This week we really focused on creating our multimodal presentation-website-thingy. My group all finished the book around the same time so we all were able to discuss it and the things we had difficulties understanding or the things we really liked about the book, so that was really nice. I really enjoyed The Alchemist, and I would definitely recommend it to anyone looking for a book that really makes them think.
The project part is where things got a little hairy. We are supposed to emulate the Snowfall presentation. That’s really the only guidance, that I feel like we were given in terms of what we were supposed to do. There were several examples of past presentations that were made available, but they were all slightly different in what they contained. Some of the websites have videos and pictures, but one had a slide show discussing the characters in the book. My group chose not to do the slideshow, but then after hearing about the gallery walks on Friday (which I missed due to attending an admitted students day at the University of Michigan) I have the feeling that we should have made the slideshow. I feel like we did really well with the creation of the presentation, but I wish that we had a little more guidance in what we needed to have to in the presentation. Looking at the rubric showed how we were going to be graded, but there wasn’t really anything that showed the requirements for the project. All in all I feel like we were do a pretty good job emulating Snowfall, but I would have like a more solid understanding in what elements were required.
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The book my group chose to read for the ‘Why am I here?’ project was The Alchemist. We had chose the book last week because it was the shortest book we had the opportunity to read, that is the honest reason we chose it. Once I started reading the book last week I had a feeling that Santiago and I were really similar in that we were both searching for our Personal Legends, Santiago had discovered his and was seeking it while I am still searching for something to point me in the right direction. This week as I finished reading the book I was left with an almost comical lesson to follow the omens and my heart. Being apart of the MPHS Dance Team for the first three years of high school we had a running joke to follow your heart, so hearing this from the book brought about a sense of nostalgia. The other running message of the book was to follow the omens, they will lead you to where you are meant to go even though they might take you the long route to things. Santiago could have literally found the treasure at the beginning of the story, but through following the signs he was able to learn the Universal Language and travel to many wonderful places. This week on my college decision I was ready to pull the trigger and submit a deposit at the University of Michigan, but then on Thursday I was watching a Youtube video that had to do with U of M and a girl in the video was wearing a Hope College Basketball shirt, I was driving to dance and there was a semi truck with Holland written on the back at the same time that a song that I associate with Hope College was playing on the random radio station I had chosen because it wasn’t playing commercials. So now I am back to square one of not knowing where to go and my parents are expecting me to make a decision by the first week of April. This week we read the books that we chose to read to help us with our project that is themed around the question “Why am I here?” My group chose to read The Alchemist, and so far I really like it. Santiago is a character I can really relate to, he is the kind of person who goes with the flow but he knows what he wants in life. I am a pretty laid back person, I don’t get stressed when things don’t go exactly the way they were planned. The other part of Santiago that I relate to is that he knows what he wants, he has found his Personal Legend, but he is scared to go for it. He hesitates and then he starts to try and achieve it and then he hesitates again until he is given a push. I haven’t found by Personal Legend yet, I don’t know what the purpose is in my life but there are certain things that I really want to do in life and I start to take steps toward them and then I get scared. Choosing a college has been one of these times, where I am ready to put down a deposit at either Hope College or the University of Michigan and then I get scared. Hope is too small or a place where I’m going to get too comfortable, U of M is too large or I’m not going to be able to find people like me who don’t really like to party and need to study a lot. In the next few weeks I will have to be like Santiago and take the first steps towards part of my Personal Legend. I don’t know what happens to Santiago after he leaves the crystal shop but I’m hoping that he is successful in his Personal Legend and I hope that I am able to be successful in my own Personal Legend. This week we worked on our independent reading projects. I had a slight difficulty with the project because I knew what I was trying to say but I didn’t know how I was going to say it. I spent most of the week researching for different sources that I was going to use that would help me to explain the different ways that jealousy is shown and that even though there is different ways that jealousy manifests.
In looking at the definition of jealousy I realized that it really only is described as a feeling that is felt when there are two parties that are causing a lack of affection to be felt by a third party, but when you look at when people are experiencing jealousy it is expressed and felt different ways. So jealousy really isn’t just a cut and dry feeling. During my research I discovered that prior to Shakespeare writing Othello, yellow was often used to symbolize jealousy. Now green is used to symbolize jealousy due to a line in Othello, but it got me thinking that what if yellow and green were used to symbolize jealousy. If there wasn’t just one color to symbolize jealousy then maybe there would be more than just one definition of jealousy. Happy, sad, and fear all have different ways that they can be used in life. A person can be happy crying or they can be fearful of the future but also a hopeful fearful. Feelings don’t just have one certain manifestation so they shouldn’t have a cut and dry definition, but that is what I have found jealousy has become. |
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