Introduction

Hello, My name is Dina Shah. I'm in Year 8. This is my MYP Arts Process Journal. On this blog you will find documented evidence of my learning through The Arts: Visual Arts| Drama| Music. This term I am starting my learning journey in Music.

My strongest Arts Subject is Art. I would like to develop my skills in Music & Drama. 

Art Reflection

Unit: Ramayana Story ATLs:   1. Communication 2. Social 3.Self - Management Rotation: Visual Art   Drama   Music

MYP Year 7/8/9 Inquiry Question: Key Concept: Global Context:

Name: Dina Shah Form: 8AA Date: 29th November 2015

All tasks you undertake for this Unit, in class and independently at home, are designed to cover all of the MYP Criteria. This gives you an opportunity to gain the best level possible in each criterion.

MYP Art Grade Level Boundaries
MYP Grade	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
Score	3	4-8	9-14	15-18	19-23	24-27	28-32
Learner Profile Attributes I have used during this Unit:
During this project I think I have been open-minded by sharing my ideas, I think I’ve been a communicator as I worked and communicated with my group throughout this project and I also thing I have been a risk-taker by trying out new designs while making my puppets and a risk-taker while performing

If you work to the best of your ability, challenge yourself, and take risks you will gain the best grade possible at MYP.

MYP CRITERIA

A Knowing & Understanding 0-8 B Developing Skills 0-8 C Thinking Creatively 0-8 D Responding 0-8

Term:     1	A	B	C	D	MYP Score		Awarded Grade	Criteria I need to improve on next time:       Criteria A
	5	6	6	6	5
Newly acquired ATL and Arts skills I have learnt: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
Where you will find Evidence of what I did well: I can see what I did well in and what I need to improve on my looking at my marks on each criterion. What I found challenging whilst doing this Unit: During this unit the most challenging bit I found was the cutting out designs with a craft knife therefore my teammates helped me. The Arts MYP Year 789 Reflection Approaches to Learning (ATL) Highlight the ATLs you used Communication Communication Skills How did you communicate through meaningful interaction? Exchanging thoughts, messages and information effectively through interaction: How did you demonstrate communication through Language? Reading, writing and using language to gather and communicate information: Social Collaboration Skills Explain how you used collaboration skills? Working effectively with others: Self-Management Organization Skills How did you demonstrate organization skills? Affective Skills How did you manage your own behaviour? Managing State of Mind: Mindfulness: Practice focus and concentration/ Practice strategies to overcome distractions Perseverance: Demonstrate persistence and perseverance Emotional Management: Practice strategies to prevent and eliminate bullying/Practice strategies to reduce stress and anxiety  Self-Motivation: Practice positive thinking Resilience: Practice dealing with challenge/Practice dealing with disappointment and unmet expectations Reflection Skills How did you use reflective skills to improve your work during the unit? Research Information Literacy Skills How did you develop information literacy skills? Media Literacy Skills How can students demonstrate media literacy? Interacting with media to use and create ideas and information:- Thinking Critical Thinking Skills How did you think critically? Creative Thinking Skills How did you think creatively? Transfer Skills How did you transfer skills and knowledge from other subject areas? Use the questions to help focus your answers so you give a strong reflection on your individual performance:						My Target Improvements for next term are: ·       Push myself more ·       Time managment How did you develop your ATL Skills? Reflect on how you used the ATLs throughout this unit. Give evidence to support your answers. Did you manage to master any? This term my arts rotation was Visual Arts. In Art this term we did the Ramayana story that is linked to a religious festival that Hindu’s celebrate called ‘Diwali’. To perform the Ramayana story we used Indonesian puppets. For this assessment we worked in groups of 9-10 people. First, my whole group planned out our story. We divided it into three sections, a beginning, middle and an end. My group and I decided to change parts of the original story into 21st century characters. Half of my group was in music and the other half was in art. After that, the music group and my group’s narrator went to the music room to practice the tune that will play with our shadow puppet theatre. In art the first thing my group and I decided to do was search up ‘Indonesian puppets’. We used a variety of sources to inspire us on how our puppets must look like. We then send all our images to Ms.Turner and she printed them out for my group. Next, My group and I had to create a website (including our music group). On our website we had to upload all our information, images etc. We named our group ‘Space Monkeys INC’. After our website was set up, we had to start sketching. My group’s leader for art was Soroush. Soroush came up with a sensible idea to decide who was doing which character before we started drawing. In our puppet show there were 13 character puppets we created which are, Rama, Sita, Monkey Robot, Kausalya, Kaikeyi, Sumitra, The King, Planet Mars, Planet Jupiter, Ravana, Fire Sacrifice, Hunch Back Which and a Spaceship airplane. Next, we started sketching our puppets into our art sketchbooks. My art group and I decided that I would do the 3 wives, Kausalya, Kaikeyi, Sumitra. Everyone in my art group had 1-2 characters to create. The sketching in our sketchbooks took us around 4 lessons, as we had to put in as much detailed patterns as possible. When my whole art group and I were finished with our final sketch in our books, we put a note on our final page and Ms.Turner got it photocopied for us on a big A3 sheet. The next lesson we had, Ms.Turner gave us our photocopies, and we cut them out neatly and stuck them on hard grey poster paper. Once we stuck it on our poster paper we had to cut our puppets out again leaving a thin outline of poster paper around our puppet. When my group and I finished the simple steps and knew we were fully organized we moved onto the main bit. For the main bit, my group and I had to take cutting boards, place them on the table, put our puppets on top and start cutting out our detailed designs with craft knifes carefully. If it were too hard to cut out our own designs we would ask each other for help. After every once in a while, my teammates and I would ask each other for advice for any improvements on our puppets. We also always checked our puppets under the projector light to see which details we need to cut out. We did the same procedure for a couple of lessons. After a few lessons my group and I went to the music room to check on how our music group was doing. Once we knew our music group were doing fine, my teammates and I started practicing for our actual performance. To practice our performance we used flashlights on our phones. When my art group and I and music group were finished practicing our shadow puppet theatre we had to perform it to our class and get positive and negative feedback to add any improvements. After we were finally ready with our performance we had to perform in front of the year 6’s and 7’s. I was a little nervous, as it was my first time performing our shadow puppet theatre. I enjoyed the first performance a lot although for an improvement I knew my group and I had to put our puppets closer to the screen for it to be clearer to the audience. For my group’s music, the drums were too loud therefore the audience couldn’t her William (my groups narrator). When the performance was over, during the next lessons we watched over our performances to see how we did while reflecting on my group along with everyone else’s group. After a few weeks we got to perform for our parents. My group and I were not nervous at all since we had experienced it before and knew all our improvements. My teammates and I got lots of great feedback from teachers and parents. Overall, I really enjoyed this art rotation because I had so much fun creating my puppets. One thing I would’ve liked to improve on our final performance is time management. I think my group’s narrator was talking too fast and my group (art group) was rushing the puppets onto the screen. Something I would like to improve on in my next art rotation would be to push myself a little more in all my work to get a 6 as I got a 5 in visual arts.
A: Knowing & Understanding ·       Explain what knowledge & Understanding you have gained during the unit. ·       Can you explain what you have been learning about during your Arts rotation? ·       Have you learnt any new arts language and terminology? ·       Have you learnt a critical thinking process for your rotation, explain it. ·       Have you learnt about the historical/cultural context of your art form? B: Developing Skills ·       Explain which Arts skills you have acquired and developed during the unit? ·      How did you use apply these new skills and techniques to create, perform and/or present art? C: Thinking Creatively ·       Explain what your artistic intention was, why did you make this art form what was its function and purpose? ·       Can you explain if you considered your work from an alternative perspective, i.e., the impact on the audience/or developed your work to communicate a focused message ·       How did you demonstrate the exploration of ideas during the unit? D: Responding ·       Evaluate and assess your artistic response during the unit. ·       Does your work demonstrated a movement/genre/theme/concept and how? 1.     What could you do to improve your performance in this rotation? 2.     What areas of improvement do you need to focus on? 3.     How could you improve your learning experience in the next rotation?