7th and Final Post!

What was the most challenging aspect of this unit? Explain.
What worked well for you in the research project? What helped you learn?
What didn't work well for you in this research project? What would have made the project better?
Critique the overall human form in art research project. Should this project be taught in ninth grade Humanities English? Why or why not?

I think I am finished with my presentation! All I have to do is edit a couple of little details, finish the bibliography, and I think I'll be done.

I think the most challenging aspect of this unit was to keep the analysis questions in mind while doing the project. I think they were a good guide, but it was amazing how many times I'd forget that I was supposed to be basing my project off of them, and not other things that I found interesting during research.

Even though I found it challenging to keep the essential/analysis questions in my mind while doing my project, I also found them very helpful as a guide. Many times I'd come across something while computing and I'd ask myself, "What was I supposed to be doing here?", I'd refer back to the 'Analysis' piece on the webpage and it would get me back on track and thinking in the right direction.

What didn't work that well for me was the setup of my powerpoint presentation on google docs. I found it helpful to be able to access it at home and have all parts of my projects together on an online system, but i didn't find the powerpoint part of it to be very user-friendly. I probably would have used Microsoft's powerpoint version and inserted it into google docs, if I would have figured out I could do that before I hadn't gotten so far on my presentation already.

I think the project overall was a good experience. At first I thought the project was going to be boring and just busy work, but after a while I started getting interested in the history of the piece, artist, and what it meant to me. Even though I know I've done quite a bit of work on this project, it doesn't seem that I've done a whole lot, since it was pretty interesting to me, and the amount of work time given and the tasks assigned were reasonable. I learned a lot about the piece of art I picked, and I also learned that doing the project was not at all the burden I thought it would be.

I think it should be taught in 9th grade Humanities because it really applies to the concept of "Humanity Worldwide" (not just America), and makes the whole course more interesting and expansive than just reading texts. I learned a lot from doing the project.