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.
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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.
While Andrew was not in the classroom, he had us working on our proposals for our chemistry projects. We came up with independent experiment proposals that we would be working on next week. We coated more photos to finish developing and also got many photos developed, which is part of our first phase. For our second phase, we started discussing the composition of landscapes and planned trips to capture some landscapes. In Chemistry, we discussed how to take landscapes and the different ways we can; drones, camera settings, etc. In Humanities, we began practicing our writing for landscape photography. We ended the week with looking at landscape photos from Ivan Farca that we will be looking at in a gallery next week.
This week, we worked on slowly moving on to our next phase of the semester! We are finishing up our "Picture Says a Thousand Words" project by developing our photos on paper or glass. We are planning trips that we want to go on to capture different landscapes. In Humanities, we began discussing about different types of landscape writing and reading pieces about landscapes. We also did socratic seminars to finish up Steinbeck's novels, they were based on people's responsibilities in society. Our prompts were: "People are responsible for their own American Dream. Agree or disagree?" and "The wealthy have the responsibility to help the poor people. Agree or disagree?" Andrew introduced that we would be guiding ourselves in our Chemistry learning, we will be creating our own experiments deciding what will . We are working on the aspects of proposing what experiments we want to try. We focused on questioning while we did a hydrogen balloon lab. This week, our teachers also stressed about starting to work on our own personal projects and we came up with many ideas. I began by taking the next step with photo emulsion and will try to develop a photo on a canvas.
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