Mini-Maycomb Project
Picture (to the left).
In this mini-project, Daniela Canseco was my partner. We worked well together, which made the project easier and more fun. I would work with Daniela again because she was a hard worker and could stay focused to strive for exquisite work.
After we received our mini-model, we created a sketch of an idea to make it better, then created a model based on that sketch. I learned that having the sketch there was a good thing because we weren't just creating a frog as we go, doing whatever we wanted and hoping it came out good. With the sketch, we could have some ideas on paper to go from, so that it would turn out as a better final product.
For me, the best thing about this project was having so much creative control in our final product. We could interpret the first model any way we wanted and recreate it with our own style and ideas. This went well for my group because we got to have fun with it and try different crafts and make a creative frog.
One of the struggles DC and I had was relating a frog to the story. We looked through the book to find a setting where a frog present would make sense, and found a chapter that included a story about a fishpool. We thought that that was the best place for a frog, and when envisioning a fishpool on a summer night, we thought of plants, bugs, and little animals like frogs.
Concerning work ethic, DC and I did a good job staying on task and always working to improve our frog and make it better, along with the sketch and explanation. In the future, I think it would look better if we had painted it because it would have given it a more done and professional look. However, we didn't have paint, and I feel like we still did our best with the materials we had.
I think that if I could change anything about this project, I would give the groups more time to prepare a presentation. A lot of groups were caught off guard that morning, and no one was prepared to talk about their project. If we had just a little bit more time, I think that the presentations could have improved much more.
In this mini-project, Daniela Canseco was my partner. We worked well together, which made the project easier and more fun. I would work with Daniela again because she was a hard worker and could stay focused to strive for exquisite work.
After we received our mini-model, we created a sketch of an idea to make it better, then created a model based on that sketch. I learned that having the sketch there was a good thing because we weren't just creating a frog as we go, doing whatever we wanted and hoping it came out good. With the sketch, we could have some ideas on paper to go from, so that it would turn out as a better final product.
For me, the best thing about this project was having so much creative control in our final product. We could interpret the first model any way we wanted and recreate it with our own style and ideas. This went well for my group because we got to have fun with it and try different crafts and make a creative frog.
One of the struggles DC and I had was relating a frog to the story. We looked through the book to find a setting where a frog present would make sense, and found a chapter that included a story about a fishpool. We thought that that was the best place for a frog, and when envisioning a fishpool on a summer night, we thought of plants, bugs, and little animals like frogs.
Concerning work ethic, DC and I did a good job staying on task and always working to improve our frog and make it better, along with the sketch and explanation. In the future, I think it would look better if we had painted it because it would have given it a more done and professional look. However, we didn't have paint, and I feel like we still did our best with the materials we had.
I think that if I could change anything about this project, I would give the groups more time to prepare a presentation. A lot of groups were caught off guard that morning, and no one was prepared to talk about their project. If we had just a little bit more time, I think that the presentations could have improved much more.