April 13

DI-DONE!

FINALLY THE SWEET SWEET STRESS RELIEF OF DI BEING DONE!
4-5 long, stressful months of planning and prepping for DI. (If you don’t remember what DI is check out my midway DI post) Now if you want to know how it all went well then keep reading
So, it all started in November when we were told what DI was and put into the groups we would be forced to work with until April. Now, I was put into a Fine arts group. It was going great till the first dress rehearsal where we had absolutely NOTHING done. So we started all our work a week after the second dress rehearsal. In 2 weeks we made almost everything, the backdrop, costumes, final script (yes that includes memorizing the script too) so let me get into the process of them!

Backdrop:there was 2 backdrops, one for a juice-bar the other for a dungeon.

Costume transformation: we didn’t come up with what to do for this until a week before the competition so of course it wasn’t gunna be the greatest thing ever, it consider of a rolled up  red cape tied up with string and when it got untied it unrolled into a full cape.

Illusion: we had a door that looked fake but was real so you could push it away and you could crawl through the sheets. It was used in the dungeon scene.

Costumes: Mine was guards armour made out of cardboard, The Queen (Julia) wore a dress from the drama room. The Jester/Bard (Tom) just found an old Halloween costume from his attic, The Old Trickster/Maki (Makai) wore a flannel and jeans with his arm tucked into the shirt sleeve, The Trickster wore a black hoodie and shorts, and The Mute Painter wore some stained and ripped clothes with an apron.

Props: we had a crown that the trickster was trying to steal and my shield (used as a fan at one point lol)

Story: the story starts with the trickster going to the bar and accidentally bumping into a guard, but the whole reason he went to the bar was because he was struggling with money so he took a risky bet with a retired trickster looking for revenge on the queen, the bet was to steal the crown in return for 1,000 shillings so the trickster did exactly that, or at least he tried to… while he was about to leave the bar he ran into the guard from earlier but the queen was with him, the queen demands the jester sing about the trickster to which he does. After the song the queen tells the guard to make her look dramatic (to which he fans her with his shield) then orders the trickster to a year in prison. The guard drags the trickster into the dungeon and leaves. The trickster looks around and sees an old painter painting the wall so he asks what they’re doing and eventually finds out that the painting was a real door so he pushes the door out and somehow gets out of the dungeon like that. Once’s he’s back in the bar he sees the queen there with the guard so he asks the retired trickster to distract them both while he steals the crown off her head. The queen runs off crying while the guard tries to chase after her and the tricksters drink and laugh and so the story ends there.
Heres a video of it:

DI was so stressful but I think I learnt how to prioritize the project and that I should be helping the group. That doesn’t mean I ever wanna do it again though.

My teammates posts: Tom H Julia D Luca T Makai R Kai M

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April 12

What the Hell is an Atom??

Recently I just finished a project on the atomic and kinetic molecular theory. We had to make a game on scratch including the atomic theory. Before you play the game you need to know that before a project we fill out a Mindmap of questions we have for the topic then after the project we answer them so here’s what mine looked like.
Now for the actual game link —> Atoms and stuff quiz
this project was a challenge for me since I’ve never used scratch before and I’ve had no coding experience before. I didn’t really like how stressful this project was but thats probably just me being biased towards coding. I don’t think I did my absolute best with this project but I would definitely try harder if I had to do it again.

Until next my next post (which is in like 20 minutes lol)

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April 1

A Time of Art- The Renaissance!

Recently PLP 8 did a project on the Renaissance, we started learning about the printing press and the famous paintings from the Renaissance  (like the Mona Lisa, birth of Venus, etc.). We made a Triptik on comparing things made in the Renaissance to modern day versions of the object or person
this is how mine turned out:

The other part of the final product was a paragraph about what you think the most important thing or person was in the Renaissance. I wrote the paragraph on Galileo, a famous astronomer and scientist from the 1600’s. Galileo discovered the 4 biggest moons orbiting Jupiter and the heliocentric theory.
Here’s the paragraph if you were curious about what Galileo did and discovered:

In my opinion Galileo was the most important person in the Renaissance and here’s why. Galileo was most famously known for his astronomical discoveries. In around 1609 he started making telescopes that could see 8-30 times more than a spyglass, shortly after he started using the telescopes to document astrological findings. Galileo discovered many things about the solar system like 4 of Jupiter’s biggest moons (IO, Ganymede, Europa, Callisto), the moons craters, Venus’s phases, Saturns rings, and even the heliocentric theory. The heliocentric theory is the theory that the earth revolves around the sun instead of everything revolves around the earth. The church didn’t like what Galileo discovered. By 1615  the catholic court declared that anything opposing Aristotle’s geocentrism was not true. A few years after the court had declared this, Galileo was brought to Rome and told not to write or teach any of his theories. On January 8th, 1642, Galileo passed away from heart palpitations and fever. By the time he died he was fully blind. Galileos theories really helped modern day astronomers like Stephan hawking to discover more and more about astronomy, and Galileo’s science theories that I didn’t focus on in the paragraph helped science get a boost of new information. Even some of the inventions he made helped society “move up”.

This project was really fun I think I did pretty well with researching all the fun topics and discovering all of the events that occurred 

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