Hi guys! I’m back again today to talk about our project “its the end of the world.”  For this project we were talking about how are worldview has shifted, or was challenged during the transition into high school. I talked about worldview in my post “explain everything” and we used that knowledge for this project. Our final product ended up being a rewritten song of “its the end of the world as I know it” and we did this using the 7 aspects of worldview; knowledge, economy, society, beliefs, values, time, and geography.

However, lets not forget how we got to the song:

The first thing that we did after learning what the assignment was, was to create a list of things that we already know, what we need to know, and some goals that we may have. (Photo and add on from school board). This was surprisingly interesting because most of the questions asked related to “why do we have to sing??!” ( ohh the horror). Of course, our teacher responded with a smart sounding answer that made since and that was left as that. ( finish at school with actual board)

While we were talking about finding what we know and what we didn’t, we were also tasked to read a book called “the book of the lion” and we created role sheets that were like a check in on the book. ( picture of role sheets with explanation). To be honest, I didn’t like this book because even though the author did a good job of setting the theme, and feel of the book, I found that the writing jumped from topic to topic making it confusing to read at times. I would however, recommend this book to history lovers, and people who are ok with gory description. The book itself was about a peasant who entered the crusade on Jerusalem and try’s to fight or he would have been killed. The actual content was interesting, but I wouldn’t say that this book is for me.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

the book did a great job of conveying what the peasants worldview was at the start of the book, and how it changed as he experienced alll of these things. In order to understand our understanding and thoughts in this book, we wrote a short paragraph on eaither the Christians (who the peasant was fighting for) or the Muslims (who were living in jurusilim at the time). I talked about the Christians perspective on the crusades, and what I thought would happen because of the after math.

 

 

 

One thing that I thought was interesting, was when we made a Venn Diagram about things that shifted in our worldview, was that when we were comparing what we thought, to what our peers thought, we stated specific examples, and we had a common understanding of what was different and what had changed. However, when we compared that to what experts said, they focussed on specifically one example of worldview, and did a whole bunch of research on that one specific thing. I understand why but it was still interesting to me.

the next thing that we did was probably one of my favourites things, and I have mentioned it in earlier posts. We made a mind node about each of the 7 aspect of worldview, and examples of things that have changed from the transition into high school. As I have said before, this type of brain storming. Works very well for me. I realized that I knew more then I thought about worldview, and I was abale to go into a lot of detail about the things that effect me and my peers regarding worldview. One thing that I realized after talking to my classmates about this project, was that I was focussed on going into a lot of detail that I missed some of the simpler, more obvious things