What I learned
This week in class I learned alot of new things. Not just english in general but jsut about life. This english class is different than any class ive had before. I say that becasue its not the typical class where you walk in grab a book and just write an essay on something you have no idea whats going on. When i walked into this class for the first time i though "here we go another ordinary english class where you dont learn anything and jsut write essays the whole time", Mr. schoenbourn surprised me cause he stood outside and shook everyones hand and introduced himslef and that when i realized that this class was different. We are cosntantly learning new things and skills to help you for the future.
One thing i learned this week is that you and people you mayhave never talked to before actually have a lot in common. I lfearned this through sharing a sentence form our book. He had us choose a sentence in the book and share it with the class. Another thing i learned this week is that when your just free writing you and another person mey be in the exact same situatiuon not necessary in life but maybe your plans for the fututre or how you have no clue whta to do for the future. Thursday this week we had a free write and to start he told us to come up with topics to write about and i beleive that helped me alot insted of out of nowhere i had a few ideas that i could write about. Many othser wrote about the same things.
Thanks to this class and the teacher i am starting to realize how big of skill reading is. Reading is a very important skill. When you do anyhting in life you are reading something it could be anything as little as a sign or ordering food but its sill reading its everywhere. It could also be reaidng for studying ofr a test and trying to graduate college or get a good grade on a quiz. The pointis the same thing your always reading and you cant escape it.
One thing i learned this week is that you and people you mayhave never talked to before actually have a lot in common. I lfearned this through sharing a sentence form our book. He had us choose a sentence in the book and share it with the class. Another thing i learned this week is that when your just free writing you and another person mey be in the exact same situatiuon not necessary in life but maybe your plans for the fututre or how you have no clue whta to do for the future. Thursday this week we had a free write and to start he told us to come up with topics to write about and i beleive that helped me alot insted of out of nowhere i had a few ideas that i could write about. Many othser wrote about the same things.
Thanks to this class and the teacher i am starting to realize how big of skill reading is. Reading is a very important skill. When you do anyhting in life you are reading something it could be anything as little as a sign or ordering food but its sill reading its everywhere. It could also be reaidng for studying ofr a test and trying to graduate college or get a good grade on a quiz. The pointis the same thing your always reading and you cant escape it.
Week 2; what i learned
This week i learned that reading and writing and all of english class in general can be fun if you make. So far in class we havnt done much work its been a lot of reading and writing. We have done a lot work in group work. It hasnt been hard work just a lot of writing on different topics. He'll give us a topic and have how we feel about the topic on piece of paper and then share that in the group that were sitting in. HE starts our day with a poem of some sort and he wants ot know how we feel about it. One of the big things that we did last week was he let us choose a ted talk over the power of story and he made us choose one of them and watch the video and pick out key parts from the speakers loves and stories and put them in write them down and then we would get in a group with the other people who picked the same story and wed right on the board. He had us share on why this was so key to story telling.
We atlked about our next project and its about a belief that we have from this im learning that i have a lot of beliefs that i take to heart and really care about.
Schoenborn had us watch a video on a guys life story about racism and stereotypes. Fromo watching this video i learned that everyone has sterotypes about them and its up to us if we make them true or not. In this class the teacher has us sharing how we feel alot and i dont know how to feel about it on one hand its a good idea but on theother a lot of people like to keep things to themselves and they dont want to open up to strangers. So this week i learned the importace of everything were doung ad theres a reason behind all of it.
We atlked about our next project and its about a belief that we have from this im learning that i have a lot of beliefs that i take to heart and really care about.
Schoenborn had us watch a video on a guys life story about racism and stereotypes. Fromo watching this video i learned that everyone has sterotypes about them and its up to us if we make them true or not. In this class the teacher has us sharing how we feel alot and i dont know how to feel about it on one hand its a good idea but on theother a lot of people like to keep things to themselves and they dont want to open up to strangers. So this week i learned the importace of everything were doung ad theres a reason behind all of it.
week 3; What i learned
This week in english class is a lot like every other week. So far this week we have been working on our big project for the first marking period. The project is we have to write about one of our beliefs and how we came to that belief. For my beleief i chose hard work and a good work ethic. After we write the essay on our belief and how we came to that belief we are supposed to rectord our voices saying the paper we wrote on our belief. Finally we put our recorded voices in we video and make a video onour belief with our voices behind it. This project has tauht me that many different people have differnt beleifs and a lot of people have similar beliefs too. I beleive that as we continue on with our project I believe this project will help teach me to better respect everyones belief.
Also this week we did our creative writing. Thanks to the creative writing it has taught me to be a better listener to what other people are saying and not jsut hear what their saying but listen and understand better also. We have also been readingour books a lot and it has made me a better reader and i can respect books more and reading in general. This week we created our rubric for our project. I liked how we had some mandatory things to put on it beut we made it ourselves becasue everyone learns and takes teaching differently so there cant be a set rubric because some people are really good are somethings that others may be bad at.
I believe that i am eunderstanfing this class really well and the ideas in it. I came to know and understand the ideas through teaching and the projects and doing all other extra work in class. I still need to work on my creative writing
Also this week we did our creative writing. Thanks to the creative writing it has taught me to be a better listener to what other people are saying and not jsut hear what their saying but listen and understand better also. We have also been readingour books a lot and it has made me a better reader and i can respect books more and reading in general. This week we created our rubric for our project. I liked how we had some mandatory things to put on it beut we made it ourselves becasue everyone learns and takes teaching differently so there cant be a set rubric because some people are really good are somethings that others may be bad at.
I believe that i am eunderstanfing this class really well and the ideas in it. I came to know and understand the ideas through teaching and the projects and doing all other extra work in class. I still need to work on my creative writing
Week 4; what i learned
This week in class we watched our we videos. Our we videos are the this i believe videos that we made over a belief that we hold close to our heart. My belief was that with hard work and a good work ethic you can accomplish anything. It was cool showing everybodys this i believe videos to the whole class because even though it might seem embarrassing to see yours and have the whole class see it but in this class all we've done is things that seem embarrassing to you but people think the same way so it really isn't that embarrassing. As we showed our videos we learn new things about people that you may have never known. For instance you learn things about people who you call friends that you may have never known and learn what their dealing with in their lives. You also learn that people you may not like or have never meant also have more in common with you than you would have ever guessed. I liked the this i believe project as whole because you can share things about yourself that maybe you've never had a chance to and learn things about them.
Also this week we continue reading our books and are doing somethings as a group that is sort of cool i cant really remember because we just got back from break were i did absolutely nothing.
Also this week we continue reading our books and are doing somethings as a group that is sort of cool i cant really remember because we just got back from break were i did absolutely nothing.
Week 5; What I Learned
This week in class we learned about the Shared Leadership. Shared leadership is when the power whether its in the government or even somewhere as simple as a school is shared equally. In many forms of society today there is shared leadership in the government's. However there are still places where one person has all the power which is a democracy where one person makes all decisions about anything. We started off the week by learning about the president's signing statements. A signing statement is when the president can change a law passed by congress and we learned how many presidents use these so that rules don't apply to them. These are not good for shared leadership because even though they wouldn't admit it their taking the power into their own hands. You this happen in the video we watched yesterday The Twilight Zone. In the Twilight Zone it shows what happens when one man takes over all the power and tries to run everything by outlawing books and such and choosing who is useful and who doesn't have a spot in society. The man running is basically a dictator and you see in the end he only cares about himself and then he was found that he didn't have a spot in society and see how fast they chose someone else to lead them and the chancellor saw how this kind of society wouldn't work. Also this week we chose our books for the one pager and what book we wanted to write the essay on. We are writing the essay on a book that follows when leadership was taken by one man and not shared like it should be.
What i learned; Week 6
In class this week we continued on reading our books that we chose. For the book i chose 1984 by George Orwell. It is about how the government is run by one person who they call big brother. The book follows a man who works for the government in what is called the ministry of truth. His job is change the past and make sure it fits what the government wants it to. In this time the only real crime is to conspire against the government. You cant even think bad about them or you die. This book is a glimpse at what is actually happening in other countries. In other places there are dictators that wouldn't tolerate any disrespect. Its the same in this book and big brother. If you look back in time in the real world you see that this book what's taking place and going on is like what Hitler did. Also this week we came up with our big questions for the books. WE got in groups with other people who have the same book. In these groups we discussed the chapter we were assigned to read, for us it was chapter 3-7, and came up with things in these chapters that changed the outlook or things that will affect the rest of the book or just that affect winston personally.
Week 7: What I Learned
For this week in class we took a lot of time reading our books. The books we read were the ones we chose from the options he gave us. I was able to finish my book, 1984 by George Orwell. Overall it was a good book but at many time i found myself lost in everything that was going on. It felt like it didn't take any time to explain anything in the book after it happened and that he threw to much into it because he could. I would recommend this book to those who like a lot going on in a book. This week with all the reading we did it helped to really read and comprehend the books we read, we had plenty of time to re-read if we need to. The reading gave us the time to interpret what the book said. By this I mean that I really had a chance to understand and know the point the author was trying to get past in different parts of the book. We used a lot of time management this week. We knew that we had to finish the required reading first so we used most of our reading time on those books first and if we felt we were in a good spot in one book we could read the other one. I was able to make great connections with all the time we had. By that i mean that i was able to connect the book to the real world.
Week 8; What I Learned
This week we finished our chosen books and started working one our this I believe paper through the eyes of our characters. First of all we needed to organize are picture notes we took as we read our books. What he did was picked a few of the most useful pictures and put them into a power point. By then singling out a sentence of two to use a quote and writing why it was important will make it much easier to write the actual paper. We will just be able to go through our power points and take the quote and write how the character feels in the section. I think it was a very helpful pre writing project. Now as I’m getting into actually writing the paper i’ll really have to put myself into the characters shoes Its interesting to learn how to put yourself into your character's position, to learn what experiences my them the way the are and prompted their beliefs.
This week we also did our character arc on one of the character in our book. Since my book was 1984 i chose to do the main character winston. For the character arc we had to explain the changes we saw in the book from beginning to end. For example winston didn't really change from what he was at the beginning of the book to the very end. Now at certain point she was a completely different person, but from the first page and last page he was the same.
This week we also did our character arc on one of the character in our book. Since my book was 1984 i chose to do the main character winston. For the character arc we had to explain the changes we saw in the book from beginning to end. For example winston didn't really change from what he was at the beginning of the book to the very end. Now at certain point she was a completely different person, but from the first page and last page he was the same.
Week 10
This week in class we started doing our pecha kucha presentation. These presentation are to be over our required books and shared leadership. A pecha kucha is a is a presentation style in which 20 slides are shown for 20 seconds each (6 minutes and 40 seconds in total). The format, which keeps presentations concise and fast-paced. Our pecha kuchas however will not be as long. For ours we only need 10 slides so it will only take about 3 and a half minutes to present. To help us with our pecha kucha presentations we wrote a one page paper on our required reads book. to write the paper he gave us 6 questions and each question was to be answered in a paragraph . I am finished with my one pager and onto my pecha kucha but i am having trouble finding the write images to portray what i am trying to say. The one pager really helps with the pecha kucha because it is almost exactly what we need to say for each of the 5 topics in our presentations. Finding the right images is for me the hardest part of the whole presentation. We can't use clipart because it doesn't work well to get the point across in a formal presentation. It is to fake and in a presentation where you really want to relate what your saying to the pictures clipart is all to fake.
Before we could even start our presentations we needed to have an idea what we wanted to say which kind of helped with the picture search. IF we knew what we wanted to say with each topic it made the whole process of making the pecha kucha easier on us. This way it helped with the whole time management of the presentation. The time management is one of the biggest things that we have learned.
Before we could even start our presentations we needed to have an idea what we wanted to say which kind of helped with the picture search. IF we knew what we wanted to say with each topic it made the whole process of making the pecha kucha easier on us. This way it helped with the whole time management of the presentation. The time management is one of the biggest things that we have learned.