For my Spanish writing project for the book, Blanca Como La Nieve, Roja Como la Sangre, I chose to be Beatrice, one of the main characters in the book, and write a diary about how much she loved life, and how the disease (leukemia) had changed her life.
I made three entries for the diary, and my first entry talked about how much Beatrice loved life, and how she wanted to do so much things in life, such as learning how to talk different languages, going on a trip around the world, etc. My second and third entries consisted of Beatrice being diagnosed with leukemia, and talking about how dismayed and horrified she was. Our objective was to use as many subjunctive words and transition/connector words. Personally, this was not the best I could have done. I felt like I had tried to talk about too many things in such a short piece of writing, and that had resulted in my writing piece being less focused and all over the place. I also made many small mistakes, and I believe I should have been more concentrated. There were also some errors in my use of subjunctive, and in the end, I think that I should have focused more on the subjunctive part than in trying to put more effort into the story of the writing. However, I do belive I portrayed Beatrice's thoughts at the time accurately, and I am happy with my work.
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This project was graded on the criteria C, D and D for Speaking, Attractiveness and Organization and Written Language. I got a 7, 8 and 8 for each criterion.
There were times when I felt frustrated with my project when it came to finding the right videos and resources for my video. There was a limited amount of information on the deforestation of the Amazon in Spanish, so there were times when I used English sources and had to translate them into Spanish. This, however, helped me in increasing both my English and Spanish writing skills. I felt ecstatic when I was done with the video, with the background music and all of it rendered properly. I felt really proud of myself for coming up with such an advertisement for the deforestation in the Amazon. This project helped me develop my writing skills and my investigating skills. I had to do a lot of rigorous research in order to complete this project; half of the time I had spent in this project was because of research. This project also helped me develop my writing skills because I had to come up with short, impacting sentences for the advertisement. I also learned a lot about future tense and using connector words through this project. I used various connector words that Ms. Linan gave me, and there was also a lot of future tense words used. I think I have used the IB traits "Communicators" and "Inquirers" in this project. I had to effectively communicate the problem of deforestation in the Amazon through a video, and I had to inquire on how to do so in an impacting way. I could have done better in this project by actually putting my voice in, or I could have made a brief presentation about my video before actually showing my video, which would have contributed to my speaking skills. I should have also included more consequences of deforestation. Overall, however, I am happy with my project and I think I have hit most of the top criteria for this project. My project was impacting, it grabbed the attention of my classmates, it was attractive and effectively organized, and I used a wide range of future tense (both regular and irregular), and varied structures appropriately. Although there may have been a few errors, they did not interfere with the presentation. The project was fun to do, as it was a topic I was really passionate about, and I would be happy to do any projects of this kind in the future as well. |
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