Art is a concept that people have made, and it gives people who view this art question the creation. The expression of ideas and emotions through a physical medium, like painting, sculpture, film, dance, writing, photography, or theatre. If you love the creative process, maybe you'll devote your life to art. 

We created our projects standards and signed our group contracts for our Shaping Our Future projet, which will be a play about ancient civilizations.

Today we were tasked with researching an ancient civilization, and our group chose the Mali Empire. We would use a world history book to find politics, societal structures, religions, and the Geography of ancient Mali. Next, we are going to create a play based on Mansa Musa, and describe his journey to wealth.

9/7/23

Plot Diagram for play.

Today our group had to fill out a play diagram based on our play, and the different events that would take place.

Today in class, we would continue to write our script. We have finished with  the first 3 scenes, and would write the last one on Friday.

9/15/2023

We have finished our script for our project, and we practiced reciting our parts, and we will continue to make changes to make the lines easier to remember and flow better. We will start finding where we will record next week in class.

We were tasked with creating a survey in Algebra II, and our topic was poplar school activities and subjects. I believe the hardest part was trying to gather all 20 responses, and finding the mean, median, mode, and range of each section. An easy part was  making the slideshow, and I believe we had presented it well.

After googling Mandala, I found that they are also used for showing a spiritual journey. Mandalas are related to Buddhism by acting as artistic shrines. I can see pattern, movement, and emphasis. I can use a Mandala to show an atom by having circles on the inside as the protons and neutrons and rings on the outside to hold the electrons.

The electron configuration integrates STEAM by having different patterns and values. The main ideas I used from each class were the same electron configuration idea I had from the elementary project, and in this class I used religious symbols as my inspiration. The mandala shows me different perspectives because I can see that mandalas are used for other purposes like meditation and religion, not only art. Our work was successful, because each different ring has very different patterns, giving variety. If I were a teacher, I would want to make the mandalas out of a stronger material, like cardstalk or cardboard.

Borax is a white mineral that dissolves in water and is used in glassmaking and ceramics. The chemical formula of borax is Na 2H 20B 4O 17. We used hot water to make sure it became supersaturated, and even over the limit. When it cooled, it formed crystals. My sculpture is dynamic in the chain-like design, and the pipe cleaners are intertwined to seem locked in place. 

I have learned that abstract art expresses how things are naturally supposed to be, and expresses feelings. It removes all of the intricate details and simplifies to show raw emotions that the artist wants to share in their art. Abstract art comes from a movement in the late 19th century called Impressionism.  Artists like Edgar Degas depicted art that wasn't easy to recognize. It uses lines, shapes, forms colors, and marks. Unlike other art styles, abstract art will look very simple, and everyday people will think they can recreate certain pieces, but it has more to it. Abstract art can be related to science or math by having very precise sizes of rectangles or squares, which uses data collected from the size of the canvas. I like to work with art that is created more on data because I am not very creative.