The Wonderment

Hunter Jacobs

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Supporting Dance In Our Community

Work closely with the local dance studio ELEVATE to put on a production that raises awareness of specific issues around the world. Create a period of time where each one of us...

Inspiring our community by promoting and teaching dance

The purpose of this project is to help support our studio that is facing small challenges with money at the moment. COVID 19 had a great effect on the studio. The loss of part...

Supporting the arts

Work closely with the local dance studio ELEVATE to put on a production that raises awareness of specific issues around the world. Create a period of time where each one of us...

Exploring Movement

In this project I hope to create a dance video fully choreographed, filmed and edited by me with the help of my mentor and some friends.

Perseverance

I have shown commitment and perseverance throughout all of my projects. Since they are all dance related it required me to consistently attend the practices that I was teachin...

Identify Strengths and Areas for growth

My top strengths are appreciation for beauty and excellence, leadership, and creativity. Appreciation for beauty and excellence. The ability to notice beauty and excellence in...

CAS night Beachnuts booth

For CAS night we have to set up a booth for one of our projects. Since I have two projects I am choosing one. I would love to share my solo project but it does not need any co...

Progress

This week I had two major events happening regarding CAS. I also had practice with Nadia for her solo. The first event was for a classmate's project. They planned a halloween ...

More than motion intensive

This weekend from Friday October 21 to Sunday October 23 I attended a dance intensive in San Jose. This intensive brought professional dancers from the US to teach us a series...

Schedule set until the last trimester

Now that all the details have been figured out for both the solo project and for the theater project there is a fixed schedule where I will hold rehearsals once a week for eac...

Project Progress

Who benefited from my activity and how? For the solo that I am creating and teaching to the junior dancer Nadia for competition I believe that both her and me are benefiting f...

CAS progress and ATL’s

My focus for this trimester is to choreograph for two different projects. At the moment I am working on the first project weekly which is creating a competition solo for Nadia...

New trimester goals and plans

This is my updated mission statement in both languages: Our mission is to facilitate dance opportunities and inspire future generations by collaborating and combining our st...

Cepia Summer camp

We have just finished our summer camp for the Cepia kids. The camp lasted 3 days and each day was three hours before lunch. The camp was a great success. We had kids that took...

Participation for CAS/anchor night

On September 21 the 12th grade CAS class is going to host our school's CAS/Anchor project night. This will give us a chance to prompt our projects, raise money, along with gai...

Summer activity journal entry #2

This summer I attended the same 4 day dance intensive, at Dance Dimensions, that I did last year. With a total of 16 hours of dance I participated in several types of dance cl...

Summer service journal entry #2

For my service work this summer break I worked with a non profit organization, Celebrate the Beat (CTB), in Colorado. During the school year me and my project partners crossed...

Summer creativity journal entry #2

For creativity this summer I have continued to work on my own time with Ava to dance and create. The video that I used for this journal entry is a perfect example of the final...

Motivation journal entry

I feel that it is ironic that this week's journal entry is about motivation because in the last few weeks I have had little motivation for my CAS project. I believe that ident...

Planting trees

In the last week our school had some visitors from another IB school in Boston. While they were here we got the opportunity to plant trees from them with an organization calle...

Competition weekend

This journal entry marks the end of our CAS project where we choreographed solos for the juniors on our studios competition team. The weekend was amazing. The entire studio wa...

Creativity in my CAS project

In this journal entry I will be talking about what creativity is, how I express creativity and how I have used creativity in my CAS project. I believe that creativity is in ev...

Feasibility study

For the last week we have been working on a feasibility study for our last project idea. We want to be able to build a stage at our school. This is important to us because the...

Next Steps

We have recently been reminded that for our CAS project we need to give it weekly love and attention to let it flourish; we need to give it thought and innovation to to differ...

Planning and initiating #2

What are the goals of your project? Our first goal is figuring out if the stage project is feasible. The stage project is something that we had thought up at the beginning of ...

Teach CAS to third/fourth/fifth graders

Choose a special class (Art, PE, swimming, drama, music) and describe what ability has improved after constant practice over the trimester. The three abilities that I chose we...

Mid project update

How do you feel about that timeline? I feel really good about our timeline. When Ava Alexa and I first started this year’s projects we set up a clear timeline for when w...

Project Kickoff

On Saturday February 12 we got to start the Cepia project and the juniors solos. We started off at 8:30 teaching the kids that came from Cepia and then at 9:30 the girl that I...

What makes me really exited about my project

Why is this project important to you? This project is important to me because dance is my passion. And what I love most about dance is creating and the expression and having a...

What is happening in my project

The last two weeks of our project have been important since we have begun planning our next steps for our CAS journey. After our first project was completed we began to brains...

2022 Project Plans

One of our first projects is to create the competition solos for the junior dancers at our studio. We started off with an audition process to select the soloists each of us wi...

Global significance

How do you make a difference in your community? The difference we are making is encouraging your people to incorporate performance art in their community and bringing an oppor...

Storyboard

How will you give insight into your project? Through words? Through images? Through interviews? The majority of our video will be video clips relating to dance. This helps giv...

Planning and initiating

What are the goals of my activity? Did I meet them? What was the feedback I received from my activity? Our goal for the community was to help our studio put on a show for the ...

Essence of Life

This weekend was the dance show essence of life which we helped put on and choreographed for. The show turned out amazing and the best part was that all of us worked together,...

Quotes

The quote that resonates most with my CAS project is “People protect what they love.” by Jacques Cousteau. I chose this quote because dance is my passion and I want to wor...

Night of the arts

What is your CAS project and how is it helping the community? My CAS project is to help Elevate put on the end of year production by assisting with some of the logistics and c...

Stakeholders journal entry

Stakeholders: Gaby, Alexa, Ava, Miss Amy, Our parents, Parents of the dancers, Dancers involved, Audience, Chanelle, Cinthia, Kerry - We meet with Gaby Twice a week to talk ab...

Beach cleanup

Today I was able to help a group of people from my living area of Mar Vista clean up Brasilito beach which is a beach near us. Recently the tide has brought in a lot of trash ...

Challenges journal entry

It's important to think about challenges when working on our project and during our CAS class because it allows us to identify problems in our project and then come up with so...

Activity journal entry

The activity that I do every week is dance. Are there ever feelings of doubt or wanting to skip practice? If so, how did I move through them? I don’t feel much doubt...

Show and tell journal entry

Where are you in comparison to your Gantt Chart? Are you on track? Was there anything added that you forgot about? Are you behind and why? To be 100% honest we stopped followi...

Creative field trip journal entry

On Friday October 8th the 11th grade IB art class accompanied the 12th grade art class on a trip to the beach to help them with their land art. I was in Ashley’s group a...

Initiating choreography

On Saturday October 2 we begun choreographing our trio together.

Update

On Saturday September 25th we met with our mentor Gaby for lunch to sort out the details of our project. She told us that she wanted to put on an end of the year production an...

True colors journal entry

Explain, what did you take away from reflecting on your own personal color style and that of others in the group? It was helpful to better understand my partners strengths and...

Mentor Journal entry

What is your objective of the project? Do you need to explain what a CAS project is? Our objective is to put on a production sometime in the beginning of next year (2022) and ...

Gantt chart

A Gantt Chart is a graphical representation used in management that will show the length of time each task needs to take to be completed. This gantt chart will help me and my ...

September 7 2021 Journal entry

How are you feeling at the beginning of the project? Describe your feelings and how you are using strategies to manage them. At the moment I am feeling good. I feel like we ...

Summer journal entry #3 service

For my service part of my summer I helped Gaby at the dance studio by teaching a few dance classes for the two weeks before school started and the new teacher arrived. The cla...

Summer journal entry #2 (Creativity)

For the creative part of my summer I began to choreograph my solo. Choreographing requires a creative mind. When I am choreographing there are a lot of things that I need to c...

Summer journal entry #1 (Activity)

In the video above you can see one of the dances that I learned during the intensive. I was a risk-taker by learning a new form of contemporary and putting 110% into the combo...

Last Journal entry

For me CAS is an opportunity to work for something that benefits the people around me. I get to make a change in my community through learning and utilizing my strengths while...

Final 10th CAS reflection

The evidence shows the 4th learning outcome because Ava, Alexa and I are all really dedicated to dance and we are always going to the dance studio. This shows that we are will...

Speed dating

We each pitched our projects to three different classmates and they gave us specific questions and feedback on our project. Positive feedback: Being able to help the community...

The Future is Bright!

For this project I plan to work with my classmates Ava and Alexa to be able to provide dance classes and dance scholarships for kids who don't have access to dance. We are hop...

Finishing Tasks

To finish up the project I need to add the final editing touches. This includes adjusting the clips to just the right timing. Adding intro and outro to the video and cleaning ...

Final film clips

In this video you can see clips of me dancing in a new location in order. These are going to be the clips that I will edit into my final video. I am not going to use the clips...

Motivation

I feel most energized when I am dancing. Its like when I go to dance I suddenly feel more awake and ready to learn and create. This project is all about learning new things an...

Initial filming

Here are some videos of what I have filmed already. Keep in mind that I have not done any editing whatsoever so its going to look much better when I finish!

First obstacles

The biggest obstacle that I have had so far and just came across was with the filming. Initially I had planed to film part of my video in a palapa near where I live but they w...

Getting started

When I first started the project I was super hyped up about it. Dance I something that I love to do and I find it super fun to choreograph so I knew that I wanted my project t...

Project update

So far I have completed the choreography. The next steps that I have to take are setting up my locations and filming and then filming my piece. To film I will need support fro...

Story board

A little story board for filming purposes. There are also filming notes on the back and a small section I missed but you get the point.

Completed choreography edit

Just a marked out version of my coreo so you can see the process.

Mentor

My mentor is Kerry McClennen. She is one of the teachers who is assisting us in our leep class as well as one of my dance teachers. My other mentor would be the internet in te...

Project Vision

The video that you see above is a video of me and my sister dancing. The dance that we are doing is something that I choreographed. I uploaded it because it serves as and exam...

What CAS means to me today

By Hunter Jacobs

Guanacaste, Costa Rica