My biggest takeaway from this project was learning about the negative effects and then seeing what the negative effects look like. Seeing how we can help people in Guatemala the right way was an amazing opportunity I will never forget!
Cartoon Reflection:
In the making of my first draft I wanted there to be a man holding two boxes of foreign-aid materials and having the local people fighting each other to get to the foreign-aid boxes. Then after I realized what I was actually writing about I came up with the idea similar is better. After that I rethought my cartoon causing me to have the idea of showing where Guatemala is located, the relationship between the city culture and the Mayan culture with a foreign aid man secretly getting foreign aid material to the Mayans.
Op-Ed Reflection:
This writing was different because it was a fact filled paper consisting of the pro's and con's to foreign-aid. Also the style of the paper was not an average writing paper format. My Op-Ed was also opinionated towards one group, causing the paper to be bias. This was a struggle for me because I really wanted to tell the pro's and con's to both sides but with writing an Op-Ed I had to focus on one side and whether or not they are correct or wrong. This type of writing will help me in the future when I want to write a letter to the editor about my opinion on an important topic I feel strongly about.
In Humanities we read a complex-text to get a better understanding of what globalization is. After educating ourselves on the topic we got to choose a focus question that was both interesting to ourselves along with focusing on globalization. Since my mother got offered to go on a Medical mission helping clinics along the coast of Lake Atlint, Guatemala. I am fortunate enough to be able to join her on her journeys. I would be helping my building gardens to support good eating, along with helping construct houses that can with hold durable climates and questionable weather. For this project I focused on the negative effects of foreign-aid impact on indigenous cultures. I focused on how foreign-aid can negatively impact native cultures especially focusing on in Guatemala to tie into my trip this April to help give foreign-aid while not hurting the native culture.
Learning Reflection:
After completing this project I have become more aware that there are negative ways to support or give to a foreign-aid foundation. My biggest takeaway from this project was learning about the negative effects and then seeing what the negative effects look like. Seeing how we can help people in Guatemala the right way was an amazing opportunity I will never forget!
Cartoon Reflection:
In the making of my first draft I wanted there to be a man holding two boxes of foreign-aid materials and having the local people fighting each other to get to the foreign-aid boxes. Then after I realized what I was actually writing about I came up with the idea similar is better. After that I rethought my cartoon causing me to have the idea of showing where Guatemala is located, the relationship between the city culture and the Mayan culture with a foreign aid man secretly getting foreign aid material to the Mayans.
Op-Ed Reflection:
This writing was different because it was a fact filled paper consisting of the pro's and con's to foreign-aid. Also the style of the paper was not an average writing paper format. My Op-Ed was also opinionated towards one group, causing the paper to be bias. This was a struggle for me because I really wanted to tell the pro's and con's to both sides but with writing an Op-Ed I had to focus on one side and whether or not they are correct or wrong. This type of writing will help me in the future when I want to write a letter to the editor about my opinion on an important topic I feel strongly about.
Final Cartoon
Historical Fiction Short Story
Short Story Reflection
For this project we worked on getting a better depth of Africa and it’s culture. We started the unit by spending three weeks studying the map of Africa. After that we got to choose a country to study; I chose Seychelles which is a group of small islands of of Africa near Madagascar. After spending time researching about the country we chose we emailed our had connections on people from our country. Some students had the opportunity to interview a person from the country they chose but unfortunately I did not get that opportunity due to technology difficulties. After interviewing and researching about our country we spent four weeks writing a historical fiction piece. Then we spent one week creating an art piece to represent the story.
In my story I felt like I did the best of creating round characters that have a lot of depth. I spent the most amount of time working on how my characters would act, what they would wear, and of course there personalities. I felt like I did such a good job on this section of the story because I spent the most amount of time doing thorough work and critiquing all the little details. “As my eyes open, in a split second I try to gasp for air but I can’t breathe; as I soon begin to panic I try and breathe again but nothing.” I feel like this is such a strong piece of writing because it puts you in the mind set of being Samira.
The hardest part for me was integrating history into the story. Since Seychelles is such a small country there is not much primary or secondary sources to reference. This made it very challenging to really put the readers into the mind state of Seychelles and what it would actually be like. I googled a lot of current photos to get an idea of how the setting looks in Seychelles and also to try and understand the culture more to make sure I was reaching the full potential of what Seychelles is like.
Two major revisions I made in my story was; cutting down the amount of characters in the story, along with the ending paragraphs and sentences. I took out some characters and instead just mention them but not actually have more of there perspective and what they were like. I did this revision because I learned it’s easier to follow I story with fewer characters instead of having many characters. For the ending I changed the ending to make it less sequel and more closed. Meaning the ending was not leaving the reader questioning or wonder what happens next.
Story Summery
The main character, Samira, was raised in Madagascar till the age of 7. Then she was taken by the French in 1817 and was forced into slavery in Seychelles, an island off the coast of Africa. While working in the slave trade for 13 years, she meet some interesting people such as Zalley who is an elder man that gives Samira advice. Samira has a very motherly personality and so she adopts as her own 7 year old girl named June who was also taken from her family in Madagascar. In 1835 rumors have been spreading about how the British will over rule the French, giving the British the power to end slavery. June and Samira do not believe this rumor will be true, and they dare not wait longer. The two girls escape and try and live in the wild; while in the wild, their minds go free, and they think about possibilities for if they survive. One night June decides to go on an adventure. Samira finds June, but to her surprise June ran into a guard and they where in an argument. June tries to defend herself by shooting a gun at the guard, but the guard was tricky enough to dough the bullet. The guard then reveals that the British did over rule the French, and that slavery has ended.
My story was influenced by the slavery that happened in Seychelles from 1770 until 1835. Slaves where taken from mainly Madagascar or eastern Africa. The French ruled the colony from 1770 till 1835. Then the British over ruled in 1835, putting an end to slavery.
I choose to do three art pieces; they are from the ending scene in my story. I used three stretched art canvas’ along with acrylic paints. Each piece represents one of the characters perspectives. Using light colors made the mood feel foggy and darken. This ties into my story by adding to the way I imagined the characters and how I pictured Seychelles to looks like.
My story was influenced by the slavery that happened in Seychelles from 1770 until 1835. Slaves where taken from mainly Madagascar or eastern Africa. The French ruled the colony from 1770 till 1835. Then the British over ruled in 1835, putting an end to slavery.
I choose to do three art pieces; they are from the ending scene in my story. I used three stretched art canvas’ along with acrylic paints. Each piece represents one of the characters perspectives. Using light colors made the mood feel foggy and darken. This ties into my story by adding to the way I imagined the characters and how I pictured Seychelles to looks like.