Doris's Portfolio

L4: Mixed Media Self-Portrait

December 12, 2025 / Doris

1. When people see my artwork I want them to learn about who I am, not only on the inside but also on the outside, my looking at the symbols. My general message about myself to the audience is that I’m a happy person who loves being outside in nature. However, by looking closer and connecting to the symbols based on your own experiences, the artwork gets a deeper meaning. Some people might connect the symbols in the same way as I did, while others might connect them to other things.

2. During the creation of my artwork, i took risks and experimented in order to effectively express my intended message. For example, I realised working on the front of my canvas would make it look weird so I decided to work on the back, even though that meant I had to make a background and cover up the ugly edges, which would take more time. I experimented a lot when deciding on how to make the clouds. First I was thinking of making them in paper, but i realised it would look weird next to the paper coverd edges, markers would have looked a bit boring, so I chose to try working with yarn. It took me a while to decide on how to place the yarn, but eventually, after I had tried some different options, I figured out what to do.

Scanned Document 2025-12-12 at 09.20.37 Download

PE: Aquatics Unit, Water Polo 🤽‍♀️🏊‍♀️

November 25, 2025 / Doris

In this unit, we practiced the basic swim strokes, freestyle, breaststroke, and elementary backstroke, but everything was above water. I think my overall swimming has gotten much better throughout the unit and i learned the basic rules of water polo and how to dribble and pass the ball. The hardest part was to dribble with the ball, but I got better at it, even though I could still improve.

Unit 2: Biological Evolution Reflection.

November 21, 2025 / Doris

Art Reflection: Artistic Choices – Kool Koor🎨

November 3, 2025 / Doris

Cultural Influence on Aesthetic Choices

Kool Koor’s background in the graffiti culture of the Bronx influenced his aesthetic choices. He grew up in New York, where graffiti was illegal, and he had limited materials, so when he painted, his work didn’t turn out so clean and neat because they were in a hurry, and it had bold and bright colors to show the need for freedom. Today his artwork is more cleaner but you can still see similar brush strokes and parts of his identity in it like tentacle looking lines or how he creates contrast between the background and the picture.

The artwork me, Ariela and Callie created during Kool Koor’s visit.

Environmental Impact on Art Creation

The different environments impact an artist’s creative process a lot. When working on the streets it’s likely illegal so the artist doesn’t have so much time to plan and make it perfect as they dont want to get caught compared to when working in a studio when you can take the time you need and don’t need to stress. When working on the streets you probably want to use brighter colors to drag people’s attention while working in a studio and displaying it you don’t have the same need for bright colors. I felt these environmental influences while trying out Kool Koor’s painting style because we didn’t have to stress through it compared to what we would have done if we were doing it illegally outside.

3. Personal Reflection on Aesthetic Development

The aspects of my culture will influence my future artistic choices. In my self-portrait mixed media artwork, I plan to incorporate symbols like my DNA that I discovered during the workshop, and colors from my cultural background that reflect my heritage and personal experiences. By using this technique and colors, I can express myself and who i am.

Social Studies Reflection: Inquiry into Interest💡🔎

October 29, 2025 / Doris

During this unit, we created our own question to research about and, at the end, we made a poster answering that question. My question was “how does stress affect people’s actions and decision-making during dangerous situations, and why do some people stay calm while others panic?” I’m satisfied with the final poster but if I could redo it I would put less text on the poster and more pictures to make it more apprehensive

The most challenging was to find good articles with the right information and as well as grouping my information into buckets, and the easiest was to create the poster since I already had all the information.

Science Reflection Unit 1: Earth’s Place in the Universe☄️🌏

October 28, 2025 / Doris

In this unit, we learned about what happens when a meteorite becomes a meteoroid, different types and parts of sound waves, and what characteristics a meteoroid has. At the end of the unit we created a meteorite, becoming a meteoroid, with different motions/forces/energy included.

I think it was harder than usual, so I had to work extra much than usual, but in the end i understood and was able to get a meeting. During this unit my favorite activity was the MeteoRITE or MeteorWRONG Investigation when we had to figure out which stone out of 10 was the real meteoroid.

Unit 1 Transformations and Congruence Reflections and Goals

October 9, 2025 / Doris

I chose my sticker project as my best work because I’m happy how it turned out, and I had a hard time finding the scale for the dilation, but I think I got it right after a while.

I chose this question in our summative as evidence of my best thinking because it’s a tricky question. After all, you have to be careful, and you have to match up the points. This is the type of question I usually get wrong on tests, so I’m proud I understood that I had to match the point too.

Through this unit, i improved the most at rotations and dilations. Before I didn’t know how to rotate/dilate, but now I’m confident doing it. I also got a deeper understanding of it because I also learned about how it works when you move the rotation/dilation point from the origin. I feel like I still need to work on my organization in my notebook, because now it’s pretty messy by writing more clear titles and naming the tests/worksheets i glue in my notebook.

Three of my strengths this year so far are that I always hand in homework in time, and if I don’t ( which rarely happens), I hand it in next class. I’m also good at working with other people. I give them time to speak and share my ideas in a respectful way. And lastly, I’m good at using rotations, reflections, and translations. I usually get questions related to that correct and i feel confident in doing it. Three things I want to improve is my problem solving, equations and also long division because I never really learned that before.

In the next unit, I want to participate more in class by answering more questions and asking more questions. This is important because It affects my active learner grade and you also believe that you learn more when you participate and is active in the conversation. Something that might get in the way of this goal is that I usually don’t think about answering so it just comes naturally. If I get stuck or need help I could ask a friend to remind me or try thinking about it every time I go into class.

LA Unit 1: First Contact

October 7, 2025 / Doris

This unit was all about learning all the different parts of a sentence, for example, adjective, pronoun, and preposition. We also learned about how to add complexity to a sentence and about prepositions that layer meaning. It was fun working in groups to create sentences and working with the alien, because I like when we get to collaborate and the alien was really fun because it was different from what we usually do.

The piece that best shows my learning is my annotation about sentence structures. Before, I only knew a little about simple sentences, but now I can explain better all three types of sentences. It was a bit challenging in the beginning to remember all of them but after explaining it to the alien and giving examples, my understanding deepened a lot

This is my final reflection for the alien analysis.

Unit 3, Art Trip Reflection

September 23, 2025 / Doris

An exhibition can significantly influence an audience’s beliefs, ideas, and experiences in various ways. It can influence how we think about a certain time period, since just by looking at an artwork we can learn more about the time period, and by that our thoughts might change. We also all have different experiences and beliefs which makes us have different perspectives when looking at an artwork, by sharing our perspective we can get a broader view on what the artist wanted to tell us and it might even change our belief or strengthen it. The exhibition curator placed everything out in a way to kinda tell the story of art like showing how it looked like when realism changed to naturalism, and used dark blue color to make it feel like the museum in Paris, can make us think about how fast or slow the art evolved.

🏓PE, Unit 1: Table Tennis 🏓

September 4, 2025 / Doris

The first unit in PE was Table Tennis. We started with learning serving and back and forehand hits, the rules of how to play doubles, and how to play solo. I think I improved my serves a lot, before they were just simple, now they are faster and lower. I want to improve my forehand hits because I have noticed that a lot of them don’t go the direction I want, so that’s something I would definitely want to improve on. I enjoyed the most playing doubles even though it’s harder.