Project Reflection-- Cherish

Looking over the whole project, I think I did well on this project and that I learned a lot. I feel that we did a good job presenting on the Resilience Cafe night and that both our artwork and song turned out well.
I learned a lot about Helen Keller and Melanie Benn, and a whole lot about other resilient community members and resilient historical figures. In addition, I learned a lot about the rhythms, rhymes, and structure of poetry/spoken word. I also learned a lot about Garageband, like creating music with Garageband, recording your voices onto Garageband, adjusting volume, etc. Also, I learned about African-American history, and more about the civil war.
Overall, I feel that I worked very hard on this project. I think that I accomplished a lot and was working hard the whole time, and that our projects turned out well. I feel that I worked to my full potential during this project and that I deserve an A.

On Resilience Cafe Night, I think we presented well and did everything we were supposed to, but that we didn't go above and beyond. We could have performed the music live instead with the music from our piece. Instead, we just played the song. We did everything we needed to but nothing extra so I think that I deserve a B on presentation.

I think that I worked very hard on the song. I tried out many different lyrics before deciding on the one I did. It took many tries to think of the poem. The recording of the poem took a lot of work because we had to keep re-recording different lyrics and fixing the music to fit with the lyrics, etc. I think that in the end the song turned out very well and that I deserve an A.

Lastly, I am proud of accomplishing everything I accomplished. I am proud of the quilt because we thought of something different than everybody else and that it turned out well, looked good, but also had a lot of meaning behind it. I am also proud of the song, for it's lyrics and the information that it shares about Melanie Benn. I am also proud of the bust of Helen Keller that I made at home on my own time. I wasn't able to fire it in time for Resilience Cafe night, but I did try.