Benton High School: Tessellation

To set the demographics, Lacy Elementary School is a 60-year-old neighborhood school. Originally built to accommodate 500 students, the school is now over capacity, reaching a high enrollment of 650 students. Located in an urban school district, a majority of the students qualify for the federal breakfast and lunch program. The district has recently experienced a new rezoning, and in result there are buses now bringing 200 students from the surrounding neighborhoods to the school. Lacy Elementary opens its’ doors at 7:30 a.m., although school doesn’t begin until 8:30 a.m. Teachers are not required to report to school until 15 minutes prior to school beginning, however, teacher assistants or paraprofessionals are paid a stipend to supervise students before and after school. Although they have this opportunity, there are only two individuals who have chosen to supervise in the breakfast program. To provide additional assistance, PTA volunteers and administration are currently helping supervise when able.

It first starts off with A. Square explaining to us his homeland. He calls it Flatland and it is a two dimensional world. His world is often described to be a victorian society. They have the belief that the less angles you possess the smarter and higher in society you will be. The highest figures in their society are the circles and after them come the polygons who are upper class. The middle class consists of squares, pentagons, hexagons etc. The equilateral triangles are in the lower class and the isosceles triangles are the working class or servants. Irregulars are seen as criminals and are believed to be stupid and dangerous. An irregular is a figure who’s sides are not equal or congruent. They might be surgically altered at a young age,

They do not attempt to represent these things as they are in nature, but still use recognizable shapes to signify them. The colorful butterfly is a collage made of fabric paint, ribbon, and textured paper. On the colorful butterfly, the skull is meant to draw attention, as it is in the center of the work, slightly raised, and is different colors than the wings. The irregular lines and organic shapes of the patterns radiate out from the skull, guiding the eye to the butterfly outline. This butterfly is the plate used to create the second. The second, with an absence of color, gets the viewer’s attention with its unusual placement. It contrasts the first butterfly in both color and material. The eye is drawn to the darker elements in the center and the border.

During fourth period on Thursday, January 28th I observed Dee Hertzog’s Honors Geometry class. At the beginning of class Dee went around checking to see which students completed their previous night’s homework assignment. While this was going on students were expected to work on the warm-up problems that were projected on the Promethean Board. After Dee was done checking in with each student on the homework assignment she asked two students to work together to put their work and answers to the warm-up problems on the board. This warm-up was then reviewed with the class. While reviewing the warm-up problem, Dee activated prior knowledge by asking the students if they remembered using the Pythagorean Theorem. She asked the students what they

The time travel of this book is when one kid says something every other kid says the same thing. It is almost like a timed video game where they are programmed to say specific sentences or words. The science of a Tesseract is to show the time travel

1Cubism: visual art style of the early twentieth century in which images were generally fractured into geometric facets

On October 3, several students at Rogers High School in Puyallup received text messages of a person dressed as a clown threatening to kill students at the school. A person reported that a person dressed as a clown was seen wielding a knife near the school campus on the following morning. On October 4, the school was put on lock down and police found two clown masks in the woods adjacent to the school. Two other Pierce County schools Emerald Ridge High School and Glacier View Junior High were closed down on October 4 due to threats. The case is being investigated by both the Pierce County Sheriff's Office and the

In the articles “The Golden Ratio”, “Home Decor”, and “5 Ways Geometry is used in homes” they all explain how geometry is used in modern homes. Each article gives the reader an inside of what the architects look at when constructing or designing a house. “The Golden Ratio” shows you what the Golden Ratio was used for and how it was used through history. “Home Decor” shows you what really goes on in your house, as in area of a room and the volume of your swimming pool. “5 Ways Geometry Is Used In Homes” gives you principles that are used when constructing a home.

Looking around the world there are repeated patterns everywhere, and many people tend not to notice. Nature, both here on earth and in space, seems to reuse these patterns over and over again. Is there a driving force behind everything, or is it just all one colossal coincidence? Science has provided a theory that may favor the prior. There seems to a link between Panpsychism, and both the earthly and heavenly bodies of the universe. An artist by the name of Dan Christensen often uses the same patterns in his paintings. Usually a giant dot in the center, and swirling loops. One example of this is his piece, Revolver. The patterns he uses to paint we see examples of in, and outside of the world.

TXT- His captured works are usually shapes that are found in the subject matter like barns or the exterior of a building that depicts fascinated designs revealing the inner beauty of surfaces. Page 189

Mosaic crafting is a method developed in the Hellenistic period and can date as early as second century BC. It is made from multiple steps that require lots of skills and experience: First, every mosaic starts from a solid foundation. It is known as the statumen, created with large pieces of bricks and pottery. The second layer, or rudus, a mixture of rubble and lime, is beaten solid to a thickness of nine inches. After that nucleus is created with a mix of lime and small pieces of brick. Then the setting bed for tesserae is applied, which is an even finer layer of mortar. After the base is built, the artist would mark the area on the setting bed, then place the tesserae. Finally, the surface of the mosaic is leveled by grinding the tesserae

Mosaics first were introduced into the world in third century B.C. The style has remained a staple in many cultures such as the Byzantine empire, Hellenistic culture, Christian works and a myriad of others. It has prevailed well into the 21st century and has become a staple for every day life. One can see such styles in many gardens and homes. At its conception, mosaic art was created exclusively with ivory, shells, or stone to create an image, usually an image so detailed that from afar it appeared to be a painting. This style was a simplistic yet intricate way to showcase different beliefs, images, and artistic talent with straightforward presentation. In my piece, I used different shapes and sizes to create different textures and visuals. In addition, the contrasting colors serve to make the image pop and not become faded out or overpowered. I specifically used the double indirect meteor of having tesserae glued face up to adhesive backed paper. The separated pieces and jagged edges create an allusion to the colony collapse disorder occurring to bees

While almost every definition of the geometric terms used throughout matched up pretty well to what I believed to be the definition or pretty close to it, there were a few that caused me to take a step back and to rethink my understanding and grasp of some geometric shapes and space. Once I realized the narrators view on women, I realized his definition of a straight line to be at the bottom of the class system. I reasonably agreed with his decision to compare our middle class to an Equilateral triangle, and him emphasizing that it was an equal-sided triangle just further more helped. His description of squares (which he included himself in) and pentagonal figures as being professional men and gentlemen also helped give a better image of definition and

My visual is more similar to Vonnegut’s shapes specifically to the “Man in Hole” shape because that shape portrays a plot in which the main character has ill fortune and in the end the character achieves a better fortune. This is what happened in the book written by Maya Angelou called I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings because Maya went through very rough times (ill fortune) several times, and each time she managed to get out of her troubles and pains achieving a better fortune. However, Freytag’s pyramid doesn’t portray the shape of the story because Freytag’s pyramid focus in the common elements of dramatic story which basically consists in the exposition, the rising action, climax, falling action, and the denouement. However, I Know Why the

I want to walk through the what and why of each pattern and then offer something else that gives you as a designer more control over where your viewer’s eye moves across your design.