Reflection of Lit circle

I think that will is simular to me in the ways I am about to tell you. First I think will like me because he does not like to do things that he doesn't want to do. I think that he has that attitude because he is will to run away and never come back because he does not want to get capped. This would also make him brave because he is will to run away with no to help him but a map. I also think that he is adventurous like me because he like going down to a place where no one can do anything to him and jack and him hunt for food. He also is questioning and I know this because he is always asking questions.

He also is simular to me in a way that if he see's something unusual he would not stop try to see what makes that things unusual. I also think in that way for example I would see something and wonder bout and try and find out why it is unusual. I also can relate to him in a way that he can be very angry if he wants to but usually he doesn't get angry. He also has a problem sharing with people he doesn't like I am like that if someone has done something bad to me I find it hard to get over it. For example I hate sharing anything with my brother because a lot of the time he is trying to beat me up.

City Connections Reflections

I am going to reflect on my work of the most recent Topic.

I believe that I did well in giving a lot of information about what and why they would go there and why those type of people. I made sure to tell what resources they from that country and also if the people that were originally what them too come or not to come. I also explained what resources they had so that they could trade or sell to other countries. I think that I choose some good pictures that supported what I was saying in my presentation. I explained my notes in the detail so that there could be a full understanding of the history and economy of my country. I also found out which part of the Island was good to have a army base.

I thought that I showed the main rivers and that show's where most people would be staying.

I should have made a better introduction for my presentation and made it a bit more intriguing to the people listening. I could have also Included more facts about how the natural resource was found there helped the economy grow. I should have given more information about the races and religions that populated the country of Trinidad. I should have included a little bit more about which types of business do best in the country of Trinidad. I could have design my presentation better and make it intriguing to others. I could add something good to put at the end of my presentation.

I had to use a loud and clear voices so that everyone who was listening would be able hear loudly and clearly. I had to also stay still so that people would not become distracted from my presentation. I also prevented my self from forgetting what I needed to say so that the people listening could hear me. I learned from other people's presentations that the cities that they have lived in had a natural resource. I also learned that a lot of their cities were able to ship things out and have thing be shipped in. I noticed that the cities they lived in had some sort of protection from hills.

I could have presented with a more clear voice that would have helped people stay more focused on my presentation. I could have aimed my voice more at the crowd so the would hear me better. I should have also memorized my presentation better so that I could tell my presentation with more detail. I needed to use more expressions when I was presenting to the class. I could also use gestures so the people I am presenting to are intrigued to presentation and under stand well. I could have improved my word use and it would have been a more understandable.

So this is my Reflection on this unit of the reasons for why people moved there.

                                     Profile K

I learn best when I am moving and learning like when listening to music or moving around. I also learn better when I don't focus on the details and I don't pay much attention to thing that are not related to me in anyway. I am a visual learner and use three dimension perspectives and emotional elements to learn. When I am relaxed and easily communicate the details and sequence of information when talking or when writing. I don't follow things step by step I may start what it is going to look like when the project or thing is done. After imaging happens I start to do seem like what's going to happen. I tend to do free continue movement when relaxed when I am under stress I move with caution or clumsiness and feel stuck. When I am stressed out or anxious I may have difficulty saying what I am want to say, hearing properly or remembering what is being taught. I often see the big picture but sometimes don't know how to start a task. My biggest challenge may be to piece the information together so that it makes sense. I have an eye that scan's from left to right and have a problem reading English well.

I understand best when being shown something threw movement as seeing how things works help me understand clearly. For me to understand best I need to get a clear idea of the big picture and it helps when I can relate to the work that I am doing. I learn and memorize thing's better when it is explained in imagery Image to work with. When I go through the day with the right amount of sleep, the right amount of food and the right amount of time to myself. I need to be relaxed more often so that I learn better and a problem I have is putting pieces of information and being able to put them together logical matter for me to read. I also will have to practice reading because my dominant eye is left and that means that I would feel better reading from left to right and that is the opposite that I am suppose to read. When I under stress I feel clumsy stuck and I move around with caution and also lose my temper.

I think I need to make changes in my life that will me a more successful learner. I know the things in my everyday life that can affect me as a learner and I need to take steps to putting things in place that will make me a more successful learner. One of the easiest thrashing for me to tackle first would be my eating and sleeping habits. . I need to get adequate sleep or I will become grumpy and frustrated. I need to get at least 8 hours of sleep at night.........no more late TV nights. I also need to eat healthy and regularly. I also need to have a lot more patience with myself and understand my learning weaknesses and make a conscious effort to deal with on a daily basis. Helps calm and make plans on how to tackle any problems.

I want teachers to understand that even though I seem to always be playing around sometimes it is because I can't focus. I get really frustrated and the only way I can feel good is by letting off some steam. I hope that my teachers and I can find some way of putting together some plans that will help me find some better ways of dealing with my problems. Just writing this blog helps me think of ways of dealing with my focusing problems. I also want my teacher's to know these things about me so that they know what is best for me example what is a better place in the room for me to be sitting at. I hope that my teacher's learn my profile well so they have better chance seeing what I am capable of doing and what I am not capable of doing. Also they could know what things I need to practice on to be a better student.

New year Resolution

This New Year I am going to try and work towards reminding myself to do my work as soon as I get it and not save it till the last minute. This will help me make fewer mistakes because as I often save all my work for one night and am not be able to finish it all. Sometimes I will forget about doing work and suddenly I will remember that I have to finish some work and I’ll have to rush to finish the work. I should put reminders up and that will make sure that I don't forget about the work that I have done. I could just immediately start working on it so that there is no chance I don't forget about it. When I get home I start my work on the same day that it is assigned or work on most of it and then work on it the next day for a while. Another good reason to start your homework as soon as you gets it so that if you need help to finish the work and there is someone to help you.

Another goal for me is to stay more organized so that I don't lose any of my worksheets or anything that is important. Being organized also helps me be prepared for class so that I don't waste time looking for supplies. I could also try and remember to use my planner more often so that I know what work I have to do in advanced. I could also use more detail so that I don't miss anything and know all the details.  Another way to prevent myself from loosing papers is to keep my locker clean so I don't lose anything. I could also make sure that I organize my folder so that I don't lose any important folder.

For my Christmas holiday I went to Trinidad and Tobago and I stayed In Trinidad for the first week and met up with my family and watch movies in the theater. I was kind of jetlagged so I got caught up with the time zone and the first week was relaxed week. The second week my grandfather rented a house in Tobago and I was on the beach for a week with all my relatives. My father’s parents also live on Tobago and my uncle, aunt and cousin were also there too and my grandmother had a big new year’s dinner with everyone that I knew. The first day we went to the beach and rode jet skies and played sports with my family on the beach.

The rest of the week we swam in our pool a lot at the house we were staying and the pool was so big that the babies could play safely. We went to a many of the popular beaches but the swimming was not too good because the wave's on the beaches were too big . Even though it was very rough I stayed and played in the shallow water for the whole time and everyone else sat down and looked at the sun setting. We had to do our family pictures and as we had all our family even my family from Canada, USA and from Australia. The third week I visited all my old friends and people that I haven't seen in a long time. I also used up all the fireworks left from new years.

Thank's for watching

Lit circle reflection

One of the benefits for working with a partner is that you are able to discuss and compare your responses to the questions and responses. You may even find mistakes in your answer and you can tell each other about and what will improve your grade. You can also learn a different way of looking passages in the book which will help you expand your knowledge for the book.  You could learn about collaborating with each other which help get along with others later on another projects. I would also say that people have less to explain and the partner will explain it in a different way which might the part you missed. They will be able to remind each other to stay on task and remember certain talking about the book. You can also problem solve with each other about problems that occurs in the book.

Some of the obstacles that we overcame are that we had to agree on who was going to create the page and who was going to share it. We also had to agree on what day that we were going to check what our group members have written. I have to also read over my group member writing and make sure there are no mistakes. I also need to make sure that the comments that I give will make sure that it will help my partner so that there writing will improve. I also have to make sure and see that she has done her work so that I can tell her how she can improve.  I also have to make sure that we don't have any disagreements in our own perspectives and discuss the problem. We had a problem she had given me feedback and told me what to post but I had not done my work and so she did not look at it until Monday. I had finished the lit circle Sunday but we came on at different times we didn't have enough time to look at each other’s writing.

We all must have gained a different understanding of the novel because the other person has a different type of view of the book. You also learn how the person can understand the book which will give you a different way of the lit circles. You also may want to mix your way of writing with another person's own and that may help you improve by a lot. That person may have a better understanding of the book and that will be shown in there writing. My partner helped me because she showed a lot of personal connection that would help you shows more detail and evidence that it connects to your real world. If you give more personal connection you show that you know what you are connecting to and helps prove your understanding of this group. Another thing that could help you show your understanding of the book is word choice that shows you know the certain description's in the book that the writer is trying to tell you. 

Overall working with a partner is better even thought you have to do your share of the work and give the same amount also the same amount of thought into it. You get to learn another way that someone writes his or her lit circle's which could help you improve your writing skills. I don't mean go copy them I mean mix it up your writing and their writing that way you can find a mix your writing if there method is better. You also look at how they still get more than require but still keep their writing entertaining.

Literature Circle Reflection

The discussion of this book helped me understand the book because people have different minds and different ways of thinking. Some people were able to see things that are important that other people would have missed and that thing that they missed could be import to know about in a book. You could also miss the conflict's ad and the building up action and you would get confused with the book. The discussion really helped by giving me more ways to look at the book. Discussing helps me confirms my I dear and thought's because others would have found some of the same things in the book. Discussions with other people helps me to understand the book better by giving your opinion and others agreeing or disagreeing and soon down with a answer to agree on. You get a better I dear of the book by a group of people discussing on the book in all different ways.

I reflected on how he had a collection of pictures that his dad has sent him and how he collect's them and it reminds him of his dad. I connected that I had a great uncle that died and one thing that reminded me of him is that he had a collection of cars. I connected well with Jacob because he hasn't seen his dad in a long time and I have not seen my great uncle in a long time. I also think that I connected with where his dad is right now my great uncle lived away and hardly ever got to see him. My other connection is about how you invite a friend over and you have it all planned out but then he is sick and he can't come. Jacob had that connection by the way his mom died she had plans and a lot of things to do but then she died. The day seemed like it was the same but all of a sudden things change in a big way. I think that the way Jacob reacted is much more seriously than a person would react over a friend coming over for the day and he has a lot more to react over.

I predict that he is going to need to get some more money and find a person that knows how to get to where his dad's camp is. He also needs to get out of the town he is in right now or some of the people will recognize him and will come after him and steal his bike back. He will also need to go and find some way to get money to pay for the hotel because they stole his money when they beat him up. He will face a lot of challenges when making his journey to his dad's camp. He may be too late to go and find his dad's camp because he mentioned that they move around a lot in Kenya. He will have to use some of those survival techniques if he wants to survive in Kenya because it is harsh environments. He is probably going to make it to his dad safe and safe a lot of animals.

I have told you my opinion of why discussions help people understand the novel that they read. I have included that my thought's and fact's about the discussions and how they help you in the future and right now. I have given evidence that I have connected with Jacob in the book and it is well connected with the book.

I have connected where Jacob took a big turn when his mom died it changed his whole life in a big way. I predicted that he will have some big challenges when he goes and tries to go and meet his dad even he does not even know where he is.