April 2016 archive

My Cinquain Poem

Flowers

Blooming in spring

Making fields colorful

Bringing bright smiles to faces

Summer

In humanities right now we are learning about poetry.This is a poem I wrote all by myself. I wrote it in a style called Cinquain. The first line must be 2 syllables, the second 4, the third 6, the fourth is 8 and the final line is 2 again. This is one out of three ways to write a Cinquain poem. I missed out on a humanities class the taught us this, so I had to write this poem at my house. I do take a real liking in this subject. I think it is most enjoyable. Over all poetry is quite hard to write. You have to put your mind in a different head space. I think I am progressing in coming up with better words to describe myself. Something that I found challenging was making my writing fit the rubric of the poem. Dave has taught our class a lot more skills about writing poetry and annotating it too. We have looked at Rumi poems. Rumi was a man in the medieval times that was one of the first people to write poetry. He wrote it in such a way that it spoke to people through there hearts. We took some of his poems and annotated them because it is an important skill to not only be able to write poetry but to understand poetry. I am looking forward to writing more and more every class I take.  

 

Structure fits function

You miGelenke_Zeichnung01ght think that bones are glued or sewn together but in reality bones are held together by magical holders called joints. Right now take a look at your shoulder or your finger or you elbow.  These are some parts of the body that help you out a lot, but you don’t really know how they work, so we’re going to explain it. One thing that all these parts of your body have in common is that they are mostly just a joint. These joints are all different from each other. There are actually five main types of joints. The ball and socket, Condyloid joint, Saddle joint, hinge joint, pivot joint. The ball and socket joint is made to almost move on a 360 degree angle. There are a lot of ligaments because of how much movement it can do but since there are so many ligaments a lot of things can go on. The ball and socket joint structure is good because when protecting or blocking yourself human instincts are to cover yourself with your arms using your ball and socket joint. You have to move your arms in many directions so the ball and socket joint is very useful.A good example of the condolid is the wrist bone. The condyloid is what gives the wrist bone flexibility to move in different ways. But it doesn’t get all of the flexibility that the ball and socket gets. Saddle joint, You can find this joint in your thumb. The thumb sits on a kind of bone that sits on another bone. The saddle joint is also what gives your thumb to move in different ways, like how you can touch all your fingers on your hand with only your thumb. Hinge joint, You will find this joint in your fingers. This joint only moves one way. It is just like door. It only moves forward. Our human body has adapted to picking up things so now our hands only need to one way, but who know what we would be capable of if we could move our joints backward. Where would your nails be. Our life would be very different if our fingers were more like the ball and socket joint. The animals before were digging so this joint was an advantage. It would make your joints stronger.he pivot joint you find in your elbow and that makes you rotate your elbow in different ways. This joint looks like a pole that has a semi circle wrapped around the top. Now that you know more about your joints, hopefully you will be more careful about cracking your knuckles or popping out a joint.  

My Geo Pattern

Meadow Geometric PatternI liked using the exact-o knife. I liked how it moved. It was my first time using one so it was kind of difficult. I like how it turned out. I think I could have done better. The colors are more for the Islamic design. We had to think outside the box. I think that I accomplished that.

My Illuminated Letter

Meadow IlluminationI loved this process. It was so much fun making it. I loved how it turned out so much. I love the colors and how they mix. I was going for the theme of nature. As you can see it is an M. You might not see this from the picture, but I wrote my name in the bamboo. This was so much fun and I want to do it again.

Fabric Collage

Meadow Fabric 1Meadow FabricThis is my Fabric Collage. I am in the cartographer’s guild and I thought that this was a great way of expressing that. I really liked making it, but it was difficult to cut the fabric into the shape I wanted. I liked the idea of the paper air plane because I felt like it was a metaphor for travel. I travel from France to Spain and I think it is important to show that. I put a sea monster in the water because it is mostly what medieval people thought was in the water when people died. I loved making this and I think it turned out great.