Outside Reading

I spent my whole 150 minutes on articles for my Biology project throughout the whole week.

Dear Classmates

Dear classmates of English 1,

This year has gone by so fast, and we have learned so much. I think that we can all agree that as a class, we have had a few challenges. We have tried our best to overcome some weakness we've had like side conversations, staying on track, asking appropriate things at appropriate times, and not getting too wild. I think my best advice would be to stay on track and be engaged in the discussion or work that we were assigned. I think that using individual work and group work class time to my advantage is something that I wish I would have worked harder at.

Some more tips would be to absolutely work super hard on pre-writing before you write a paper. For my research paper, I worked really hard on my note cards and it worked so well to my advantage when I was writing my paper because I had everything organized and ready to go. Also, it's very good to edit your paper really well and make sure to do all the write formatting because you wouldn't want to get points off for something like that. Definitely annotate all your books because if you don't, you'll be caught up in annotating everything before it's due. Make sure to stay on task and on top of things and try to turn everything in on time.

Participation Evaluation

Over this year, I would give my participation a B. I usually always come to class prepared, even though one time I did forget to bring my outside reading book. I usually don't pack up before it's time to go unless aloud. I may have gone to the bathroom a little too much, maybe 3 times a week in English which it shouldn't be that much. I use appropriate email communication. I almost always participate in class discussions.
Some of my weakness are that sometimes I talked to the person sitting next to me during class. I usually don't talk that much, but sometimes I get off track. My individual group work is pretty good. I usually get things done during those times. Whenever we do peer work, I always try to give people really good suggestions. I think that my participation has grown because I have learned a lot and I'm able to use my knowledge and input more and more throughout the year.

The End of School

     This school year has gone by faster than any other school year. It's been my best year so far, and I can't believe it's coming to an end already. I'm proud of my work this year, but I know that towards the end I became really bad about doing my homework. I wish I could go back and not procrastinate as much as I did. I know I could have studied more, but I start slacking and I can't stop looking forward to summer.
      As for exams, I plan to very prepared. I want to study a lot more than I did last time. I'm going to use my guest room as a study room and I'm gonna lock out my cellphone and laptop. This time, I will study in hour long periods. I will do 5 hour long sessions on weekends and 3 or 4 on school nights. Another thing that will keep my on track and determined is that I can't eat anything until I'm done studying. I start studying next weekend, and I hope I stick to my plan, and that my studying pays off!

Outside Reading

        So this week I've been reading Gossip Girl. I finally finished the book on Saturday. Over all, I think that it was a good book and it definitley kept me reading. The only thing is that the book was a little too predictable. It was like any other chick flick. It was super dramatic, but I definitely wanted to know what happened next. For my next book, I want read something that's a lot different than Gossip Girl.
I think that I might read "Impossible" by Nancy Werlin, "13 Reasons Why" by Jay Asher, or "Unwind" by Neil Shusterman. I'm especially interested in "Unwind" because I love futuristic books. The whole concept of it sounds very interesting, like nothing I've heard of before. Just the summary of the book is captivating to me, so hopefully I will like it. I'm looking forward to reading "Unwind."