All of my classes are off to a good start and i'm all caught up! Not that it would have been hard to get caught up because we have barely done anything!
First period: Art. For the first two days of art class we worked on review. Seeing as I had not taken an art class at my school since grade nine, I barely knew anything on the review sheet! However most of it was common sense. We had just begun to work on one of our major assignments this week. Cubism Art. We basically have to draw a picture only using straight lines and then split the drawing up into pieces and use different utensils for each section. Of course I would draw cameras! So on my sheet of paper I have two cameras on angles, one is larger than the other, and then the back of a camera in the background behind the first two. For my drawing I am using pencil crayons, black sharpie, pencil, black pen and pastels. So far, it is coming along nicely. Also this past Thursday our first sketchbook was due! Every Thursday we have a drawing assignment that is due to be critiqued. This week was a teacup and saucer. I had done what I did not want to do which was leave it till the last minute and basically rushed my drawing. I spent about an hour on it and was content with it. I knew it was not perfect and I knew my ovals were not even. But I did not want to fix it at that moment. It was late and I was tired and figured I would just fix it the next day. With a bit of shading here and a bit of erasing there, I got 10/10.
Second period: Yearbook and Journalism. I have this class with my International Business teacher from last semester. She is super nice and very down to earth. Basically what we're producing and publishing in this class is our school yearbook. We take photos, interview people and teachers, attend events and pretty much assemble the yearbook. Today was the last day for homeroom students to purchase their yearbooks. I however did not purchase mine. Today was pay day and I went to the bank this morning to check my balance and pull out some money. I don't like bringing my wallet to school and today I needed to buy a drink for my lunch. So not thinking I brought $20 to school for my drink. The yearbook costs $20. So I could not purchase it because I did not have enough money on me. However! Being in the yearbook class, I don't think it is too late! This week we've been getting to know our classmates. We played mini activities and get to know you games and are currently working on presentations with information about us and what we can do to contribute to the yearbook. Simple stuff. Also this week we are putting together a Valentines Day bake sale! We need to raise money to print our yearbooks out in full colour, (yeah, it sucks) so we have been trying our very best to make this a well known event! We have posted flyers all around the school, (which I made!) and have made a couple announcements. Hopefully the word will be out and we can raise enough money to get us started! With the goody bags I am making, how could people say no?
Fourth period: Entrepreneurial Studies. Oh so many quizzes! So far in this class we have done multiple online quizzes to see where we sit as future entrepreneurs. The first two were okay, then we got into the third quiz and the fourth quiz, it got so tiring and was a chore to complete these quizzes! However once again, simple stuff. This week consisted of self assessments letting others know about ourselves and finding where we sit as individuals as entrepreneurs. Today we did our first assignment as a class. We watched an episode of Dragons Den, a show about entrepreneurs pitching their business ideas in order to secure investment finance from a panel of venture capitalists. This was the first time I have ever watched the show or even heard of it. It was really quite interesting and humorous to watch! Some of the business pitches included a women trying to sell a kit for protection against germs and diseases, three business men trying to sell a mineral type product, a man trying to sell a Fenis (basically a way for women to stand while urinating) and a woman trying to sell Saskatoon Berries to get well known. All of the ideas failed, other than the woman trying to sell the Saskatoon Berries. It's crazy how hard it could be to get a business started and the steps you have to take in order to make it work!
Fifth period: English. I usually don't mind English. I'm usually decently good at it. However the topic for English for this year is Human Rights. In my opinion, I think this is a topic that should be discussed in a law or history class. I have no interest in it, nor do I know anything about it and want to know anything about it. However having the teacher I have and my friends around me, I think it will go over a lot more smoother. So far the first week we have been introduced to the Human Rights and what they mean. It's been a slack week seeing as we've only done a couple work sheets and had a presentation today by the creators of the comic book series Kill Shakespeare. It was an interesting presentation that kept me interested from the presenters humor. If it weren't for that I honestly think I would have been bored out of my mind. However I did have back-up! Before I attended the presentation I bought a package of skittles from the school vending machine. It helped a lot!
So that was my first week of semester two! On to the next week!
Here is an example of Cubism. :)
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