It’s been a long time since I last wrote something. I’ve been busy with some new units we had introduced to us which we are finishing for Christmas break.
Anyways, our probably biggest project so far this year was for an exhibition. This year’s winter exhibition was Star Wars themed. We got told to start thinking about it since day one but our class got caught up in everything else, so I start thinking about it until a month before.
The first step was to create an inquiry question. Preferably it had to be something you are interested in so you’d enjoy the project more and with that put more effort into it. I was stuck for a bit creating my question but when we watched Rogue One, there is a scene where there is a fallen Jedi temple. It sparked a conversation between my teacher and I. It led to me thinking that my question could be about the Jedi Religion.
Below is a picture of the scene with the fallen Jedi statue from the temple.
I thought that the question was only fitting because in Humanities we were doing a religious world views unit. I had to formulate my question differently a few times before approval.
Organizing myself and my time was probably the hardest thing I’ve done for something this big. I’ve had experience with presenting but just to your classmates to get feedback or a PowerPoint on something.
After about a week of waiting for my approval of my question my teacher finally passed this idea. “How have fictional Jedi ideals and principles affected people in real life?”
After that I had to make a project pitch. It included ideas for what I was going to do and when.
Once the pitch was filled out, we had to start our research. Our research time was about a week before we had to start building. In your research it was recommended to contact an expert who might be able to give you information. I found a few websites that had information about them and I found out that some people actually believe in Jediism or Jedi Religion.
After that last fact came up, I saw that when I typed in Jediism in my search bar, one of the first links was a website that was similar to social media website for Jedi. I was almost sure that if I would be able to contact somebody it would be on that website. Unfortunately I was never able to get any response from who I e-mailed.
Preferably our research had to be based off of at least 1 video, 2 websites, and one contact. I got mine off of 3 websites, and two videos. Below are the links.
https://www.thoughtco.com/jedi-religion-jediism-95690
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jedi_census_phenomenon
https://www.templeofthejediorder.org
We kept doing smaller bits of research afterwards but it was time to build the physical part of your project. After thinking what it could be, I had finally decided on making a Jedi temple out of cardboard, paper and tape. It would have LEGO figurines on it with paragraphs of what they were doing behind them.
I based off the temple I made off of this picture.
This was the first picture I took of the Temple. It was just started so you can’t see the resemblance.
This was the second round of pictures.
This was the third round.
And this was the finalized Jedi temple with the information before the exhibition.
All the paper wrapping was last minute the night before the exhibition.
The exhibition was also with the grade 9’s so since we couldn’t all be in one classroom we split up. The two big groups were the Light Side (the group I was in) and the Dark Side.
The hard part about this is that we had to communicate with the grade 9’s to decorate our room for a bit more of a Star Wars vibe and we had to give and receive feedback so we could improve our projects.
This is what the room looked like.
I had about 20 people come by and look at my project. Because every different person that came by had a different amount of knowledge on my topic or even Star Wars, I had to explain my project a bit differently every time. You couldn’t have a script. The first person who came to my station so I think it was somewhat of an easier start and then I settled in. In the end explaining what you did wasn’t even that hard. Except for when your friends came to your station to “check your project out” but don’t pay attention.
Besides the groups we had subdivisions within. I was in the philosophical group with Kai, Logan, Emerson, Grace, Emily, Melanie, and Tamara. Since our projects had more things in common than those of the the other subdivisions we were put into the same area of the room.
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- Emerson’s poster
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- Kai’s posters and models
Below are the links to their projects:
_http://www.blog44.ca/loganu/2017/06/18/blue-sky-2-0/
_http://www.blog44.ca/graceb/2017/12/22/the-winter-exhibiton-a-star-wars-story/
_http://www.blog44.ca/emilyj/2017/12/21/ive-got-a-bad-feeling-about-this-star-wars-exhibition-2017/
_http://www.blog44.ca/kaiz/2018/01/02/the-exhibiton-to-end-all-exhibtions/
I had never really seen Star Wars before except for a few Clone Wars episodes nor had several other people in my class. Our teachers set times for us to watch some of the movies to inspire us into creating a question. But probably my favourite part of the project was that we went on a field trip at the end to watch Star Wars episode VIII: The Last Jedi. I really liked the movie but it was really long. It had some good humour and had a slow start but the end was pretty good.
That was the story of the project and how I learned to enjoy Star Wars. Until next post which will come out shortly.
