Brave New World
In this project, we first read the book Brave New World. Brave New World is a book about a dystopian society where babies are made in factories, not born. Giving birth is considered a horrible disgusting thing. The book was written by Aldous Huxley in 1932. We wrote an individual writing piece; some people wrote essays, poems, missing scenes - I chose to take it in the direction of writing my own dystopia story. In digital arts we created a visual piece to go with our writing.
Brave new wrold reflection
My greatest challenge in this project was probably writing my story. I struggled to finish it in the time limit, and make the ideas connect. I have always struggled with short stories, because I like to write “novels” and so they don’t have an ending. I had a hard time coming up with an ending I liked. Keeping up with the reading was the most challenging part of the book for me. I read slowly, so it took me longer to read and come up with dialecticals, and I often fell behind by a chapter. It also didn’t help that I would read late at night before bed, when I was tired and falling asleep every five minutes. This is an important accomplishment to me because I’ve never been able to do this before.
I feel I have grown as an individual in this project by learning how to write a short story. It is also a story that mostly makes sense and has a message as well. I got better at annotating, and I noticed when I was reading a pleasure book, I kept thinking of things and I was convinced I needed to be annotating it. I realized that I didn’t and was surprised I had immediately thought of things as good questions or comments for annotations. At the beginning of the book I was struggling to come up with good annotations to reach my 8, but by the end I was doing extra.
After my first year of high school I want to remember how much fun I had doing all the projects. At times all the writing got overwhelming, but the projects we’ve done this year were really fun. The Model UN conference was my favorite exhibition, because it was the most interactive and interesting. I liked that it was about us, and we were interacting with the rest of the class. This is important because I want to remember why I like Animas, and the projects are a big part of it. I’ve had a lot of fun with the projects and they’re more meaningful.
I’m proud of how my project turned out. Even though my digital art piece didn’t really connect to my story, I thought it looked better than I had thought it would. I had an idea that I abandoned two days before exhibition and had to start over with a new idea. I’m also proud of my story and the title I found for it. I was having problems thinking of a good title the night before it was due. I’m proud of my story mostly making sense and that it has a kind of ending, which is better than not really making sense, and a not at all ending, which is what most of my stories are.