This is my HOHAM project. Everyone had a partner for this project. My partner Robby and I were assigned a villain, we named her Grandma Brainstorm. First we had to draw a picture of Grandma Brainstorm and decide what special powers she would have. Grandma Brainstorm's special powers allowed her to control other people's minds and she could create lightening with her cane. We were assigned the word "Perspective" for our villain. The definition of perspective is; "Subjective evaluation of relative significance; a point of view." The word perspective applies to Grandma Brainstorm because she is not afraid to give her point of view to other villains.
Our project included us writing a short comic for our villain, drafting a sketch of our villain, giving our villain a name, and naming the colors we planned on using for our project. We also had to list the objects we were going to use and the clothes that our villain was going to wear. We had to trace Grandma Brainstorm on a large piece of wood that was 2 feet long. We used an electric saw to cut out the drawing. Next, we painted our villain and gave her white hair by applying cotton stuffing. Once our villain was painted and dried, we displayed her on the ceiling by the 9th grade classrooms for everyone to see.
HOHAM The purpose of this hoham was to create a human being and to create their path. Our hoham taught us about individuality because everyone in the world is different and no one is the same. We had to make a hero or a villain that is different from the average hero or villain. My partner and I decided to do something way different and make our villain a grandmother.We called her Grandma BrainStorm, everyone’s hoham project had a habit and our word was perspective and perspective means “subjective evaluation of relative significance.” The things that went well with my project was the comic we created about our character and the other thing that went well was the painting of the character. These two things went so well because it was more fun to do and it was cool how my partner and I came up with a lot of ideas on what Grandma BrainStorm was going to look like and what her story was going to be. I’m mostly proud of the design of the character because my partner and I took a lot of time deciding on what color she was going to be, and what colors she was going to wear. I enjoyed this project because I was able to create a character that I thought was fun and when creating fun projects you get to do really cool things like build things and use actual tools and electric tools. Also projects are more fun when you have a partner to help you with all the work and ideas. The things that did not go so well with the project was cutting out the shape of Grandma BrainStorm. My partner and I cut the wrong parts of the body and we had to sand it down a lot so we could have smooth edges. I was not that happy with the wings because they looked different. The left and right wing looked more like a checkerboard but the wings actually looked liked wings. Next time to avoid having this mistake happen, I will try to take my time and make everything look the same. Our first draft of Grandma BrainStorm was ok, we did not have that much detail because we were trying to come up with ideas. So my partner and I decided to think outside the box a little more and add more detail. We liked our ideas from the second draft, and the picture looked much better than the first one. The changes to my project helped me realize that its good to come up with ideas and to brainstorm before beginning a project. I also learned that critiquing really helps you a lot because people can tell you what you need to add and what you need to eliminate in writing or drawing. The things that went really well with my partner was creating our character and working together to come up with ideas for our character. We also agreed on the comics and decided to make our project different from the norm. We decided to make different shapes and put the title in the middle of the comic. The process could have gone a lot better if we had more time because we messed up many times. I thought I was a helpful partner. I probably could have contributed more to the writing but I was busy working on the character. I learned that it is not always easy to work with others because sometimes everyone has different ideas and you have to find a way to meet somewhere in the middle. I used to think that creating projects were simple, then I saw the opportunity to think outside the box and create something unique and adventurous, now I see that teamwork, creativity, good research, and patience can help bring together an awesome project.