Passion Project (Global Worldwide)

Reflection on your topic

What is your guiding question, and how did your guiding question change over time?

What are the key aspects needed to make a good song?

Why did you choose the driving question?

We chose the driving question to give us an understanding of what aspects are best whilst making a song to get the greatest potential out of our song as possible How did you collect your research and what did you discover?

We collected research by looking up how professional musicians generate ideas for their songs, and what they use to create their song Etc.

Reflection of Process

Did you encounter any unintentional learning? 

No, Once we researched our topic and all of the research was intentional. What obstacles did you encounter and how did you overcome them?

An Obstacle that we encountered was the lack of quiet spaces, we overcome it by informing a teacher about our project and kindly asking to use a quiet workspace, we also locked the doors to get the quietest space possible.

How did your distractions during the process help or hinder you, what path did it lead you on?

The distractions helped us to focus harder, and the noise distraction in the background was actually used in the music video which turned out to make it better. Listen closely to the music and you can hear it.

What transferable knowledge/skills/concepts have you gained?

Some Skills/Concepts/Knowledge that I've gained would be, How to create a song beat & that independence is more difficult than communitive.

The biggest growth for you, personally from this passion project experience?

The biggest growth for me would probably be that I've evolved with confidence during this phase.

What advice would you give for incoming students who might be completing this project next year?

Unless you're 100% confident in yourself to work and present alone, you should work with Friends that would make you feel comfortable doing the things that you enjoy. Choose a project that you would be willing to study and try your best in... 

The Red Sari (Post Reading Questions)

• Look up one new word from the story you don’t know the meaning of, and re-write the definition in your own words.
  Concertina- Concertina Means to Extend, Compress or Collapse against something.
  Example: The car had concertinaed against the truck, The best way to describe the text is the instrument concertina the instrument extends, compresses and pressures towards the other side of the instrument.

• In “The Red Sari,” the narrator experiences a very different world to NZ. What is a quote from this story which shows this?
  "High above the smog-filled sky" This part of the text is very different to New Zealand, There is a clear sky blue sky in New Zealand compared to New Delhi, India at the time, back then New Delhi was known as the most polluted country in the world because the air was filled with smog and you could even see some dirt in the atmosphere.

• What do you think the author, Apirana Taylor, wanted us to understand about experiencing different cultures?

                Apirana Taylor wanted us to understand the cultural differences and how they can lead to misunderstandings and discomfort within the Indian culture.

• Does Apirana Taylor encourage us to appreciate people who are different to us? How so? Yes, Apirana Taylor encourages us to appreciate others who are different from us because in the text we could picture their poor lives and the begging that they would need to do to survive, we do not know how hard it is for other countries and we do not know the suffering that they would have to live with. We need to support not only cultures but their beliefs because it can increase happiness, boost self-esteem, and improve our relationships with others.