For my capstone, I decided to go with a Creative Writing and Illustration club. This was a club that would let the students in SMSA let out their creativity and share it with others within the club. In my club, we would write stories and paint a scenario from the story they created. The reason I wanted to do this club was because I had a love for art and reading. During my time in SMSA, I didn’t really get the chance to really express my love for those two things and I didn’t want that to happen to other people who had a love of art like I do.
The road to starting my capstone is not something I can be proud of. If we’re being honest here then my whole capstone has been a trial and error type scenario. We first start in the beginning where I tried doing an Art club but was told that due to Mrs.Jacocks having a busy schedule she would only be available one a month which wouldn’t work out, but after brainstorming with her for a while we came up with a creative writing and illustration club and all I needed was another teacher who would be my mentor. The first person that came to mind was Finkenstein because she’s an English teacher and I knew she had experience with being a mentor. After I got a yes from her and confirmed it once more through email I made the mistake of putting off Capstone for a couple of months.
It wasn’t until after winter break that I started to move forward once more towards the right direction. I got my proposal done and I got the courage and push I needed to go around and advertise my club. That was the thing that made me nervous. It was like my stomach was doing backflips, frontflips, cartwheels, you name it and my stomach was probably doing it due to how nervous I was. The first time I advertised was all due to Mrs.Boutilier asking me to go to her room to get my permission slips and then proceeded to take me to where the middle schoolers were staying. My heart dropped. I could feel my legs already shaking to go run away in an extremely casual way, but something stopped me. I’m not sure what it was but I just took a step towards the closet group there and advertised my club and the kids were actually interested. That boosted up my confidence and I ended up advertising some more for my club during advisory. I was excited because almost all of my permission slips were gone.
The first day of my club and I had about three freshmen girls and two 8th graders that managed to hand in their permission slips. I’m going, to be honest yet again I didn’t have anything planned for the first day of the club. I just thought that I would explain what the club was about and hopefully had something to do right after. I was yet again nervous, I was trembling yet again but I got the courage to start talking and that led to a great first day of the club. Since we all had something in common it went smoothly and the hour went by in a flash. I started with explaining what the club was about and what they will be doing then we moved on to drawing and talking about things we loved and how we started to draw which helped me build a connection with the club members.
The first time I ran into a problem was because a new member brought in a speaker and two other members grabbed it and started blasting music. I got nervous again because I had to handle the situation and there were two classmates of mine in the room during that time which made me feel a bit embarrassed almost as if I was showing that I had no control over my club members and that it was like that every Monday, but it wasn’t until one of the freshmen girls complained about having a headache that I finally did something about the music. I explained to them that I am completely okay with them playing music as long as they’re using earphones.
Capstone has helped me grow as a person, which I desperately needed. I always felt like everybody was changing and moving on while I stayed quiet never giving out my opinion and just minding my own business in my little bubble, but Capstone practically forced me out of my bubble and pushed me to start speaking up and telling people what I was thinking which led to me helping others and giving my club members a place for them to let out their creativity.
The road to starting my capstone is not something I can be proud of. If we’re being honest here then my whole capstone has been a trial and error type scenario. We first start in the beginning where I tried doing an Art club but was told that due to Mrs.Jacocks having a busy schedule she would only be available one a month which wouldn’t work out, but after brainstorming with her for a while we came up with a creative writing and illustration club and all I needed was another teacher who would be my mentor. The first person that came to mind was Finkenstein because she’s an English teacher and I knew she had experience with being a mentor. After I got a yes from her and confirmed it once more through email I made the mistake of putting off Capstone for a couple of months.
It wasn’t until after winter break that I started to move forward once more towards the right direction. I got my proposal done and I got the courage and push I needed to go around and advertise my club. That was the thing that made me nervous. It was like my stomach was doing backflips, frontflips, cartwheels, you name it and my stomach was probably doing it due to how nervous I was. The first time I advertised was all due to Mrs.Boutilier asking me to go to her room to get my permission slips and then proceeded to take me to where the middle schoolers were staying. My heart dropped. I could feel my legs already shaking to go run away in an extremely casual way, but something stopped me. I’m not sure what it was but I just took a step towards the closet group there and advertised my club and the kids were actually interested. That boosted up my confidence and I ended up advertising some more for my club during advisory. I was excited because almost all of my permission slips were gone.
The first day of my club and I had about three freshmen girls and two 8th graders that managed to hand in their permission slips. I’m going, to be honest yet again I didn’t have anything planned for the first day of the club. I just thought that I would explain what the club was about and hopefully had something to do right after. I was yet again nervous, I was trembling yet again but I got the courage to start talking and that led to a great first day of the club. Since we all had something in common it went smoothly and the hour went by in a flash. I started with explaining what the club was about and what they will be doing then we moved on to drawing and talking about things we loved and how we started to draw which helped me build a connection with the club members.
The first time I ran into a problem was because a new member brought in a speaker and two other members grabbed it and started blasting music. I got nervous again because I had to handle the situation and there were two classmates of mine in the room during that time which made me feel a bit embarrassed almost as if I was showing that I had no control over my club members and that it was like that every Monday, but it wasn’t until one of the freshmen girls complained about having a headache that I finally did something about the music. I explained to them that I am completely okay with them playing music as long as they’re using earphones.
Capstone has helped me grow as a person, which I desperately needed. I always felt like everybody was changing and moving on while I stayed quiet never giving out my opinion and just minding my own business in my little bubble, but Capstone practically forced me out of my bubble and pushed me to start speaking up and telling people what I was thinking which led to me helping others and giving my club members a place for them to let out their creativity.