Project Title: Aztec Mural Project
Class: Humanities
*You may type directly in this document and copy and paste into blog, or simply address each of the following in a post. It should be approx. 2 pages worth of writing.
PURPOSE: In this section, explain what you were supposed to learn and what you were supposed to do.
Sentence Starters The purpose of this project was to learn about… In order to learn about _________________, we had to create/perform/ write/etc…
The purpose of this project was to learn about the Aztec culture. In order to do this, we had to do this activity where we went around the class and read about different things that had to do with the Aztecs such as their religious practices, the different games that they play, what they did to get married, what their diets were, etc. And right down a summary of each thing. Later on we had to take a test that had to do with these different topics so that we would really know a little bit of back round info to get an idea of what we wanted to paint our mural on. We decided that our mural would be of the Aztec sun stone.
WHAT I LEARNED
In this section, tell what information or skills you learned or improved.
Sentence Starters I learned about… I explored the concepts/topics of … In this project, I learned how to…. (skills)
I learned about how the sun stone was significant to the Aztecs. It was the way that they kept up of what day it was and what days the religious holidays would be held. We knew that the sun stone was like the Aztecs' basic way of life and that it was very important to them so that is why we decided to do that as our mural. I also learned that the sun god was the main god that the Aztecs looked up to and tried to please although they had many other gods. The Aztecs would do almost anything to please the sun god and they even sacrificed humans to “him”. So from knowing that we knew that we wanted to do something that had to do with the important sun god.
REFLECTION
In this section, reflect on your experience. Did you like the project? Why or why not? How did you do? What would you do differently next time?
Sentence Starters I enjoyed this project because… I feel like I could have done better on this project because… Next time, I would…
I enjoyed this project because I really like learning about different cultures and this enabled me to do this. I also feel that I learned a lot of new things like before I didn't know that the Aztecs had anything to do with Mexico. I also new nothing about the Aztecs and I feel that I really learned a lot more about them. I think that the biggest thing that I would do next time is pick to do something with a lot less detail because I feel in the end all of that detail made it very hard for us to finish all of the painting which probably resulted in us getting a loss of points. I would also do something more original that my group and I created our selves so it wouldn't seem like it was someone else's work.
ARTIFACTS
You should have at least one artifact from each project on your DP. What document, picture, or link will you have for this project?
I could probably have a picture of the Sun God.
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