HOHAM stands for Habits Of Heart And Mind.

HOHAMs are used by high tech students

to help learn with peers and with critique. We worked with partners on this project and I worked
with Chris abbert. !he goal of this project was to create a super hero"super #illain out of the
HOHAM that we were assigned$the HOHAM that Chris and I got was %nli&ited 'otential$ and
we also got assigned to &ake it a #illain. Our #illains na&e is Anti('otential$ and his power is
decepti#e &ind control$ &eaning that once he has you thinking in the state of &ind thinking that
you ha#e no potential and can)t do the things that you want$ then he will be able to control you.
His alter(ego is a business&an na&ed *onathan White$ and he co&es fro& an unknown planet.
His weakness is when people use +elf Ad#ocacy and he)s not able to get the& in that state of
&ind. Our #illain is &ade out of plywood that we cut oursel#es and we did this by first$ creating
a s&all sketch of our #illain then &easuring hi& up to scale to fit our plywood. Once we traced
the sketch onto the plywood$ we cut hi& out using a jigsaw. Afterwards we painted hi& and
designed hi& the way we wanted.
+o&e things that went well during the project was the fact that we were all engaged and
we could do whate#er we wanted with our hero as long as it followed the HOHAM we were
assigned. It was a pretty fun project that a lot of people got creati#e with and enjoyed. One thing
I think that I a& &ost proud of would be the cut out of our #illain because$ I think that I did a
good job cutting hi& out and a& #ery proud of that. A HOHAM I think I used a lot during this
project would be cooperation. Me and &y partner worked pretty well together and were able to
get things done. !owards the end of the project I caught a cold and was unable to be there for a
couple of days$ but e#en though this was a couple of days it left Chris to finish up the project by
hi&self. ,ortunately$ Chris was able to co&plete the project and I a& #ery thankful for hi& doing
so. I feel that the painting aspect could-#e been done a little neater and cleaned up so&e &ore$ I
also feel that towards the end this project got a little rushed and people weren-t using their ti&e
wisely.
Our work changed a little bit fro& our first to final draft. Instead of just putting A' on his
chest we took the ti&e to write out Anti('otential. We decided to gi#e hi& a full body suit kind
of like spider&an instead of a partial costu&e like super&an. !hese changes were so&e that we
&ade on our own and the critique re#isions that we got were &ore like cleaning up details and
&aking things neater. I learned that critique and re#ision can help you fi. things that you &ay not
ha#e noticed and help you to further i&pro#e your work. In our partnership I feel like I wasn-t
helping enough because$ Chris see&ed to ha#e wanted to take all the work for hi&self$ and I feel
like I could-#e done so&ething to help out &ore. I ha#e been working with groups"partners since
si.th grade and this see&ed to ha#e worked out pretty well$ but like I said I probably could ha#e
done so&ething to pitch in &ore.
/ow I see that the projects we will be doing will be crunched towards the end and we
will be ha#ing to update our 's #ery often. I also see that we will be doing these projects
throughout all our classes and they will usually last pretty long. +o&e things that I wish to
change would be &e trying to help out so&e &ore. !his was a proble& for &e in the &iddle
school because I would only do &y fair share of the work rather than trying to help out$ and do
&ore. +o&e things that I was able to do well howe#er$ was co&ing up with ideas and
co&pro&ising. Chris and I ne#er argued o#er our ideas and were able to co&e up with a idea we
both agreed on. I hope to i&pro#e on these skills in the future and hopefully ha#e a good 0th
grade year.