My Patchwork Quilt Workshop for International Day

Q1.Who were the members of your workshop team and what was the role of each person in the group? 

My group mates are Maanya, Jonas, Timur, and me. The roles were; 
Maanya=Teach small children how to make their patchwork quilt
Jonas= Preparing the ingredients that people needs to make a patchwork
Timur= Pinning up the patchwork (if there is nothing, ask people to come.
Me= Teaching adults how to make a patchwork. 

Q2. Explain your ideas for your patchwork quilt workshop and explain how you differentiated your resources for younger and older participants 

We got separate tables for adults and younger children. On adult's table we had bigger shapes (squares) so that they can cut it into whatever shapes they wants to. For smaller children, as it might be dangerous to let them use scissors, we got ready with already cut-out shapes just for them to stick on. We also made smaller glue sticks for smaller children as they have smaller children. 

Q3. Explain what items you prepared for your workshop. Explain how successful this resource was on international day.

As said above, we had two different things prepared for older and younger participants. I think, from my view, things that we did has been quite successful. We also wrote the name for younger participants as we sometimes can not read their handwriting. We prepared a bottle of glue in case the glue on the palette runs out. This has been quite successful as we had nothing running out. 

Q4. Describe and reflect on International day. How successful was your workshop? Did your audience enjoy it? How could you improve it for next time? 

I think our patchwork stall has been quite successful. I think our audiences has felt quite happy because most of the people left our stall saying thank you with the smiles on their faces. However, if we are going to be making this kind of stall next time, we can improve on our timetable. Due to the timing, from our group, Jonas and Timur has not managed to come because they had another slot to complete. Somehow, Azaan and Mayukh  from other groups were helping us. 

Q5.What did you enjoy about this project? 

I enjoyed this patchwork making when we did it at home as our homework and on the actual international day when people were leaving and said thank you to me. 

Q6.What skills and techniques did you learn?

The new skill that I learnt is how to teach people effectively in a short period of time. On international day, I knew that people wanted to go around many stalls and not to stay in one stall for such a long time, so I just taught them the basic idea on what they are to do, gave some examples,  and left them alone, so that they can concentrate on whatever thing they wants to create.

Q7.  How could you make this unit more fun?

I think this unit can be more fun if we could learn more techniques when sewing because, personally, I like sewing and knitting etc, I wanted to deepen into the techniques that may be important when making a patchwork and what we should do to make it look better with neater looking. 

I think that this topic was quite interesting to do and I hope that we can do this kind of work again in our art rotation during MYP art process. 

My first post on MYP arts

The title of your first blog must be:
The title of your current unit -i, e.,
MYP: identity; Me, Myself,& l
Key concept: Relationship
Global context: orientation in space & time
Statement of inquiry: Symbols and conversations used to convey meaning to audiences are influenced by time and space
Inquiry Question: Where are we from and who am I ?

My reflection for Dama

drama reflection 3

Front page of my reflection paper

Drama reflection 2

Drama reflection2
In my drama class, I have got to know many skills and also how to develop them. We have done our activities and performances based on criteria A (knowing and understanding), criteria B (developing skills), criteria C (thinking critically), and criteria D (responding).

First of all, I have got to know and understand many skills, informations, vocabularies, histories, etc... that is all related to drama. We have learned about Ancient Greek theatre (figuring out what they did to make the performances a success, and what kind of techniques they used), physical theatre (how to communicate an emotion through movements, acting out a poem [and poem verbs]) and I have gained a lot of new knowledge by PPP, researches, teacher's advice etc... But most of all by TRYING OUT THE TASKS GIVEN! From PPP, I have learned about unison, Greek theatre (in ancient times). From researches I have learned about Greek theatre mask, and Greek theatre's  thoughtful devising for the audiences. From teacher's advice there're few of them that I remember; that we have to project our voice when wearing a mask because it can block your voice, to be serious at the task in group work especially for the people in your group, and she also told me not to be scared when I had to roll off from the box for our first physical theater performance, the box.

I also got to know more vocabularies based on the topic. For example, unison (to do an action at the complete same time in a group), chorus (to speak at the same time), oracle (a person who has a job to tell the future) etc....

Greek theatre I think is also related to history but I think in history lessons we probably don't learn about these entertainments for people. Therefore I think it was a good chance for me to learn about these things.

In drama, skills that are acquired was communication skills, creative thinking skills, social skills, self management skills, and reflection skills. The skills that I think I developed was communication skills and reflection skills. I applied communication skills when I was working in a group. I tried my best to communicate my ideas and also listened to other people's ideas too. I applied reflection skills by reflecting each step on my blog for better presentation in the future.

For thinking creatively, I am not very good at doing it in drama. So this time I have decided to look at other people's creative ideas and learning from it. This way I thought I can develop my thinking creative skills. Also we have worked to communicate a certain message. It was the box. We tried our best to communicate the frustrating emotion through movements.

If I assess my artistic response during the unit, I would give it a 6 because I think my ideas weren't creative enough and thinking creatively is very important but everything else, I have tried my best and I also completed all my tasks on time. My work demonstrates few concepts - Greek theatre and physical theatre.

Things that I can do to improve my performance in this rotation is to speak louder as I'm not familiar and not good at projecting my voice for long time (like performances). I can also focus on thinking of more creative ideas. This is very important point for me to improve because I think that if the performance isn't creative enough, the audiences can get bored easily and not be attracted to the performance.

Overall, the criteria that I can improve on is criteria C, thinking creatively. I am going to try my best in my next rotation to improve on this but I think in this drama class I have learned a lot and at the same I had a lot of fun too!

Drama Reflection 1

My drama reflection1
During my Drama class, we have used communication, Social, Self-Management, Reflection Skills, and Creative thinking skills.I demonstrated communication skills by using Greek theater mask. My mask was showing happy expression. I have learned in my recent drama class that Greek mask was made to act out women and was over reacted for the far audiences that came to see the performance. So I have included long hair and fringes. I have made my mask from scratch. This is also related to creative thinking skills.

For my social skills, we've done quite few group works. One example is the oracle scene. It was a little difficult to do the chorus work as we all had to speak altogether at the complete same time. We all tried our best to make the performance as successful as possible.

Every time we do a performance, I made the reflection on blogger. I tried my best to do the performance on the day that I am writing about. This helped me to write down everything that I felt and my opinions. If I don't do it on the day there are more chances for me to forget what I felt. I completed my reflections and all my other tasks on time too. I think by doing this it has helped me improve my self-management skills.

I think I mangled to cover most of ATL skills, however the skill that I think I can improve is the social skills as I cannot contribute much of good ideas to my group.

frozen picture

My group mates are:
Mille
Mariam
Amir
Jonas
Maanya
Noor
and me.

Here're the pictures for our freeze framed act