FINAL BLOG # 7

The most challenging aspect of this unit for me was probably was the analysis. I thought it was really difficult because it made you think about what you saw which is hard for me. I thought that the analysis was kind of like analyzing symbols in a painting. It confused me when we had to take the symbols and give them our own meaning. I also thought it was challening to write a written description because there was so much going on with my painting.

What worked well for me and helped me learn in thsi project was using the internet and looking up information. I also thought it was easy to be organized witht the blog and your blog page really helped because it had a lot of links. And I could find a lot of useful information when I went there even if I was at my house. I also thought that you commenting on our blogs was awesome! it gave me good feedback and it helped me a lot!

I thought that everything went pretty smoothly, it was just at the beginning when I was setting up my blog and everything that it was really confusing and hard. Maybe you could have had like a little step sheet on how to set up a google account and create a blog??? It wasn't too difficult but it was just confusing at first.

I think that this project should definitely be taught in ninth grade english because it is fun and cool to do! You get to use a lot of neat gadgets on the computer that you don't usually get to use in other classes. It was fun to look at paintings and be able to say what WE think and not what someone else does. It also was cool to do a powerpoint and be able to have fun designing it and looking for cool pictures! I thought it was really fun and I learned a lot!!

Blog Number Six!

Oops! Sorry I forgot to do this blog yesterday! So now I am doing it today! (Sorry Ms.Hodge) I am still really confused about the analysis and synthesis of our project... is our analysis supposed to be based on facts? Or is it supposed to be how we interpret the picture? But I guess at this point some of my analysis of the picture "Bang" is that a message going painted in the picture is how racism still exists today, it has existed for centuries, and even and in some cases it exists in children. I think it says that children who are African American and of all race shouldn't have to expierence racism and we should as a whole world work towards eliminating racism. There are many symbols such as the white bird house to the right of the picture that explain how "white people" have been "in power." And the middle of the potrait is two african american children which tells me that children are our future in elminating a racism barrier that has existed for so long. My synthesis would be that over the times of looking at the painting I have noticed different symbols that could mean different things, also when I first looked at it, all it was to me was two children standing in a back yard, but now I see all of these hidden messages within. Is that what you are talking about for the analysis and synthesis??????

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Blog numero cinco!

In this project I am needing to still do a lot of work. Today I went to the media center and found two books on Kerry James Marshall and his artwork. I am planning on reading them and by getting more knowledge from my books I am going to complete my written description of my piece, and get my power point finished before the end of the week! After that I will have to start forming my note cards and getting ready for my presentation which will take the rest of the weekend and until the project is due! OH and I will also get my bibliography printed off!

Blog #4

Today I learned how to put an image onto my blog! I also learned that Kerry James Marshall has very strong opinions about racism. The painting that I studied today has many symbols. Some of them are hard to read and I think if I were to look into the history of racism more I might understand some of the symbols and metaphorical pieces in the painting. So my next steps are to research the civil war and history of African American racism. Some challenges that I had in this project were doing all of the technological things, but now that I have everything set up it's getting easier! I still have a lot to get done!! =] Oh but one question I have is should we check out the book that has our painting in it?? and... what if there isn't a relationship between the time period in which the painting was painted and the meaning of the painting??

Blog #3

Today in the computer lab I worked on researching my painting and the aritst, Kerry James Marshall. I will probably spend my time on Friday writing more info. down and looking up more sights that I can get info. off of. My painting seems to have many debates that could go along with it, because on all the websights I saw there was a debate that was being discussed. My next steps are to organize my project a little bit and find MORE reasearch! Also Ms.Hodge I need to ask you about some stuff on Friday or Thursday!!!

Blog #2

I have decided on my art piece and I think I am going to do "Bang" by Kerry James Marshall, it is very confusing and has a lot going on in it. I used the search engines that Ms.Hodge suggested and some of them worked really well! My favorite that I will probably use a lot is Viewzi. It shows you the webpage you are about to look at, and had a lot of useful webpages and information. The search engines Ask and Gigablast worked okay but the one that didn't work at all for me was Kartoo. I didn't take a lot of notes on the my actual art work but I found a lot of web sights that I can look at for information. I learned that Kerry James Marshall paints about civil rights and all of his art depicts African American's rights. I think he tries to get points across that all humans should be equal. I am excited to further research my artist and piece of artwork! Thank you Ms.Hodge for all of your help in the computer lab!!