Buddha and Dalai Lama

Project Reflection--Harshal

The project has finally ended and it has ended well, the Resilience Cafe Night was a great success. And i believe that my performance has been great and that my Music Piece ended up very well. It has been a fantastic experience and I learned many things about many resilient figures and about writing poetry. For example I learned how to use Garageband which will be a great skill in the future, specifically I learned how to edit out unwanted sounds and to split and change the place of sections of music. Most importantly I learned the structure of songs and spoken word and patterns of rhyme. Lastly I learned about African American History and got more comfortable in front of large groups of people through Resilience Cafe and the Poetry Slam. Oh and my team won the Civil War Showdown and we were the south, the hard side to defend. I believe I deserve an Exceeds Expectations, please correct me if I'm wrong Ms. Staff.

I think my presentation skills have greatly improved and I have become a better public speaker through this project. I didn't do that well in this section but, I think I Met Expectations. The intro to my song on cafe night was pretty good and I didn't stutter or anything, but I am kind of regretting not being brave enough to perform live in front of anyone, I only did my song with Adam and no one saw us live. But I was professional and neat when it came to my book page, it was structured properly and neat and well put together so it was easy to read and not boring, hopefully.

I believe that my lyrics and my page are both pieces of beautiful work. I worked really hard on them and had many people edit them and kept on rewriting and changing parts to make it the best I can. I am also happy that i took the extra step of making it rhyme in a meaningful way not a useless way just to make it sound good. I used the story or epic poem format for it and it turned out great. I was done early and was not late and I took a couple days just to edit it in Garageband and make it perfect. I think for this section I deserve an Exceeds Expectations. I also helped Adam make the universal template for the book page which made life much easier for the rest of the class.

Something I am very proud of in this project is the great increase in my ability to write good and meaningful poetry, at the beginning I was not much of a poet and now that I have created/wrote, edited and performed my song I feel very proud that I was brave enough to let a huge audience listen to it.

OVERALL GRADE: EXCEEDS EXPECTATIONS.

~Harshal

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PROJECT REFLECTION

I believe that i meeted (B) in the knowledge section because i completed the relationship between the north and the south through the graphs and research (especialy the text book page), learned how to honor resilient individuals (even though the Dalai Lama didn't come, i at least got a well thought out response), and shared info on a key contributer to the Civil rights movement, but not more than anyone else. that's why it should be average.
In presentation/Professionalism i definately exceeded (A) since i created a beautiful art piece and presented in in a great way. The art piece, i felt had a lot of deeper meaning and symbolism in it. I also helped with the book design and created a beautiful page with three pictures and detailed descriptions I designed most of the cover, helped with the intro, made the page format and much more. Lastly, i also created a 100 word desription plaque to go along with it.
I deserve (in my opinion) an "A" in Polished Writing because my connections between my two individuals from the past and the present are clear. I explained how they connected clearly and in depth. I did not include any slang in the writing. I used sophisticated language. there are no grammaticals in my writing. this is because it was edited by many people. Most of them agreed though, that it didn't need many modifications.

~ADAM~

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