Posted on January 13, 2016
Body of OctaviusÂ
Over the past few classes we have been working on a body biography. A body biography is a picture of a person that has all the information of the person on it. We were put into groups of about 5 people and each group was given a famous person from Ancient Rome. For the first class we had to research our person and learn as much about them as we could. In the second class we had to pick a colour of paper then trace someone on that paper. Once we had a human shape on the paper we had to cut it out then write stuff on it about our persons life. We also got to print out picture to put on him or we could draw pictures onto him. In the last class we got to finish the body biography and present it to our class.
On the first day I was put into a group with Will, Ryan, Ruby and Tatum. Our person we were given was Octavius Caeser. It was hard to find information on him at first because when you search his name it only comes up with stuff about Agustus Caeser but we soon found out that it was the same person. My group worked really quickly to get information and was able to get a lot of it.
In the next class we picked blue paper then got Tatum to lie down on it so we could trace her. For the position of Octavius we got Tatum to put her hands on her hips to represent strength and power. Once I had traced Tatum we cut out the body and started to figure out what we were going to write on him. Once we had figured out what to write on him we had to pick a place on his body to put it. We had to pick places that had significance to what we were writing. For example we put a lightning bolt in his head and wrote about how he only thought about power.
In the last class we finally got to present. We talked about what we wrote on him and why we put it where we did. We also talked about why we picked the shape we did. In the end I was pretty proud of how it came out. We only wrote significant facts and put them in the perfect places. If I ever did this again I think that I would focus more on not writing paragraphs and keeping it down to a few words per place. I also would put more consideration into where we put each fact. In the end considering how little time we had I was happy with our finished product.