RC Project Reflection

For the RC project, I made a piece of artwork that honored my two resilient individuals; Clara Barton and Lynn Grady. On the night of Resilience Cafe, me and my partner presented flowers to our current community member, Lynn Grady, to thank her for coming and for being resilient throughout her life. We created a connection between Clara Barton and Lynn Grady through researching about them and learning their lives to be able to see how they were similar to each other. During this project, I learned about slavery and the Civil War through a fun activity where the class was split into the North and South and we all debated over issues. I also learned about the actual Civil War and how it happened, some of the most bloody battles, and the advantages/disadvantages of both the North and South.

My professionalism during this project really came up when we presented Resilience Cafe to the parents on Feb. 28, and to the sixth graders the following day. I felt that I was more professional on the night of, because I was wearing only black and white, but I seemed more nervous. I think that when we presented to the sixth graders the following day, I was only less professional because I wasn't wearing black and white, but I definitely presented better because either I had practiced more or I was just less nervous in front of the sixth graders rather than all the parents. For presenting and showing off my artwork to the "public", I think it went rather well because I kept my "speech" to the people passing by, short and concise unless they asked further questions. And, I mostly let them read my 100 word description first, before I talked and explained it more, unless they kind of looked at me like, "I don't really want to read your 100 word thing, just talk to me".

For the writing portion of this project, I made a page for the book that we presented to all our resilient individuals who attended Resilience Cafe. I created it in InDesign with pictures, a quote from Clara Barton, and my 100 word description. My InDesign page was read over by some friends and I made minor changes after, plus I am pretty sure that there aren't any spelling or grammatical errors in it. And, in my 100 word description that I included in my InDesign page, I stated the connnection between my two resilient people: Clara Barton and Lynn Grady.

In conclusion, over the course of the project, it has become obvious to me that the part of my project I am most proud of is the piece of 3D artwork itself. I am most proud of my artwork, because I took my time on it and I used a lot of different materials like tiles, ribbon and beads. I'm not sure what grade I deserve for this project but maybe a "meets" or "exceeds" unless you think differently... whatever

Reflection

During this project I learned a lot about connections and correlations. We had to find a connection between our resilient community members and our person from the past. Sometimes this was very difficult because we chose two people who seemed to have nothing in common. My partner and I went through about three different people before settling on Clara Barton and Lynn Grady. Then we had to connect them. We had be creative to find a connection between the two but if you think about it they are actually very similar. Our final connection was that Clara had seen suffering in others by nursing during the civil war and Lynn also saw suffering but within her self instead of in others.
I think that My spoken Word piece turned out very good. Katie and I worked really hard on choosing good music for the background. We wanted it to really represent our two people. I think I was very professional when we presented our spoken word both Wednesday and Thursday. We explained our two people, the song and the connection, which I don't think anyone else did. I was kind of nervous to get up in front of all those people and talk and see what they thought of the song but I think I concealed it rather well and not many people could tell.
I worked very hard on my music/spoken word. It took me a while to think of an idea to incorporate both Clara Barton and Lynn Grady. I also had to think of a way to write about both of their accomplishments and make it long enough so it wasn't like three seconds long. I started about three different poems before finishing and polishing the one we used. I used quite a bit of history in my poem about Clara Barton and Lynn Grady, well mostly Clara because Lynn isn't that old. Like i said she was called the angel of the battlefield and how she walked where no woman had walked before which are actually true facts that I read in a book. Lynn I just wrote about my experience at home, since she is my mom. All of the things that you heard in her section of the piece actually happened. Trust me I was there.
All in all I really like this project and I think I did pretty well on it. My mom went to a group she has for her breast cancer and shared the book we made her with all the ladies there and she said that a lot of them cried. They said it was really nice and sweet of us to do that for my mom.