This is our last week of blog posts because we are finishing up all of our work and beginning to prepare for exhibition along as TPOLs. Finishing up landscapes, processing our astrophotography shots, and starting our experimental phase. We proposed what we wanted to experiment with for the last part of our semester. We actually reflected on what our areas of growth are for this year to use them for our experimental phase. We revolve our fourth phase with what we need to work on to use that through our TPOLs. Half of our TPOLs will show what we worked to improve on, allowing our teachers to see that we worked towards improving. More exhibition work is getting done as we make all of our photographs come to life. Hope you love all of the projects we have accomplished this semester!
This week is dedicated to preparing for our Cuyamaca camping trip next week! We need to know exactly what we are going to do during the trip and plan to get everything ready to go. We are learning everything about our astrophotography subjects from their placement and its equipment. We created Hitlists for our subjects to plan everything and are ready to go off on our trip! We received chapter two to continue reading and annotating Light by Bruce Watson. We finally received our landscape epoxy materials and continued to create and epoxy coat our landscape photographs.
We had planned to finish up our Landscape Phase this week, but unfortunately we had difficulties with our materials. We planned on printing out more final landscapes on metallic photo paper. Putting this phase on pause, we decided to begin learning about astrophotography! In this new project, we will be selecting a space subject that we will learn how to capture within our groups. My group will be working on landscape astrophotography! In Chemistry, we learned about organic chemistry to give us a better understanding of how the epoxy coating on the landscape shots work. We experimented with polymerization by making slime with Elmer's glue and boric acid. We watched an episode of Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey that was based on light to understand more about light's history. In humanities, we started reading and annotating Light by Bruce Watson. The author discusses ideas of light from the beginning of time.
Coming back from Spring Break, we started working by continuing our Landscape Phase. Our teachers figured out a way we were going to exhibit our landscape shots. We are working on making metallic prints, mounting them on wood, and coating them with epoxy. We continued working in our specialty teams to work towards finishing up presenting our projects. A group actually found us a space in Liberty Public Market to have a place to show our work. We have a wall that we will be updating with photographs every couple weeks. We have put up six landscape photos that we have processed with epoxy. We all have to capture our final landscape photos to finish up our landscape phase next week.
This week, we started getting work done in our project specialty teams and focused on planning the rest of the school year. My team is curating our landscape photos by figuring out what we should create with all of our landscape photos. We want to make postcards, a book, and a calendar. So far, we have made a postcard template and printed out some postcards ourselves, now we just need to edit the template and figure out how we will develop a calendar and/or a book. For Chemistry this week, we learned about the basics of matter and experimented with dry ice. Erykah and I worked on an independent experiment of rolled ice cream. In Humanities, we revised our writing piece from last week about a place that has affected ourselves. We did assignments on juxtaposition and dichotomy to learn more about landscape writing.
We began the week by looking at landscape shots from the Super Bloom. We discussed more about the composition of landscape photos and had challenges for examples of converging lines and foreground depth. We worked with photoshop to enhance the photos we captured. We had the opportunity to visit a photo gallery full of Ivan Farca's landscape art. In Chemistry, we watched a Crash Course video to help us understand what is light. We also watched Andrew do a demonstration of burning different types of elements to create different colors of fire. We started working on our independent experiments for our Chemistry credit for the week. We have the choice to pick what we want to work on for the week. I decided to experiment with watercolors and painting galaxies! In Humanities, we watched a video of the journey of people hiking the Pacific Coast from Mexico to Canada. We discussed the role of outdoor experiences in learning and the precautions of going on a similar hiking trip. At the end of the week, our teachers came up with the idea to make project specialty groups that will take the lead on different aspect of the project. My project team is working on how we will present all of our different landscapes together.
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AUthorHey, my name is Lily Tran and I hope you enjoy my blog!
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