Month: February 2022
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Ilona Granet Learner Portfolio
For the first unit in our second semester of Language & Literature, we learned more about sexual harassment and feminism through learning about who Ilona Granet is, and the signs that she had created. This unit has a distinct similarity with the previous units that we had covered, which all had the same topic of learning more about feminism; however, we gained a better understanding of different ways to spread the awareness of sexual harassment and feminism in this unit, which is Ilona Granet’s signs. Throughout this unit, we analyzed the signs that Ilona Granet had created, understanding the different ideas that she is conveying through her illustrations.
During the beginning of this unit, we were introduced to Ilona Granet, the artist who created the signs that we learned about and evaluated throughout this unit. We learned more about her background, her childhood and adulthood experiences, and the reason to why her artworks now all follow the same theme of feminism and harassment through listening to a podcast, the Decoder Ring podcast, where she was being interviewed. As we listened to the podcast, we took notes about important points that she had discussed about in order for us to fully understand her purpose of creating the artworks, as well as the experiences she had faced when growing up which had brought her to work on her artworks.
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Open in new tab Throughout this unit, we had analyzed a few of Ilona Granet’s signs by using the PODAHAA method, which is identifying the people, objects, diction and language, artist’s technique, humor technique, artist’s purpose, and association with other works in the signs. A sign that I found the most interesting is from the “Red Riding Hood Travels the World” body of work, where Ilona Granet had created a collection of signs that relate to the concept of the children’s book, “Little Red Riding Hood”. We had to choose a sign from her body of work to analyze, and I noticed that the signs are quite different from her other signs, as it is more difficult to understand if an individual does not know the story of “Little Red Riding Hood”.
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For our summative assessment in this unit, we did a 1/2 oral in order to prepare for our individual oral assessment for IB, which was much shorter than the actual oral for IB. For us to understand more about what we should analyze and talk about in our oral, we did a mock oral by analyzing the “Red Riding Hood Travels the World”. We came up with a global issue to discuss about in the oral, how it relates to the signs, identified different literary devices used in the sign, and compared them to how Granet had used them in her other signs.
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