Thursday, March 1, 2007

Happy's rc Reflection

!KNOWLEDGE TOOL BOX!

I think that in this section I averaged somewhere between a meets and exceeds ( but leaning toward the "meets"). I did really well on most of the project. For example, My team won the Civil War Showdown. This represents how we researched and shared information on one of the key contributors to the civil rights movement and honored their contributions by totally dominating the Showdown for them. What a coincidence, that just happens to be one of the Knowledge Boxes.

!PRESENTATION/PROFESSIONALISM!

In this section I think that I averaged a "meets" grade. We never actually presented our song to the class live, but we were all for playing the CD. I practiced the introduction with Aidan, and got feed back from my peers and teacher. We were both on time for the cafe, and I even wore a full blown suit for it (which is pretty big as far as dressing up for me goes).

!POLISHED WRITING!

I honestly did not do very well on this portion of the project. I kinda just threw my page description of the song all together at the last minute and didn't really revise or edit that much. I also completely forgot to cite my sorces on the paper. I made a whole bunch of claims about Hitler that not very many people would believe unless proved to, and I did pretty much the opposite of proving. If I played my song out on the street everyone would think i was a raving lunatic (I pretty much just took peoples word for it on Wikipedia, and some random Google info but I really don't remember, that's definently something I can work on next time).

t h e a r t w o r k

1) i think that my art had alot of symbolizm. for example, in the painting there is a storm going on in the background. this represents the turmoil going on during WWII. everthing from the holocaust to women working new jobs in the US. i painted on plexiglass which you could argue is modern, but i did it in a (or tried to) impressionast style.

2)i felt like i did alot of teamwork in this project. i helped happy write and record his song, i helped set up and clean up for resilience cafe, and me and happy worked like clockwork, everything got done on time. by doing lots of little things to help people i think i got to learn more about the people in our class. since this project had so many smaller projects inside of it, we got to work in multiple groups, like in the civil war showdown. before this project my relationship with the class was like a very bubbly piece of concrete, but afterwards it is more like it has been solidified, itsd more like a solid cinderblock.

3)i didn't actually try as hard as i could on the artwork, i kind of did it to get it over with, i would much rather have done the music. happy wanted to do the music so... but i did help him with the song alot so i did get to do some. i think i could have given more thought on what i wanted to do for the art, i just didnt get very inspired about it though. i would very much like to do another music piece. maybe a project in any media we want to do to show what we learned.

4) I truly have nothing more to say


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