Learning Blog Dec 18

What did we do?
Today, we we worked on creating "commercials" to try and sell our Lit circle novels. We worked on our pros and cons, recommendation, and targeted audience for the book. 
Why?
We worked on the pros and cons so that we can recognize the good and bad parts of the book. Also, you have to be specific when describing it, for example, you can't just say that the book is boring because you have to describe which parts were boring and why.
Connections and Reflections
Doing the pros and cons can help with future projects because later on, many other projects require a pros and cons list. Furthermore, you can use the list to make comparisons. Also, you can use the list to make decisions because you can see which choice is more beneficial. 
Homework Reminders
No homework except for the paragraph booklet, but I think we will be able to work on it in class.

what we did today

What we did today?: today we worked on our paragraph booklet.

Why we did it?:we did so we could get better at knowing how to write certain paragraphs.

connections and reflections:today was a easy day we got to work on our paragraph booklets and listen to music when the sub left.

homwork reminders: guys remember to work on youre paragraph booklets and dont forget about youre innovation and genius hour projects.

Learning Blog for Dec.15, 2014

Because I explained mainly the same things that we did last Monday ( Learning Blog of Dec.8, 2014), I will try to explain different things in this learning blog.

WHAT DID WE DO

Today, just like any other Monday, we did literature circles. Following, we did self assessments and conclusions to our discussions and dialectical journals. Today was our final Lit. Circle for out first novel, so we had different ways of self-assessing ourselves. 

WHY WE DID IT

We did these Literature Circles to help our speaking, reading, evaluation and summary skills. Doing novel studies help us understand and read novels easier, which makes reading other pieces of writing easier. This will help us a lot later on, since almost every job, from a teacher to an engineer, uses forms of writing to work. Improving our speaking skills also can help us a lot, since we speak in our everyday lives frequently. This would not only help our normal lives, but also our jobs, school and beyond. 

REFLECTIONS AND CONNECTIONS

I think Literature Circles help us in a lot of categories that can help us beyond Humanities and even beyond schools. The points I already stated and many more can help with out jobs and life. 

A connection that I can make with this, is that in elementary school we also did literature circles. The difference is that in elementary school, we didn't do everything we do now, such as Dialectical Journals and Self Evaluations. Usually, we would just discuss on a certain part of our novel for a short amount of time. We would also do "Chapter Reviews", which are summaries of each and every chapter and what that chapter was about. Literature Circles in Humanities are way more complicated and take longer. 

HOMEWORK REMINDERS

* Literature Circles' Self Evaluations due tomorrow

* Learning blogs if you have them this week

* Paragraph Booklet due by winter break

HOMEWORK TIPS

*Literature Circles: Explain in detail why you think like you do. If you write that you improved on something, give examples as to how you improved in that certain area. 

*Paragraph Booklets: Don't rush your exercises in the booklets, since the booklet is to help you improve your writing and organizing skills. If you rush it, you won't get better and won't get a good quality booklet to hand in. 

3 Words Challenge

Hi, my name is Qiyang and I'm in grade 8. I picked the words confident, enthusiastic, and positive for next year.
I chose confident because I need to believe in myself more.
I chose enthusiastic because I need to be more happy and cheerful when I'm doing my work.
I chose positive because I need to look at the bright side of situations more often. I also need to think more about what I can do, not what I can't do.

what we did today by navrop gill

What we di today :  so today we were working on our paragraph booklet in class and he taught us about a descriptive and narrative paragraph.

Why : so we could know what types of paragrraphs they eere and tty to write them.

connectuons reflections : today we had a sub and i think he was a good sub today was a good day in hum class.

Homework : remember youre diakectical journals and youre book to read dont forget the homework for the booklet and dint forgrt about genius hour and innovation fair

3 Words Challenge

My name is Lucy and I'm in grade 8. My three words for the new year would be: focus, reflection, and relaxation.
I chose the first word, focus, because it's what I need to complete many tasks that await me, and I tend to become unfocused after doing something for a long time, because my mind often starts to wander off. I want to be able to maintain my focus while doing something, because it would be very useful for almost my whole lifetime.
I chose the second word, reflection, because reflecting on myself is something that I've never been able to do very well. I like receiving feedback from others than giving myself feedback, but I feel that evaluating myself is just as important, if not more important than giving feedback to others.
I chose the third word, relaxation, because I've been feeling a bit stressed and overwhelmed lately, and I think that I need to relax and clear my mind. Relaxation ties in with focus and reflection in a way, because when I'm not stressed out, I can focus better and reflect on myself more effectively. It can also make me happier and more confident.
The three words: focus, reflection, and relaxation will help me both mentally and emotionally, and achieving them will make me much calmer and more thoughtful.

                                    3 Words challenge

              

    My name is Yujoon and I am in grade 8. For the 3 word challenge I picked my words athletic, respectful, and intelligent. 

    First word I chose is athletic because I usually don't exercise everyday so I have to get myself fit and play more sports when I have free time. I should get my schedule for each exercise so I could know when to exercise. If I didn't exercise I would get stressed easily when I 'm doing work and I could exercise when I have to or to lose calories.

   Second word I chose is respect because I don't listen carefully for important instructions in class so I forget things easily. I do need to listen carefully because I will be on track for homework or other assignments. I should help more people for their homework and encourage others what they have to do for homework.

   Third word I chose is intelligent because I don't usually listen carefully for important instructions so I get distracted from other people. I need to work more on intelligent because I need to know a lots about important info from the teacher so I can do assignments easily without being worried what's for homework or etc. 

    I think I need to work more on my three words so I could get better on respectful, athletic, and intelligent.   

           

Learning Blog Switch?

Hi guys, I'm doing the learning blog next Monday. Does anyone doing it next week want to switch with me? Because I did my learning blog last week on Monday too, and it was also on Lit. Circles, so my learning blog will be kind of repetitive. If anyone has time, do you want to switch days with me?
Thanks if you can! :D

3 Words Challenge

My name is Jasper and I am in grade 8. For the 3 words challenge, I picked my three words, coincidentally, all starting with the letter C. These words are CURIOSITY,  COURAGE and CREATIVITY.

First of all, I chose the word Curiosity because I usually don't get curious and accept new things offered to me. Examples would be new types of food and activities. This doesn't benefit me, since if I don't get out of my comfort zone, I won't be able to experience new accomplishments or fun.

Second of all, I chose the word Courage because I am sort of a scaredy-cat. If something seems scary, I would generally not participate in it (besides amusement park rides). This also could limit my fun and amusement. Although it's good to be cautious, being too cautious can be very regretful.

Finally, I chose the word Creativity because I am not very creative. When I try to think of speech topics, I end up with boring or copied themes. When I try to think of project ideas I always end up with a very uninteresting idea. If I challenge my creativity more, it would not only help me for school, but for more enjoyable plans in my day as well.

As you can see, I have a lot to work on. Hopefully, unlike my New Year's Resolution, I can follow this 3 words challenge and give myself more qualities.

                     Learning Blog for December 11, 2014

     1. What did we do?

      We did our paragraph booklets and we were working on our descriptive paragraph section. We get to think of three words that describes us also we had to do why we chose these words and make a third person sentence of your three words.

      2. Why did we do it?

    

    We highlighted our descriptive paragraphs because we can find which sentences are topic sentence, transition words or phrases, and key words that identify the type of paragraph. We did our exercise one for our paragraph booklet so we had to write some descriptive sentences for one topic. We wrote descriptive sentences for one topic in the paragraph booklet because it can help us think ideas more quickly. We had to think of three words that represent you or what you need to improve on so that we could know who we are and what we want to represent as for the three words and sentence challenge. 

      

      3. Reflections and Connections      

     Highlighting the descriptive paragraphs can help us find important key words and topic sentence so it could enhance our sentence structure or making sentences specific.

    

      4. Homework reminders

    

      -Posting three words you chose and it has to be in blog for tomorrow.

      -Writing three sentences to third person about your three words on paper.

      -Paragraph booklet 

      5. Homework tips

      For your descriptive paragraphs, it has be really specific and the sentences has to be detailed as possible. You don't have to do your descriptive paragraph for homework but you could do it for extra work to improve your sentence structure.

   

      

   

       

   

      

        

            

         

3 words

My words are try attention abd learn because I feel like I need to try more in some things abd do the best i can.attention i think sometimes i dint pay enough attention andget dustracted. And lazy because i have been pretty lazy deciding to do things or not and stuff.

Learning Blog for December 9, 2014

1. What did we do?
    We handed in our innovation fair proposals. We didn't get to do any work because of the power outage.
2. Why did we do it?
    We handed in out innovation fair proposals to show the teacher that we've completed our assignments on time, and so that they can be evaluated to see which ones are approved and which ones need amendments.
3. Reflections and connections- how were today's class skills or subject matter relevant beyond humanities 8? Where might it be useful and how?
Handing in our proposals now is like making deadlines in the future at a job. It helps develop our work habits, and good work habits will be useful for a lifetime.
4. No homework has been assigned.
5. N/A (with regards to above statement)

Learning Blog for December 8, 2014

MS.LEES HUM 8 BLOCK 4

What did we do?

Because today was Monday, our HUM 8 block 4 class did Literature Circle discussions. Afterwards, we worked on our conclusion to our Dialectical Journals and started to write two things our group did well and need to work on for our discussions. We did that again, but this time for our individual participation in the discussions.

Why did we do it? (Learning Intentions)

We did these discussions to practice our oral conversations and our speaking skills. For example, we worked on contributing ideas, asking questions, provoking conversations and encouraging others to participate. We also did these discussions to let the teacher and peers make sure that we actually read the story and could keep up with the conversation. 

We did reflections and self evaluations to practice our self-evaluating skills, which could be used frequently in everyday lives. Not only that, but we did reflections to see how much we were listening to the conversation and how much we understood what others had to say. 

Reflections and Connections

The Literature Circle things we did today could help us beyond Humanities. For example, these discussions could help you prompt discussions within your friends easier and help you contribute to them more frequently. The self-evaluations that we do can help us correctly evaluate ourselves in other activities, which we might not have a teacher there to do for us. Lastly, reflections help us with our understanding skills, as well as summary skills and listening skills. 

A connection that I have, is that in elementary school, we also did these Lit. Circles, but not in so much depth. 

Homework Reminders

* Remember to finish your Lit. Circles'...

                          - Reflections

                          - Self Evaluations

                          - 2 good points/ points to work on for your group/self

* INNOVATION FAIR PROPOSALS DUE TOMORROW! 

* Research Story outlines if you haven't finished them 

Homework Tips

* For your Lit. Circle points that are good/need to improve of your group, get together with them to agree on the same ideas.

* Don't rely on how you think you did on your self-evaluations, use what your tallier tallied on your sheet. Chances are, they are right and you are just full of yourself or you are underestimating yourself.

todays hum class by Navroop

What did we do : today mrs lees let us do our work that we neede to work on she explained to us how to write paragrahph outlines and dont forget youre qoute for our book.                            Why? So today mrs lees helped us on our pharagraph outlines so that we had a better understanding of what to do.                                                                                                             connections and reflections: i did not have any connections i thought today was a good day for people to catch up on there work.                                                                                                  Home work reminders:  guys remember to do the booklet we got do youre quite for youre book and everyone dont forget to do youre innovation propproposal.

Learning Log

What did we do?
Today, we talked a bit about Innovation Fair and outlining paragraphs. We also handed in our self evaluation for this term in.

Why?
We talked about our Innovation Fair projects because many of us have trouble coming up with ideas. We learned about outlining paragraphs so that we can get used to doing it, and it will help with organizing and writing future paragraphs and essays. Writing paragraphs with an outline is way easier, and it saves time as well.

 Connections and Reflections
Using the paragraph outline can help with writing speeches and essays, and it can be used to organize any type of paragraphs, which will be useful in the future, in any classes. We talked a little bit about Innovation Fair, and it could help with next year's fair since we will know what to do. 

Homework Reminders
For tomorrow (December 5th), have the 5 paragraph outlines ready. Also, remember to highlight transition words or phrases. The Innovation Fair proposal is due next Tuesday (December 9th). Don't forget to do your Dialectical Journal for Lit, and have it ready for next Monday (December 8th). 

Homework Tips
Outlining: The supporting sentences can be in point form. You don't have to copy the whole paragraph out again for ones that say 'unscramble.' 
Here is a link on outlining:
http://web.psych.washington.edu/writingcenter/writingguides/pdf/outline.pdf

  

  

Learning Blog

1. What did we do?
    We handed in our dialectical journals, went over how to write learning blogs a little bit, and started our self-evaluations for humanities.
2. Why did we do it?
    We handed in our dialectical journals to show the teacher that we completed our homework, and we went over how to write learning blogs to clarify things a little bit. We're doing self-evaluations so that we can learn how to reflect upon our learning, recognize our strengths and weaknesses, and set goals for ourselves.
3. Reflections and connections- how were today's class skills or subject matter relevant beyond humanities 8? Where might it be useful and how?
    Handing in our dialectical journals is a matter of work habits, and it's important to have good work habits in order to do well in school later on, or to keep a job in the future. Doing self-evaluations can be applicable in other classes, and it helps us become more aware of how we are doing, which will be very useful in school in the future. When we do self-evaluations, we can also become more aware of what we need to improve on, and how we can get better, so we would be able to learn faster.
4. Homework reminders- what is due and when
    Our self evaluations are due on Thursday, and our innovation fair proposals are due next Monday.
5. Homework tips- hints, videos, or resources that might help students do well on today's homework
    Tips for self evaluations:
-be honest about where you are at in each category, because you are trying to improve your learning, not impress your teacher or your classmates
-set realistic goals that you will be able to achieve, but don't set goals that are too easy either; push yourself out of your comfort zone
-act on what you said you will do, because that's the only way you'll really be able to improve