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Monday, September 30, 2013

Superhero Mind Map

Following Mr. Charles' instruction, we made our mind map using the six thinking hats concept about a superhero. It can be a fictional superhero or a real life superhero.

The concept of the six thinking hats is to describe the tool for group discussion and individual thinking. The principles of the six thinking hats are:

  • Information (White) - considering purely what information is available, what are the facts?
  • Emotions (Red) - intuitive or instinctive gut reactions or statements of emotional feeling (but not any justification)
  • Discernment (Black) - logic applied to identifying reasons to be cautious and conservative
  • Optimistic response (Yellow) - logic applied to identifying benefits, seeking harmony
  • Creativity (Green) - statements of provocation and investigation, seeing where a thought goes
  • Strategy/Process (Blue)

So we searched for some real life superheroes from all around the world and came across a British guy named Ken Andre on a website for real life superheroes. His superhero name was 'Shadow'.

Shadow uses his martial art skills to catch muggers and drug dealers around his neighbour hood. He dresses up like a ninja and uses western weapons like guns and grenades to aid in his patrol.

Here is our mind map:



Our feedback from Mr. Charles was it looks interesting because there's the angry birds. But we needed more examples, pictures and the creative section was lacking.

After that he told us to do more research and there are three things we have to look for:
- the situation about our society
- the action plan
- personification

Monday, September 9, 2013

Building Our Doughnut Seat

We showed Mr. Charles some ideas on how we're going to build our sculpture.

On Friday, we started building our sculpture with newspapers, cardbox, cello tape.

Syafieza couldn't attend the meeting because she had an emergency and had to go to Seremban.




For the legs, we used bottles and newspapers.



Initially, we added water bottles inside the legs to give it weight so the seat wouldn't topple easily. But it was too heavy so we removed it.

As time wasn't enough, Danny volunteered to bring the doughnut seat back to his home and finish the job of sticking tissue with PVA glue on the seat. In return, us girls would have to finish the paint job.

Danny's finished job.

On Monday, we bought poster colors and started painting. For our dough, we used brown, for the cream, pink.


Then we added some shades. For the sprinkles, we used styrofoam and sticked it with glue.

In the end it looks like this.



Everyone did a good job and I'm glad we could finish our sculpture in time. I think we're all quite satisfied with our work.

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June.