Officially, this was a full project, but I think that it is more of a mini-project, since it wasn't very long. I worked with the person who happened to be sitting next to me at the time the project was introduced, Ricky Gracida (if you recall, I worked with him on the Constitution Project as well). The group, with just two people, worked quite smoothly, with no real hitches. We were able to get everything done in class, so we didn't have any problems with communication, and because the group only had two people we didn't have much of a difficulty combining our ideas.
In this project, we received something that had been pre-made in another activity. It was made by someone else; in this case, a fish pond. Our job was to remake it to look better, and to connect it to To Kill a Mockingbird. We did this by making cleaner cuts and getting rid of the hot glue; it gave the water an excellent texture, but it was a bit messy. We textured the water with layers of paper, arranged in a ripple pattern. We also added grass around it, at the top of the box in which the water was so that the pond would be sunk into the ground. Finally, to connect it to TKAM, we put Jem's pants at the edge of the pond, because, when Jem lost his pants running away from Nathan Radley after trying to spy on his brother, Arthur Radley, Dill came up with the alibi that they had been playing strip poker by Ms. Rachel's fish pond. Jem did not have his pants because Dill had won them. The moon was to give setting; the strip poker took place at night.
Our main struggle in this project was getting everything done on time. We turned everything in on time, and it was certainly passable to the point where one would think that it was finished work, but we wanted to do more. The difficulty was the fact that we worked so precisely; we took our time on everything, making sure that everything looked like exquisite work, and we just ran out of time to do everything we wanted. We might get a chance to revise it, so we might still be able to add what we wanted. Other than that, though, everything went well. The piece came out looking more or less like we had envisioned it to be. Work was very smooth, and there isn't really one thing that stood out that went well.
As far as work ethic goes, we were able to get everything done on time; in fact, we were finished early, and so were able to get a bit of extra credit through revision. We delegated the tasks efficiently, and both of us were working at all times. We probably could have used more communication, though, so that both of us knew exactly what the ultimate goal we were working towards was, and the steps were were going to take to build it. And, of course, we worked a tad slowly. Our fish pond came out very well, but if I could have changed one thing about it, I would have added more texture and 3-D elements to it. This was the thing we had been wanting to do but didn't have time for: we wanted to add 3-D grass around the pond, to make our project a bit more interesting and visually appealing, instead of just being totally flat. Very neat and orderly, and pleasing to the eye, yet inescapably flat.
In this project, we received something that had been pre-made in another activity. It was made by someone else; in this case, a fish pond. Our job was to remake it to look better, and to connect it to To Kill a Mockingbird. We did this by making cleaner cuts and getting rid of the hot glue; it gave the water an excellent texture, but it was a bit messy. We textured the water with layers of paper, arranged in a ripple pattern. We also added grass around it, at the top of the box in which the water was so that the pond would be sunk into the ground. Finally, to connect it to TKAM, we put Jem's pants at the edge of the pond, because, when Jem lost his pants running away from Nathan Radley after trying to spy on his brother, Arthur Radley, Dill came up with the alibi that they had been playing strip poker by Ms. Rachel's fish pond. Jem did not have his pants because Dill had won them. The moon was to give setting; the strip poker took place at night.
Our main struggle in this project was getting everything done on time. We turned everything in on time, and it was certainly passable to the point where one would think that it was finished work, but we wanted to do more. The difficulty was the fact that we worked so precisely; we took our time on everything, making sure that everything looked like exquisite work, and we just ran out of time to do everything we wanted. We might get a chance to revise it, so we might still be able to add what we wanted. Other than that, though, everything went well. The piece came out looking more or less like we had envisioned it to be. Work was very smooth, and there isn't really one thing that stood out that went well.
As far as work ethic goes, we were able to get everything done on time; in fact, we were finished early, and so were able to get a bit of extra credit through revision. We delegated the tasks efficiently, and both of us were working at all times. We probably could have used more communication, though, so that both of us knew exactly what the ultimate goal we were working towards was, and the steps were were going to take to build it. And, of course, we worked a tad slowly. Our fish pond came out very well, but if I could have changed one thing about it, I would have added more texture and 3-D elements to it. This was the thing we had been wanting to do but didn't have time for: we wanted to add 3-D grass around the pond, to make our project a bit more interesting and visually appealing, instead of just being totally flat. Very neat and orderly, and pleasing to the eye, yet inescapably flat.