Pharaoh IMovie Reflection

Content Rubric
Introduction~ A description of the pharaoh is relevant, factual and correct. Time he/she ruled is correct.	5	4	3	2	1
Pharaoh’s accomplishments ~ Clearly explains the important contributions the pharaoh made during his/her rule.	5	4	3	2	1
Architectural Achievements ~Clearly describes and explains the important buildings/monuments that were built during this time. Explain how evidence of their religious beliefs is shown in these buildings.	5	4	3	2	1

Skills Rubric
images ~ All images are relevant, interesting and of good quality (saved properly as a jpg). Images match narration throughout.	5	4	3	2	1
Narration ~ Voices are clear, loud and fluent with good intonation. It is obvious you have practiced your part before recording. No background noise.	5	4	3	2	1
Transitions & Effects ~ Subtle transitions between the parts of the presentation are used throughout. Any effects used only enhance the message and are compatible with the image content.	5	4	3	2	1

City Connection Reflection

Something that I did good on my presentation was that my slide was nice and neat and it was readable and it had a lot of information.

I think that maybe my project should of had something that everyone could do to grab there attention.

I saw some people that had good ideas such as Ayaka's and Dylan's presentation because it had something the whole class had to do.

I learned that people in my class have visited many different places and that everyone

in my class has there own way of presenting. I also learned from Micah's presentation, I learned that Singapore was founded by Dr. Stamford Raffles.

Overall I think I did well on the presentation and my class did well too.

Learning Profiles, Profile NN

In class, Mr. Whiting taught us about profiles using the Dominance Factor- how knowing your dominant eye, ear, side of brain, hand, foot and how this can improve my learning. I found out I was profile NN.   I am Gestalt Dominant.  I can learn using auditory and kinesthetic communication.  When I am stressed my vision and my movements are limited.

I learn best through movement and by focusing on the whole picture.    I appreciate metaphors and examples when problem solving.

I could improve my learning by sitting halfway back on the right side to hear, but where I can also move without disturbing others.  I have to do something with my hands while listening to new learning, like playing with clay, or doodling.   When listening to new information, I may have to close my eyes and turn the dominant ear toward the sound.

Things that I can do to help my learning process are activities that integrate cross-lateral movements like Lazy 8's for eyes, cross crawl, three dimensional art, blinking while tracking around the edge of an object, soccer, martial arts, Tai Chi.  I can learn better, if I can balance art, music, movement and interpersonal/intrapersonal skills while learning language and math.

I would like my teachers to know that I am quick to grasp the main idea, but I have great difficulty hearing and communicating the details in a linear way.  I will use the new ideas I have learned here to help me in my classes and see if this helps me grasp new information quicker.

 

My New Years Resolution

At the beginning of every year, millions of people, around the world, make New Year's resolutions. I will be sharing two New Year's resolutions of my own.   Both of my resolutions apply to school.
My first resolution is to be more organized. Whenever I need something important and I try looking for it in my room or my locker, I can never find it. I end up finding my things months later.  I want to work on this so that I can find my things the minute I need it.  One way I think I can get better at this is put my work away the moment I finish it, instead of waiting for a pile of items to put away.

My second resolution is to work harder on school work. I always try to work hard during activities but maybe I need to work a little harder and get better at it. Whenever I am told that I will be having a quiz or test, I wait till the last few days to study, when everyone else probably started studying 5 days before.  Even if I do get a good grade on it, I didn't spend time working hard on it and it is always harder for me to remember the information.

Over the break, I went ice skating at Sunway Pyramid with my family and my friends. I skated around that rink.  It was my second time and I was slow and scared.  At the end of the trip, I was used to skating and it was quite fun, but I wish I had realized that before I even got on the rink.  Sunway Pyramid is so large that finding a specific restaurant proved to be like a scavenger hunt in a maze - it was really complicated.

Overall, I had a wonderful holiday and I'm ready to get back into schoolwork, full speed, with my New Year's resolutions to keep me on track. 

Collabrating Constructively

In Literature Discussions, working with a partner benefits us because we get to help each if we need help. If we had chosen a bad passage or a bad question, our partner would help us choose a better one. Our partner would look through and find better and more detailed ideas to help us  understand the book better.  Challenges we faced were, questions. My partner even had trouble thinking of one. I knew that is was going to be tough thinking of one for her too. Sometimes if she thought of one it would relate to mine and the responses would be the same which also would kind of be the same question.

Literature Circles Reflection

In humanities, we are doing something called literature circles. Lit. circles is where we read a couple chapters in a book then we have to find an important part in there, which we can explain. After that we have to pick two questions that we can answer and answer them. Finally we write a connection or a reaction and two vocabulary words with a definition and page number. My groups discussion did improve my understanding of the book, True confessions, however my group filled in all the gaps.





 During our discussion, we get a little over excited when we talk about each part in the story. Each and every discussion, we tend to predict what's going to happen in the next chapter from the past chapters. Way back in the book, we found the bad guy and the good guy. All of us put a little knowledge into discussion and guessed the rest of the book. The most important thing we discussed was probably our predictions because, they all had some actions in the story even if it didn't have to do with the bit we chose. In our last discussion, we talked about a person called Mr. Edwing who had been shot. This was an example of what we talk about and how we put some thought into who did it. Also in the book, Charlotte, a main character was given a dirk by Zachariah, the cook for the crew. This was important because it would protect her later on in the story. Captain Jaggery is now showing himself off unlike earlier in the story, it seemed he was trying to gain her trust.





 Charlotte found a pistol in Mr. Edwing's chest. This was strange sense only Captain Jaggery said he only had guns locked up in his cabinet. Captain Jaggery tortures his crew if they don't listen to him. One time in the story, he had cut off Mr. Cranick's arm because he didn't listen. He wiped someone 50 times because they weren't listening to him. Captain Jaggery really has a part in the story. Without him there would be no conflict in the story. A prediction I made was that, Captain Jaggery was going to steal Charlotte's knife that Zachariah gave her and frame her.

Symmetry

This is a picture of me holding an eraser. It has 1 line of symmetry down the middle of it.