Month: March 2016

So, this post is about my Student Led Conference, or SLC. In this, I’ll be showing off three pieces of work: One thing that I’m proud of, one thing that shows my growth as a learner, and one thing that shows my growth mindset.

Something that I’m proud of:

This year, I’m really proud of this year would have to be my science project on digestion. Not only does it have all the mandatory info for the digestion process, it’s also entertaining.

The Digestion Project Is Here

So, I’m really proud of this because it looks good, it teaches all the mandatory things, and I put a lot of effort into the stop motion. I worked on this with Willa, and she did some of the editing and the text parts. Together it turned out really great, and I hope we get a good mark (We haven’t been given a mark for it yet)

Something that shows my growth as a leaner:

I think that this one would have to be my Destination Imagination project.

I think it showed growth with my teamwork, because normally I’m used to doing everything on my own, and I don’t really do a lot of teamwork, but this really showed me that I can’t do everything on my own, and that if I’m in a team we all need to work together.

A great example of this would defiantly be working on the script. I was set on doing the script on my own, it was my thing. But then I got serious writers block, and I realized that this was exactly why we had a team, so that if someone got stuck we just got someone else to help. So I got help. Another thing was just at the start in general we were all just “we each have our own jobs, we work on that”. That was a good plan, but we really weren’t a team. So we had to use teamwork, and combine ideas. That really helped me with teamwork.

Actually, DI also helped me with my presentation skills. I used to hate doing presentations. I never spoke loud, I always looked at my feet, I had no confidence. But then we did our first Preformance of this, and we realized how much we needed to work on. First of all, our Preformance was supposed to be traverse staging. We completly ignored that, and face only one way. The next one was that we talked way to quietly. No one could hear us! And we didn’t have much confidence. We had our scripts with us, and we didn’t look at the audience. But then we did our second one, and we improved. Eventually, we got to the tournament, and we did great! This really helped me with presentation skills.

Something that shows growth mindset:

I think that the thing that showed the most growth mindset for me was  our Stitch in Time unit, or our quilts. When I found out we were making quilts, I didn’t have to have anything to do with it. But I decided to seize the challenge. I was put in a group with Sofia, Robbie, and William.

Then it came to writing the story. By the end of the period, we had nothing. But, instead of giving up, we decided to keep on going. We texted each other that night, and by the next class, we had a story. We wrote it no problem.

We next had to make the quilt squares. It was hard, because we got a lot of critisisms. But instead of thinking ‘ah, no. We suck at this’ we improved. And then we printed it, and it looked great

All we had left was to stitch the quilt and frame it. It took a lot of effort. I mean a lot. But we did it, and now it looks like this:

Fabulous, isn’t it? Yeah. I think that really showed my growth mindset.

So, that’s it! I did it!

Well, that’s all for this post!

Read ya later

Ruby

I’m back baby! never starting off a post like that again. Anyways, this post is about this thing that we’ve worked on for the past few months, called Destination Imagination, or DI for short.

Now, you’re all wondering “What is this DI?”. Well it’s good you’re here because that’s literally the entire post.

So, to explain it first. DI is a wonderful tournament where kids from all around go into one of the 5 categories (Structual, Technical, Fine Arts, Science, and Improv) to compete to win at Globals, were you win like five grand or something crazy like that. Our class decided to do it, and we each chose a category. Surprisingly, no one chose improv.

Well, I decided to go into the Fine Arts category. For this, we had to write up a mystery story, involving three suspects, a Techinical Clue to help solve the mystery, and two team choice elements. A team choice element is something where the team shows off their skills and interests.

My group was pretty good. It had Tatum, Simon, Marcus, Willa, Angela and Myself. And together we successfully got together the basics:

Time Period: 1970’s

TechiClue: Polaroid photos

Team Choice Element 1: Vest, made by Willa

Teacm Choice Element 2: Manequin head, made by Willa

Detective: Sarah Sawset, played by Willa

Suspect 1: Joker, played by Ruby (hi!)

Suspect 2: DJ, played by Simon

Suspect 3: Bouncer, played by Marcus

Police Woman: Police, played by Tatum

Unfortunaly, Angela had diving in Pentiction on the day, so we had to do without her. So, everything was fine. We had the script down, we were practicing, it was all great.

Then,

Our TechniClue wasn’t technical enough! It got dramatic, but I’m not saying any names here. Let’s just say that someone got mad, someone cried and everyone else felt awkward. Yeah. But we fixed it, we changed our TechiClue to fingerprinting. Our costumes were great.

We killed the Preformance. But the appraisers gave us 133 out of 200. But that was only on our Arts challenge. Then we had the Instant Challenge

The Instant Challenge is where you are given a task and have to do it in under eight minutes. Unfortunately, I can’t actually talk about what happened in the room where we did it, as we have been sworn to secrecy.

Side note: I searched up ‘oath’ on google for an image for this, and I somehow managed to get to ‘dog swearing’. In which I found this:

Yeah

Anyways, we rocked the tournament. We got 100 out of 100 on our Instant Challenge. Yay! It was a full day, and it was great. Then came deciding who wanted to go to the next level, which was Provincials.

Not a single soul in my group wanted to go. But, let’s be clear here

So bad. But no one else in my group wanted to go, so I’m trying to witch groups. No news on that yet, but I’ll change this when I find out

Thats all for now

Read ya later

Ruby

Also known as The One About Salad!

Salad

Because it’s about Caesar

Caesar Salad

Okay, so I’m not funny. Anyways, we did a unit on good ol’ Julius Caesar, as you know from earlier blog posts. Clickety Click Click Here

So, we did a lot of expansion on that unit. A lot. We actually read through the entire play, on a fabulous app called SIB Caesar.

I just found out that SIB sounds for Shakespeare in Bits (I totally thought it was Shakespeare in Boots and my mind…)

He looks good in boots.

Willa: He should have been a drag queen. But only for shoes, because everyone dressed like a girl back then anyways.

I’m getting way off topic. The point is that we did a Caesar unit, and went through the entire play on the app Caesar in Boots. Bits.

For each act of the play {there were five acts in total} we had to write response questions, and do a paragraph. Which I totally did not leave until the last minute…

At the end of the unit, we had a performance to do. One of the scenes from the play. So of course, my group (Sam Scheewe (I think this is how you spell his name), Spencer, and Willa) chose the scene with death. Not the scene where Caesar gets stabbed. The one where Brutus kills himself.

So, we were fine. “Yeah. We can do this”. But then a bomb was dropped on us. We had to change the script to modern language and remake the entire scene to make it modern.

Yeah. We had to figure out a new setting, which was hard. So us, being us, decided “Hey! Let’s be gangsters”. Because I can be gangster.

We re-wrote out play, and re made the characters. The final script looks somewhat like this right here

 

Then we had to preform it. First time went okay. We practiced, we had our scripts, we were fine. Then came The Actual Preformance. Oh god. We would have done it in the theatre on the Friday that everyone else was ther, but no. Sam was away, so we did it first thing on Monday, when we weren’t prepared, in the classroom. It failed. So bad.

But over all I learnt a lot from this unit, about Shakespeare and Caeser, and the Romans. Well, that’s all for how

Read ya later,

Ruby