Project 2
Disability
For my second project, I wanted to learn more about my brother and his disability. My brother is 24 and has MHIDD, Mental Health Intellectual Disability. This disability affects his ability to learn and know. My brother, Wayne, can not understand math, money, time, numbers, and so on. He struggles to understand, easily gets frustrated, walks away, and does not want to try again. I had sat down with my brother to ask him a few questions to help learn more about him and his disability. As well, I interviewed my family and a few others that know Wayne / deals with people and their disabilities. During this project, I learned a lot more about my brother and his disability than I did before.
Perspective
Perspective is a point of view. Project two I took nine perspectives and put them into one big perspective. Over the last three weeks, I had got different people to talk with me to get their perspective on the topic of my brothers disability. At the end, I transformed the whole perspective into three different pieces.
EnglishTo start off my project, I listed out different questions I would be asking people. I made a list to interview nine people who will be asked two to five questions. I started the interview process with my brother. After, I interviewed my mom, dad, grandpa, grandma, Steve - the state work, Mr. Fassl - the learning support teacher, Dr. Turner - a teacher at Central, and myself. After the interview was done, I transitioned into writing an article. Before I could write, I researched how to write an article. With the knowledge I gained, I wrote a three page article.
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HistoryWith the interview from the state worker giving a list of benefits and what the state does to support disability people, I looked up each one that my brother was apart of to gain more knowledge. I then worked with the interview, as I cut each answer up and numbered them. I highlighted the important statements that helped define who my brother was. With that, I wrote a description and a poem to help decide which perspective I liked best. I had chose the poem, which I than worked more on building the structure. In the end, I completed my narrative poem using the perspectives gathered.
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ArtFor art, I made two different pieces to compare the two perspectives. I painted a fire tuck on canvas because my brother is a volunteer firefighter. The first paining I had done, I did not use math at all. My proportions were off, which is something my brother would struggle with. I did not go back to redo the proportions or fix the mistakes, I let it be the way it was. The second painting I did, I used math. I drew a grid on the canvas and picture to help get the proportions correct. This helped me get an accurate proportion of the fire truck. After, I compared the two paintings to see the difference of how I struggled using no math to using math.
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You Are The Same As Me
Growing up with a disability doesn’t change you.
Watching you, my brother, struggle,
frustrated, and giving up.
Math, money, time, and numbers
are not your friend.
Escape to the firehouse,
to find your true friend.
Fire trucks, fire expos,
what you love.
Nothing will change,
or define,
who you are.
Watching you, my brother, struggle,
frustrated, and giving up.
Math, money, time, and numbers
are not your friend.
Escape to the firehouse,
to find your true friend.
Fire trucks, fire expos,
what you love.
Nothing will change,
or define,
who you are.
Painting Perspective From Wayne
To get Wayne's perspective, I decided to have him paint a smaller painting of a fire truck. I let him paint it how he sees the fire truck, and how he knows. Below is a slide show of Waynes progress of the painting. At the end, you can see how Wayne sees the fire truck in his eyes.