Monthly Archives: March 2016

Let Me Explain Everything

Posted on by under Humanities, School

So we’ve been studying worldview. Which is basically how a person or group of people views the world. Makes sense right? It can be more specific than that, though. For instance, my class has mostly been looking at religious worldview.

 

However, we also had to look at our own general worldview, and make it into a slideshow using the app Explain Everything. My Worldview Explain Everything Is currently a work in progress but I’ve decided to post it anyhow and I will add to this post or create a new one as I progress.

 

The basic points I went over in my Explain Everything were how my family has influenced me (by setting an example and teaching me skills and values), how pop culture has influenced me (by inspiring me to be creative), how where I live has influenced me (by being safe and teaching me to be accepting), and just a general overview of how important it is to balance work, fun, friends, family, and health.

 

The one thing that I thought might be a problem with my E.E. was finding uncopyrighted pictures of some of the people and things I wanted to put in the slideshow. So, I decided to draw all the pictures myself and I think that worked out well because it added an extra element of personalization to it.

 

So. Watch the video to learn about my worldview. And if you don’t want to learn about my worldview, then…

 

Toodles.

 

Student Led Conference

Posted on by under About Me, Humanities, mPols & tPols, School

So.

*insert suspenseful music here*

It’s time.

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The moment you’ve all been waiting for.

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The Student-Led Conference.

The SLC is sort of like a parent-teacher interview, except presented by a student. So basically, I have to talk about some of the  work I’ve done this year. Specifically, three things: my quilt project, my Julius Caesar skit, and Destination Imagination.

 

So first of all, my quilt project. This was a project where a group of students wrote a story, and then each student made a quilt square to represent part of the story. The quilt my group made told the story of a girl called Cordelia, who was in a plane crash and transformed into a part-fish-part-human creature, then started a community in the Bermuda Triangle.

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This is my quilt square, which depicts Cordelia in her new life in the Bermuda Triangle, with Poseidon watching over her, and her community in the background. If you want the full story, check out my blog other post about the quilt project.

 

Second of all, a project that didn’t go so well: my Julius Caesar skit. This was supposed to be a rewrite and performance of a scene from Julius Caesar (in this case act 5 scene 5, Brutus’  death) in a modern setting. My group decided to have the scene be a fight between two gangs, and the suicide of one of the gang members. The idea was good, and the rewriting the script went pretty well, but when it came time to perform, we were unprepared; we didn’t have the props we needed and we were stumbling through lines and blocking. As much as I would have preferred this project to go a lot better, I think I learned a lesson from it: make sure you’re prepared, and practice if you have a performance.

Finally, Destination Imagination. This was a project that required a lot of patience and flexibility, both things I don’t always have a lot of. It involved writing and performing a mystery story set before the 1990s. Our mystery story was a murder set in a disco in the 1970s. Probably the most difficult part of creating the skit was factoring in a “techniclue”, a technical element to help solve the mystery. We had to rewrite or edit the script several times to eventually get it to work out. What was also problematic was when it turned out we couldn’t get one of the props we needed, a mannequin. However, I came up with the solution of using a model head that I had made priorly,  and the group as a whole came up with the idea to use a sheet and various items underneath the sheet to look like the rest of the body.

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That about wraps up the work I needed to discuss, so…. Yeah.

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Toodles.

 

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Panic! At the Disco

Posted on by under Destination Imagination, Humanities, School

So, for the past month or so we’ve been working on this thing called D.I. Apparently it doesn’t stand for Dying Inside like some people thought, but, rather, for Destination Imagination. D.I. involved a variety of challenges, and culminated in the sacrifice of a Saturday.

Though different people did different challenges, my group (of six, although the numbers varied) were mainly working out a murder. Mystery. We were working out a murder mystery. In which I played the detective, and we were all in the 1970s panicking at the disco. The actual murder was fairly simple; a disco ball had been shot, fallen on a man’s head, and killed him (I’m not so sure about the validity of this plan, but hey, you can’t expect us to be experts at murder plots…). What made it complicated was that we needed a “techniclue”, a clue that we could use to solve the mystery through technical methods, and we weren’t sure what to do. After a lot of uninspired days trying to think, a couple arguments, and some experimentation with different potential clues, we went with the classic: fingerprinting.
Now you might be saying, what was there to fingerprint in this mystery? The object that killed the man was shot. So we had to add in an extra detail, in this case the fact that the killer had also stolen (and then dropped) the victim’s wedding ring, presumably to sell.
I got to fingerprint all the suspects, which was cool because I’ve never fingerprinted anyone before. I think the ring got lost during our actual performance so that wasn’t so good, but it wasn’t super important anyways. We eventually scored a little over 50% of the total score we could have had, maybe 53% or so, which we were told was quite good for our first time doing D.I.
Now that was only half of what we had to do at the tournament. The other half was called an Instant Challenge, and it was an eight minute challenge we had to complete as a team, and although I’m not allowed to tell you what ours was, I can say that one of the practice challenges we did was building a tower out of paper. So that sort of physical but also logical challenge. We scored 100% on our Instant Challenge, so I’d say we did fairly well…
I will further update this post with pictures and/or videos later on, once I have better access to them.
Toodles

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