What I enjoyed the most about this project
Something I enjoyed the most about the English portion on the renaissance project was the creative freedom that was given to the students. I was able to do create a writing piece that in ways was unconventional, but I really enjoyed making and helped me express what I learned. It was a great way to help students express themselves.
I enjoyed learning about the world History throughout the renaissance because, for the past couple years I haven’t been learning history at this rate. I found the content from the Mental Floss World history book to be very informative. It definitely peaked my interest.
Something that interested me in the Math portion of this project was that a partner and I learned a game of chance from the renaissance (a gambling game) and tried to decipher the probabilities of different outcomes. This was useful because we had earlier in the project learned about different forms of probability, and we were able to explain at exhibition. We were well prepared to present our work.
Something I enjoyed the most about what we did in Chemistry, for the semesters end project, was scaling our chosen molecule to a two inch replica. It stood out to me because it showed me how much math can be in Chemistry, which I later learned a much deeper meaning to. It just showed a different perspective to me at the time.
I enjoyed learning about the world History throughout the renaissance because, for the past couple years I haven’t been learning history at this rate. I found the content from the Mental Floss World history book to be very informative. It definitely peaked my interest.
Something that interested me in the Math portion of this project was that a partner and I learned a game of chance from the renaissance (a gambling game) and tried to decipher the probabilities of different outcomes. This was useful because we had earlier in the project learned about different forms of probability, and we were able to explain at exhibition. We were well prepared to present our work.
Something I enjoyed the most about what we did in Chemistry, for the semesters end project, was scaling our chosen molecule to a two inch replica. It stood out to me because it showed me how much math can be in Chemistry, which I later learned a much deeper meaning to. It just showed a different perspective to me at the time.
Reflection
The aspects of the project that were the most challenging to me was trying to focus on work during class, because there are many distractions. I can occasionally get distracted while in class, so I may go through a whole period completing a very small amount of work. I can try to fix this by staying in more controlled areas, and distancing myself from distractions .
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I am very proud of my writing piece because I spent hours of time on creating and finalizing it, and I feel like I was able to creatively flourish in this product. I sat at my desk for a whole sunday to work on the product and I had an idea set i my head that I wanted to create. I was able to create a product that I really respected. Many of my classmates told me my work was very unique and well done.
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I was fairly happy with how I presented myself at exhibition because I had a fairly lengthy story to tell the onlookers about the life of Sir Francis Drake. I felt like my costume was very accurate, and I included large amounts of detail when presenting. Many onlookers complimented me on the amount of things I had to say, how I grabbed their attention and held it.
I feel like I have a firm understanding of the impact of the renaissance because, payed attention to the many lectures that both Mrs. Howard and Mrs. Heller gave in their classes. I understand that many of the ideas helped shape how we think and do things today, or how we don’t do things a certain way today. As an example many religious beliefs and inventions that first formed in the long age of the renaissance are still around today, or more advanced versions.
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Something that I don’t think needs to be incorporated is the dance (my opinion on this isn’t that important.) I feel like it was just a period where we didn’t work on anything that actually incorporated itself into the whole project. At that time I could have been learning more important things, although some of the formality lessons were informative.
I think I deserve an A for this project because I put weeks of effort into the project work, constantly making sure my work was more than satisfactory occasionally by asking teachers how I could make it my best work. I also incorporated lots of effort for the final exhibition. I made sure I know the depths of the history of my historical figure and could confidently express them.
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This is an image of my final product for English class. It is a 1550's style map of the world with a treasure map like dotted line and X marks. ten of the marks have scrolls with sailors logs written inside of them detailing the perspective of Francis Drake's circumnavigation of the world. next to the map there is a larger scroll which is a letter to Queen Elisabeth written in the perspective of Francis Drake, and describing his loyalty and gifts he has brought back for her on his trip circumnavigating the world.
I wasn't able to get any other pictures. |