Depending on the colors and saturation you want, dying at home is very easy. Have you ever noticed how your tongue turns red when you eat beets? Beetroot is a natural dye! Many people use bleach to dye designs on their clothes, and you can prevent this harsh chemical from eating away at your fabric with hydrogen peroxide. However, bleach is not a natural dye. Natural dyes come from, you guessed it, nature! Natural dyes include things from vegetables, fruits, roots, and even spices!

Unfortunately, you can't just rub a carrot on your clothes and expect it to turn orange. There is a process that comes along with natural dying, but it's as easy as finding the ingredients that you need at your local grocery store. To start, put cold water in a saucepan along with your chosen vegetables. An easy guide for the best color results is to use blueberries for blue, bees for red, tumeric for yellow, red cabbage for purple, spinach for green, and onion skins for orange. Once your "dye mixture" is boiling, remove the lid and turn off the heat. Next, set a  sieve over a bowl and strain the mixture so you can then add in your fabric. Make sure your fabric is soaking wet, never put it in dry. Leave it for as long as you like – the longer you leave it immersed in the dye, the stronger the colour will be!

For this project, we mainly combined science and art, but we used all elements of STEAM throughout the project. We used science for the element and electron configurations, and to figure out our electron configuration we used math to make sure they were distributed correctly and totaled to the correct number. The entire project was the creation of an electron model as art, combining our symbols and colors with mandalas. I learned a lot about mandalas, which are art used throughout different cultures and religions, and I learned how they were used. Our mandala is made up of pink, green, brown, blue, black, yellow, and gray orbitals that include symbols in equidistant places along the rings, including spirals, hearts, peace signs, paddles, volleyballs, and suns. We used patterns to keep the symbols and everything symmetrical, as well as contrast to keep is clear who designed which sides of the rings.  I believe our colors have a bit too much contrast, as our styles of drawing were very different, but I believe it looks good overall because we all put a lot of effort into our individual rings.

Today we finished our recordings of scenes 4 and 5. Five was a short clip that allowed us to be in our normal clothes, as it was a flash forward to modern day. My character had died, and the other person who was supposed to be in scene 4 was not there, so I played their part.

Today was the last day for recording, however we can go in Power 45 tomorrow and use up a day of editing. We were only able to complete half of a scene today, so we have 2 1/2 out of 5. The fifth scene is short and easy, and we will hopefully complete the rest tomorrow.

Since it was specifically European men, some of these elements may not have been discovered, or able to be discovered in the region. On top of this, scientific revolutions were happening all around the world, and some elements were discovered that way, with tools that Europe did not have access to at the time. Take the elements gold, silver, copper, iron, and mercury, which were discovered in Egypt and China due to their knowledge through their mining practices. Platinum is an element most common in South Africa and was first discovered in Colombia before it was even known as Colombia. Because of this bias towards white European men, the periodic table may have had more gradual discoveries, and hit many more roadblocks in these discoveries, whereas those in other countries could have put their minds together and revolutionized it.

Today we worked on the second scene for our script. We completed this scene, and were able to get in and out of costume in quicker than the first day, which was good! We retook the beginning of it, because Ethan got a new costume that looked better, and we did the scene in the 9th Grade PBL Lab.

Today we began filming for our ancient civilization movie. We wre able to finish 1 and 1/2 scenes in 30 minutes, and it was fun getting into costume! Our first scenes we filmed outside, and our second we made an improv-bar in the PBL lab.

Today we worked on identifying direct characterization, indirect characterization, compound, and complex sentences in our script. We prepared everything we needed to be ready to film, inlcuding costumes & props as well as storyboarding.

Before listening (inference): I believe this will be in a major key, at a moderate tempo, with chords and arpeggios, since that is what we are working on the most. The name reminds me of Spanish, so I think it could be in 2/3 times.

After listening: It was in E minor key and was a moderate tempo. There were a lot of arpeggios in the accompanist and more chords in the melody. Both hands are doubled, which makes sense because we are focused on that a lot in class 

Before listening (inference): I believe because of the name, it will be a minor key that is less pretty-sounding and more intense. I believe it will be quicker, and in turn will also be in 4/4 times and have many chords.

After listening (analysis): This piece was more intense in a minor key, like I predicted, and was slightly mysterious and a little off-putting where there is a lot going on throughout the piece. It's a traditional Italian dance.

What art means to me. I don't believe art needs to be something you enjoy. You can think it's ugly, find the meaning pointless, or just dislike it because you do, but that does not diminish the fact that it is art. I don't believe you can put anything in a gallery and it be art, nor do I believe it is if it gets a reaction. I believe art is something that you put effort into, whether it's picking up trash and arranging it, but not a banana on the wall. I like the idea that they purchased the idea or it, and that the art is not temporary, but it still feels very meaningless. I believe I would understand it more if it were explained to me, but that is how I currently stand in the art world. I believe that literature is 100% a form of art, as people put effort and meaning behind their words, for persuasion or even confession.