Winter Exhibition 2024 was all about the different revolutions we have learned. I got to learn all about the Russian Revolution, more specifically the October Revolution.
Our driving question was “How do ideas drive change?”
Ideas drive change by inspiring new ways of thinking, challenging different things, and motivating people to take action. When different thoughts and ideas come to mind they can get others to think differently and come up with new ideas. Or people could look at things in more of a colourful or totally different way. People start to do other things unalike, and that’s how ideas spark change into excitement and success. New and different ideas help progress the work and could make it more strong and interesting.
To get a better understanding before working in groups I made an infographic explaining the revolution. I used Crane Briton’s stages of revolution theory to help explain. Incubation, moderate, crisis and recovery. When working on this I think I could have found my information better. It was very spread out, and if I first laid out the information I needed then, it could have been easier. The infographic was to help understand the revolution before we started to get ready for the exhibition and start reading the book Animal Farm by George Orwell.
Along with the infographic to get a better understanding of Crane Briton’s theory I made a metaphorical diagram representing it. I thought making a smoothie would represent it best.
The book Animal Farm by George Orwell was about the Russian Revolution. When reading the book I created a couple questions I had for each chapter, thoughts and a summary. Reading this book was useful for me because my classmates and I got put into groups made by which revolution you would have liked to learn about, and mine was the Russian Revolution.
After getting in groups we then got to start to plan for the exhibition. The theme was metaphorical machines, to create a Rube Goldberg machine. A Rube Goldberg machine is a machine intentionally made to do a simple task in an overly complicated way, relying on chain reactions. So my group and I first started with finding the 7 major events in the revolution and then making metaphors for them within a Rube Goldberg machine.
Each group member had their own roles. I was the storyboard visionary for the documentary and the creative director. Along with creating the machine we also had to make a documentary showing the creation and steps of making the machine.
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Fourth Draft:
My group and I had a pages document to keep everything in order like the costumes, decor and roles for the day of. At the exhibition we had Russian posters representing the revolution, a snack and drink table, and a theme of yellow and red to represent the Bolshevik’s flag. My group members dressed up in skirts and in a head scarfs.
I think I learned all about the revolution because to understand what happened in the past and not to repeat the bad and non effective things that happened in the then. Instead learn and grow from that. During the process of learning about the revolution and gaining information, I had to use my critical thinking skills. I had to look at everyone’s different perspectives and breakdown what happened to get a better understanding.
Overall I learned when working on the machine with my group members that we all worked well together. We set up the machine right away each class and started to build what we had. I think sometimes I would get caught up at the first part of the machine and try to make the first part perfect. That led to leaving the end of the machine to the last part. It looked put together because we also spent a lot of time painting and making it look eye catching. From the beginning to the end I found that some parts of the machine would sometimes work and sometimes not, and it was hard to find the solution to the problem. In conclusion I enjoyed this project and learned so much about the Russian Revolution.
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