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mi casa
Descripción
For this project we were instructed to create a house of our dreams. The requirements were to have at least five slides with
Mi Frida Project
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For the "Mi Frida Project" we had to study the great artist, Friday Khalo. We learned about her life and her challenges growing up with tremendous pain due to her early-on accident on a trolley train. She was severely injured and lived most of her life in a bed. To pass the time she painted many self-portraits and metaphors. Today they are famous for the story the tell. For this project we had to choose someone that we looked up to and make him or her our Frida. We had to take characteristics from one of Frida's paintings and incorporate it into one of our own pictures. For my Frida, I chose Lindsey Stirling because I look up to her. I incorporated the leaves in the background of Frida's pictures into my picture. I also incorporated the pink ribbon in Frida's hair into my picture. There are many similar aspects in each of the photos.
Mi Frida Paragraphs
Why do you think Frida Kahlo painted so many auto-biographical paintings of herself?
Ever since the accident happened, Frida was confined to her bed for most of her life. There wasn't much to do besides painting. I think she painted autobiographical paintings of herself because she was creating a life she would never had. She also reflected upon the amount of pain that she was in. She reflected upon herself. |
How do you feel that your image came out?
Overall, I think I did a good job on my image. I could've added more of Frida's personality traits into my image that would've made it fit more into the criteria. However, I did incorporate some traits from the other painting, like the leaves and hair bow. I worked hard on my image, and I think it turned out nicely. |
Did you end up with the image you thought you were going to when you made your project outline?
It fit the outline pretty well actually. I was able to fit in everything that I wanted in my image along with traits from Frida's image. One thing I was confused about was incorporating Frida Kahlo's traits into out image. However, once I got that all cleared up, I was able to proceed and come out with an image I was proud of. |
How would you do this differently if you were to start over again?
I would go over the rubric and read what was required instead of rushing forward and finding out later what was required. I also would've liked to spend more time on my 3 paragraphs describing Mi Frida. |
Día de los Muertos
Descripción del Trabajo
For the Día de los Muertos project we created a profile of ourselves. However we expressed our profile or personality through a skeleton. We learned about the Spanish and Mexican culture, history, and how Día de los Muertos is such an important part in the life of Mexicans. Throughout the project we learned even more vocabulary and phrases. We learned a lot about how to describe our families, personality and what defines us as a person.
For the Día de los Muertos project we created a profile of ourselves. However we expressed our profile or personality through a skeleton. We learned about the Spanish and Mexican culture, history, and how Día de los Muertos is such an important part in the life of Mexicans. Throughout the project we learned even more vocabulary and phrases. We learned a lot about how to describe our families, personality and what defines us as a person.
Una Reflexión
1) What did you learn about Dia de los Muertos?
I learned that Dia de los Muertos is a big part of the Mexican's life. For two days a year the Mexicans basically get to celebrate the lives and afterlives of the dead. Even though it sounds remorseful, Dia de los Muertos is a joyous holiday that is full of happiness, not remorse. |
2) How did your skeleton/person reflect you?
In my scene, my skeleton was scuba diving. I picked this scene because scuba diving is a big part of my life. I incorporated it into my skeleton scene because we were supposed to describe our personality. Scuba diving is something I really enjoy doing and I feel that by putting it into my scene my skeleton can really relate back to me. |
3) What are you proud of in this project?
I am proud of how I applied the things I learned about my personality into my skeleton and into my writing piece. I feel like I portrayed my personality well in both of these work pieces. I am also proud of my video. Even though I stammered, I feel like I addressed the audience well by not always looking at my paper. |
4) What was difficult about this project?
Writing the paragraph was probably the toughest thing for me to do just because with the limited amount of vocabulary we have learned I couldn't put as much detail into my writing piece as I would have if I had a wider range of vocabulary. |
5) What would you do differently the next time?
I would put more detail onto my skeleton next time. I lacked
in the detailed part of the project, and I feel that will hurt my grade.
I would put more detail onto my skeleton next time. I lacked
in the detailed part of the project, and I feel that will hurt my grade.