April Abellar's Evaluation

1. April Abellar
1. Maracas
2. The instrument I made for Battle of the Bands are maracas. When I play the sound of the maracas are heard. By the sound waves it makes while it’s being shaked. An instrument like this can have different sounds. It depends on what you use to make the sound. You can make sounds with small beads, dried macaroni, small pebbles, sand, or even rice.
3. I chose to use small beads because I like the sound it makes because as I shake it softly the beads do not rattle a lot. But when I choose to shake it really loud, then that is when you hear all the rattling of the beads. On the day of the performance, we all made sure that all of our instruments were heard. It didn’t work that well because you couldn’t hear some of the instruments that didn’t make loud sounds. During this long term project, we as a group didn’t practice as much as we should have. We just thought that we didn’t need to have that many days to practice.
4. Mr. Tillay assigned us a long term project because he wanted us to understand all the things that we have to go through. He wanted us to have enough time to figure out what  we need to research  on and how we would be able to get it done. Also, he wanted to us to think outside the box and not just go for the basics of thinking.
5. The grade I would say I earned would be between a B- or C+ because I know I could have put more effort and time into this project.The grade that Allacia earned was an A because she worked hard during this project. The instrument she made was unique because no one else made an instrument like that. The instrument she made was a poptar and she explained how it worked well because she used physics terms. The grade that Will earned was a B- because he did work well but he could’ve thought more out of the box. He made drums and the sound that it made was well heard. The grade that Jane earned was a C because her instrument was unusual and it made good sound. But she also could’ve thought more out of the box. As a group I would say we earned a B+ because we all put effort into this project and we worked well with each other.