In Tech class we have been working on making a Amusement park in Minecraft.We had 4 areas with different themes. Antartica,Underwater,Horror and Heaven and underworld. I worked on Antartica.
Here is a Tour of our Minecraft amusement park. Hope you Enjoy:)
For the past few weeks in Science class we have been looking ta how light works.We looked out different trays.The Incident ray,reflected ray,the normal,the refraction and the refraction ray.For this project we had to chose an object the uses light for a particular purpose.I chose the Camera for my object.I decided to chose the camera because I thought it was very interesting that cameras can take pictures that look exactly like the .I wanted to know about how the camera uses light to take photos.
Reflection is when light bounces off objects.Refraction is occurs when light bends.The difference between Reflection and Refraction is that reflection bounces off andRefraction goes through an object and bends. Camera uses both Reflection and Refraction.It used Refraction because the light goes through the camera lens which makes the photo either bigger or smaller.It is also Reflection because the light bounces of the mirror in the camera to take a photo.
A flash goes out from the Camera .The light reflects the image or landscape that the person wants to take a photo and the light goes straight back to the camera lens which leaves a permanent image in the sensor. The light reflects in only a fraction of a second which is why you do not feel anything when you take a photo.
Like many other inventions, camera development went through many stages that included many different people.There are 2 main people who made the camera Alhazen and Johann Heinrich Schulze. Alhazen invented the pinhole camera. Alhazen even went on to explain why the image produced by the pinhole camera was upside down.Johann Heinrich Schulze discovered that by using silver nitrate, he could create a black and white photo. The chemistry of silver nitrate allowed unexposed part of a film to be white, while the exposed part turned black.
The camera can only take a certain size of a photo .Also in a photo a lot of the light goes to the middle of the photo not to the sides.
In the past few weeks in the math we have been looking at different ways to present data.We looked at different types of graphs and tables. In our class we broke up into groups of 3 or 4 and made a survey to send to a different school.My groups send it to Tashkent international school (TIS).When we got the results we got in to partners and made a presentation about the results. I was partners with Layna.
Click on the link below to see the results.
Thank you Tashkent International School for answering our survey 
For the past few months we have been working on our unit fair game.In this unit we broke into 4 groups of 4 and made an Amusement park in Minecraft. Each group had to make one area with a topic and each person made a structure. Our unit question was “What does cooperation and collaboration look like?”and our significant concept is “How we solve problems depends on the conditions of the environment and group dynamics.”
I was grouped with Tobi,Sungwon and Tyler. We decided that our topic will be Antartica.Tyler made the big Ice burg which was the main attraction of the whole park.Sungwon made the Titanic which hitt he Ice burg. Tobi made the Snow globe which was floating in the air and I made the Igloo hotels.We connected the Snow globe and Igloo and Titanic with a roller coaster.I think our whole area looke dvery cool and attractive.
In this unit there were overall 5 parts.Investigate,Design,Plan,Create and Evaluate.In the Investigate part we looked at the meaning of Collaborating and Cooperating and we researched a bit about mine craft.In this stage we also broke up into our groups and chose a topic and structures. My group decided to make our area about Antartica.The other 3 group’s topics were Horror,Underwater,Heaven and Hell. I made the igloo hotels for my structure.In the Design part we made 3 plans for your teams area and we chose the best one as a group. In the plan stage we made the steps of what to do.In create we actually made our Amusement park in Minecraft which took us about 1 month to finish the whole park. In the investigate part we made Design “tests” to evaluate the success of the product/solution.My questions were:
1.Is my sturcture conected to our theme?
2.Is my structure complete?
3.Does the structure fit with the theme of “Antartica”?
4.Is my structure attractive?
5.Is my structure not disturbing for other structures?
6.Does my structure fulfill its purpose of being Hotel?
7.Size of my structure fit my area?
8.Is the location of my structure go well with the other structures?
9.Is everything easily accessable?
10.Does my structure match my plan?
11.Does my strucutre convey a mood?
I think that my structure fits the theme of Antartica because I made igloo hotels.There also is no missing blocks which makes the igloos look professionalI think that I could of worked a bit more to make my structure attractive because my hotels are really flat so compared to the other structures n my are it is a bit boring.I also think that my whole structure would of been better if I checked these questions and see if it all ok at the end because my structure does not fit all of the questions. I think my structure would of been better if I added a bit more color to my Igloos because it looks really boring because all igloos are just white.As I said before my structure does not look that attractive .I think to make it attractive I should of added more color and made different looking Igloos because they all look the same.Overall I think my whole group answered most of the questions because our overall look of our area looked nice and really related to Antartica.
I think my strenghs were making the inside of the igloos because the insides look like hotels and also because I really enjoyed making the insides.I also like how I added book shelves inside as well not only beds.
Overall I think my whole class did a very good job making each area. It all looks very nice and interesting.I really like how each person used their own skills to make the structure of there own. I think that this unit really helped us to improve our cooperating skills and creative skills.
In Humanities we were researching about Global warming.We made a presentation and a 6o-90 second speech.
On thursday we had a special music presentation with the music of the shakuhachi, shamisen and koto.Our Koto teachers Mr.Patterson and Ms. Miyama played the Koto and the Shamisen.For the Shakuhachi we had a special guest,Bruce come to play.We had this presentation to start off our unit.Our unit question is What makes music sound like it belongs to a particular part of the world?”.
Which of the instruments did you like the best? Why?
I enjoyed listening to the Shakuhachi the best.I thought that the sounds were really beautiful.I also thought that for each piece the Shakuhachi had different types of sounds.For some songs the sounds were really loud and strong but for others the sounds were soft and very smooth,
Did something surprise you?
I was surprised when Mr.Bruce told us the biggest Shakuhachi had to be played using his feet. I was also surprised when I saw all the different sizes of the Shakuhachi and how they all made different unique sounds.The smallest one was about 40cm or more and the biggest in the Shakuhachi Mr.Bruce brought was about as long as his arms.
Which piece of music did you like the best? How did it make you feel? What did you like about it?
I like the piece Kaze no Uta (Song of the Wind) which was a Koto/shakuhachi duet the best out of the 5. I really liked the rhythm,in some parts the rhythm was pretty fast and in some parts it was a bit slow.I also liked the sound of the shakuhachi which was really smooth and pretty.This song made me feel really relaxed because the music was really smooth. While listening I could imagine a story about the winds.
What made the music sound “Japanese?”
I think that the sounds made the music sound Japanese.Japanese music has a really unique sound in some parts it is really loud and upbeat but in some parts it is quiet and soft.It feels like you are listening to a lot of different songs when you are only listening to one piece.I think that this type of music is a very different compared to other countries music.
Overall I really enjoyed listening to different types of Japanese music.I really had fun listening to instruments I had never heard before. I would love to hear other japanese instruments .
In art we have been working on making a line drawing for the past 12 weeks. Our unit question is, “How can we communicate visually?” and our significant concept is “Line can be convey shape, texture and tone.” We stared off with exploring different line techniques. We used a slideshow that our Teacher made to look at more line techniques. Then we practiced using these line techniques by copying a few line drawings by Vincent Van Gogh which I am pretty proud of. After that we had to look at 2 different line drawings by Vincent Van Gogh and Albrecht Dürer which was our assessment task. Lastly we started to work on our final line drawing.We had to look for 3 or more different photos and we cropped them put them all together.I chose the photos of a bridge,Mt.Fuji and a sakura tree. Then we started to draw our actually drawing.’
Copy of Van Gogh’s line drawing
Copy of Van Gogh’s line drawing 2
The two photos on the left are the photos of my practice line drawings by Vincent Van Gogh.I first drew the photo on the right and then I drew the photo on the left. As I said I am really proud of my practice line drawings.I really like how I changed the grip of my pencil there is a really big difference between the light parts and the dark parts.For my second practice line drawing I really like how the lines are really detailed even though it is not finished I think my drawing looks pretty good.
Final Drawing !!
For this drawing I used some of the line techniques we used.I used stippling for Mt.Fuji and the side parts of the Sakura tree.For the bridge I used a lot of different types of line techniques.I used Hatching,Cross Hatching,Contour Hatching and Random hatching. I think my strengths were making the shapes of the bridge. I took the longest time to draw the draft of the bridge and I tried to use the ruler as much as I can so I think this is why I am really proud of my bridge. I also think my strengths were the sky.From my comment page some people did not think my sky was good as I did but I thought my sky really blended in with my other drawings.I really like how the sky went from a lot of white space between to less white space in between. I think my weaknesses were the sakura and the middle part of the bridge. I think that my sakura was not realistic enough and in between the sakura there were white spaces so I think I could of worked on the spaces a bit more. For the middle lines in the bridge I know that I could of done a lot better because I was rushing my self because I did that part at the end.
The photo I used to draw my line drawing
Overall I am proud of my 3 line drawings.I can see a big improvement between my first 2 line drawings and my final drawing.During this unit I learned a lot of different line techniques that I never knew before. For example stippling, Cross Hatching,Contour Hatching and Random hatching.I really enjoyed doing this unit and I am really happy with my finished work.
In Drama we have been doing a unit about speech making similar to a speech unit we did last year. In the unit we made two speeches.The first one was about our passion.We had to talk between 1 to 2 minutes. The hard part was that we were not allowed to use cue cards like other speeches we did which means we had to memorize it or memorize the main parts.
7C Drama: 1 Min Speeches from YIS Arts on Vimeo.
This was my first speech. For this speech I talked about Manga. I think I did a overall pretty good job but I know there are a lot of small bits I need to improve.The part I think that I need to improve the most is that I was fidgeting with my hands too much the whole speech. I also think I could of add more expression while talking because my voice stayed on the same tone for most of the time.Only a few times I changed my tone of voice. I think I ddi a good job at looking at the audience because for most of the time I’m looking at the Camera while speaking except for the times when I am looking up.I also am proud of my pacing.I know it is not the best pacing but for me it is really good because for most other speeches I talk way too fast.Over all I really like my speech and I am very proud of it.
7C Drama: Given Topic Speech from YIS Arts on Vimeo.
This is my second speech.We had to chose a topic from either Fashion,Celebrities,Holidays,Best day of my life,Neighbor hood.I chose Fashion.I am proud of my second speech and I think that I did really better then I did in the first one.I think I did a good job on looking at the audience and only looking at my cue cards for a bit. I aslo think I added more tone in my voice then last time but I can still add more tone. But I think my pacing got a bit bad compared to my first speech.
I found Aruna’s speech very entertaining because she used a lot of tone in her voice and because ti seeped like she really really like pudding.
OverallI enjoyed doing both speeches andI am very excited to try different types of speeches.The very weird thin gis that Iam wearing the same clothes for both speeches because we had a gap between the 2 speeches. I think my best speech is my second speech.
This is my Humanities assessment.We had to make a two drawing that showed the before of the Industrial Revolution and the after of the Industrial revolution.I am veyr proud of my work.
The piece I am proud of the most in Science is my Calcium Poster.
This piece is a poster I made for my Elements poster. We had to write about the benefits that our our society and the problems that the element caused to the society or the environment. I chose Calcium for my topic. I chose this piece because I am very proud of it.I worked really hard for it for a long time. I also liked the appearance of my poster,the colors I used and the photo. I am very proud of my overall look and the information on my poster.I enjoyed making my poster very much.
