In this track and field unit, I really enjoyed the frisbee and ball-throwing activities, and I’m proud of the progress I made. I especially improved my hand-eye coordination—by the end of the unit. I also tried to be a good teammate by communicating clearly and encouraging others, which made the group activities more fun for everyone.
For the ball-throwing events, I noticed my form wasn’t always consistent, which meant my distance and accuracy varied a lot. Moving forward, I want to practice my throwing technique more often to build muscle memory, and I plan to take a deep breath and slow down before my turn to stay calm and focused.
1. What is the title of your installation artwork?
the name of our artwork is called the eye that watches
2. What experience did you want the audience to have? What specific elements or actions in your installation were designed to create that experience?
we want the audience to have a feeling of being disgusted and disturbed. The eye is the main of our artwork, we used cardboard to make the shape and used air dry clay to make the texture of layers, for the pupil we used paper mache from newspapers and used glue to keep it sticky and the unsettling feeling, the color we chose is light pinkish red. The blood next to it adds the emotions of scary and we used hand prints to pretend it’s a murder scene.
3. After classmates interacted with your installation, do you think your group achieved your original goals? Explain why or why not, and give esxamples from the presentation or audience responses.
i think they really liked our project and we were the only group doing horror and disgusted theme. But I think we focused to more on the eye and we didn’t really have time to decorate the scene, like adding a black cloth on top or a light to aim at the eye. However to add details we used a audio and played scary music.
I used to think that mental health is more an adult topic and kids don’t really need to learn nor understand it that much. For me mental health means how I feel and how I behave and mange my emotions. Assumptions or misconceptions that I had when I was young were I have a lack of understanding or fear towards mental health and thought that it was a really big issue for young kids to have it and I don’t know how to fix it.
But know I think and know that mental health isn’t a big problem that will kill myself, I can fix it and become healthy. Mental health is a state of well-being enabling individuals to cope with life’s stresses, realize their abilities, learn, work, and contribute to their community. My perspective shifted about mental health from before thought that it was just about being too stressed but actually it contains a lot more different examples. My new knowledge towards mental health conditions and how people experience mental health. For example ranging from positive well-being and thriving to severe distress or dysfunction and conditions like disorders affecting mood, thinking, and behavior, often causing significant distress or impairment in daily functioning.
I think that class discussions help me know and compare different point of views among each other, and everyone has a unique way of thinking at the same topic. These experiences really helped me knowledge my thinking and learned more about mental health.
1. What message are you conveying through your textile design? Which symbols, colors, and design elements did you incorporate to express this message?
The message I want to convey through my textile design is showing the nature, for instance I love the ocean and butterflies so these show my personality and inner-self. I have used blue and white to incorporate to express my message, because it gives a feeling of calmness and pure.
2. During this unit, which specific skills and knowledge have you developed the most?
During this unit, I have developed my printing skills and learned new skills like dying the fabric, using a sewing machine and batiking. Before I have tried using lino cut printing but it didn’t really came out as I thought it would, the main problem was because of the ink I added was to much making it too smudging. Learning batik and dying the fabric was really fun because it’s easy compared with others and it takes less time to get a final product. However using a sewing machine didn’t work out as I thought, the machine was kind of scary and I made the lines wobbly and not straight.
3. Which skills and knowledge from this unit do you believe could be valuable outside of Art class?
For this unit I think skills and knowledge I believe could be valuable outside of Art class are identifying the culture and textiles in an artwork or even a writing. The ability to annotate and tell what the artist whats to link with or share with the audience. Communicating through the elements such as shapes, lines and colors also could have a deeper meaning with the artwork. For example it can describe their culture or the feeling th h. nnynnynnhe artist wants to share.
in chinese I have been learning 读懂他们人生 and learning how to use 白描to express the moments that happen before and adding it in a new paragraph to gain the emotions.
This year we have been learning on 5 big units and now on poetry. I would like to first introduce about the independent time where is showing my learning the most. I also really liked the unit narrative, where you can rewrite and edit the story.
What I did well:
I think that I did well on my independent time and my narrative writing unit. In my independent time last time I worked on a murder mystery and annotated the author bias etc. In narrative writing I enjoyed reading the stories and editing them adding a new opening.
What I need to improve:
I will need to improve on my confidence, and in this unit poetry we will need to perform in front of the whole class. As I gain improvement, I believe I will also develop my vocal skills and a presenting loud voice.
artefacts:
independent time:
narrative writing:
my grades:
I have been improving my annotating skills, from the first independent time to now our third and almost the last, the news really interested my, eknowledging my sight of the world. From before the Alien unit to now the poetry unit, I gained a lot of my confidence and vocal skills.
My science notebook is a well-organized, carefully created artifact of my learning in science class this school year.
before: My notebook was rlly empty and no date nor title in it and some notes are even not finished, which makes this whole page useless.
after: My notebook now has met the criteria of having a date and a clear title and I can just tell what this page is talking about by looking at the diagrams I drew.
🎯Evidence of Active Learner Habits:
Based on my self-assessment and schoology data, my skills in preparing for learning, class participation, and completing assignments have improved, while reflecting on learning remains an area for growth. I now stay organized and turn work in on time, and my 3/4 active learner scores show I focus and contribute in class. However, I still struggle to use feedback to make meaningful changes and need deeper reflection on content gaps to grow further.
active learner self-assessment:
gradebook in schoology:
semester 1
semester 2
💡Evidence of Understanding of Key Concepts
I mastered most semester 1 concepts with nearly perfect scores 3/3, but semester 2 shows less consistent mastery with lower scores like 2.5/3 on key topics.
semester 1:
semester 2:
📈Evidence of Growth in Science Skills:
My learning in the 6 standards in science has showed improvement and growth from before the model was nice but there wasn’t much labels and the description was a bit too much. Comparing with the slide shows the wording is less and the pictures are giving the details
list of the grade 8 standards in science:
my learning before: the model for our first unit
my learning after: the ppt we did to research on about it’s climate
