8 Grade

Unit 5 Waves–Reflection on Musical Instrument

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In unit 5, we explored waves, for the summative in this unit, we had to make a musical instrument to demonstrate our knowledge to waves, my question for the experiment is How does the tension of the string (rubber band) affect the frequency of the sound emitted when plucked?

What was the hardest part of this task? Easiest?
The hardest part of this task was measurement, I couldn’t measure the distance accurately which caused some errors occurred during the experiment. Also, building the instrument made the task became harder, it is also due to distance, the distance the string and the size of the soundhole could not be measured accurately.
One of the Approaches to Learning (ATL) suggested for Science in the MYP is stated below:

Social skills–Practise giving feedback on the design of experimental methods

Discuss the statement above as you reflect on your planning and building of your instrument.
My procedures for this experiment are successfully created and they were mostly followed correctly, However, they still need to be more detailed due to some errors occurred during the experiment which means I have to improve on the details in the next time.

How successful was your instrument in the 5 tests? Which test(s), if any, did your instrument fail? Be honest! Discuss your ideas on how to improve your instrument. There were some measurement errors in the model. However, I controlled them pretty well except the measurement error as I mentioned in the first question. My instrument worked pretty well, it sounded as I expected.

Discuss why you built the instrument you did? Do you play a similar instrument? Was it an instrument you thought would be easy to be successful building, intrigued or challenged you? I built three guitar models for the experiment, I like how string instrument sound when plucked, I also play guitar in real-life.
I expected this to be very hard because it was hard to control the distance of the strings.

Poetry Unit:15 Mins Of Fame Summative

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In this unit, we explored poetry unit, learning how to become a “poet”, how to analyze a poem, and how to perform a poem. poetry is a way to express emotions, in this unit, we had written few poems based on our current feelings because the style and topic of our poems are not limited. Also, we had made poems that follow the styles of other poems. analyzing poems was also a part of this unit, we analyze its poetic devices, the author’s mood and how it impacts the audience.etc analyzing poems allow us to understand the poem deeper, therefore, we can create a good poem using the techniques we learned from the analyzing poems. for performing the poems we had written, we record ourselves and upload it to flipgrid which allowed us to improve on performing poems in front of the class.The first thing we had done is the analyzing the poems, the first poem chosen is “Don’t quit” by Ann Nixon, the author chooses to be emotional to inspire the audience, there are also many poetic devices used in this poem, such as repetition and rhyme which emphasize the content. the second poem is “Failure doesn’t mean you are a failure” by Rehana Mohammadi, in the poem “Failure doesn’t mean you are a failure”, the author chooses to be calmer, restoring the reader’s confidence to challenges.

 
TIEA:

After the annotation, we analyzed the poem more specifically on its poetic devices using TIEA in which “T” stands for the topic sentence, “I” stands for Introduction to evidence, “E” stands for evidence and “A” stands for analysis.
TIEA: “Don’t Quit” by Ann Nixon:
Topic sentence: In “Don’t Quit”, the author Ann Nixon uses the technique of repetition in the first stanza to starts with a more powerful and inspirational introduction to the audience.
Introduction: The author uses “when”repeatedly in the first stanza to emphasize the message she wants to spread through this, the “when” she used are conjunction words to connect what people do to pull you down or what obstacles you would face before you succeed, she chooses to say something repeatedly and emotionally to inspire the audience.
Evidence: “When people pull you down, as they often will./When the battle you’re fighting is all uphill./When the funds are low and the debts are high.” (1-3)
Analysis: The message of what the author wants to spread through this poem is to keep on working something we’ve been waiting for or working hard for, do not quit until we accomplished something, in the first stanza, the author uses repetition to emphasize the introduction in order starts with a strong introduction since introduction and the conclusion would affect the audience the most. The first stanza tells the readers there are many obstacles we have face, convincing the readers to accept the truth, the author gives a list of what to face and how to face them, it tells the audience that quitting is not how people would face the uphills and challenges, take a deep breath, or take a brief rest before we keep moving on.

TIEA: “Failure Doesn’t Mean You’re A Failure” Rihanna Mohammadi:
Topic sentence: In the poem “Failure doesn’t mean you are a failure by Rehana Mohammadi, the author uses the technique of repetition and be less emotional to show the readers how important is “failure” and allow the reader to accept that failure is a process of success.
Introduction: The author chooses to be calmed and keeps telling the readers that failure will become a process and it will always exist in our lives. However, it doesn’t mean we are a failure even though we fail.
Evidence: “Failure doesn’t mean you are a failure, It does mean you haven’t succeeded yet./ Failure doesn’t mean God has abandoned you, it does mean he has a better way.” (1,10)
Analysis: In the poem “Failure doesn’t mean you are a failure” the author Rehana Mohammadi tries to restore the reader’s faith by constantly telling them failure doesn’t mean they are a failure calmly, the effect of saying this repeatedly allows the reader to be confident enough to face anything failures existed in their lives. The author chooses to be calmed because is trying to give the readers faith and confidence instead of being too inspirational, that also helps the readers to be calmed, also, it will make the readers reflect on themselves. being confidence in ourselves is what we should do before succeed, this is the message of what the author wants to spread through this poem.

 

 

Compare&Contrast:

For the final assignment, we analyzed the poems by comparing them and see how they are similar and different in Poetic devices, mood, messages.etc

Similarities: In “Don’t Quit” by Ann Nixon and “Failure doesn’t mean you are a failure by Rehana Mohammadi, both authors used a lot of same techniques since the style of the poem was chosen to be inspirational in both poems, both authors choose to use the technique of repetition which emphasize the message they want to spread through the poem, repetition is the main technique used in both poems, it is due to the style of the poems, because both of them are inspirational which means saying something repeatedly would be very helpful for impacting the audience in an inspirational poem. In the poem “Don’t Quit” by Ann Nixon, the author uses repetition at the beginning of the poem in order to make a powerful introduction since this makes the readers become more emotional, it has better effects to the audience. “When people pull you down, as they often will. /When the battle you’re fighting is all uphill. /When the funds are low and debts are high.” (1-3) Notice how the author use the word “when” repeatedly, the author gives the audience a list which tells them the challenges in our lives. In the second poem “Failure doesn’t mean you are a failure” by Rehana Mohammadi, the author also used repetition for the whole poem, the author uses “Failure doesn’t mean” and “it does mean” repeatedly in the poem to make contrast which makes the poem to be more inspirational, this gives the readers confidence, allowing them to be confident enough. “Failure doesn’t mean you are a failure, it does mean you haven’t succeeded yet./ Failure doesn’t mean you haven’t accomplished something, it does mean you have learned something./ Failure doesn’t mean you’ve been a fool, it does mean you have a lot of faith” (1-3) Both poems start with repetition at the beginning of the poem and both introductions are powerful and inspirational. However, the way they inspire the audience is different.

Differences: The way they influence the audience are different even though both poems are similar in style and technique, the speaker’s tone in these two poems are completely different, in the poem “Don’t Quit” the speaker’s mood is calmed at the beginning. However, as it goes further, the speaker becomes more emotional, in the end, the speaker ends up with telling the readers to shout with her “I will not quit” “When people pull you down, as they often will./ Stop and rest and take a deep breath, but don’t you quit. /When life presses you down a bit, stand up and shout “I will not quit!” (1, 11 ,23) At the beginning, the speaker seems calmed, we can see that the speaker’s tone changes as she reads, we can see the change in mood by referring to the word “but” at line 11, the speaker’s mood has changed to really emotional since then, the reader’s mood would also change as the speaker changes, the difference between the first poem and the second one is that the first one is I personally think that the first poem is more inspirational since it is more emotional. However, the second one seems more calmed and it inspires the readers by restoring their faith. “Failure doesn’t mean you will never make it, it does mean it will take longer. / Failure doesn’t mean God has abandoned you, it does mean he has a better way.”(9-10 stanza, last 2 stanzas) From these 2 poems, we can see how both authors end the poem differently, one ends up emotionally and the other one ends calmly. However, I think both ways have good effects to the audience, speaking emotionally makes the reader feel the same way as the author wants them to fell, so the readers would be affected by the author easier than speaking calmly because it is more powerful which I personally think it would affect the readers more. However, speaking logically and calmly is also effective to the audience because it makes the readers think and reflect on themselves.

 

 

Inspirational Poems:

After analyzing the poems, we created inspirational poems based on the style used in the other poem. I first poem written is named “Fears” it inspires the audience to overcome fears, 7 poetic devices are used in this poem.

Fears

Look into your fears,

What do you see?

Losing your career,

Failing into sea.

 

Your fear does not walk,

Your fear does not talk.

Like a lashing rain,

Its effect does not harm.

 

Fear is a dark room,

Causing doubt,

Pitch Black,

And dead silent,

But nothing hurts you!

 

Fear wants you,

Fear shouts at you.

But don’t be afraid!

It can’t harm you!

 

Face to your fear!

Shouts at your fear!

Tell them:

“I’m not afraid!”

Inspirational poem video slideshow:

The slideshow is for the final performance, we will be presenting our poems in front of the whole class with autoplay video slideshow.

 

FlipGrid:

For performing the poem, as I had mentioned, we recorded ourselves and upload it to flipgrid, it encouraged us to overcome “awkwardness” and perform the poem in front of the class which I personally think it is really helpful:

Inspirational Poem #2:

My second poem is about hope and dream, in this poem, I use 5 senses to describe my dreams.

Dream

I have a dream, a dream that never comes true,

I have a hope, a hope that is for me and everyone.

My hope feels like air, and it also looks like air,

But it is everywhere, just like air.

My hope sounds like a dream, it sounds so sweet

My hope smells like a dream, it smells so sweet

My hope tastes like a dream, it tastes so sweet.

But it never comes true,

Becuase everyone, everyone fight for their dreams.

Language Arts Poetry Unit

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In this unit, we learned about poetry, analyzing and writing are the two main focus of this unit, we annotated 5 poems, each poem has its own particular features and poetic devices, every poem is different.

If I were in Charge of the world: The first poem was if I were in charge of the world, the author used a lot of repetition in the poem and breaks the repetition at the last paragraph which is one of the most-seen technique used in poems. for the next assignment, we had to write a poem based on the poetic devices from this poem, I chose to write about “If I were you” the “you” means a person (a person I know) who harms himself a lot because he is a man with depression. Next, we created photostory, the purpose of creating photostory is to create more feelings and emotions.

If I were you

If I were you,

I would stop harming myself,

Living in remorse,

Wasting time.

 

If I were you,

I would make myself happier,

Without medical treatments,

And make some trustworthy friends.

 

If I were you,

I would find a way to relieve stress,

Instead of harming myself,

Maybe harming yourself is a way.

But it makes others stress.

 

If I were you…

I can’t be you,

Can you hear me,

I can’t be you,

Be yourself and choose wisely.

 

Where I’m from: The poem “Where I’m from” is a look back to the author’s childhood, she clarifies her identity as she is looking back to her childhood, each object has its own special meaning to the author because her identity is made up of all these objects mentioned in the poem. my annotation explains each object’s meaning based on my opinion. I referred the poem “Where I’m from” as a template and wrote a poem named “Who am I” the poem shows the speaker cannot truly discover himself and he has no life goals because he doesn’t know his life direction. The poem also shows his religious background as the poem “Where I’m from” does.

Who am I?

I know I’m flesh and bones,

Covered from head to toes.

 

But who am I?

I know I was created by God,

And there’s no evil and black blood.

 

I know I’m still a child,

Who spends so much time on basketball,

I know I’m a heart,

I know I’m a soul.

 

But I still can’t truly discover myself,

I don’t know my purpose,

And I don’t know my direction,

I’m still living in confusion,

But If you ask me who I am,

I would just tell you,

I am me.

Ode to Family Photographs: “Ode to family photographs” is also a look back to the author’s childhood, the poem makes the reader feels like the author is looking back to his childhood as he is looking at his old photos taken by his mom, even though her mom was never good at taking pictures, he still liked it since those photos took him back to his childhood, the author also used the technique of repetition, the speaker describes the pictures one by one. I made a poem named “Ode to My Sweet Memories” it is also looking back to my childhood, but it’s based on a particular time, the time period is set to 5th grade.

Ode to my sweet memories

 

I appreciate everything that brought me here today,

All the sweet memories.

I would like to go back to 5th grade,

 I’m not going to rewrite something,

But to review something.

 

They are my friends,

Behind the camera are my parent and sister,

This is my shooting form when I was in fifth grade,

I told my sister to record myself,

But she recorded the basket.

 

This is when I’m on a vacation,

There were no worries,

That is the true smile from my heart,

 

These are my sweet memories,

My sweet memories,

All of them are so lovely.

Sick: Sick is a poem which shows stereotypes of children, it shows that children don’t like school and they lie to adults in order to get out of going to school, the poem “Sick” is a type of list poem, list poem is like the author give you a list of things after the introduction, such as “I will do this…I will do that..” I wrote a poem called “Tomorrow” It’s also a list poem, listing what “I” will do tomorow, the poem shows laziness and how we don’t want to get to work.

List poem Tomorrow

Yesterday you said tomorrow,

Tomorrow I will do this, I will do that,

I will clean my house,

I will start my homework,

I will do basketball drills,

I will prepare for my exams and test,

I will do all the science homework and some math,

And I will just wait for tomorrow today, Its okay,

I still have plenty of time,

Anyways, I’m going back to sleep.

Lunchrooms: For the last poem, we annotated “The Lunch Room”, it is a poem with two voices, which means there will be two speakers at one time, the poem “The Lunch Room” shows a lot of stereotypes toward teenagers, Me and Paul wrote a poem called “Same” the poem is telling the reader that everyone or every race is important, no one is special, everybody is the same, without someone, they are nothing, so everyone is important.

Same

I’m white, (Paul)

                                                                                               I’m black, (Anderson)

We are both colors, (Together)

Two important colors, (Together)

I’m hidden in brightness, (Paul)

And I’m hidden in darkness, (Anderson)

I brighten the brightness, (Paul)

I darken the brightness, (Anderson)

Bringing the contrast, (Together)

Without black, (Paul)

Without white, (Anderson)

I’m nothing, (Together)

I’ll be hidden there forever, (Together)

I’m white, (Paul)

I’m black, (Black)

We are both colors, (Paul)

2 Important colors. (Anderson)

Unit 4 Energy | Science Reflection

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In unit 4 we explored about energy, we had done several research projects to show our knowledge to this unit, we also had a debate in which we had to apply our knowledge to the debate, for this project, I chose wind power as the “best” energy resource due to its efficiency and how cost-effective it is to generate electricity, debate was a really great activity for us to apply our previous knowledge to the project, and it improved many of our skills based on IB learner profile, such as knowledgeable, communicator, thinker, and inquier, we could demonstrate more than one skill on learner profile, I demonstrate communicator through this project because I communicated with my teammates and discuss how to debate, throughout the discussion, I think I was being a thinker becuase we had to think a way or ways to provide counter arguments to the opponent’s debate team. Lastly, I think I was also being an inquirer and demonstrated knowledgeable because I asked questions for more information about wind energy and apply my knowledge to the project.

I think what makes my persuasive essay more persuasive is I provided reliable and detailed evidence, I also showed contradictory evidence to the readers which make the whole essay sounds more reliable, even though I provided contradictory evidence, I argue with my evidence at last, such as providing as many solutions I could and tell the readers using wind power is actually better than using other energy resource and then provide why the other energy resources are not the best choice to generate power. I used a technique of providing the cons of other energy resources and provide the pros of wind power.

Perspective Letters Unit Reflection

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Perspective Letters Unit Reflection

Introduction:

In this unit, we explored about perspective drawings, I learned a lot techniques from perspective drawing unit, we have done several practices that improved our perspective drawing skills. Here is the list of what we have done.

  • One-point perspective (One point perspective is a type of linear perspective. Linear perspective relies on the use of lines to render objects leading to the illusion of space and form in a flat work of art. It is a structured approach to drawing.drawing practice on notebook)
  • Summative perspective letters drawing
  • Two-point perspective drawing practice

Overall, I think I did good at the beginning based on the few practices we have done. However, as we developed further and becoming harder, the work would be graded as we got further, I don’t think I actually did a great job for this summative. I have done two drawings, mistakes and errors occurred during in both drawing process. However, I focused more on a Chinese proverb, so I will be reflecting on my second artwork instead.  

 

I Process:

  1. First of all, I adumbrated my plan before drawing and then did a quick sketch by a harder pencil.
  2. Secondly, I shape the letters with darker pencil, spacing of the letters is also important, I was trying to create appropriate space between letters.
  3. Connect points on the letters to the vanishing points, the way I connected it depends on its position, my letters is under eye level which means I had to make it looks like we are looking at the letters from its top.
  4. I started drawing the patterns for each letter after shaping the letters. I drew patterns based on what does each of the letters mean, for example, “狗” in Chinese means dog, so I drew some footprints on the letter which represents the dog.
  5. After all, sketch working, I traced the letters with marker again which emphasize the letters and also balanced the letters as well.
  6. I started coloring the letters after that, I colored the front first with the same darkness
  7. After that, I colored the sides of the letters with different darkness which created values. The way I created values to apply different darkness with different forces, so there are different values shown in the letters. Coloring the letters with values also make a contrast between the sides of the letters and itself.
  8. After coloring all the letters and the inside decorations, I started drawing its shade using watercolor pencils
  9. I applied different values based on where the light comes from to make the shades look better

 

II Creative thinking Process

 

Inspiration: Chinese new year, the proverb represents Chinese new year and an auspicious sign to everyone and bless everyone to have a great year in 2018, the reason for why I chose 旺狗來富 is because It shows the meaning of contemporary chinese new year, the proverb is not aged, it’s from a younger Calligrapher.

Color: I chose the color yellow for 旺 and 富. First of all, yellow represents money and the word 富 also represents money, and I chose yellow for the word 旺 because it fits the pattern dragon.

I chose red for 狗 because it represents chinese new year, and the word 狗 is the most important letter in the proverb because the word狗 represents dog and when I colored it as red, it represents dog year. I chose blue for the word 來 because in chinese, the word 來 means “come, coming” and blue represents rains, and rain is an idiom that represent “come”

 

III Evaluation of elements and principles of art

 

In my work In my peer’s work
Line The lines were okay, I did an okay job at tracing the lines and sketching. The lines could have been better, she didn’t use a ruler while drawing straight lines.
Shape The shapes of my letters are not as good as my group mates because I connected to the wrong point at the beginning. She has very organized shapes, she has redone a new one which is a lot better than her previous one.
Space The spacing between letters is not an issue in my drawing, I think I have done an okay job in my artwork based on spacing. She also has good spacing, it’s organized and her drawing is unique due to spacing.
Color I think I had chosen the wrong colors for my artwork even though each color has its own meaning. However, the colors don’t fit each other and it doesn’t represent “Chinese” except the color red. All her colors fit the word “bang” the colors make the letters more creative and it feels like the word pops out in all of sudden.
Value I have drawn many values in my artwork, values make the artwork looks more “3D” In my peer’s work, she doesn’t draw values on the letters, these letters look less “3D” no values are shown in her drawing which makes it looks more boring.

 

The quality of principles I used in my artwork

Unity /Harmony

Overall, I think my artwork constructed harmony, there is a contrast between the word and the background with the shades, but I could improve on coloring because that doesn’t construct a harmony between those letters in my artwork, the color selections of my artwork were unwise.

 

Movement

I could have improved on movement based on the pattern design, there are not enough patterns are shown in my artwork.

 

Balance:

My artwork is balanced based on the shapes of the letters. However, I think I could improve on coloring the letters in order to make my artwork more balanced.

 

Contrast

There is contrast based on the position of the letter and where the light is located at, I apply values on the letters and there would be contrast between each elements.

MS ART Y3 Carpet Design Reflection

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MS ART Y3 Carpet Design Reflection

Theme and Analysis:

This artwork is focusing on naturalism, the beauty of naturalism and environment, but there are not many places left with no human destruction, the most outstanding pattern design which located at the center represents flower, the whole pattern design is formed by single color but with different values, creating values properly makes it looks more likely to flower.

The reason for why the flower at the center is outstanding and becoming a focal point is due to different values which is a technique of emphasis using values, trying to make a specific object in the design become a focal point, its left side is based on dark theme, if right is based on bright theme, which would have made the flower fitted in to the themes and could not be outstanding because it’s too bright. However, I added a rhombus hill behind which makes the flower looks more outstanding from the dark.

My Design creates a big contrast between bright and dark, In my opinion, It would be more attractive and easier to recognize.

 

Process:

Sketching:

For sketching process, I started the design with sketching vaguely with pencil, Outline shapes and its position, the main and outstanding pattern design is at the center, it the pattern becomes more complicated as it focuses to the center, due to that, I only adumbrate my plan, I drew few circles and irregular shapes in order to ensure the positions.

Sketching also helped me with other places, starting the position. As you see at behind the flower, there is a hill formed by rhombus which is a kind of organic shapes, I labeled the location of the rhombus hill first, so I would notice about its position when I actually start drawing.

For these flowers, some are situated at the very front, some are behind, I also adumbrate my drawing plan and labeled the locations. So it created a 3D- looking.

Shaping:

After adumbrating the drawing plan, I did the shaping, which would be more detailed, converting sketches to detailed shapes.

Designing Patterns:

I would add patterns with no values after shaping, the theme of patterns would be based on naturalism and environment, I used cross hatching and hatching as the additional decorations, smoother lines, rhombus and other irregular shapes as the main patterns.

Finally, I would start adding values, add values makes the design looks harmonic and it would be balanced as we done it in a right way.

I shaded the left area with dark blue in order to make a contrast between the right area.

 

Unity and Variety:

(Unity in an artwork creates a sense of harmony and wholeness, by using similar elements within the composition and placing them in a way that brings them all together.Variety adds interest by using contrasting elements within the composition.)

In my artwork design, for the flower, as the focal point, the petals are designed in different sizes and value, different sizes and colors show how a composition can be unified by similarities.

Unity in my design: same shape; Variety in my design: Different sizes/values

 

Artistic Response:

-What kind of design you had in your mind when started?

The first thing that popped into my mind was the environment.

-Have you changed your mind or decision or the design?

How?I kept my idea the same while designing.

-Why did you choose the shape/pattern you choose?

Shape: Shapes of plants and hills makes the design fits my theme, naturalism

Patterns: These patterns are all designed based on naturalism.

-How did you decide the shading in areas you did?

In order to make a contrast, I would shade one area, and left a space for another one.

-How did the decision influence the way it came out?

In good or bad? How so?

I think that was a right decision for me to make, I re-checked it when it was done, I could clearly see the contrast and it makes the main object more outstanding.

-Was there any difficulty and how you overcame

The most difficult part was designing the flower, it is really detailed.

 

Possible Improvements:

Line: Could have drawn the line with stronger force applied so I wouldn’t keep drawing the same line repeatedly.

Shape: Could have been more careful while drawing shapes

Space: Could have left with less space but can still see the contrast.

 

Ceramic Garden Self-Assessment/Reflection Anderson Chen, 2018, 2,2

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Materials:

 

  •  Needle tool
  • Scratching tool
  • Pointing tool
  • Canva
  • Wire Cutter
  • Kiln
  • Clay  

 

My Process:

  1. First of all, I divided they clay into pieces using a wire cutter, and got the relevant amount for my work.
  2. I started my work with a canvas under it.
  3. Briefly shaped the clay and adumbrated my plan, I was focusing on magical and naturalism, and I shaped a base first for my other items and started to shape the main items and external decorations.
  4. After shaping the clays, I needed to stick all the items together to become one piece of work, I stuck them together by using scratching tool in which scratches the clay and make the clay adhesive when contact with water.
  5. After sticking them together, I started decorating the clay by using needle tool and pointing tool. Needle tools are used for smaller details and pointing tools are for bigger details. The tools would make my work looks unclean which I would need to fix them in the next step.
  6. As I mentioned, I needed to fix the unclean parts created by the tools, I split some water on it and smooth it by hands.
  7. Dry the clay for 2 weeks and put it into the kiln

 

Artistic Response:

 

Inspiration:

I got the idea from my previous artworks, which are focusing on naturalism. However, I wanted to do something quite different, so I added a new element, magical, the idea of magical was inspired by the book I’m reading, named Harry Potter.

 

Analysis of artwork:

Simply put, my artwork looks like an island, there’s an apple tree and “brick” mountain which doesn’t exist in real-life, I created an approximate same amount of space between items on the island, so It looks more balanced. In my artwork, I’m trying to emphasise the tallest feature, I drew more details focusing on the tallest feature which creates a contrast between features.

 

It was really hard to shape the clay, especially for smaller details, it would also produce residues of clay and make the artwork looks very unclean.

Shaping the clay was also really difficult because the actual artwork would look very different than your thought to that artwork.  

 

Evaluation:

In my work                                                             In my peers work

Line: the outline of my artwork looks a little incomplete, more details could have been added. Not too many details, only the shape
Shape: the shape of my work looks ok, just needed to clean more residues. Detailed shape, creative decorations
Space: I created a relevant space for each feature. She has two separate artworks, good spacing between decorations
Texture: My artwork creates good texture by decorating details. For example, my apple tree, I made the trunk looks more realistic. She barely decorated her artwork with more realistic details, couldn’t see the texture.

 

Self-Assessment:

 

Pattern: Could have applied more patterns into my artwork. My thought to this artwork was magical, but the patterns I drew are focusing on realistic, so I could have added more creative patterns.

 

Emphasis: couldn’t really emphasise the brick mountain, could have used other better ways.

 

Poetry Unit

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Idiom Poem

Friendship:

Your friendship is a gift from God,

The feeling of friendship at the start,

Is the special feeling of my heart.

We are like to peas in a pod,

Two birds of a feather flock together,

Through thick and thin together.

We don’t always see eye to eye,

But we speak the same language,

Friendship may get trashed, may get old,

But It will never be bought and sold.

Song Title Poem

Think carefully:

Maybe I should think before I talk

Hope I could turn back time,

The consequences,

Are so much more than this.

Don’t leave me alone,

You are the only one,

It’s complicated,

But please forgive me.

Give me a chance,

And I’ll get you back,

Give me a chance,

And I’ll light up the dark.

Slogan Poem 

You’re worth it:

We bring to light for on you,

Because you bring good things to life,

We bring to light for on you,

Because you think different,

You can taste the rainbow,

You can be all that you can be,

Can you hear me now,

Be all that you can be.

We bring to light for on you,

Because you’re worth it.

Black Out Poem: 

  1. Do not make love painful
  2. I don’t understand, how your best friend becomes your worst enemy and how your worst friend becomes your best friend
  3. These past months have been the best months of my life when I saw you, my problems disappeared
  4. Best friend, I couldn’t live without you.

Citation: Shwe Htoo “Don’t leave me alone” 2017; Gabrielle Aplin “Light Up The Dark” 2015′; Grace VanderWaal “So much more than this” 2017; Daniel Schulz “Turn Back time” 2017; Sibylle Baier “Give Me A Smile” 2006; Ric Segreto “Give Me A Chance” 2004; Zedd “Consequences” 2017 Camila Cabello “Complicated” 2018; Dimitri Vegas “Please Forgive Me” 2012; Bryan Adams “You’re the only one” 2017; Mayer Hawthorne “Get You Back”2010;“101 Best Slogans List.” Brands and Tags. N. p., 2018. Web. 6 Mar. 2018.

Bias and Media Unit Reflection

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Bias and stereotype could make huge impacts on the readers, most readers would be affected based on how they view things, such as controversial topics, especially on new generations. However, in this unit, we learned how to detect bias from social media properly which is an important skill that protects us from being affected by media bias which improved my thinking skills based on IB learner profile, thinking, consider whether the content is biased by using bias detection techniques, There are few important skills I need keep for detecting bias effectively, such as find out the primary purpose of the content, then detect biases that are shown in the content based on the way it spreads messages to the audience.

We did some activities that improved our skills at detecting bias, in my opinion, one of the most effective action was probably Checkokology, it has 4 modules in which each module teaches us new skills, module one was pretty basic but it is useful, it teaches about filtering news information, such as detecting primary purpose, and which article is more newsworthy.etc, moving n to the second module, it teaches us civic freedoms, basically, there are five freedoms, which is Freedom of Speech, Freedom of the Press, Freedom to Assemble Peaceably and Freedom of Petition. In the third module, it teaches us about internet personalization and in the fourth module, we were tested if we were a fair journalist. These activities are short but helpful, the techniques from these lessons can be used in daily life for everyone, every age especially when technologies and internet are becoming more indispensable. we practiced detecting news articles and commercials the most, we improved as we practiced more, I see my improvements over this unit based on detecting news articles, at the beginning of the unit, I barely explain about my annotation in my work, I only label it, it was unorganized, no color coded. However, as we practice more, I learn more. so I think this activity was also really helpful, too. What I should improve on and practice more about is detecting bias from commercials or TV shows, it was harder than I thought, that’s is what I have to keep working on.

Activities:

  1. News & TV Bias
  2. Checkology Modules 1-4
  3. Annotation Bias In Media (Summative)
  4. Analysis Bias in Media (Summative)
  5. Product Bias In Media (Summative)

Detecting bias is a great technique that can be used on the internet, news articles or digital articles, advertisements.etc it can be used on everything that involved controversial topics, opinions, issues.etc. We don’t just roughly go through the content, we detect bias from the content, so today’s challenging information from social media, newspaper.etc would not affect us. Overall, this unit brings a huge impact on me, when I applied it to Taiwanese news articles, I realized how bias it is, I realized how many people are being affected by the media every day, every moment, before learning this, that biased news made me so emotional, I just felt the way they wanted me to feel, that’s always the purpose of being biased in news. Now, I would see if the news is biased or not because it’s actually fun to see if the news is biased, after detecting this, I would share my results with my parent, they also joined me, simply put, they can also detect bias now, this is the reason for why I think this unit taught me a lot and brought a huge impact on me.

 

The Impact Of Media Bias

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This summative project shows how we did in overall this unit, which includes annotation, creating products, how to bring awareness to the public.etcIn this unit, we had learned about biases and stereotypes which occur everywhere, we learned how to detect bias from different types of media, annotate the content and see if they are biased, we have done several activities throughout this unit such as annotation, an essay that brings awareness.etc
Bias In Media: this document includes everything except annotation, it has analysis to annotations and how we should be aware of media bias.

News Articles Annotation:
Over this unit, we had done a lot of annotation activities, this pdf shows my both summative a projects, both articles are focusing on politics.

  1. North Korea pushing “vanity projects” as Olympics near, despite suffering in Kim Jon Un’s regime
  2. Pence tweets support for gay US Olympian who trashed him: ‘We are FOR YOU’ :

Print-Ad: moving on to the next section, image bias, we also annotated images in the project, the techniques used for detecting bias from images are similar. However, biases and stereotypes are mostly based on the camera angle and how it portraits the character in the image.

We were asked to creat an product which brings awarness to the public and letting them to be more aware of media bias, I made two products that brings awarness, the first drawing shows bias in media, and the second drawing shows stereotypes shown in media.
The Impact of Media Bias on individuals and society

My first drawing shows the impact of media bias on individuals and society, there are a lot of news organizations trying to be unbiased and reliable. However, I think the biggest issue is the primary purpose of a biased news or viral rumor is money, as the report is more interesting to the audience, the trends and search frequency increases on the internet which makes a lot of money for the news organization. In my drawing, it shows the cameraman is told to choose a reporter who actually produces a fake topic about Republicans instead of the truth of Republicans, from the live stream, it shows that the reporter actually looks like an expert but behind the scene, he is actually wearing an underpants, this shows he disrespects to his job and he is actually not an expert as we see on the TV, the cameraman adjust the camera to the fake expert instead of focusing on the real political expert because the fake expert produces search frequncy on internet. However, the fact doesn’t really grab attention. It also shows the man is asking for money as he is hidden by the camera, it shows how social media keeps the truth as a secret. Most importantly, when people think what they see is true, they would spread the news to people around them, this is why the views of “ONN” live stream is very high, most people would spread the message through social media, it causes extra impressions to people (could be strangers) who haven’t seen this, so more people would see this fake news as a “fact” to something especially when someone spreads this message with adding more personal opinions into this news as he/she shares this.

As a citizen living in Taiwan, after learning the lessons of detecting bias, I realized the danger of social media hidden in Taiwan’s internet, It has a big difference to CNN, BBC. etc these more reliable news sources, the difference is that it is extremely biased, they add their opinions to the news directly, especially to China, North Korea. etc countries that they fight against with, this is a big issue to everyone living in Taiwan, it would really change our opinions to something. I hope this brings awareness of media bias to everyone, especially us, Taiwanese because media of Taiwan is not that reliable than we thought.

Second Drawing:

My second drawing shows stereotypes occur in media and daily life. The title of my drawing is black and white, it represents old-thinking, these 4 doodle characters are the main focus of this drawing, it shows that the boy likes pink and he likes boys instead of girls. However, his parent and people around him think that’s not what a man does and the definition of love is a man and a woman. In my drawing, it also shows stereotypes toward gender, pink is for girls and blue is for boys, boys play guitars and girls play violins, boys wear simple shirts and girls wear dresses, men go to work and women take care of the family and would like to shop. The heart located at the border shows the definition of love is only a man and a woman.

These stereotypes are ironic, representing how most people and the society view things. they stereotyped everything, this drawing is an example of gender. on social media, stereotypes occur everywhere, this impact how people view things, they could become biased, too. social media makes huge impacts on the society, either good ways or bad ways, and the stereotypes of social media is definitely impacting the society in a really bad way, people should break the stereotypes and makes the society becomes more open-minded instead of spreading stereotypes.