Reflections- Before S.T.E.L.M really got started I wrote a note to myself and it told me what i have to work on this year and/or what i have to fix or improve. My note to self said:
Dear cj,
it is a new beginning for you a whole new chapter. you are going to improve……..i know you will! you are going to try harder than ever before. you will succeed you just need to put in some effort. a big part of this plan will be reading and writing more.
In regards to reading you are going to go a little deeper with the genres of books you've been reading. you will read more often……...maybe even every night! you are going to read more chapter books because then you have more of the story to explore.
in regards to writing you need to push it to the max. you need to use your imagination and put it into words. you need to write more stories. there are no limits! go make a list or write a paper for school…...anything! go practice. practice will only make you better! you're going to great if you put some effort and time into it! go show them how awesome you are. let your imagination take over! when you read this i want you to remember how you were when you wrote it. now i want you to think of all of the ways you've improve. i hope that you have met all of our expectations.
Good luck cj.
This year in stelm i feel as if i have met several of my expectations but some of them were not met as i wanted them to. I am excelling and doing much better with the skills i need. My reading level has gone up, The writing i have done lately has been at a much better quality. I love the stelm class that i'm in but the cryptography unit we are in currently has been getting at me.I am struggling with it and i am having trouble getting out of the hole i'm in. I cant wait until we start our robotics unit because I've always had a craving for technology. You could ask anybody and they would tell you that electronics and tech are really my kind of thing. Cant wait for robotics!!! But for now cryptography is my pause button because we have a test to take on t and the words she is saying sound like a fouren language a and i don't think i'm ready to take it. I don't have a choice but i will do my best on it because to stay in this class you have to have good grades and my grades are going to get back witch brings me to the topic of my new expectations. My new expectations include being more profisiont with everything. I need to start acting more mature and starting to take things seriously. I am still in a hole and its deep. I did this to myself and step be step i am going to get out. I get closer and closer every single day to being the person i want to be. I am going to do everything in my ability to reach the person that i want to be. I am so close!
Our 6th grade class just finished a read aloud book called double helix. I didn't think that this book was very interesting because I have never really had an interest in splicing genetic material or test tube babies or anything like that- I personally prefer science fiction. I would recommend this book to anyone who wants to learn about Huntington disease. This book was somewhat funny and it was... deep, it had a lot to do with Eli (the main character) and his girlfriend and his dad with all these weird problems and his mom who has Huntingtons disease. I felt that this book was all over the place, one moment the author is talking about the theory of transgenics, then the author is talking about bunny rabbits then the author is talking about a date between Eli and his girlfriend. I just didn't find the book very interesting and it was kind of dry in a way. Not many on-the-edge-of-your-seat moments which is one of the biggest reasons I didn't like it.
Looking at the 7th grades lit study I think we move around to much. We squirm around and we just can't sit still. I also think we need to work on staying on topic. We sometimes make jokes and get talking about something that has absolutely nothing to do with what were talking about. I think that we could all bring more to the conversation, we could all look deeper into the story and really bring something juicy and deep to mix things up a little but.The 7th graders really did a good job of focusing on their goals-topics, they had really good examples which is another thing we could work on.
I just got done watching my own lit study. We watched two videos and in both I thought that some things I could work on would be using sarcasm againsed other comments, interrupting, mumbling when my turn, another thing I need to work on is the mmm hmm comments. One thing I really need to work on is body language. I slouch and cross my legs, I can't sit still it seems like! Above all of the bad things some of the good things were asking questions when I didn't understand or adding a comment on to something else. other things I thought I did well were speaking with correct grammar and I made good points and stayed on topic.