Hello! Welcome to my blog! Wow, it has been about a month since I have even touched or looked at this blog! So, you may be pretty darn intrigued by this title. You may be asking why I  said « it’s the end of the world »? Well, have you ever heard of the song « It’s the end of the world as we know it» (by R.E.M.)? Here is the link to the music video if you haven’t seen it.  Well, our teacher, showed us the music video for the original song then, showed us a version of the song sang by Michael Stipe (the singer of R.E.M.), Stephen Colbert and an appearance of James Franco at the end. They rewrote the lyrics to be a sort of revision of that year for New Year’s Eve. Now, guess what, we were assigned to do the same! Except that the lyrics have to be rewritten as a reflection on our change of worldview from elementary to secondary school. Here was how I got there.

1. Need to know questions 

At first, the only information we had was about rewriting the lyrics and that we had to sing the song as well. Here was an opportunity to learn or discover more things about this project. Surprisingly, lots of the questions had to do with the singing part because, none of us were looking forward to it.

I think that this was a great idea to do in any other project as well, it really helps you understand the project more. 

2. Crusades Paragraph

Next step in our project, was to learn about the fall of Rome, the crusades, etc. After we read many documents and watched a film, we had to answer a question: how did the Crusades encourage a cultural exchange to shift worldview? In the answer, we need to choose one side of the conflict (Muslims vs. Eastern Europeans) and focus on how their worldview shifted. 

I quite enjoyed writing this paragraph, I chose to write about the Eastern Europeans, there was so many more options and things to write about than the Muslims. 

3. The Book of the Lion Role Sheets

Next, we read a book called “The Book Of The Lion” which was about the Crusades. We had three weeks to finish the book and each week, we completed a different role sheet. The roles were the connector, the investigator and the illustrator. This Milestone was super fun, I really enjoyed expressing my creativity and going deep into them. 

4. Triple Venn diagram

Moving on, we now started to look into the actual project, we were assigned to create a triple Venn diagram showing the shifts of worldview from me, my peers and experts that we read about in a few articles. I think that my change of worldview was much different than my peers’ worldview change for example, the language that I am learning in. 

5. MindNode

This assignment was still a way of brainstorming on things that shifted our worldview but, this one is using a different app (MindNode) and has to have 3 examples for each aspect of worldview. It took quite a lot of time to think of good examples but, I knew that when I start writing the lyrics, it will obviously make it a lot easier. 

6. Photo essay, Song lyrics & Final video

Now onto the last step, the creation of the final product. At first, I was assigned to write the lyrics of the song, then we record me singing the song, next, our teacher made a plot twist, my table group (Ryan, Thomas and Rhiann) and I now had to combine all our song lyrics to make one song and record that as well. Next, each member of my group made a photo album of pictures of us in grade 7 & 8 to combine those into a photo essay. I think that the hardest part of the song(s) was the singing, my group and I had trouble staying on beat and making the audio sound the same. 

In conclusion, this project was quite enjoyable, even though, it was a little bit of a struggle at times, I still loved expressing my creativity in that way.  The thing that I probably struggled with most was the MindNode, finding examples for the economy aspect. One thing that I found very fun was the Role sheets and not to mention writing the lyrics. 

 

I apologize for my individual song sounding weird, I was sick and my voice sounded even weirder without auto tune…