Tribes project
Our tribes project was our first major project and exhibition of this year. We started it by reading parts of The House on Mango Street and The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian, which inspired us to do this type of project.
In the first week we had a small performance about scenes from The House on Mango Street. My groups scene was Cathy, Queen of Cats. We had to read the chapter and add sound effects to make it more interesting. This was an odd mini project, and I was not a huge fan of it.
In the first week we had a small performance about scenes from The House on Mango Street. My groups scene was Cathy, Queen of Cats. We had to read the chapter and add sound effects to make it more interesting. This was an odd mini project, and I was not a huge fan of it.
The next major thing we did in class is we conducted dialogical interviews of a random person in our team. I had the joy of interviewing Daniel Venezuela. We were to interview them on certian things including powerful moments and memories from their life, people that have had a large impact on their life, and other such things.
Here is my first draft of the poem.
Here is a self critique sheet we used to strengthen our poems.
We then had a critique session with the eighth graders. We were supposed to help each other out and critique our partner's essay, but most of us 10th graders did the majority of the critiquing. We good a lot of "It is good" in return. Hopefully they got something out of it though.
Here is my final poem.
On many days in class we would do little games. On one day we sculpted people into scenes from The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian, as seen in the picture here.
Here is my first draft of the poem.
Here is a self critique sheet we used to strengthen our poems.
We then had a critique session with the eighth graders. We were supposed to help each other out and critique our partner's essay, but most of us 10th graders did the majority of the critiquing. We good a lot of "It is good" in return. Hopefully they got something out of it though.
Here is my final poem.
On many days in class we would do little games. On one day we sculpted people into scenes from The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian, as seen in the picture here.
This is my self portrait. We had them all taken in black and white, and I wanted the sky in my picture, because the clouds were really cool looking that day. I took a few and this was my favorite of the lot.
Here is a link to an article we read in class. We were learning about belonging and how we fit in in our societies, so i read this article, "The Children of ISIS" which is about why American kids feel the wants to defect to organisations like ISIS. I found it really interesting and I recommend you read it.
Here is a link to an article we read in class. We were learning about belonging and how we fit in in our societies, so i read this article, "The Children of ISIS" which is about why American kids feel the wants to defect to organisations like ISIS. I found it really interesting and I recommend you read it.
These are pictures of the popsicle stick house my group made as our piece for the presentation. We wove the initial structure and we only needed glue to connect our woven sheets at the corners. I was really proud of this as it took us a very long time to figure out how to weave the posicle sticks into sheets that were bigger than the sticks themselves. We made the house as a way to show off our "Home" poems that we made at the beginning of the year on the popsicle sticks.This was a really fun part of the project and It was right in my interest zone with the engineering and architecture ideas being used. At the exhibition, we gave a quick description of the house and how we made it, and then put it on display.
Reflection
Our essential question from the project was “what tribes do you belong to?”. I have thought about that question and I have realized I belong to a lot of very vague tribes, but just as many that I may be the only member of. I have realized from this that I am average and simple looking on the outside, but anything but once you actually get to know me as a person. I have yet to meet someone else who can be as simple and easy to understand as myself, yet still have the small intricacies that differenciate me from the rest of the population.
On a completely different note, there are some very interesting things about this project to me. I will always remember this popsicle house and how it really pushed my thinking. I will remember my confusion on trying to figure out how all the little pieces of this project would fit together (many of which, not surprisingly, seemed to be outliers). This was an odd project as a whole, but in the end I look back on it and smile.
Reflection
Our essential question from the project was “what tribes do you belong to?”. I have thought about that question and I have realized I belong to a lot of very vague tribes, but just as many that I may be the only member of. I have realized from this that I am average and simple looking on the outside, but anything but once you actually get to know me as a person. I have yet to meet someone else who can be as simple and easy to understand as myself, yet still have the small intricacies that differenciate me from the rest of the population.
On a completely different note, there are some very interesting things about this project to me. I will always remember this popsicle house and how it really pushed my thinking. I will remember my confusion on trying to figure out how all the little pieces of this project would fit together (many of which, not surprisingly, seemed to be outliers). This was an odd project as a whole, but in the end I look back on it and smile.