The End of The Road

1. What piece of work and learning are you most proud? Explain.

I think that I am most proud of our final tic-tac-toe project specifically the imovie. Our other two projects were a 'Religion Rap'-in our case a song-and a diary. I really like the imovie because it shows our best result of group effort. Mao was working on the amazingly long diary of two roman girls, so Victor and I worked worked on the other two projects. Our song wasn't much of a group collaboration because I wrote the first half and Victor wrote the second half so we didn't help each other. I am proud of our imovie because Victor and I worked on it no matter how little time we had left and also despite the fact that Mao was sick almost all of a week. Victor and I worked on the script and the minimum of 25 pictures we had to find. Overall I am proud of this project because it is one of the best situations of when I collaborated constructively.

2. What were your greatest challenges? Explain.

I think that one of my biggest challenges in Grade 6 were writing the Ancient Egyptian Diary. I had a hard time because my person being a soldier caused me to have a hard time including everything that was required. It was also hard because my diaries were quite short and I wanted them to be longer so I struggled to include more detail and content. That was one of my largest problems in humanities this year.

3. Reflecting on your growth this year, what did you learn about yourself as a learner?

This year in humanities I learned a lot about myself and the fist one that comes to mind is that I that my favored side of my brain is the gestalt side. I think this was an important thing to learn because it shows that I am more creative than organized and I like that and I think it is a good quality and I am proud of having it.

4. To evaluate your work habits, choose 1 of the following from each category (and provide explanations):

a) Behavior

Could be improved
Satisfactory
Perfect - the model student

Explanation: I think my behavior could be improved because I am not yet a model student but more or less satisfactory. Then again everyone's behavior could be improved.

b) Participation

None
Satisfactory
Actively participate in class

Explanation: I think that I am an active participator because my hand is almost always raised and most of the time not for inappropriate subjects. I also think I have improved a lot in my question asking because they have gone to very simple questions like 'I don't really get that, can you explain it?' to more complexed questions that specify what exactly I don't understand.

c) Organization

Needs serious help
Satisfactory
I'm super organized

d) Effort

Needs serious help
Satisfactory

I always go above and beyond what is required.

5. Based upon your reflections, write two personal learning goals for Grade 7 next year.

Goal 1 - In Grade 7, I plan to try to always check over and edit my work. That is not only important in humanities but also in other classes because whenever you have a test you make silly mistakes and get made at yourself for making silly errors when you could have gotten an A+.

Goal 2 - In Grade 7, I plan to try and include as many details as possible in all of my writing.

6. Is there any more information about yourself that you would like the teachers to know?
There isn't much except the fact that I do like to have work that we get to make not just type on the computer. Overall there really isn't much else.

7. What was your favorite activity lesson in Humanities this year? What did you enjoy about it?
I'd say this year in humanities, one of my favorite activities was the Ancient Mesopotamia mobile. It was fun because I got to use my hands and create it. I also liked it because it was an interesting project and taught me a lot about Mesopotamia

8. What activity do you wish we could have spent more time on?

I really would of liked more time on our last Tic-Tac-Toe project because we were extremely rushed finding pictures and finishing the imovie.

9. Finally, cast your minds back to the first few months of middle school (when you arrived in Grade 6 ) what "Words of Wisdom" or "Advice" could you pass on to the Class of 2018?

• Always do your work on time.
• Don't chat in class because it really puts you behind.
  
• Always listen to your teachers because what they are saying is important.
• Make sure Literature Circles are towards the top of your priority list because they can really bring down your grade.

Books, Books and Books

Title: Kick Authors: Walter Dean Myers and Ross Workman

1. This book made me think about ...
This book made me think about a lot of things but mainly genuine kindness of different people. I thought about this because Sergeant Brown decided to help Kevin by clearing up things with other police after Kevin had committed a crime. Kevin was also very nice because he helped his friend when she was depressed even if it was illegal. The authors of this book is Walter Dean Myers and Ross Workman. The book started when Workman sent an e-mail to Myers saying how much he loved his writing. Then Myers sent back an e-mail giving Workman a chance to write a book with him. So Myers wrote chapters in the point of view as Sergeant Brown and Ross did as Kevin. I think this was an extreme act of kindness and from the acknowledgements Ross seemed super happy. The other thing I thought about was how lucky I am because in the book, Kevin's dad is dead, so that reminds me how happy I am with my dad. I could also tell that Kevin's lifestyle is a lot different from mine maybe because he lost his father or other things. Overall those were the two main things I thought about when reading this book.

2. This book challenged me as a reader by ...
This book challenged me because the book was changing perspectives between Sergeant Brown and Kevin. At first I didn't realize so I was very confused at why Kevin started to have very different opinions. Also at the beginning of the book there was so many new people added into the story and I didn't know if I was supposed to remember them from earlier or if they had just started in the book. Those were the most challenging things for me in 'Kick'.

3. Don't read this book if ...

There isn't very many things in this book that could upset someone because it is a really good book but if you don't like the idea of the loss of your dad or crime investigations I wouldn't read it. In conclusion I really like this book and I hope you do to.