It's only been a week, but this AEP blog is definitely one for the books! Buckle up your seat belts and turn up the music because this is going to be a bumpy ride.
Starting off on Monday, we played "Contexto." Our first guess was "berry," which yielded a close score. Going off from this, we'd naturally assumed that the word was a fruit or something sweet. But as the number of our guesses continued to increase and fewer fruits could be typed, we were utterly confused.
With the time limit up, we felt defeated. But a few minutes later, Shasmeen managed to guess it! The word was "cinnamon." What a silly word to be associated with fruits!
Afterwards, we moved on to learning unit 4 of vocabulary in preparation for the quiz we'd take tomorrow. We each got two to three words to learn and memorize. After about five minutes, we said them aloud and answered a short quiz together. My words were "affiliated," which means officially connected/joined to an organization, and "ascertain," which means to find something out for certain.
The next day, we started off with "Squardle" instead. It consisted of twenty-three words, which we briskly answered. Then we moved to the real hurdle of the day: the vocabulary quiz. Everyone was reluctant to spin the wheel, but we all knew it had to be done. After a couple of spins, it was my turn finally. I got the word, "expunge," meaning to destroy everything or annihilate. On my second go, I got "venial," which I quickly remembered to mean capable of being forgiven.
As it was a double period, we had much time on our hands. To put a twist to essay writing, we did the complete opposite! We drew a bar chart based on a text sample to test our understandings. It discussed amount of men, women, and children who ate the proper servings of vegetables between the years 2001 and 2008. I was paired with Naboni and Meral to construct the diagram. And although the drawing was not as clean or precise as I would've liked it to be, it did the job. Here's our drawing compared to the boys':
I hate to admit that the boys did a pretty fantastic job. It was the closest to the real thing. Nonetheless, I did enjoy this exercise and hope to do this more often in the future.
To end the day, we decided to do a "drawing blind" challenge. The mechanics of the game were simple: one team would see the painting and describe it orally, while the other would actually paint it on the board. We were not allowed to use our hands when describing the painting as this would defeat the purpose of exercising our communication and descriptive skills.
We were separated into two teams: girls versus boys. We went first in painting, and, I've got to say, it was pretty hard trying to communicate with them as their descriptions were a bit all over the place. One of them would say to make a rectangle that then somehow became a triangle by tapering the bottom. Confusing, right?
We had to ask a bunch of questions. "What color is it?" "Right here?" "Is this what you mean?" "What are you even trying to say?"
It was complete chaos. They'd respond with: "No, no! A little more to the right." or "Ah, go back again. It's a smidge more to the top." It was a really funny sight. But towards the end, we got the hang of it. Here's the finished painting below compared to the real one:
Then, it was finally our turn to show the boys how to really communicate. We got to work fast because there was only ten minutes left before the session would end. The painting we were given was much more abstract in my opinion. It was difficult to describe each and every swirl around the "sun." You can see what I'm talking about below.
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