Please answer the following questions in 5-7 thoughtful sentences. This will be due on 11:59pm on Friday 1/25/08.
1. From what work products (projects, essays, in-class assignments, discussions, etc.) did you feel the largest sense of accomplishment? Describe why.
2. What work products (projects, essays, in-class assignments, discussions, etc.) did you feel the most frustrations with? Describe why.
3. What expectations did you have of yourself this semester in all classes? In what ways did you meet them? In what ways do feel you did not meet them?
4. What do you look forward for next semester in Economics. The planned units are to study principles of economics through projects related to food courts, and monolpolies. Also, we will be completing a unit on personal finance. Are there other topics in Economics that you would like to cover?
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Sheryl Soo
Theta
1. I felt the largest sense of accomplishment when we were registering to vote in class because it was the first time I filled out that form and it was a good experience. I'm sure it would come into use in the future when I begin to vote. I also enjoyed reading Plato and other readings because it was a new type of text for me, and being able to understand it just a little bit gave me a sense of accomplishment. I felt that all the readings we were assigned in class (except for the constitution reading) were interesting and I really enjoyed them.
2. I felt the most frustration when doing the pamphlet project. This was mostly because of the program I used. I used iWorks '08 at home, but I did not think that not all the computers at school would have that program installed. This was a huge problem, as well as the fact that the fonts I used for my pamphlet wasn't installed either, so basically my pamphlet was completely messed up with cut-off text, and no color. The printer was also not working so I couldn't even print the other half of my pamphlet. Due to the time limit I had after all the technical difficulties, I wasn't able to get anyone to sign my pamphlet because I didn't have time to talk to them about my candidate. The human nature research paper was also a very difficult and frustrating assignment. At first, the library searches were okay, but the problem was that I didn't really find anything useful in the books that I found. I had to change my thesis many times, therefore I had to alter my body paragraphs over and over again, but I could not make it so that it was improving. I felt like each time I revised my essay, the more confused and different it became.
3. My expectations I had for myself this semester in all classes were to stay on track, get things done before the due dates, and not slack off with senioritis. I was able to keep up with my work until it became overwhelming and I wasn't able to wisely manage my time. I felt that if I could go back in time, I would change my priorities so that I could do all my work and turn it in on time with completeness.
4. Next semester I look forward to our new projects because I'm getting tired of the human nature research paper. I am also looking forward to learning more about personal finance. I think it would be interesting, and I'm hoping that there would be more interactive activities in class other than just written assignments and discussions.
Sierra Laiafa said...
1. I felt the largest sense of accomplishment from our human nature because that was the assignment I worked the hardest on. I sat in libraries for hours and checked out tons of books to get research and it was all hectic and tiring. I remember it was days away from the paper being due and I was struggling to find information to complete my paper and meet the length of it. But overall I pulled through and I finished in time and turned in my paper but I didn't feel that it was the best paper because I feel I should have spent more hours on it but overall I felt the largest sense of accomplishment from that long hard paper.
2. I was most frustrated with my human nature paper and my pamphlet. With my paper I was stressing because I rain out of information and I was trying to pull through in the end. I was angry with my pamphlet because I ran out of positive things to say about my canidate. My paper was a frustration because a lot of the books I got had irrelevant information and not too much good stuff I could use to research the pursuit of happiness. And with my pamphlet I was frustrated because I didnt know enough information to convey someone to vote for my canidate. But overall I got it all done.
3. This semester my goals were to stay o top of all my classes and my work. I feel I didnt fully meet those goals but I did what I could. The only reason I wasnt at the top of my game was because I had a lot going on at home and within myself but I pulled my load as much as I could and whatever my grades come out to be I deserve it. I cant complain about it I can strive harder for the next quarter and keep my main focus on my work and homework and making sure I have my priorities straight.
4. Next semester I want to do more government work and dealing with money and polotics. I had a lot of fun finding GDP's and how wealthy and poor each country is. I also had fun with a lot of the projects we did in class with defining different types of governments and how effective they could be if we were in that state. I really am open to doing anything new and fun. My only thing is group work because I work better in groups and enjoy it more. Individual work is only fun when it's something I find personally interesting.
THETA BLOCK ALL DAY!!!!!!
David B
Theta
1. I think I feel most proud of Human Nature essay. The assignment looked very hard to accomplish and I did have troubles covering all the requirements, mostly length requirement and quotes/bibliography - it was very hard to find books; not just because we had to go to library but also because sometimes the book might seem as it's a perfect match but once you read it for the quotes, it turns out to be irrelevant to your topic. It was a very hard paper to write, which took over 6 hours, and I am very proud that I finished that paper and got a good grade. I am also proud of my Ireland presentation - I learned a lot about the parliamentary democracy and about Ireland's history.
2. The biggest frustration was also with Human Nature essay - covering all the requirements. The length requirement was very hard to accomplish and also finding sources was a very hard part of it - because you can't "judge a book by its cover" but unfortunately, this is what we had to do since there were a lot of books and we had to choose few from them.
3. I didn't really have any expectations for this semester - just general, which is to have good grades (no Cs) and it seemed like I accomplished that goal
4. To be honest, I am not familiar with the course of Economics, so I cannot say what I want to study. I guess, I am fine with anything because it is my first time studying this subject. I think it will be interesting for me, so I am looking forward to next semester.
Rolando Casella
Theta
1.) I feel that with my human nature paper and also the country assignment was the largest sense of accomplishments for me because I feel it should a structured work that is organized and shows the work habits of learning other countries culture and life. I feel that discussions of the different events that we learned in class actually helps everyone in learning everyones view of what they see in the what the topic should be in our own society today.
2.) I actually feel that with my human nature paper was frustrating because there was so many books but you can't even get the right information sometimes, and sometimes there is so much but you just don't know how to word it. I actually felt the readings that we did in class actually didn't help any especially when comparing two stories because I feel that it frustrated me especially when there were philosophers that were speaking in a difficult way.
3.) The expectations that i had for myself in this semester in all classes was to find what I really can do and what I need to ask help for to do the work I need to do. I feel that I have meet with my expectations because I feel I got to know myself more as a student then I knew before. I actually don't feel that I haven't meet any expectations.
4.)I think for next semester in Economics I am looking forward to the money in society, how it was today and back then. I actually don't have any options to put out there to have for next semester. I actually believe completing a unit on personal finance would be a good unit for people because some people might have to do finances for the family. A lot of people are familiar to monopoly which I believe that is the best to know or be familiar with what you know outside of school. I believe that even little projects having to do with the money and the economy that we live in today would help us.
1. I think that my essay, for one, was the larger accomplishment of the semester. I managed to think in a larger scope, by bringing in larger ideas from previous experience and new, library-based resources. This was the most amount of time and energy put into a single economics/government project this semester. Aside from this essay, I think that the various discussions that I participated in resulted in some good ideas during class. This can also be considered an accomplishment of sorts, given I got a lot out of the discussions through talking and debating with my peers on various current events and topics. I also liked the current events project, it actually drove me to read about current events, in depth for school.
2. The essay was the most frustrating, although I got a lot out of it, the process before I began to write it was hard. Another frustration, or at least projects that brought memories of frustration were some in-class projects. I can't necessarily pin-point any time that was frustrating, but I have a memory of such. I think it's due to some of the tedious elements that were apart of the projects, and this was harder to overcome.
3. I expect a lack of senioritis. Although it in a way is inevitable, I am interested in the topics that we are going to cover, including personal finance. Therefore, I do want to pay attention and learn, so hopefully it'll kill off any possible laziness in class. I'll meet these expectations by pretending that the work isn't school work per-se, but instead work that I want to do---for the FUTURE!
4. I look forward to, as I said in the latter, personal finance specifically. I'm interested in such because I'm going to have to handle personal finance when I'm older, so I better learn what to expect while I'm expecting (like that baby book 'what to expect when you're expecting, but with finance). I think that any other units that could connect to the future or bring us any usefulness in the future should be done. I know that there can be a lot of possibilities, beyond finance. Like weird economic theory! Like Freakonomics! Or The World Is Flat! Those would be cool to read as a class, even though I already read them.
Semester 1 Reflection
1. The time I felt the greatest sense of accomplishment in government class is the class assignments we did in the beginning of the year. I felt most accomplished in the work that we did on the fables and when we dissected Hobbes, Plato, and Machiavelli’s work. I felt good when I was able to understand what these philosophers were saying. In the past I have had a hard time understanding that type of work but this year understanding difficult writing hasn’t been as hard because of the reading and writing skills I’ve learned through my time at CAT. I also really learned a lot from the activity where we bet on the candy, I though it was a fun and creative way to learn about the various types of governments.
2. The assignment I felt the most frustration in is the Human Nature Essay. What made this so hard was having to do so much research on one subject. It was also hard because I couldn’t find everything I was looking for, and finding philosophers to support your opinion made it ever harder. After the research actually writing the paper and using formal language very frustrating. During the writing process I have to say the most frustrating part had to be the length of the paper and having to create so many complex ideas to write about.
3. The expectations I had in all my class was to pass them all for starters. I also wanted to learn and really understand all the concepts we were taught. I met this goal because in a few classes I actually did that. Like in math I really understood the math and passed the class. But I failed it many of my other classes because of my absences. Being absent and sick so much really hindered my grade this year and has probably kept me from meeting my expectations. Not being in school hurt my chances of understanding the work that really hindered my chances of meeting my goals. And what added on to this failure was not being able to turn work in late.
4. I’m really looking forward to learning the planned units in economics. I would also like to learn about… the stock market and how that affects our economy and more specifically us as individuals. And I’d like to learn about why our economy is as bad as it is.
Calvin Zhang
Theta
1. The assingment that I felt I got a lot from was the day where you were getting in a group and bringing our money together and buying bags candy because that was a great way to illustrate how each type of government works. It was also good because in the beginning of the class, we didn't know what we were doing and that made the class more engaging because no body knew what was going to happen. Another assignment that I was interested in was the pamphlet assignment we just did because we got to research any candidate we wanted and see if we would want to vote for that person when election day comes. This assignment made me want to vote for Edwards instead of picking Obama because of his popularity.
2. The project hat I was most frustrated on was the big philosophy paper because i do not like philosophy at all and that I knew that it was important to learn about it but I didn't like how we had to write a 6 page essay on it. The most frustrating thing in my paper was reading all about the philosophers and then deciding that the books weren't helping me finish the paper at all. It was also frustrating doing the paper because I don't really like philosophy and that I felt like I was doing it just to get it done and not really learning anything.
3. The expectations that I had for myself was to finish assignments and turn them in but there was the no late policy so i couldnt turn in some of my things that I was almost done with. I didn't really meet my expectations because I was chilling too much and that affected my work habits which affected my grade.
4. Next semester, i am really excited about the budget unit because i would like to learn how to manage my money instead of having to experience bankruptcy first hand. I would also want to learn about how and when to invest because my dad is always investing in stocks and trying to make money to pay for some of my college and we've had to wait about one year before we let go of our stocks and then rebuying at a bad time. I would like to learn how to analyze patterns in the stock market so i can invest and get some extra money.
andrena pearson
1. The work product that i enjoyed doing the most in econ and gov was the pamphlet about who should become the next president. I enjoyed this project because im actually interested in who is going to be the next president in the us because i would hate for this world to be put through what bush had alredy put us through again.
2. Thewrok product that i felt most frustrated about was the whole human nature essay. The human nature was most frustrated to me because i feel like human nature is just a state of mind and its like people have their own way of looking at it but in this case it was like i had to right a paper on something that i dont even think exsist.
i'll finish the rest in anothe blog its time to go
Hanora Bauer
1. I feel some projects that I was most proud of was the presidential pamphlets because they were fun to research and helped me decide who I might vote for in the next election. Another project I felt proud about was the work we did on plato, hobbes, and Machiavelli even though most of the time I had alot of trouble reading their work. It still overall made me understand their ideas much better and then I was able to use that information to put in my human nature paper. I also enjoyed alsmot all the discussions we had in class because even if I didnt say much I got a lot of information from other people in my class and their ideas on certin issues that affect myself.
2. I felt the most frustrated with the human nature paper this semester. It was I think the hardest paper I have ever done because it seemed to be so general. I think I strugled alot because I didnt really know where to get good information and when I was givin that information I did not know how to inclue in within my paper. I also felt really frustrated when we reading through all the long writing by the philosophers. It did help me alot in the end but at the time it was not fun trying to figure out what they were saying.
3. I had medium expectations going into goverment class this semester because it was somthing I had never learned about and was really excited to learn about. I just went in with an open mind and was willing to do the best I could. I feel I did meet these expectations by doing better then I actually thought I could do. There were some points in class I didnt think I would be able to finish a paper or get the essay done but I always seem to get it done right on time. I feel I didnt meet this expection fully though because I strugled alot with keeping up with the homework and revising alot of my work so it was my best.
4. I look forward to learning new things that I didnt know before. I have never been taught about it so its kind of exciting but at the same time kind of scary because I have heard from others it can be hard work. So we will see what happens if I can handle it or not.
John Sy
Theta
1. I feel that I have made a big accomplishment on my homework. Because I have done most of the blogs and Homework that was assigned. In the past I don't usually do homework and for me to actually do most have my it felt like an accomplishment.
2. The research paper is the work product that i felt most frustrated with because it was a lot to do especially that we had to go the the library and check out books that i was going to get were already checked out by other students. So that made it hard for me to find books.
3. I didn't really have any expectations for myself, just try to pass the class and do most of my work.
4. Im not really looking forward to anything except, I just need to step my game up and try to stay on top of all my work. But i would like to get into more about politics and money. I also feel that by doing fun projects during class can help me understand better.
Yuri
1.I think one of the greatest senses of accomplishment I've received from a single assignment was probably the myth I worked on with Lucas. That assignment was really fun, and I got to work with someone I get along with well. On top of that, the assignment allowed us to just be as creative as we wanted to be, which added to the sense of accomplishment, since everything we did was all. Another fun assignment was the country one, I never knew so much about a single country up until that point.
2.That's an easy one. By far the most frustrating assignment was the 6 page paper. I'm still frustrated with it, because I'm still making revisions to it. I did Ms. Toker's 4 page essay just fine, and that was assigned after this, so I don't know why I did so poorly on it. I guess the subject I was given was very difficult to research and I didn't really know what to talk about in the essay. In any case I'll be very glad when I'm finally done with it.
3.I was expecting to do pretty well in my classes. For the most part, I met my expectations. Spanish was really hard for me, and still is, and I don't think I'll be passing that class. But in all of my other classes I think I'm doing pretty well. We haven't had academic seminar in a while so I'm not too sure about that though. I'm just looking forward to getting all of this work over with.
4.I can't really think of anything else I'd like to cover, I mean, obviously I'm interested in how business are run and how finances are distributed through corporations and such, and I'm interested in marketing after high school so anything related to that would be a plus. Aside from that I'm just looking forward to learning something about how the world works, vs. what's happening in the world for once.
1. Registering to vote was my proudest moment in this class. It felt like the most substantial thing we did because it is actually going to have an impact on my future. I am happy that I registered to vote because now I actually have a say in real world matters. I do not think I would have thought to register to vote if not for this class simly because of the tons of other stuff I have going on.
2. I felt/feel the most frustration with the human nature paper because papers are not my strong point in general. I had a hard time actually saying what I wanted to say in this paper, and after my first draft, I always find it hard to put real effort into revisions and other drafts. I am also bad at understanding corrections made by teachers, so my revisions are generally weak.
3. I pushed myself to get a B average this semester, including passing all of my classes because I do not want to use my good grades from last year to get into a good college and then have them revoke my admittance. As far as I know, I have above a B average and I will maintain it and pass all of my classes this semester. My main letdown this year is that I didnt really improve my writing skills, so papers are still my weak point.
4. I hope to learn alot about personal finance and entrepreneurialism. I want to learn about how a business is run and about how America's economy works. I am also very interested in the rise and fall of the stock market, yet I know very little about it, and would like to learn more.
YVette Reflection
1. I felt the largest sense of accomplishment when I got back the second draft of my Human Nature paper. All the stress, research and time I put into writing and bettering that paper paid off. This paper had this major-project-feeling but it wasn’t a project at all. It was a paper that everybody wanted and needed to do well on. The requirements Mr. Koh gave made me stress out because they seemed so rigorous. Along with the written requirements, Mr. Koh has a reputation for being a hard grader, so I knew I had to do well.
2. The assignment that I felt most frustration was the seemingly minor and stress-free Presidential Candidate Pamphlet. The requirements weren’t extremely complicated or challenging, it was the expectations I set for myself that made me frustrated. I wanted to make a visually pleasing pamphlet, so refused to use a creativity-restraining template. I created one out of scratch in Adobe Illustrator and that was the beginning of a process full of over-analysis and self-produced stress.
3. I had lower expectations in my classes for myself in the first quarter. I focused on college applications and knew when I wasn’t doing my best in a class. It’s not the best way to balance priorities but I didn’t see another way. I planned on raising my standards back to the way they were in the second quarter. With effort and will power, I successfully got back on track and found a better way to prioritize things.
4. I don’t know if this relates to economics but I’ve always wanted to know how non-profit organizations get money of pay their workers. Also, it would be nice to understand the stock market.
Brett Moran
Epsilon
1. I feel that I had to largest sense of accomplishment when Stephan and me did the myth project. I felt that we where a good team and that we did a good job on both creating the myth, and a drawing. I felt that we had a good story mainly because we had two ideas from two different cultures, which most groups did not have. I also felt good because I helped him with correcting his English, which was nice for me, cause I felt good to do something like that. I also feel that I did a good job on the picture, which Stephan gave me ideas on and helped me figure out what I should draw. We made a good team and it was a large accomplishment in my oppionion
2. I going to have to say that the hardest and most frustrating thing that I did this semester was the philiophisy project. This was really frustrating because we had to go get all those books and read thought them to find what we wanted. And this wasn’t easy because all the books where really long and I didn’t find it easy to find quotes that related to my idea. I eventually found good quotes from each philosophy but I’m going to have to say it was still one of the hardest things and defiantly one of the most frustrating projects I’ve done this year.
3. What expectations did you have of yourself this semester in all classes? In what ways did you meet them? In what ways do feel you did not meet them? My expectations for all my classes this semester where to pass them all. From the start of this year I knew it was going to be very hard. From the looks of this I was right. I feel that I’ve worked hard but I’ve still struggled to keep my grades up in language arts, and Spanish. Those are definitely my hardest classes by far. Mainly because in English we had to read a ton and I’m not good at reading books that use old style language. But I feel that I’m getting better at it after I read Othello. For Spanish I feel that I’m a lost cause because I always seem to do poor in Spanish. Even after having 4 years of it.
4. I look forward to a good semester I think from what you said, that it would be more interesting next semester then it has been this semester. Not that this semester was boring but next one looks more interesting. Something that I would add to next semester. Would be that we get to do that once every few weeks topic thing. That we did earlier this year, those where fun.
John Carreon
Block Epsilon
1) I would say that the essay or bigger assignments, not because I like to do them I don’t, its more like because I got it done. I would just be happy that I got it done, also I feel like it shows more accomplishment just because it shows how much work I put in to it. Me doing the projects every night and working on it because the fact it is a big thing in class it just motivates me more then the little assignments. Even if I hate these project I would have to say it works better for me when I no I need to do work for a big project.
2) The things I hated the most and was the most frustrated with would be the human nature essay. Or rather the process of doing it and getting all the notes. I think just the thing I hated doing the most was looking through 5 books for quotes. What I found as annoying to do that was I had to read a lot more then I had expected. It as also frustrating because we had a time limit of when we had to turn it in. so the time didn’t help me any better.
3) I wanted to get everything done and turned in on time and try to mange my time better so that I wont be up late doing homework. However I didn’t count in personal schedule and it through me off in my time management. I did try my best in turning every thing and I think that went well and I forced my self to met benchmarks or due dates. But the time management is a mistake on my part.
4) I would like to know how the tax system would work mainly because I will have to be paying taxes soon. Also maybe something to do with advice in managing money. I guess just mainly something that we should know or would want to know about money and businesses. Also maybe small businesses or personal businesses.
Sydney
Epsilon
1) The project that I felt the largest sense of accomplishment with was definitely the Human Nature Paper. I feel this way because of all the difficulties that I had to deal with in order to get it done. It started in the beginning when I had to formulate my essay prompt, I had to make sure that it was interesting but not something that would end up being 14 pages long. And also the benchmarks I had to try really hard in order to keep up with them. Afterwards, It was good. It was pretty easy to write. And find examples. I also, never thought that I could write a paper that was about human nature. I’ve written papers before but this was my first human nature paper.
2) I think the most frustrating project that I had to do was the myth project. During that time I had a lot of other work that I had to do that was not school related. It was also one of the very grades that we would get in Gov’t and Econ class so I had to do well. Because I was so busy, I was frustrated that I had to write a creation myth, because I wanted to write a good one but at the same time I knew that I was having a hard time apply all of my concentration on it. Also, I always doubted my “creative” writing skills, but I tried and I did ok in the end.
3) This semester I expected to contribute to class a lot more. I thought that I would speak up a lot more. But, I didn’t. I also expected for me to be more on top of my work in the class, but I sometimes lagged behind some. So, I didn’t meet the expectations of work and contribution to class.
4) I want to study the development of Economics. I want to know how it started, I also want to know who set the parameters of economics. I also want to know the differences and similarities between the economy then and now.
Daniel Kong
Epsilon
1. The assignment that gave me the largest sense of accomplishment was the beginning origin myth. Mostly because it was an assignment that let me create it as I wanted it to be. I also felt like it was not so much of a chore to do as I feel about most the assignments that we have nowadays.
2. I would say this essay but that wouldn’t be fair to it since it is mainly the other essays that I am having trouble with. However with this added onto the pile I don’t feel like this would be an easier time for me. But another one that I didn’t really like was the candidate pamphlets.
3. Expectations of myself this semester was that I would have decent grades, B’s and A’s. I also thought that I would be able to keep up with my work and I have. Barely. I disappear for two days and everything has gone to hell. Its amazing what being sick does to your work schedule. You feel miserable and you have to make up everything you miss. Especially if you miss finals.
4. I plan to look forward to how my life can easily fall apart due to the economy. But on the serious side I would like to learn about inflation as well as how to deal with financial debt.
DeCorrah, Epsilon
1. I always enjoy the discussions we have in class but I think I appreciated the human nature paper the most. Although I didn’t do very well I think the paper made me grow up and it recharged by drive. It was the first time in years where I wasn’t forced to go to the library. Also I am very interested in psychology and human nature.
2. Honestly the assignments I have the most frustration with are usually the assignments I enjoy the most but nothing was that bad. The Human Nature paper was frustrating with all the benchmarks, reading philosophical books and finging the time to go to the library
3. My problem is just doing assignments. I need my knowledge to be on the same wavelength of my tasks o get the grades I deserve. If I just get more organize I think I can keep up
4. I don’t know much about economics. What you have sounds fine. Personal finance is more rewarding though
1. I really enjoyed the creation myth me and Andrew did. It was fun to have creative projects in history class. I would definitely say that the second draft of the essay made me feel the most accomplished. I worked hard on it and I got a 4, thus sidestepping some tricky revisions. It was a definite point of pride that Jasmine, Mrs. Essay Champion, didn't get a better grade than me. It's always nice to get a perfect score on something too.
2. The first draft of the Essay was definitely frustrating. I feel like I wasn't getting my point across and the points were really scatterbrained. Plus its difficult to find philosophical points that haven't been argued a million times over because its all philosophers really do with their time. I feel like my first draft was really weak and my revisions made it much better.
3. I wanted to get an A because I'm trying to get into UW-Madison which is a really competitive school. I realized like halfway through the second quarter that its not that hard to just turn all your work in. I tried to make sure I just got everything in on time. I failed in the respect that I just kind of did the bare minimum to get by and didn't go "above and beyond".
4. I look forward to studying what the stock market actually does. This whole sub-prime mortgage crisis thing has me totally baffled .Economics are something I know nothing about so I hope to be schooled. I love those times where teachers teach us totally useful information.
1. For one, I think the thing that was most interesting to me was the presidential pamphlet. Because of this, I think I invested more time in that project than most others of that size, so I'd say I'm pretty proud of that. Other than the pamphlet, I really enjoyed creating my own myth because it was pretty fun and I could be as far-fetched as I wanted to be. Other stuff, like being assigned philosophical readings, reading comic strips and things of that nature, were really cool because it brought a lot of variety to the classroom setting. This includes watching The Weather Underground, which was an awesome movie.
2. Surprisingly, the human nature paper proved to be the most challenging to me. Initially I thought I could handle it and write a pretty damn good paper, but I suppose I proved myself wrong. My sources were wack, my organization of statements and paragraphs was pretty incoherent, and I really don't know if I even backed up my thesis the way I had originally planned. Aside from that, there were always those assignments I felt were too beyond my abilities or I was just too lazy to do. Unfortunately, there were many of those, so in the end it wasn't really the individual assignments that were stressing me out, but the inundation of all the work as a whole, including all the assignments I'd already missed.
3. For some reason, I tricked myself into thinking that I would really get my act together this semester. But the same drill seemed to happen again: initially staying on top of things, and then gradually going downhill from there. I did feel that some of the quality of my work this semester was better than I'd expected, but that doesn't change the fact that there was still a lot of work I didn't do and a lot of classes I didn't show up for. But now I'm at the point where most of that stuff can't be erased, so I need to really do something about making sure I graduate. All in all, my expectations were severely un-met this semester.
4. I'm definitely looking forward to learning how to manage my own money. I've already had some bad run-ins with financial irresponsibility, and financial irresponsibility has always been around in my life. Hopefully, I'll be able to correct that. Also, I'd love to learn about all the logistics of today's economics in order to obtain a better idea of the inner workings of our "civilized" world. Any help I can get with anything economic would be really appreciated. In short, I'm stoked to learn this stuff.
Ayinde Bell Stampp//Epsilon jan.23.08
1. I think I accomplished a lot in this class. The work I think I worked on the human nature paper the best. Also I did really well on the Creation Myth. The Human nature paper was hard but I was happy to finish the amount of pages and the content of the paper. I honestly didn’t think I would finish the paper on time but I did. The creation myth was a good project because it was the most creative project.
2. 2. Well for me the most frustrated assignments were current events project. We had to come up with an article every 2 weeks. In the midst of all the other work I would forget about doing that on time. So that was frustrating finding out it was due on a day I had no idea.
3. 3. I thought I would keep up with every assignment this semester and I didn’t. The 2nd quarter started off really slow and all of a sudden Kristin Russo’s essay was due around the same time as Koh’s Human nature paper. So that was a challenge.
4. 4. This next semester I plan to learn about the food courts and monopolies. The Personal finance sounds very interesting. I hope it has a lot to do with starting a business or some time of stock broking, or entrepanuership. That would be really fun.
That was Ian Kappos right there before Ayinde.
Ivy Leung
Zeta
1. I feel the largest sense of accomplishment in the pamphlet project and the Assessing your Government project because I felt that I have done pretty well on these two assignments more than my other assignments. And I was more interested in these two assignments from all the assignments that I remember.
2. I think the most frustration assignment was the Human Nature paper because I can never write a good paper and whenever I think I have analyzed it or gave examples, I end up getting comments like adds examples, and analysis. That’s why I never liked writing paper, but the most frustration part is trying to think of a thesis and find information on the topic. I don’t think I did well this semester because of Read Right. I think it has taken time away from me in getting more help in class and my learning time as well.
3. My expectations I had for myself this quarter was to get a B average and pay more attention in class and participate more because I feel that I don’t pay attention much or I don’t pay attention much. Well, I can’t really pay attention much in a few classes since I have to miss it and go to Read Right. I have met them is some of my classes I guess, but not the B average because I’m basically not doing well in any of the classes since I have to go to Read Right most of the time and that’s not fun because I rather be in class doing work and paying attention and learning. I have not met them because I think I spend the time at Read Right when it’s a class I am struggling in or need help the most, so I have to go to Read Right and read instead of getting the help I need.
4. I think this coming semester would be a fun semester because I think it would be an interactive class with food court and monopoly. It sounds appealing and fun, for now. Personal finance would be cool, but do we have personal finance right now. But I’m sure it’ll benefit us. Sounds like a fun semester and hopefully I don’t have to miss so much of this class for Read Right. Watch! I’m going get a bad grade because I miss so much of class just for Read Right. =[ Maybe you can write me a note sometimes to get me out of Read Right, so I can do better in class and get more help in class. [:
Tyler
epsilon
1. From all of the work that we did this semester. I think i feel the largest sense of accomplishment from the human nature essay, even though i didn't get that great of a grade im glad i finished it. I think i felt that way beacuse it was one of the biggest assignments that we did, also the length and content of the paper was difficult.
2. Again i think the most frusterating assignment was the human nature essay, the research was intense and took a lot of time. Another thing that was annoying was having to take notes on presentations but for no reason, just think there should be a reason besides to take notes.
3. I had expectations to pass, and hopefully it will continue. I think that i have done decent in this semester and can continue to keep trying. hopefully no more essays in the same class assigned at the same time.
4. Not really sure what im looking forward too next semester, the new topic sounds interesting and learning some stuff about personal finance would be helpful. Other than that i do hope to learn more about economics.
Evan Hutchinson
Zeta.
1.23.07
Semester 1- Reflection
1. Throughout the government course, I have felt different accomplishments. One of them definitely came from the Human Nature paper. That was the first paper that re-introduced us to research papers again for the year. It kind of got my brain going all over again. I knew right off the bat what I wanted to talk about and what I was going to argue. From the beginning I felt confident and successful. Once I turned in my rough draft, I got the grade I deserved which was not a grade I wanted. I was shocked at first, but looking back at my paper I realized I still had a long way to go. After revising and turning it back in, to get a 3 was a sense of accomplishment. I did much better than before and had a basic understanding of what to include in a research paper. As of right now, while completing my third draft, I feel like I have gained not only a understanding of what should be included in a research paper, but also, more importantly, human nature. That consists of gender bias and how it has affected our society. I have accomplished writing a paper and viewing us as humans.
2. While I have felt accomplished with a lot of my pieces, all of those pieces at one point has put me through frustration. In order to get to success, you have to go through the process of frustration. Without that, there is no motivation for me to move forward. Instead, I am just stuck in the past and thinking about what I have already done. For example, like I said in the first question, there were times of disappointment with myself while doing the Human Nature paper. It was mostly because I didn’t like the feeling of having to go back to the paper all over again and read a lot of things over and word things that I did not know how to re-word, etc..It is just a lot of hard and tedious work all over again. However, while they were frustrations then, now they are times to learn from and more experience.
3. The expectations I had for myself in all classes were for me to try my best in all of them and deserve a grade based off of my effort and how that reflected on my work. I am a hard working person once I am engaged in something. I usually do try my best; therefore, I do expect to get good grades on most things for me. All the grades I have gotten this year did not come as surprises; I deserved everything I got. Because I naturally tried my best, I met what I thought I would do. With that, I expected what I got; grades I deserved.
4. What I look forward to next semester in Economics class is learning something I have no idea about! I really don’t know much about economics at all. Just with that statement, that means I should attend all my economic classes next semester. We kind of need to know about economics because of the capitalist society we live in today. I am excited and hopefully prepared. The only thing I am worried about is I think numbers can be really boring, so I hope there will be a sense of engagement in economics. Something I really want to understand is the stock market and stocks. I really don’t understand it and it seems to be a key factor when they say it crashes and economy is down because of it and I have no idea what they are talking about…so, that will be a helper.
(p.s. I am listening to Jack Johnson).
I felt a sense of accomplishment when I got my human nature essay back. It was so horrid and frustrating to write the first draft of, but when the second draft came back I was proud and began to realize that this research paper might not be the humanities research paper all over again. And when I revised that and got the third draft back, I almost fainted with sense of accomplishment, that’s the largest sense of accomplishment I’ve felt in this class.
Obviously the frustration when writing the human nature essay was greater than all others, but that went away when I realized it was actually kind of a good essay. So, I think I felt the most frustration with some of the small projects in our Government class. For example the pamphlet project. I didn’t realize how big that was and how little time we had with it, especially because I was sick and didn’t come to school one day. Also I wasn’t and still am not really sure about who I want to vote for, so that was really frustrating. And then before that the countries project. That was frustrating because I thought the assessment questions were hard to answer, when we hadn't gone so far into detail... and also that it kind of just disappeared later. We didn’t present etc.
I always have an expectation of myself to stay onto of the work. Always do the homework with a ‘finish it the day it was assigned’ attitude. And most importantly, but this is most applicable for me in math and science, to really understand our material and the day’s lesson. I think that I keep up pretty well, but I always slip once or twice and sometimes from there it gets worse. I miss homework assignments by forgetting sometimes, which is a big mistake in my book. Otherwise I have been understanding all classes and that stuff.
I am looking forward to the personal budget thing because I know its something we have to do later. I would really like to know more about how to pay bills, taxes and rent, and maybe more about credit cards, loans and how to deal with banks etc. I want to get as much information on how to deal with my own economy. My dad and I talked about the stock market, which covered my essential questions, but that was one thing I was really excited about when I heard of our next unit. To go in detail, I guess would be interesting. I want to know about the impact of stock markets and money’s worth, for example inflation. And also about the power of a big share holder’ and their impacts on certain things, like maybe a certain group. So, yeah impacts of the market and things we need to know how to do in our own economies.
Heather
The products that I feel like I accomplishment in the Human essay. The reason why I think the essay has made me feel accomplished is because I didn't really have a sense in philosophers until we were given the assignment. It has taught me to be in depth with things that I haven't really been in-touched with in my knowledge. The paper that we had to write was hard but taught me how to research beyond measures. It is crazy to get all stressed about it then later feel accomplished with the things that I wrote in my own words and finding good evidence to back up what I thought.
What frustrated me the most was the debate part starting the statements/ arguements and finding evidence behind our "statements" we had to prove but I didn't really mind as much because I stayed after school and learned so much facts that I didn't know that I would remember within the topic that was given to my partner and I. Personally it was frustrating knowing our topic well and backing it up with facts but in the end it paid off.
I expected myself to push myself harder then last year and do what I have to do in class and finish my project. I've meet the requirements because I've stayed after school and asked for help and done more then I thought I would in gov/econ. It was frustrating but it paid off with learning a lot then I thought I did.
There are no other topics in mind that I wanna cover just YET!
1. I would have to say the thing that gave me the largest sens of accomplishment was when the essay brief we did awhile back. It was a good research project, and because of execution, as in when it was given to us compared to everything else, it was somewhat enjoyable. The only bad thing was making sure my paper was consistent. Now to get my Econ essay revised... crud.
2. I felt the most frustration with the same project from question 1, the essay brief. It was way to long for my taste and with how revision-centric this particular essay was, I just didn't have as much fun as I would have liked. The whole write up process and making it consistent was frustrating even before I turned it in.
3. I have to say I am looking forward to this semester, Not because of the portfolio we have to work on, but because of everything else. New classes, a clean slate and hopefully not as much pressure as this last semester. Plus with digital media right around the corner, I am defiantly looking forward to that. Plus, with part of our next classes dealing with economics and our personal money, I look forward to those lessons on what they can teach us. I still remember when the sample lessons were given to us last year, I loved them and was sad to see them go. Oh, and more field trips, we need some after what we just went through.
4. hard to write on this one figuring I covered that as well in the above answer. I have to say though that out of all the lessons coming up, it's the personal finance lessons that I look the most forward to. Hopefully this semester won't be as hard and hopefully more interesting and engaging.
1) I felt the largest sense of accomplishment on registering to vote. I seriously was not ever going to vote until i became filthy rich but now that i registered, why not. I'd be making a difference and now that i'm registered, i can just pull the lever and give my vote. I've never voted before or attempted to register but now that i officially can for the first time, the sense of accomplishment is overwhelming.
2) The most frustrating I'd have to say is the President Pamphlets. I feel it was a very wrong time to give to the students because it was in the middle and crucial week of our debate exhibition. My mind was only set on exhibition so it was difficult trying to work on two major assignments at once. Also, the due date was too quick, i feel i didn't have enough time to fully finish the pamphlet.
3) My expectations this semester was to pass and do all my homework in Government/Econ. In some ways i met them because i did more homework than i felt i could do but i still did not do all.
4) I seriously am not looking forward to school at all. I hope its not as difficult as it was in this semester and i hope teachers do not give projects at the same time. Multi tasking is too hard with projects. I'm looking forward to monopolies because that game is really fun.
Derick Dragon
Eta
1. I most definitely felt the greatest sense of accomplishment from the essay on human nature because I had a chance to express alot of items that interest me and at the same time learn more about my topic from different perspectives. I was introduced to a variety of philosophers whom I had never heard of before. It gives one a good sense of accomplishment to compose such an extrenous essay. I believe I walked away from that assignment with a generous understanding of the nature of people which is an accomplishment in it's own right.
2. I was always super frustrated with the blog entries. I hate blogs. The sad irony being that I am saying that on a blog. I am regretfully aware of my very poor track record in terms of completing the blog-based homework menace. I feel that the assignments were on paper, I would be more inclined to do it. I almost always forgot about the blogs and when I did remember them I almost didn't want to do them because of my bad chemistry with computers.
3. I expected to do somewhat descent in all of my classes and I almost didn't. I know I'm not the best at always diligently completing my homework but having more and more work stacked on top of the usual amount makes my career as a student just that much more difficult. I know it is not fair to blame teachers for the workload because of my habits but it sure did seem that the amount of assignments and projects sky rocketed this semester. I had a hard time focusing with college, bagpipes and boy scouts on top of it all.
4. I can't wait to learn how to manage myself financially. If my mom found out that we are going to learn this material I think she would skip a heartbeat. She tells me all the time that most schools don't properly equip it's students for life as an adult. Well I hope this unit on econ (as well as the WLE) fully prepare us for what is inevitably to come....
1. I would have to say that this quarter in Government and economics class, my biggest accomplishment was the country GDP project. I enjoyed the classes that we had work time to finish it, and I thought that it was interesting to study a country’s GDP. I liked our country that we picked (Luxembourg) and also I now know of a new form of government that currently only exists in Luxembourg which kept me and my partner and other groups within the proximity laughing for a while. Luxembourg is the only country left in the world to have the privilege of saying that it is ruled by a “Grand Duchy”.
2. I felt like the primaries/candidate pamphlet was a project that I was frustrated about. I was absent for one of the 3 class days we worked on it, and I never completed it. I would have liked to complete it, it was an interesting project, and I liked the fact that we were looking deeper into the candidates stances on issues, because I like being able to back up my choice of candidate with actual issues that they make a stance on. Even though I did not complete the project, the time I did not spend on the project I spent attempting to not fail 2 other classes, so I had to sacrifice getting a zero on this project, but it was for a good cause.
3. I don’t think I have nearly lived up to my expectation this semester. I came into this year ready to go, but senioritis was beaten into me by the amount of work we were given. This semester has seen the worst grades I have ever gotten in my entire school career. There is too much stress, and a combination of other factors such as the “no late work” policy and all the classes we have on top of applying for colleges is too much.
4. I am definitely looking forward to those listed things that we are going to study. I often feel that I don’t know enough about personal finance, and with my 18th birthday only 10 short months away, and the fact that I recently got a job and opened a checking/savings account, and I am trying to officially start my own business, this unit will be extremely valuable. If I were to suggest a project for the economics/monopolies unit, I would have to say that we each pick one industry like the food, auto, insurance, etc. industries and make a short project about what is currently happening in those industries including trends, and stocks, etc. The reason I am suggesting this project is because I would, of course, pick the tech industry and have an easy A in about 5 seconds.
BTW since it is 12 in a few minutes, we are 24 hours and a few minutes away from being ½ done with our senior year of High school!!!!!!!! Wooo!!!!!!!!!!!
Ilejay, Argent
1. The work products that I feel I have had the largest sense of accomplishment of would be the Essay. I feel the most accomplishment of the essay because I believe I received a good grade because I had a 3.5 grade on the draft and I believe I received a better grade this time around. So I guess that’s why I feel that I have a great sense of accomplishment over this because I may have a good grade.
2. I felt the most frustration by the essay because it was the biggest project that I have done for this class this year. I had to spend a lot of time over the break writing this project and I was angry at that I had to keep doing revisions.
3. Well I expected that I would pass all my classes. But I have no idea if I did that. I believe I did though because I did all my work and I stayed up all night to get some work done.
4. I believe that I would like to study about stocks and the stock market and investments and how they work. The benefits of participating in these type of things and the cons of such acts.
1. I feel that my greatest accomplishment in this class was my countries presentation. Although I did not present, I felt that my powerpoint was detailed and descriptive of the economy of Dominica. Also, I was really proud of my work when we created our own Origins of Life myth, because of my ability to collaborate with my partner and produce a creative and unique myth inspired by the ones we read in class.
2. Like everyone else who took government this semester, I was most frustrated by my research paper. I was initally excited to write a paper on something that I was interested in, but then when I realized I had to use examples from historic philosophers and not just from modern day thinkers, it changed my entire perspective on the paper. To this day I still feel frustrated with what I wrote and what i wrote about.
3. I expected myself to complete all of my homework assignments (both large and small) and to learn how to better write research papers using both historical and literary sources. I think I was good at staying on top of my assignments, but I could have worked on making sure they were all in on time. In terms of my research paper writing abilities, I think I better understand how to structure it, but I could still use more practice.
4. I would like to learn more about economies of other countries and how a nation has developed its econony because of its government system. But im really excited for the personal finances unit.
Christine Tsang
Epsilon Block
1.) I felt the largest accomplishment on creating the ‘which president we will vote for’ pamphlet. I felt the most accomplishment on this assignment because I’ve learned more about the stances that each candidate has. In the past I’ve never paid much attention to voting and elections. Now I am interested in learning about what each candidate has to offer and which candidate I should vote for. I also liked the assignment because we got to create the pamphlet instead of writing a page about who we would want to vote for.
2.) I felt the most frustration in the Human Nature essay because it was hard thinking of a topic to write about. I think that philosophy and human nature are complex topics, so it was hard in the beginning. There were times when it was hard finding the right resources where I could get quotes as evidence. When it came to structuring my essay, it took a lot of time to think of how to prove my point clearly. I also had to revise a lot more on my third draft.
3.) My expectation that I had in all my classes were managing my time, getting the work done, and learning more. I think that I’ve been trying hard in getting all my work done for all my classes. There were times when I felt like putting off the work because of the workload and stress that resulted from it. But I still managed in getting the work done. I think that I still need to work on managing my time wisely because I usually do things last minute and I would end up staying up late at night. I’m sure that I’ve learned a lot more this semester from all my classes.
4.) I’m looking forward towards learning about personal finance because it will be very useful after high school. I’m interested in learning about the stock market and how it works because it’s always on the news. I’m also interested in corporate and small businesses and how they achieve and maintain success. I don’t know much about economics, so I’m hoping to learn more the second semester.
Stephan Heuer
Epsilon,
1. When we were writing the Human Nature Paper it made me think. Not really when I started writing it but when I had revise my drafts. I really enjoyed the freedom we had to write something we want to. It just had to connect to Human Nature and this topic is related to almost every other topic you could write about. It was my favorite project because I was really interested in what to write about and how to express my own opinion throughout proof of great thinkers and philosophers.
2. I felt the most frustrations when I wrote my Native Son Essay. I had to revise it four times and every time I got it back I got a 3 on it but it was not proficient enough. So I made my changes and thought it would be good but when I got it back again I saw that is not good enough. I think the biggest problem was to really understand the book but also to remember the what I have read.
3. The only expectations I had for this semester was to have fun and to learn as much as possible. Most of them time it was fun to learn something. Not what is taught in class but the way it is taught. I did my homework most of the time to show that I do care when it comes to work. Some people might think that this year does not matter for me but I want to make the best out of it. I cannot think of any points where I did not meet my expectations. That is probably because I use to keep them as low as possible and then make the best out of it.
4. I guess I will have to look forward to what we will do next semester, no matter what we do. I don't know yet if I will be able to use a personal finance plan because I don't know what it will be about. Monopolies are pretty interesting and I already learned some things about that at my old school. I want to learn more about it! I have heard that we will create a perfect government? I think it said that on a plan we received a long time ago. I would also look forward to that.
Remember Epsilon!
Aaron Alvarez
ZETA
Gov/Etcon Final Reflection
1) Of all the assignments that I have done this year the one assignment that I am really proud of is my final paper on the best form of government. I worked really hard on this paper I read through many books on very complicated subjects and in a very complicated language (old English and many big words with more than like 4 syllables). I also tried finding many facts that would support my arguments. To find these arguments I had to go through 6 books on complex philosophy that is more than one thousand years old making it one of the more complex and difficult to understand especially since they speak in metaphors and go around the subject instead of just saying flat out their point. I also looked all over the web to find good credible sites that would prove my points, this was difficult for me to do because many sites that had facts on them were usually web sites that look as though just one person made them which compromises the facts. The reason why I am so proud of this project is because despite all of these problems I still broke through them with the help of my teachers and also my own determination I got the highest grade I have ever gotten at this school for an essay. I am so glad that I got this grade it is a true testament to the amount of work that I put into this essay because I remember that I stayed up many nights until 3 to 4 in the morning constantly revising and rereading my work in the hopes of getting a good grade originally I was hoping for a 2.5 but the 3.5 was such a great surprise it makes all my hard work worthwhile.
2) The project which I did that I disliked the most on the other hand was the pamphlet project. The main reason behind this is the fact that it required me to learn about the presidential candidates so much, this is something that I didn’t like because at first I didn’t think that I could really agree with any of the presidential candidates on any subject. I just chose John Edwards because my dad really like him, but I am glad I did I learned a lot about him and I actually really like his stance on many subjects. Anyway another thing that I disliked about the pamphlet is that I had to use pages. Basically I don’t have i-work so I don’t have pages either, this means that I would have to spend a lot of my time at school doing this work like at lunch so that means I cant go off campus and eat. On top of that I also had to convince Ms. Raeff to sign my pamphlet, talking anything political with her is what led to a long 20 minute conversation on Iraq and the housing problem, but she ended up signing it.
3) My expectations this year for myself in all classes was to get an A in all of them, do all of my homework and turn it in on time, and to be organized. I think that I got an A in all of my classes at least I hope that I do I have done everything that I can to get it, at least I might get an A in 5 classes. I did do my homework well most of it and I did turn it in on time otherwise you wouldn’t accept it so unless I could do it on time I wouldn’t even bother doing it. As for being organized I actually have been the most disorganized I have been in high school. I don’t know why all of my organization plans have failed it doesn’t seem fair how much the plans failed. I think that since this is my last semester in High School I should really try and get this skill before I go to college and will have to learn the hard way that organization is very important.
4) I like money I am glad that this school will finally give me a class that I can relate to and will not have to some how make a far fetched connection between the class and real life. This class will help with one of the most important skills in the world which is how to move and use money. I am glad that the longer semester is the one that will be teaching us about economics rather than governments and politics while politics are important I feel as though economics is much more important. I want to learn to manage businesses and to use personal finance because those skills can one day make me rich.
Jasmine Kamariotis
Block: Epsilon
1. I think that the project that I felt the most accomplishment in was in the Human Nature Paper. I was kind of stuck on what I was going to do and I was a little behind in all the benchmarks. Not by a lot, but I was still having a little bit of a problem figuring out exactly what I was going to do I gathered together all my quotes and somehow made them all relate to each other. When I turned it in, I was just sort of "well it could either be really bad or really good". It was kind of up in the air. When I received it back was when I really felt like I did a really good job.
2. I think that for the most part the most frustrating part was trying to read some of those articles that I could barely understand. Like the one that was written by Cornel West, I understood it but it just seemed a bit outlandish and he came off a bit full of himself. It was hard to read in a way that I was really turned off by his views. It's frustrating because I know in order to be ready for the next class I have to read it. Then I begin to read but I'm not taking in any information, which then becomes a waste of time. Trudging through these articles was the most frustrating.
3. I think I had higher expectations for myself during this semester, but I don't feel like I have failed miserably. For the most part I really pushed myself last year, and I knew in order for me to stay sane, I needed to tone it down a bit. Unfortunately this year the work has gotten a lot harder so I'm in this place where I'm trying to not exert my mind to it's limit but I'm forced to in order to keep up with my work.
4. I'm pretty excited about doing personal finance because I think that it will be a topic that I know will directly affect my everyday life. I think I would also like to know about the stock martket and what the DOW and NASDAQ are. As of now i know NOTHING about how they work but I feel like investing is something that I should know about because it could help me in the long run. And also about saving money and such like that. (That might be covered in the personal finance)
1. The Human Nature Paper is where i felt the largest sense of accomplishment. The reason is because it was a hard paper to do at first and after taking a break and going back to it again it felt that it holds a lot of impact. Another reason is because there was a lot of work to get done before we even start the paper. I am still not done for the paper, I know there a few more things I need therefore I am still planning to work on it before I get it back. So once I do get it back I am able to add in the few things and improved my grade for it even more. But in many ways I feel like I am half way done with my paper and I still feel some sort of accomplishment to it. I know once I am fully done I will feel a lot more accomplishment. But out of the other work we have done the paper still holds a lot of sense of accomplishment even if I am not done with it.
2.
There isn't an assignment that I felt a lot of frustrations with. The Human nature paper didn't frustrate me. There was just a lot of work to get done and if I couldn't find something I try to replace it again, but I never got fully frustrate with it because it would just waste my time. Same thing apply to all of the other class work we have done this semester. There isn't a true frustration in any of the work because I view it as, if I get upset over something and throw a big fit about it I am just wasting my time. I try my hardest this year not to get upset over something and just do the work. Because at the end I will get it done on time and it just easy like that.
3.
In all of my classes I wanted to do a good job in it. I know that my gov class wasn't on my worry list but as for my sci class and my math class, they were on my worry list. I know I have meet my goal for math, lit, gov, and Spanish but for sci I feel like that is my only class that has not meet the goal and I am not sure if I will. The reason why I feel like I did not meet the goal for it is because I was sick a lot of the days when I needed to be there for my myhtbuster group. I felt bad because I was half the time not there. As for the reasons why I feel like I have meet the goal for all of my classes is because I have push my self so damn hard to do all my work and try my hardest not to fall back. As for Math class.... I got told what my grade was and I was happy with it.
4.
What I am looking forward for next semester is understanding the "learning how to control your money" unit. I am not sure if it is in planned for it but I would like to know how to control my money and what kind of bills I might have to pay for when I am in college. Also what type job I would have to get to keep on paying for things I need in college. Not only that but the money life after college. I think this would be really good to me and to a lot of other people because money always tend to be the main number one issue in today's lives. Learning how to control money before high school end is something that I believe will help everyone and me. Another idea just came to me, it will be cool to try and guess how much money someone were to spend in college life and in the city they live in, in a one month period of time. For example I want to go to college in LA, it would be cool to know how much money I will be spending for food and gas in LA. How much the things coast in la and how much money i'll spend for my college stuff as well each month. Therefore having a plan for money or an ideal of the money that will be spent when you go out to college is a great skill before you leave high school.
Semester 1 - Reflection
1. When we did current events I felt I learned the most because I was get new info for the day to think about what went on in that event and whether people within it were doing a justice or unjust act. I also found discussions about texts that were difficult to read. It made it easier to find methods to help us break down hard texts. Another task that I like was, finding out fact on different countries GDP or poverty status. Mostly I felt I accomplished something because, I felt Iearned something that would stick with me.
2. I felt that the our human nature papers' were the most difficult thing to do because we didn't really have a way to organize our information let alone know what kind of info was suppose to be in the paper. It just was a really confusing piece of work because it stared off in us not having much info to use in our papers'. I would have liked a structured set up first rather then after my first draft. Plus it was very a choppy time period in when we did the paper. I mean we started the paper 3 months ago and the idea that we were suppose remember what we were think when we wrote it is kind of hard. To get back into that mood if very difficult. Uhm...it's hard to think of anything else I mean usually things stick to me if I find them interesting but, I either can remember at this time what was difficult or it just didn't stick. Sorry...
3. Some of my expectations we to pass this class with flying color because, this is my subject. I love learn about what goes on in dfferent governments. I guess I had too high of expectations in what I thought would have happend during classes. I thought it was going to pretty easy for our senior year, lol I was fooled. I met some of my expectations in some classes with do my best work to pass classes but, in others I just didn't feel to much of a connection of interest. So I guess it was upon myself to find somthing interesting within each subject I am introduced to.
4. I'm looking forward to anything you throw at us Koh. What you have listed as being our guide-line for the next unit sounds pretty interesting so I will be looking foward to see how u relate economics to food courts. I also would like to learn about US spending and ways that we could spend less and save money to boost us back into being economicle steady.
So yeah that's it!
Semester 1 - Reflection
1. When we did current events I felt I learned the most because I was get new info for the day to think about what went on in that event and whether people within it were doing a justice or unjust act. I also found discussions about texts that were difficult to read. It made it easier to find methods to help us break down hard texts. Another task that I like was, finding out fact on different countries GDP or poverty status. Mostly I felt I accomplished something because, I felt Iearned something that would stick with me.
2. I felt that the our human nature papers' were the most difficult thing to do because we didn't really have a way to organize our information let alone know what kind of info was suppose to be in the paper. It just was a really confusing piece of work because it stared off in us not having much info to use in our papers'. I would have liked a structured set up first rather then after my first draft. Plus it was very a choppy time period in when we did the paper. I mean we started the paper 3 months ago and the idea that we were suppose remember what we were think when we wrote it is kind of hard. To get back into that mood if very difficult. Uhm...it's hard to think of anything else I mean usually things stick to me if I find them interesting but, I either can remember at this time what was difficult or it just didn't stick. Sorry...
3. Some of my expectations we to pass this class with flying color because, this is my subject. I love learn about what goes on in dfferent governments. I guess I had too high of expectations in what I thought would have happend during classes. I thought it was going to pretty easy for our senior year, lol I was fooled. I met some of my expectations in some classes with do my best work to pass classes but, in others I just didn't feel to much of a connection of interest. So I guess it was upon myself to find somthing interesting within each subject I am introduced to.
4. I'm looking forward to anything you throw at us Koh. What you have listed as being our guide-line for the next unit sounds pretty interesting so I will be looking foward to see how u relate economics to food courts. I also would like to learn about US spending and ways that we could spend less and save money to boost us back into being economicle steady.
So yeah that's it!
Semester 1 - Reflection
DanaWR
1. When we did current events I felt I learned the most because I was get new info for the day to think about what went on in that event and whether people within it were doing a justice or unjust act. I also found discussions about texts that were difficult to read. It made it easier to find methods to help us break down hard texts. Another task that I like was, finding out fact on different countries GDP or poverty status. Mostly I felt I accomplished something because, I felt Iearned something that would stick with me.
2. I felt that the our human nature papers' were the most difficult thing to do because we didn't really have a way to organize our information let alone know what kind of info was suppose to be in the paper. It just was a really confusing piece of work because it stared off in us not having much info to use in our papers'. I would have liked a structured set up first rather then after my first draft. Plus it was very a choppy time period in when we did the paper. I mean we started the paper 3 months ago and the idea that we were suppose remember what we were think when we wrote it is kind of hard. To get back into that mood if very difficult. Uhm...it's hard to think of anything else I mean usually things stick to me if I find them interesting but, I either can remember at this time what was difficult or it just didn't stick. Sorry...
3. Some of my expectations we to pass this class with flying color because, this is my subject. I love learn about what goes on in dfferent governments. I guess I had too high of expectations in what I thought would have happend during classes. I thought it was going to pretty easy for our senior year, lol I was fooled. I met some of my expectations in some classes with do my best work to pass classes but, in others I just didn't feel to much of a connection of interest. So I guess it was upon myself to find somthing interesting within each subject I am introduced to.
4. I'm looking forward to anything you throw at us Koh. What you have listed as being our guide-line for the next unit sounds pretty interesting so I will be looking foward to see how u relate economics to food courts. I also would like to learn about US spending and ways that we could spend less and save money to boost us back into being economicle steady.
So yeah that's it!
Semester 1 - Reflection
DanaWR
1. When we did current events I felt I learned the most because I was get new info for the day to think about what went on in that event and whether people within it were doing a justice or unjust act. I also found discussions about texts that were difficult to read. It made it easier to find methods to help us break down hard texts. Another task that I like was, finding out fact on different countries GDP or poverty status. Mostly I felt I accomplished something because, I felt Iearned something that would stick with me.
2. I felt that the our human nature papers' were the most difficult thing to do because we didn't really have a way to organize our information let alone know what kind of info was suppose to be in the paper. It just was a really confusing piece of work because it stared off in us not having much info to use in our papers'. I would have liked a structured set up first rather then after my first draft. Plus it was very a choppy time period in when we did the paper. I mean we started the paper 3 months ago and the idea that we were suppose remember what we were think when we wrote it is kind of hard. To get back into that mood if very difficult. Uhm...it's hard to think of anything else I mean usually things stick to me if I find them interesting but, I either can remember at this time what was difficult or it just didn't stick. Sorry...
3. Some of my expectations we to pass this class with flying color because, this is my subject. I love learn about what goes on in dfferent governments. I guess I had too high of expectations in what I thought would have happend during classes. I thought it was going to pretty easy for our senior year, lol I was fooled. I met some of my expectations in some classes with do my best work to pass classes but, in others I just didn't feel to much of a connection of interest. So I guess it was upon myself to find somthing interesting within each subject I am introduced to.
4. I'm looking forward to anything you throw at us Koh. What you have listed as being our guide-line for the next unit sounds pretty interesting so I will be looking foward to see how u relate economics to food courts. I also would like to learn about US spending and ways that we could spend less and save money to boost us back into being economicle steady.
So yeah that's it!
I already know this is late but I just felt like doing it.
1. I felt my human nature paper was my largest acomplishment. SInce I did my own research with my own guide lines of what I was looking for mae things a lot better.
2. Since this affected your class aswell. I didn't like the exhibition. I felt that my partner fed me to the sharks. I felt really alone because no once was there to pick up any weight that i could have dropped.
3.I just wanted to be able to make it through the first semester. As everyone knows you get hit with senoritis. And I felt that hit me and I really tried to avoid.
4. My cousin told me that his favorite class he has taken through out high school was economics. So I am just ready to learn everything you prepared to give me. I will be there everyday with a begginers mind.
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