Aztec Mural Proejct Reflection

Name: Lexi Alvarez

Project Reflection

Project Title: Aztec Mural Project (Hummanities)

Letter: A Dates: 5-5-2008

PURPOSE
In this section, explain what you were supposed to learn and what you were supposed to do.

Sentence Starters
The purpose of this project was to learn about…
In order to learn about _________________, we had to create/perform/ write/etc…

The purpose of this project was to explore Aztec Murals and create our own. We got to learn about Aztec Culture. We actually got to go to Chicano park and observe actual mural's so we could get ideas for our own mural's. Basically we learned all about Aztecs and there ways of living. Such as how they dress what they eat there education and many more. I thought the actual mural's in Chicano were cool and I learned a lot of things that I could use for my mural. Like put a lot of different things so your is not just drawn to one particular spot. Also make it very bright and not so dull. I tryed to use a lot of different things in my mural I did a pryamid.

WHAT I LEARNED
In this section, tell what academic information or skills you learned or improved.

Sentence Starters
I learned about…
I explored the concept of …
In this project, I learned how to…. (skills)

I learned a lot on the society and the Aztec life style. I used all that information to put into my own mural I did actually need all of that knowledge. I needed to use their market and how they dressed for my mural. So all of the papers and the researching paid off. But we were in groups so it made it easier because we all had different ideas for our mural. What we did was sort of combined our ideas together. To make an Aztec pyramid the actually showed the cultures and an example of that cultures. I liked the mural most of the time because we got to make our own of what we saw


REFLECTION
In this section, reflect on your experience. Did you like the project? Why or why not? How did you do? What would you do differently next time?

Sentence Starters
I enjoyed this project because…
I feel like I could have done better on this project because…
Next time, I would…

I did not love this project but I did not hate it either. I liked it because we got to make our own mural because we got to go look at real ones painted by really good artist’s. Then we sort of got to do exactly what they did except not as professional. I feel like the whole group could have had more better teamwork and an actual technique of doing our mural. I think that we could have done way better on our artist statement because since I was gone I could not help and if I would have known who was doing it I would have helped them. Next time I would defiantly try to figure out what is going on so that I can help.


WORK HABITS
Complete the following section about your work habits. How did you manage your time in and outside of class? What parts of the project were you responsible for? What strategies did you use when you had difficulty understanding or completing the project?

Sentence Starters
I was responsible for…
I had difficulty…
Next time, I should have…

I was responsible for mainly just doing everything we would all work on something together like switch off jobs. So I would do the sketching then Erica would do the sketching and so on. Also same with painting it would be the same cycle. I was the second most powerful person in the group so when Erica was gone I would be in charge and sometimes I would have a hard time controlling the boys because they would get a little off task..


ARTIFACTS
You should have at least one artifact from each project on your DP. What document, picture, or link will you have for this project?

I used the papers and notes that Miss. Interlandi had us do. I used the internet like google.com too look up images.