“Reverse” a short 3 min film made by Madison H, Jim K, Michelle T for 2024 ISB G8 Capstone project. The original intention in choosing this topic was to draw people’s attention to the problem SDGS 4.0 Quality education. This film takes place in China. The main characters of this film are Sun Jian Hui played by Jim Kong and Madelline played by Michelle T and Madison H. Two characters that live in entirely different worlds, with a Reversed future. “Alright, Let’s do this one last time…” Please enjoy!
Jim
"I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious" - Albert Einstein
The French Revolution, which occurred from 1789 to 1799, had some significant effect on France and the world. The revolution brought profound continuities and changes. One continuity is a dictator rules France. Before the revolution, France was ruled by absolute monarchy, where the king held supreme power and authority. After the revolution, Napoleon Bonaparte came into power. He also had supreme power and control. Another continuity is culture was still crucial in France. For example, language, literature, art, and food persisted after the revolution. However, the French Revolution also brought some changes. The revolution marked the end of the monarchy and led to the rise of the First French Republic and later the Napoleonic Empire. Also, it made France more powerful militarily. One notable piece of evidence that proves this is the territory of France increased. These are some of the many continuities and changes of this great period.
The video above is a video by Kevin Lu and me about the French Revolution, called “The Dawn of A New Era”. In this video, we talked about the causes of the revolution and key events. We explore moments such as the convening of the Estates General, The Tennis Court Oath, the Storming of the Bastille, The Great Fear, the Declaration of the Rights of Man, the First Constitution of France, the war against Austria, the Edict of Fraternity, execution of King Louis XVI, the Siege of Toulon, Reign of Terror, the Battle of the Pyramids, and the Constitution of the Year VIII. The revolution started because of food shortages, bankruptcy, political discontent, the influence of the American Revolution, Enlightenment Ideas, and social inequality. The revolution affected France by ending the Monarchy, spreading revolutionary ideas, and reducing the catholic church’s power. The French Revolution causes many political movements and revolutions worldwide. Since this revolution had a worldwide effect, we name this video “The Dawn of A New Era”. Thank you for watching.
The Nonfiction book, Google It, by Anna Crowley Redding introduces the history of Google. It describes how the founders of Google, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, who were students at Stanford University, subversion the world. Everything begins with an ordinary homework assignment. Larry was focusing on the World Wide Web for his doctoral thesis, and that led to the birth of BackRub, later known as Google. Then, Google improves and develops at a fast rate. In conclusion, it became a product that changed the world by making information organized, accessible, and useful.
On day 11, I learned in class when to reread and when to research. I focused on Google X on my notebook page because I found it interesting. I looked in the text from my book and went online to find additional information.
As you can see, I created a “Larry page” for Larry Page. This is a page that introduces Google’s founder Larry Page, and it also shows his character traits using text evidence.
A theme I came up with is: Persistence may not necessarily lead to success, however; giving up will definitely not lead to success. Here are some of my ideas.
One of the most important central ideas of Google It is: that Google is an epoch-making product. To show my thinking, I used multiple pieces of evidence to prove two small central ideas, which are: Google satisfies human needs, and Google solves global issues. I tied these two ideas together and saw how important Google is. Then, I came up with the big central idea. See my thoughts above!
This journey of visiting my notebook ends here. Thank you very much for reading my blog post and paying attention to my notebook page. I really recommend reading Google It by Anna Crowley Redding. It is a wonderful book and it includes numerous facts about Google that you don’t know. Also, remember that if you want to use Google, you can always search on Google Chrome for Google. Ha Ha.
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Reflection Video
The poem below was taken from page 4 of the short story “Lather and Nothing Else” by Hernando Tellez. It shows the internal conflict of the barber the protagonist. I know the conflict is internal because the barber first had an idea and then had a different one that went against the first one and he struggles a bit. Struggling inside is a sign of internal conflict. In this case, the struggle is whether should he kill or not and he has to make the choice soon because his target is in his hand if he lets go there isn’t a second chance, so he has to choose. Also, during this conflict, there is no interaction with other characters, the environment, or the society, so it has to be an internal conflict. My poem first tells us the first idea the main character thought about, and then some questions he asks show he is worried about the first idea. Next, there is a new idea that supports the first idea again. So, it shows he’s struggling inside him. There are three pictures involved in my poem. One is angel versus devil, which shows the internal conflict, kill or not kill. Another one represents kill and the picture is a knife with blood on it. The last one is the normal barber knife, which represents not killing. I also included color as well. My poem is just like a conversation between the devil and an angel. Red represents the devil speaking, and yellow represents the angel speaking. The devil tries to convince the barber to murder Captain Torres, but the angel tries to convince the main character that he shouldn’t kill him. I colored the words based on this, not on hero stuff is said by the angel, and the murderer stuff is said by the devil. I don’t look at murder and a hero like this in this story. Murderers and heroes in this story, you can’t just say one bad one good because murderers in this story could mean you killed someone and it is horrible, it could also be you did it for justice On the other hand hero could mean you did it for the people and your great, it could also be a feeling that you want which leads you to murder someone. That’s why I colored the murderer and hero orange, it’s in the middle of the angel and devil.
Ideas into Design Concepts
The lamp I designed for this project is made for myself. It includes some topics I’m passionate about. For example, football stars and teams, basketball stars and teams. I use logos and symbols to represent the players and teams. This makes my design easier for me to create, and easier for people to understand what I drew. Rethinking, modifying, and finalizing, are important points during a design process, they help me improve my design and help me achieve my goal over time. Some change I made in the process is changing the shape of my lamp. My thinking was, I want to make my project special, and I want to add more elements to my work. So, instead of making a rectangular prism just like others I decide to make a pentagon prism, which is inspired by the Pentagon building in the USA. Creating a pentagon prism would end up cooler, and there will be one more face than the rectangular prism for me to add to my sketch. So, this change helps me achieve my desire in the beginning. This is some basic thinking of mine, and some editing throughout the project.
Growth in Skills
Throughout the whole process, I improve some of my design skills. I think planning skills in designing improved. Why did I say that? When I work through my planning sheet, I notice my plan is more detailed and my drawings of my design look better than I first drew it.
Compare this drawing to drawings on the planning sheet.
Reflecting & Sharing
My advice for other students is, to choose challenging things, but at your level to create. This might be helpful because you can get your project done. Finishing a less challenging work is better than not finishing a masterpiece. This could also be a thing I will think about before my next project because this is one of the reasons for me not finishing the project. If I do this class all over again, I would not sit with people that will distract me, this choice will definitely get me a different ending. Things that are helpful in this class are, instructions are clear, things are always in DX, and it is easy to learn tools because Ms.Kim doesn’t just tell us what to do, but how it works, and why.
Develop & Plan
When I plan for projects, I always include materials and tools, functions, details of the pathways, size of fabrics, technics for sewing, labels, colors of materials, and the view side of my drawing. Whenever I plan, I ask myself what I like, and do I want to put it on the project? Next, I would look at the due date and see, if can I finish my design on time? Lastly, I would reflex on myself asking, is this design a good challenge, or too easy/hard? After I think about those questions, I start making my creation. During the process, I would change places that don’t make sense or change things if I run out of time.
Create & Improve
Through out the whole unit of sewable electronics, I made alot of mistakes, but I learn from them and I use what I learn to improve next time. When I made a mistake I would first look at is it fixable. Then, I would think about what I did to create this mess. Lastly, I remember what I did to make things go bad, and I try not to do it again.
Reflect & Share
There is lots of challenges in this unit for me. I didn’t have a sewing experience, so sewing it challenging to me. Also, I didn’t have a coding backround, so it’s challenging for me. But if I be more sepcific, being focus is hard for me. Sometimes when I sew, I just forgot which side of the fabric I’m on, and I would mess up the whole thing and make me do the stiches all over.
Planning is very important, if you don’t plan, things get crazy.
Maybe give us more time on project two, and practice arange some coding practice.
In this project, I chose to make a pin. I decided that because it’s easier to design, so I won’t spend much time planning.
When I was planning, I drew three designs that are about NBA star Stephen Curry, two of the designs included the newest Curry logo. I chose to make the newest curry logo instead the old one because I like the smooth line of the logo. After excluding one design, I chose the design that was more straightforward to make.
In the middle of this project, I faced some challenges, and one of them nearly makes me give up. When I am poking a hole through the fabric so the LED light can shine through, the knife made a crack in the fabric, this cut makes me sew the running stitch around the fabric all over again, and I sew the crack together so it looks better.
Day1.
Day2.
Photo of the crack
During this project, I learned some new things, making a design is easier than building what you planned. Why did I mention that, I spend one and a half classes on planning, but I spent more than two classes making. Throughout the time when I’m actually creating the pin, I made a lot of mistakes, so I need to redo some stitches sometimes, and it is more challenging than brainstorming and drawing. I think this is one of the most important things I learn throughout this project.
My tips for the next semester’s students would be, if you want to poke a hole in the fabric you shouldn’t use too much power, otherwise, you might break the fabric. And if you really break the fabric, do not be too frustrated, you should just be thinking about how can I fix the problem, and how to face challenges.
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