Now that you’re three weeks (half way) into your senior project experience, are you answering your essential question?
- How are you exploring your essential question; is it different from what you expected? If you don’t feel like you’re answering your essential question, what is happening that’s different from what you expected?
- Are you surprised by any of the challenges that you’ve faced so far? How have you met those challenges and what can you do going forward to deal with them?
- Writing on your essential question: What have you learned about your essential question so far? What further questions do you have? and/or Has your essential question changed? If so, how? What do you want to know more about?
As I work on my project, I am realizing that I’m not fully answering my essential question clearly. I am more presenting what I find creatively instead of writing and obviously connecting people’s dreams together. I think since my project is more of a creative project, I kind of want to leave most aspects of it up to interpretation and just do my part by loosely interpreting and using art to convey what I see the dreams to mean. This doesn’t mean that what I interpret other people’s dreams to be is correct, I am just giving a basis for people to do it themselves (because dreams are personal to every person and the situations they are going through that others aren’t aware of). With my own dreams, I have more incentive to figure out what they mean situationally, but since it is so personal I’m not going to be saying what specific event I believe my dreams to be talking about. For example, I may be explaining that a dream is showing that I am running away from something, but I’m not actually going to say what I know myself to be running away from (and I won’t be doing that for other people either).
I think one of my biggest challenges so far is staying motivated. I don’t know what’s been going on recently, but it is hard for me to stay focused on my project without getting antsy. I think this is because my project doesn’t require me to go outside or interact with people. To fix this issue I have been going into school 2-3 days a week to work with James and a couple other people in the art room. This not only helps me focus, but it gets me out of the house and motivates me by seeing other people’s projects moving along.
I made a website for people to easily access either dreams they submitted or to just view my project… It’s not much yet but as I continue working on my project it will develop.
https://unspokenexperience.wixsite.com/my-site-2