This project was a focus on creation myths. I compared and contrasted Hawaiian and Māori myths to form this project as one can see in the image above. This assignment allowed me to showcase my communication skills through using notes to create a script which effectively communicated what I needed to showcase for the project in the small space given. I used critical thinking as I analyzed the two cultures to effectively communicate the information I had. I am proud that I was able to complete the assignment on time and showcase all the information needed on this comic. In the future I wish I had spent more time on the analysis piece as I was unsatisfied with the fact that I was unable to have a greater focus on perspectives and wish I had tied the effect of enculturation more into the analysis. This project was overall able to help me look at my analyzing and clear communication skills to asses information which allowed me to improve both these skills.
For this poem, the only audience I had in mind was my teacher Ms. Khokar and the basic purpose of the poem was to complete the assignment, but a more in-depth purpose of this poem was to express my own experiences creatively. All elements of this poem are related to me personally as going strawberry picking was an activity that my family always participates in. The way I have written my poem is so that the 3 stanza’s each have a different part of the journey of the strawberry picking. In the first the environment is set, and the strawberry fields are described. Then the second stanza is the process of picking and gathering the berries. In the final stanza it describes taking the berries home and the process of making things with the berries for consumption. In arranging my poem this way, I hoped to engage anyone who reads it by using a concise timeline. Another way that I planned my poem to be engaging was through imagery. In this poem I use poetic devices like alliteration, personification and similes in the hope to create a vivid image for the reader.
Creative Thinking Core Competency Reflection:
I chose this topic for my poem after being reminded about memories of strawberry picking when a book review mentioned it. I knew right away that because strawberry picking was something I had personal experiences with I would be able to center a poem around the process. To develop and draft the poem I looked at some images of strawberry fields so I could accurately portray the fields with creative imagery and called on some memories of picking strawberries in the past so I could relate close experiences in the poem. This poem was more innovative and different from the ones I have written in the past as it focused on one item and its growth. In the future I hope to improve on incorporating more poetic devices inside my works. I will do so by having my poetic devices list beside me and using a checklist to make sure I use more poetic devices in my next poem.
Questioning and Investigating: Critical and Reflective Thinking:
Conjecture: Is water wet?
-Yes, but depends on how one defines what wet is.
Examples and ideas to agree:
If “wet” refers to “being made of liquid or moisture” than water is wet (Deductive)
“Water is wet because when something is wet, it has water on it and on a molecular level, water molecules are bonded on top of each other, therefore water is wet.” – Erica Drufva’s opinion (Water can surround and cover itself) (Deductive)
Counterexample:
If “wet” is a descriptor of things that liquid touches then the floor can be wet but the water itself is not wet. Anything in contact with water is “wet” but water by itself is not (Inductive)
Concluding comments:
As water can surround itself and fits my own definition of wet I believe it to be wet.
The picture above is of a project I completed on a residential school survivor Verna Miller. Completing this project allowed me to learn about others culture’s and learn about assimilation and enculturation further. Doing this project allowed me to think about my own perspective and background with culture. Through this project I also researched how residential school survivors are learning to practice their culture after it was once lost and how this impacted their communities through time.
This project is an example of collaboration as throughout the project all 6 group members worked together to make sure none of our information was contradicting. We all found the information together and made sure all work was evenly distributed. We also made sure that we communicated well as a group outside of school. We could have done better with procrastination and making sure we spent our time doing work in the future. We can do this by setting reminders or alarms so we can ensure all work is completed on time.
