In my digital media class, me and my peers have been working on Photoshop. I chose this class for P.O.L's because I personally really like Photoshop. for my evidence of doing the work in this class, I have both a digital and physical copy.
At animas, I have found the correct path to lead me to a life full of light and success. I may have those times when I really struggle and get shoved back into a dark overwhelming corner, but I have learned that here at animas to not be afraid of the shadows cause it only means their is more light and success close by. I feel like here at animas I am free to have fun while i'm at school and get help to get a good education to get into college. Although here, The teachers don’t just focus on your grades and if you're paying attention like any ordinary teacher would, but they care about you and also physical and mental health. The teachers also love and support you through ups and downs, through school, and most of all they have helped me solve a lot of problems I have had at school and just in general. I feel like I can really connect to the teachers here at Animas because they have a huge sense of empathy for with everyone..
One strength I have is adaptability Evidence: mask and Rube goldberg Why your mask: because I really changed it up because I felt like at first when I was painting my mask, liked it but I wanted to change it cause their was too much painted on it so I decided to paint over it and put “Human” on the lips instead and a fake flower over one of the eyes and broken glass to show that their is a good and an evil side to everyone and the mask shows what makes us all Human. The tears under the flower represent how even the most precious things in life can get hurt.
Why your Rube Goldberg: In the rube goldberg project, me and my team at first we're going to make a drink But it was already being used to make drinks by several other peers. So, we decided that we were going to do something more simple so we actually filled a balloon with glitter and had the rube pop it. At first at the exhibition we struggled a lot to fix it and then we had to fix our cart which had a tac hot glued to the end of it and for it to be launched by a rubber band and pop the balloon but the tac was falling off so we went and duct taped it. Cause apparently everything is fixed with duct tape. Then it started to work.
I feel like sometimes I can be really immature but it helps me be energetic and happy at times when I really need it. I feel like it gives me motivation and helps when people around me really need a boost of energy. I really need to work on it sometimes though cause it can get out of control because it makes me space out and possibly lose a lot of my focus and others around me. I really need to work on Advocacy because I have a really hard time asking a teacher for help when it comes to being around peers, not because I feel anxious to speak in front of my class but because my I feel like my classmates are looking at me in a judgemental way and it makes me feel really stupid.
My action plan is to start advocating for myself so that I can get all the support I need to succeed in high school In spanish I need to work on advocacy because I didn’t know what to do in my startups and never asked for help because I was scared of what my classmates, and my teacher would think of me if I did ask. I also need to work on advocating in physics because when I was doing the Rube Goldberg project and I didn’t understand the write ups and didn’t ask because when I did he explained it in a way I didn’t understand I decided to instead work on the rube with a partner. In the future I will can start advocating for myself to get better results in grades.
The one topic that has changed my entire way of thinking was my socialisation project cause in the video I made which included a video where children with ethnicity choose a doll that they like better and most liked the white doll because she was white and the person interviewing the children asked what doll was the bad doll and they chose the doll that had darker skin and the interviewer asked why they thought it was bad and the child said because she’s black. It really shows how people are socialised and how people say racism is gone, it’s really not.
My overall experience here at Animas high school has been amazing At first I was scared but now I love it here and I personally wouldn't prefer any other high school. I feel like I now have the ability to do anything I put my mind to with the help of friends and teachers. I can’t wait for the next three and a half years at Animas with people I now call a huge family.