Quarter 3
My quarter started off with lots and lots of note taking...
The images above are just the cover pages of my notes, and there are more in my notebook. Primarily these notes are from books, and internet resources.
ThingLinks to Show Learning
Slavery Timeline
Cotton and Slaves
Slave Clothing
Head wraps/Scarves
Fashion/Garments in the African Burial Grounds of NYC
Cotton and Slaves
Slave Clothing
Head wraps/Scarves
Fashion/Garments in the African Burial Grounds of NYC
Quarter 4
An Excerpt From My Narrative About Global Citizenship
I spent a large amount of time doing research from books, as well as websites for my Global Citizenship project. For the third quarter this project was about African-American fashion/clothing throughout history, addressing standards 2, 4, and 5 (Culture, History, and Economics). I wanted to study something in the realm of fashion that related to social change. I thought about studying an era of fashion, and any social change that happened within it, however, I decided to study a group of people throughout history instead. The beginning of this project I found particularly hard. Fashion is very woven into class.
Throughout history, portraits have been for the wealthy. Looking at primary resources throughout history is therefore very hard to find sources that represented African-Americans. During post, civil war times in the US, African-Americans were freed from slavery, but still oppressed. This made finding well-paying jobs, and reaching a higher social class extremely hard, creating a lack of portraits or any images of what African-Americans wore. Ben also advised me against using primary resources in this particular study, since they aren’t necessarily a representation of African-American style, but of white style in that time period.
Secondary resources are hard to find on this subject as well. Once I got past this and had resources there were very few challenges in this portion of my study. I used the resources I did have, and found bits in them I could research further. The librarians were very helpful in this. As was doing a brief internet search to find little bits of different things to look further into or pieces of information I could use to help me find other pieces of information. Working with the librarians, and Ben are examples of Self-Advocacy. After I had a good amount of notes I chose to show my learning by creating ThingLinks of them. This is an example of Demonstration of my proficiency in the history standard. I then studied cultural appropriation, and connected what I learned about African-American history to cultural appropriation within fashion. This consisted of an article about dreadlocks and cultural appropriation for the Chronicle as a form of Demonstration. This study of cultural appropriation shows my proficiency in the culture standard. Cultural appropriation is a very complex idea dealing with cultures and the way in which they interact with each other. This portion of my project I started in the third quarter, and due to interviewing complications it carried on to the end of the fourth.
At the beginning of this project I was thinking about giving up, and switching my topic of study. However after help from Laura, and Ben I found resources and followed through on my project. This is an example of Perseverance.
For the fourth quarter to address the Economics standard (5) as well as the Civic Literacy standard (4) I studied labor and the livable wages in India, particularly pertaining to garment workers. I started off with a very broad lense on ethical fashion. This felt like too much to study so I zoomed in on labor. Then as a final piece I zoomed in further to what it really meant to have a “livable wage.” Since the economic status of different countries is varied the wages are as well. This forced me to zoom in again on a particular country. In an effort to reach proficiency in the civic literacy standard as well I pulled a little more legalities for the minimum wage than I would have if I had just been writing for the economics standard.
Finding resources for this project I found significantly easier than for my past project. After the Rana Plaza disaster there was a lot in the news about ethics in fashion, and much more consumer pressure than before. There are many resources for this topic including documentaries, books, news articles, and podcasts. My proficiency in the standard of economics is shown by a final paper that I wrote including the culmination of my learning.
Throughout history, portraits have been for the wealthy. Looking at primary resources throughout history is therefore very hard to find sources that represented African-Americans. During post, civil war times in the US, African-Americans were freed from slavery, but still oppressed. This made finding well-paying jobs, and reaching a higher social class extremely hard, creating a lack of portraits or any images of what African-Americans wore. Ben also advised me against using primary resources in this particular study, since they aren’t necessarily a representation of African-American style, but of white style in that time period.
Secondary resources are hard to find on this subject as well. Once I got past this and had resources there were very few challenges in this portion of my study. I used the resources I did have, and found bits in them I could research further. The librarians were very helpful in this. As was doing a brief internet search to find little bits of different things to look further into or pieces of information I could use to help me find other pieces of information. Working with the librarians, and Ben are examples of Self-Advocacy. After I had a good amount of notes I chose to show my learning by creating ThingLinks of them. This is an example of Demonstration of my proficiency in the history standard. I then studied cultural appropriation, and connected what I learned about African-American history to cultural appropriation within fashion. This consisted of an article about dreadlocks and cultural appropriation for the Chronicle as a form of Demonstration. This study of cultural appropriation shows my proficiency in the culture standard. Cultural appropriation is a very complex idea dealing with cultures and the way in which they interact with each other. This portion of my project I started in the third quarter, and due to interviewing complications it carried on to the end of the fourth.
At the beginning of this project I was thinking about giving up, and switching my topic of study. However after help from Laura, and Ben I found resources and followed through on my project. This is an example of Perseverance.
For the fourth quarter to address the Economics standard (5) as well as the Civic Literacy standard (4) I studied labor and the livable wages in India, particularly pertaining to garment workers. I started off with a very broad lense on ethical fashion. This felt like too much to study so I zoomed in on labor. Then as a final piece I zoomed in further to what it really meant to have a “livable wage.” Since the economic status of different countries is varied the wages are as well. This forced me to zoom in again on a particular country. In an effort to reach proficiency in the civic literacy standard as well I pulled a little more legalities for the minimum wage than I would have if I had just been writing for the economics standard.
Finding resources for this project I found significantly easier than for my past project. After the Rana Plaza disaster there was a lot in the news about ethics in fashion, and much more consumer pressure than before. There are many resources for this topic including documentaries, books, news articles, and podcasts. My proficiency in the standard of economics is shown by a final paper that I wrote including the culmination of my learning.
At the beginning of this quarter I wrapped up my learning about african american fashion throughout history with a paper about cultural appropriation.
From there I started studying economics. Begining with lots of note taking.
*These are just the cover pages*
I read articles and responded to them. As well as listened and responded to podcasts.
Then I narrowed my study to do a final paper on the livable wage in India.
A screenshot of the total hours in my time log as of 6/13/18 is below. I would not say that in anyway this is an accurate timelog. I often forgot to log, or chose not to when I did anything for less than 30 minutes.