Something that I learned was that you aren’t always good at everything that you do. I learned this because our basketball team has been playing very badly so I realized that we aren’t the best basketball team to ever cross the face of the universe. (But we’re God damn close).
( ) -Eli’s words
Some aspect of learning that I had this week was over the weekend. I was upstate when I was learning how to be a ski instructor and we had to learn about how to make learning fun and engaging, as supposed to being the one taught in a fun and engaging way. It really helped me learn how hard it is to do that.
This is my art project. I completed this in photoshop. In this project, where the ball pit is, there was the ocean. It was a hard process. What we needed to incorporate into our project was a grayscale and as many elements of art as possible (As seen below).
PATTERN:
I used pattern by combining many images of ball pits to make it look like one, and the pattern is the waves that I created.
CONTRAST:
The contract is between the shadow of the person jumping and the ball pit.
EMPHASIS:
I use emphasis on the person by creating its shadow. The emphasis is because it is double, making it sure to the viewer’s eye that it is the main part of the image.
BALANCE:
The balance in my image is created by the ball pit. The different images combine to make one symmetrical whole.
PROPORTION/SCALE:
I use proportion by making the balls in the pit look 3D. I used scale by making the balls smaller and smaller so it looks like they are farther away then they actually are.
Harmony:
I use harmony by combining the ball pits to look like they are 1 single ball pit.
RHYTHM/MOVEMENT:
I use rhythm and movement by creating the ball pit to form the shape of waves, and waves move.
In order to do this project, we had to learn how to describe a lot of activities. I enjoyed a lot about this project. What I enjoyed most about this project was the open-guidelines. I thought that it was fun because we could be funny, which is something that usually helps my work and makes it better.
This is my Crucible Comparative Essay. From this essay, I learned a lot. I learned how to make good connections. I learned this because I had to make connections in this essay because we were comparing and connecting time periods together. Surprisingly*, I also learned about the Salem Witch Trials and the McCarthy Era. Before this project, I didn’t even know who Joseph McCarthy was, I barely knew what the Salem Witch Trials were, and didn’t know that there were so many common themes between them. I also learned more about current events and connecting history to current events to gain knowledge. But I learned a lot about me as a writer. I learned that my descriptive language isn’t actually that descriptive and I have to work on it. Throughout the year, I’ve heard the phrase “quality, not quantity,” but I never really believed it until this project. I think that this will help me as a writer because I won’t go off-topic just to get more words on the page like I did on my humanities test.
*Not actually that surprising
This is our slideshow that we made for our project.
https://app.letsrecap.com/public/r/0287cdd1cd67758b748832d90eb2df6a
I have found the concepts that we have been learning in math to be very helpful. From this information, I have gotten better at calculating percents, among many other things.
Here are 2 unit rates that can be found in one problem:
Ozs. 1 x
– –
$ y 5
Obviously, I cannot figure out both x and y in this problem, but if I know one of them I can. For example, if I went to the store and had one dollar to get ounces of cereal, how many I could get for $1. I would solve it by setting it up like this:
Ozs. 5 x
– –
$ 25 1
I would be able to figure out this problem. In order to do this, I would need to multiply 1 by 5, and then divide it by 25, so it would be 0.2. Now, I know that for every dollar, you can get .2 ozs of cereal.
Figures are mathematically similar if they share a scale factor/ratio, and also they have to have congruent corresponding angles. This is true because if there is a triangle, and both have side lengths that are related by a scale factor but don’t have angles that are congruent, the figure is not similar. In order to acheive similarity, both of these reasons have to be true.
True or False…
Any two rectangles are similar.
This is false because both of these things aren’t true in this case. For example, if you had 2 rectangles, one with the dimensions 4x4x4x4 with 90° angles since it is a rectangle, and the second rectangle was 4x18293x4x18293, with 90° angles would not be related by a scale factor to the first rectangle.
Any two equilateral triangles are similar
This is true because all sides would be the same, as would the angles. If you had 10 equilateral triangles with different measurements, they would all be similar. 1x1x1, 1.5×1.5×1.5, 2x2x2, 2.5×2.5×2.5, 3x3x3, 3.5×3.5×3.5, 4x4x4, 4.5×4.5×4.5, 5x5x5, 5.5×5.5×5.5 are all related to each other. The ratios from the first one to the rest of them are 1:1.5, 1:2, 1:2.5, 1:3, 1:3.5, 1:4, 1:4.5, 1:5, 1:5.5, and they are therefore similar because all equilateral triangles have the same angles.