The End of the Year...

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This is it, everyone! Your last blog post of the YEAR! As excited as we all probably are about that, I'd like for you to think seriously about the questions below and give some good, thoughtful answers.

You can do this any way you like- write it, videotape yourself or make a podcast answering the questions.

Reflection:

What were some of your goals at the beginning of this school year, both for school as well as for your personal life?


How many of these goals do you think that you have met? Can you please explain your answers?


For the goals that you've met, what helped you to meet those goals? Were there any people who helped you meet them, as well?


For the goals that you did not meet, what stopped you from meeting those goals?


What will be some of your goals for next year, both for school as well as for your personal life?


What have you learned about yourself this year, both as a student and as a person?


Do you think your English has improved this year? Why has it or hasn't it?

Have a fantastic summer, everyone, and I will see you next year!

Grade 6 and Grade 7 Reflection- Unit 1, Part 1 (Storytelling)

We have just finished Part 1 of our first unit on storytelling. We have finished making storyboards, which we will now turn into real stories and present orally in a podcast.

This blog post is going to be a reflection of this first part. Reflection is a very important part of the learning process. It gives us a chance to stop and think about what we've learned, how we've learned it, and what we might do to change or improve our performance in the next part of the unit.

This reflection blog post should be written as a paragraph, describing what you've done since the first day of class, as well as how you've done it. This should sound like a story of your learning. Include the following information in your reflection:

Give it the title: Storytelling Reflection, Part 1
Give it the labels: Storytelling, Reflection, Tools

* The tools which you used and how you used them
*The sites which you used and how you used them. Make hyperlinks to these sites.
*The skills which you used to accomplish the work in this unit.
*Things which you think you will need to change or improve on in the next part of the unit.
*What you think you did well in this part of the unit and why.

Then: Include the picture of your storyboard which you took in class.

Good luck and have fun!

ESL Grade 8-Emotive Language Reflection

As we have discussed in class, reflection is very important in the learning process. It gives us a chance to stop and think about what we've learned, how we've learned it, and what we might do to change or improve on our performance.

For the first part of our unit on The Power Of Words, we learned about emotive language: what it is, examples of it, and how it can be used to improve our class writing. Then we made a slide show with pictures that we chose to show emotive language.

For your assignment, you will write a blog reflection post on Part 1 of Unit 1, The Power Of Words. In your reflection, include the following:

1.) The tools which you used in the unit, and how you used them.

2.) The sites which you used and how you used them. Make hyperlinks in your post to these sites.

3.) The skills which you used to accomplish your work in the unit.

4.) Things that you think you will need to improve for the second half of the unit.

Then, include the slide show which we made as a class to practice and show emotive language.

Good luck and have fun!