Name of Assignment: Notebook Cover Subject: Music History Facilitator/Teacher: Mr. Goring
Description of Work/Assignment: For this assignment, each student had to select pictures that best describe them in music. You could also just pick out your favorite artists. The whole notebook should be covered in drawings, pictures, quotes, lyrics, etc. After inserting you pictures you would have to describe or explain why you chose that picture on the first page after opening the notebook. Each explanation had to at least be a paragraph.
Which 21st Century Skill do you feel this assignment addresses, and why? I feel like this assignment addresses the Self-Directional 21st Century Skill. Self-directional skills is demonstrating my ability to understand and monitor my own learning needs and to goal-set. I definitely did this for this project because we weren’t given any time in class to do it. I had to set reminders for me to do it because it would’ve easily slipped my mind as time goes by. I also set some goals, for example, “I should print out the pictures by a certain date. Then the next day I will cut and tape the pictures onto the notebook cover. The day after that I should be writing the explanations”. That is why this assignment addresses the self-directional 21st century skill.
What are you most proud of from this assignment, and why? The thing that I’m most proud of from this assignment was that I was able to present and express myself well during the presentation part of the assignment. I normally don’t do too well in presentations but; for this assignment I was presenting my favorite artists and how they impacted my life or why I chose to put them on my cover. I was able to speak up more and present with confidence.
How did you develop and/or improve upon your 21st Century Skill with this assignment? I improved my 21st century skill by really making sure that I stuck to my goals and made sure that I achieved them. I was able to keep myself on task at home while doing the assignment as well. I feel like I was able to improve my time-management when it came to this assignment.
What was most difficult about completing this task? The most difficult thing about completing this task would have been picking out what to put on my notebook cover. I have a long list of favorite artists but I wouldn’t have been able to fit them all. I limited myself to put around 4 to 5 different artists. But all together I have around 10 to 15 favorite artists.
How could you improve this work? If you could start over, what would you do different? I could improve this work by making the notebook look a little neater. If I were to start over, I would do some things different. I would try to cut the pictures out better. I would’ve also tried to tape the pictures down to the notebook neater.
How does this relate to what you have learned in the past? The only time that I did an assignment like this was in Humanities 11. We also made a notebook cover. The only difference is that I drew out the cover on things that described me or things about me. For this assignment, I only printed out pictures. I also don’t like how I did my notebook cover in Humanities 11 because it ended up falling off my notebook.
How can you apply this to future learning? I can apply this to future learning when doing any art related assignments or projects. I know now that I should really take more time on the creation of the project to have a better outcome. Whenever I have any assignments like this I will take more time on it and make sure that it lasts and looks good.