The Mask Project.
Jaida L’aDnier
12-5-2019
Sellers 3-4
Animals, Generations, and Nature
What makes me who I am? We have been studying what socialized my character and I continue to not know who I am, as it is ever-changing. I have started to learn more about what created me but I haven’t yet figured it out but with the help of this project, I have found out my love for animals, nature, and family.
My household currently has 4 generations creating a home in the same house: my great-grandma, my grandma, my mom, and me. Our animals are what brings my family near, though my Great-Grandma will never be too close to my family because she has Dementia. This affects our family greatly and it is getting worse, but we manage to get through it. It may not be easy but it’s worth it. My family socializes me as they continue to raise me even when I'm a pain.
My family assumes that all the students that go to Animas are my friends, but that couldn’t be further from the truth. I have a few close friends, all in 9th grade, but I'm fine with a few close friends. Personally, I'd rather have a few close friends instead of many not-so-close friends. Most of the 9th graders aren’t even my friends, they just criticize how I do things, and how I look. In my opinion, I don’t need, nor want to be friends that act like they are better than everyone.
My family thinks that I am savvy, alluring, and divine. But to me, I am the opposite of everything they say: Including my personality and taste in clothes and music. I am a spoiled child: I do not have to do chores, tasks, or anything else the average child is permitted to. I am picky and particular. I have a lot of stuff going on in my life, but I manage to get through rough times and easy times.
To me, my best quality is how much I love animals. My whole life has involved animals: when I was born, we had 4 dogs, a few years after I was born and we had moved here, to Durango, we got a bird, years after that we got hermit crabs, now we have 3 dogs alone.. All three mean the world to me, along with my family. My dogs have socialized me in a way nobody else could, seeing as they are dogs. They socialized me by showing me how much love one being could have for another being or two: animals are more caring than most humans on this planet.
As of now, I have figured out much more about who I am and who I have become during the past 14 years of my existence.
12-5-2019
Sellers 3-4
Animals, Generations, and Nature
What makes me who I am? We have been studying what socialized my character and I continue to not know who I am, as it is ever-changing. I have started to learn more about what created me but I haven’t yet figured it out but with the help of this project, I have found out my love for animals, nature, and family.
My household currently has 4 generations creating a home in the same house: my great-grandma, my grandma, my mom, and me. Our animals are what brings my family near, though my Great-Grandma will never be too close to my family because she has Dementia. This affects our family greatly and it is getting worse, but we manage to get through it. It may not be easy but it’s worth it. My family socializes me as they continue to raise me even when I'm a pain.
My family assumes that all the students that go to Animas are my friends, but that couldn’t be further from the truth. I have a few close friends, all in 9th grade, but I'm fine with a few close friends. Personally, I'd rather have a few close friends instead of many not-so-close friends. Most of the 9th graders aren’t even my friends, they just criticize how I do things, and how I look. In my opinion, I don’t need, nor want to be friends that act like they are better than everyone.
My family thinks that I am savvy, alluring, and divine. But to me, I am the opposite of everything they say: Including my personality and taste in clothes and music. I am a spoiled child: I do not have to do chores, tasks, or anything else the average child is permitted to. I am picky and particular. I have a lot of stuff going on in my life, but I manage to get through rough times and easy times.
To me, my best quality is how much I love animals. My whole life has involved animals: when I was born, we had 4 dogs, a few years after I was born and we had moved here, to Durango, we got a bird, years after that we got hermit crabs, now we have 3 dogs alone.. All three mean the world to me, along with my family. My dogs have socialized me in a way nobody else could, seeing as they are dogs. They socialized me by showing me how much love one being could have for another being or two: animals are more caring than most humans on this planet.
As of now, I have figured out much more about who I am and who I have become during the past 14 years of my existence.
Jaida L’aDnier
12-12-2019
Sellers 3-4
Digital Portfolio Update
We started this 12 week mask project after investing our attention to reading and listening to films that helped us create our masks, such as Mean Girls, metamorphosis, and feral children. Watching and reading these articles and films has prepared us for this project by helping us discover our personalities so we could incorporate them into our masks to showcase ourselves to the community.
During this project, I did not know how to use TEA paragraphing and it made me expand out of my comfort zone to learn it. I fell short on my essay when it comes to the length of my essay: I think I took the easy way more than the mediocre way for these reasons.
When I was working on the essay, I would ask my friends to edit my essay and help me figure out what to conclude to, or what to change some words to: when I was working on my mask, I asked my friends what to add or what to change to make it more interesting.
As I was working on the essay and mask, I would occasionally get overwhelmed and would back off for a while or quit working on it and work on something different that I needed to do, so I could get my mind off of it and get focused.
My work is not refined what-so-ever. It is not refined because I am absolutely terrible at refinement, I tried to refine my essay many times, with help from friends and help from Stephen, but it was never refined enough to my liking. I do not take pride of my essay because it is not in TEA paragraphing, it is not refined, and I wrote it with help. This is why I do not take pride in my work.
This project impacted me as a human, as a student because this project made me think about who I am, about my personality, and about what makes me who I am today.
12-12-2019
Sellers 3-4
Digital Portfolio Update
We started this 12 week mask project after investing our attention to reading and listening to films that helped us create our masks, such as Mean Girls, metamorphosis, and feral children. Watching and reading these articles and films has prepared us for this project by helping us discover our personalities so we could incorporate them into our masks to showcase ourselves to the community.
During this project, I did not know how to use TEA paragraphing and it made me expand out of my comfort zone to learn it. I fell short on my essay when it comes to the length of my essay: I think I took the easy way more than the mediocre way for these reasons.
When I was working on the essay, I would ask my friends to edit my essay and help me figure out what to conclude to, or what to change some words to: when I was working on my mask, I asked my friends what to add or what to change to make it more interesting.
As I was working on the essay and mask, I would occasionally get overwhelmed and would back off for a while or quit working on it and work on something different that I needed to do, so I could get my mind off of it and get focused.
My work is not refined what-so-ever. It is not refined because I am absolutely terrible at refinement, I tried to refine my essay many times, with help from friends and help from Stephen, but it was never refined enough to my liking. I do not take pride of my essay because it is not in TEA paragraphing, it is not refined, and I wrote it with help. This is why I do not take pride in my work.
This project impacted me as a human, as a student because this project made me think about who I am, about my personality, and about what makes me who I am today.