project reflection AZTEC

Name: Wade Bruffey
Project Reflection
Project Title: Aztec Mural Project
Class: BD
Dates: 5/5/08

[ PURPOSE ]
The purpose of this project was to learn about Aztec history and representations of their lives through murals. We visited Chicano Park to see murals painted by professional artists, and then used their ideas to create our own orginal murals. We learned about aztec culture through the murals that we created and by doing the artist's statement.

[ WHAT I LEARNED ]
I learned not just about Aztec culture, but also about the murals that we created. I learned about how Aztec gods related to the way the Aztecs lived. The Aztecs belived that every event that happened on earth was pre determined by the gods. since they belived in this, then crime was not punished by jail, they were punished by a dicipline in relation to their action. so if a person stole, then they were required to repay the person they stole from three times worth what they stole.

[ REFLECTION ]
I really liked this project because we got to design and paint a mural that related to an interesting topic. I think i learned a lot about the Aztecs in a fun way and i really liked that about this project. The project kept me really busy all through it. I dont think i would change anything about this project if i re did it either, I also think my group was really good even though it was all guys.

[ ARTIFACTS ]
i could take pictures of the mural and put them on my DP