Letter to self Reflection
My first reflection on this page is a letter that I wrote to my self in the beginning of the school year. The goal I had in reading was to read every night. I have definitely accomplished that goal. Sometimes i stay up really late because I get hooked on a book. Actuallly that happens almost every night!!!!! ;) I plan to keep this goal going. The other goal I had for reading was to read different genres so I could expand my knowledge. I am going to be honest I have not done that to well. except for books we read i class i like to read romance novels. I plan to keep working on that goal so far this tri i have read a couple futuristic books but that's not the greatest expansion of genre because those are other books I like to read a lot . One more goal for reading as to take AR test on all books possible. I have done that well. My goal for writing is to write more often and expand the genres I write. I have done that really well because I have been writing every night for nanaowrimo and I have expanded my genre a lot because instead of writing normal lifestyle novel I am writing on my interpretation of the future. So far I think I'm doing good and a new goal for next tri would be to try to read a new book every week. this will be a harder goal to obtain but I think I can do it. Wish me luck!!!!!!!
sincerely, Myself Maggie Reisner
sincerely, Myself Maggie Reisner
Challenge Reflection
I thought the Journey into cryptography Unit was very challenging but also very interesting. I thought it was challenging because it was such a foreign subject to comprehend. But that was also what made it very interesting. I think the challenge level was appropriate because it was very hard almost to the point where I wanted to give up, but it was doable. To make the challenge better the only thing I would want was to be a little easier, for instance give a couple more clues but I also liked how challenging it was because that's what made it a challenge. I think I definateley did my best work because if you had showed me this a couple of weeks ago I would have been like what are you talking about
NaNoWriMo Reflection
I ended up meeting my goal after I changed it once. My first goal was 40,000 words, I didn't make that because I had less time to write than I thought I would and didn't plan very well. I made my second goal of 30,000 because I planned the amount I would do every day and the time I would do it. The most challenging thing about NaNo was actually making time to sit down and write. Once I got going I enjoyed writing, But when I sat watching TV thinking about it I didn't want to do it. I definitely would not take it on by myself. The reason I wouldn't do it by myself is that all the prep work we did was basically what made me capable of doing it. Also when you think about writing a novel you would thing " Hah no way" but my teacher pushed me to do it and I did it. I enjoyed most the feeling of acomplishment and seeing the big winner sign. This feeling came from knowing that many of my classmates didn't make their goal. I only could have done better by making more time to write. Other than that, I wrote a novel so I'm pretty proud!
Double Helix Reflection
In my opinion transgenics are not OK, but at the same time they are. I don't like the idea of modifying people before they are even born, if when they are older they decide they want to get surgery or another operation to modify themselves then they have the right to do that. But it should their own decision since they have to live with it. Or if it is a disability I think we should leave it alone, But if it is something that will kill them earlier than they are supposed to die I believe that the decision should be up to the parent in that case. I liked the book a lot because it always left you wanting more at the end of a chapter so I was always excited to read it. I learned a lot about Huntington's disease before all I knew was that your brain shut down and you died early but I didn't know how or why it happened. I liked this genre because a lot of the stuff it was about was totally knew to me and very scientific, but at the same time it was a normal life that i could relate to.
Writer's Workshop Reflection: Day 1
I enjoyed the first CESA meeting. I enjoyed it because we were able to work on our own, and they trusted us enough to let us talk while we were working and kind of be on our own. I also like the fact that they told us what we were going to have to get don't by next week and then they gave us over an hour to do it. Another thing I liked was that they didn't tell us that our questions were going to be our research topic they just told us to write questions down. If they would've told us I definitely would have thought very hard, and would not have come up with the question that I ended up doing. The people there were really nice and were really good at teaching. Overall the day went pretty fast. Finally the thing I liked most is that they didn't stick to a certain schedule they said about an hour for this or about forty five minutes for that, and then they let us go on out own. In conclusion I look forward to going back because of the freedom they gave us, the people, and the fact that they set realistic goals for the amount of time we have to do something.
Writer's Workshop Reflection: Day 2
The second CESA meeting was also another enjoyable one. The goal of day two was to decide which medium you were going to use to present your information. I chose to do mine in the form of an article. I am very excited about the choice I made because once I am done if I feel that I did a good job I am going to a temp to get it published, that will be a hard job to do but i think if i manage it it will be very rewarding. When we get there every morning they have a breakfast buffet with donuts, scones, and juice. After that we did mini lessons to help us figure out what medium we wanted to use was. Then we went to and all you can eat lunch of chicken strips, noodle salad, lettuce salad, rolls, and cookies (Way more than we get at school). And we finished the day with solo work on investigating different mediums and picking which one we'd like to use.
Writer's Workshop Reflection: Day 3
The 3rd CESA meeting was so far my favorite day of the whole thing. I liked it because most of the time we got to work independently and we got to focus on what we needed to get done. And somehow she was able to time it perfectly so whenever we were getting a little board she would do a mini lesson on something that helped us out a lot. At when we first got there i was actually really confused on how we were gonna do this, but she made it really easy by breaking it up in to sections and showing us what we needed to do before we started each section. I'm excited to see everybody's ted talks next time butI'm also really nervous for my turn to share.
Writer's Workshop Reflection: Day 4
We went to the writer's workshop a total of 4 days. On the final day we were to share. we started the day by doing several group shares, to get more comfortable sharing our work in front of an audience. I was extremely nervous to do my presentation but I figured, this is my one chance to show the work I've been working hard on this whole time. And besides, I'll probably never have to talk to these people again, if not they won't remember me presenting. We saw a couple of presentations before lunch because the girls needed to leave, and I thought it was good that we respected there schedule and gave them time to present. We had tacos for lunch and then we did one more group share, after that we sat down to share as a large group. As I sat there watching i got more and more nervous but eventually I got up and did it, and when I was done I was so glad I did. Now that I am done with I am glad I went and that I got the opportunity that I did.
E-Nable Reflections
I think it's awesome that people are giving kids an opportunity to use the 3D printers. If they didn't have this site it wouldn't really even matter how cheap they were to make you would still have to have enough money to buy a 3D printer. If I was a kid that didn't have a hand and really wouldn't until I was an adult and all of a sudden I have this opportunity to get one that works well for the same price as buying groceries for dinner I would be so amazed. Especially since you could customize it and make it however you want. Always being the kid who sticks out you could now be the kid who's cool because you have something nobody else does.
Lit-Study self evaluation
I think that I did pretty good in both Lit. Study meetings, but there was definitely room for improvement on both. On the first one I cited my evidence pretty well but on the second one I hardly did at all. Also, on the second one I had a lot of the same information more than once just from a different page, and instead of repeating it I should have just used it to cite my first idea. I did a good job of bringing a lot to the table but I think I need to elaborate more on it instead of just quick saying it then moving on. In conclusion my first Lit. study was better than the second but both could be improved on my goals for next week are; Cite specifically so people understand, elaborate more on one topic rather than repeating it in small ways, and lastly I need to talk louder and more clearly when I am bringing up my info.
Lit. Study live Reflections
I think that lit. study live went really well. I think that it might have been our best lit. study that we did. It seemed like the kids learned a lot from our performance, and that they enjoyed it for the most part. We did a good job of explaining every component of our lit. study. Also, it was good because every body came prepared sometimes one or two people would not have very anything to say or they would just go off of what other people said. I would do Lit. study live again because it makes it more exciting and I think it makes everybody better because there is more pressure to do good.
Reverse Engineering Reflection
Reverse engineering was a really fun unit for me. I liked it because most of the units are just things where you have to work really hard but this challenged you in a different way. The way that this unit challenged me was by making me think differently, because I don't know about everyone else but I would never think to take the parts of a computer tower and make a Rube Goldberg machine! This unit started by having us take apart our computer tower as much as possible, I liked this sections because it wasn't just totally destroying them it was trying to figure out ways to unscrew this or pry it apart, not just smashing it to pieces. Something that I found funny about this unit was that now everytime I see a screw I want to unscrew it and figure out what it's doing. The next part of the unit was actually beginning to think up your designs for your Rube Goldberg machines. At first I was a little confused on what we were doing but then we actually started building it and after that I thought it was a blast. One thing I would suggest telling people before they do it next time is to do a little brainstorming then just start trying to build things because once you start building the ideas come easier.