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The tribes project: Started off with the book The Absolutely True Diary Of A Part Time Indian. This book was meant to teach us of different tribes and make us think of the different areas that we are from and the tribes that make us who we are as individuals. We are focusing on areas that we belong and all the different ways that we can make this book come to life by creating poems about us and making scripts about different scenes in this book that can really make this book visual and explain to everyone that it is always okay to feel like you do not belong, and that was one of the inspirations that we got from the book. We have made many quick writes about our selves and different poems, we also interviewed different people and made poems about them and lastly made skits and and slam poetry about this book. House On mango Street:For this mini project we had to read vignettes from the The House on Mango Street and we got selected into mini groups and had to read these and act them out. It was very fun to get the year started with this mini project and really get us to start reading and get to know each other more. My group got 3 vignettes and we came up with a lot of good sound effects and a lot of hand motions that really made our vignettes come to life. This mini project tough us how to really stand up and read on the very first days of school and this was one of those good projects that made us comfortable reading and acting because this was very good practice for the tribes project that we did and performed and I feel like it prepared us very well. Dialogical Interview : For this interview we got a person selected from the Popsicle sticks. When we got a person we had to interview then we got a paper with different questions to ask them while we interview them. I got Alex and we went to go sit outside and took 20 minutes to interview each other back and fourth asking questions about our selves. As soon as I got enough inspiration from this interview, we has to them draft a poem about them using a format that Dr.Patton gave us for our choice. I sat down and started to write about him and really make his warm stories come to life, this was such an inspiring poem because I got to find out about someone in less than 2 minutes. " I sing to you poem " " Specificity self critique " " I sing to you poem Draft " 8th Graders critique session: loved helping my partner with her work because her work seemed like it needed help and she seemed to be stuck on her essay. I really liked interacting with new people from the middle school and really. I feel that we really helped each other improve on our work and really help each other. Something that struck me was that the 8th graders know what they are doing and seem to know what direction they were going with their essays. Self Portrait: I chose this picture because it really shows my true personality on this photo. I chose to do the splits because I have a huge passion for dance and wanted to show everyone that I'm not just any student, Im a one of a kind dancer with a big heart and big smile. I chose to have one of my friends in it because I don't like to have everything centered around me. I love having fun with my friends. " Belonging Article " A very important piece of this article is that it talks about belonging and being able to adapt your self to new places and different people.
Tribes Project Script : For this project my group and I read parts of the book to make it into a sort of slam poetry piece. We first shared our ideas and had many downfalls and never agreed to what we all wanted to do. Final Reflection: 1. The question " what tribes do you belong to " has not changed, I always stay true to my tribe and always make sure that I know and express where I come from. This project opened my eyes to a whole new world of tribes. 2. I learned that you always have to be patient with any partner that you get in the future because you always have to take time to understand them and always make sure that you pay attention to what they are saying. 3. I loved all the little quick writes and poems we did because it was good practice for any future essays or poems that we are going to have to do on another person. I really learned to really listen to my partner and make sure that I know what they are talking about all the time. 4. I learned that you always have to collaborate in any project and really make sure that you always work hard and do your best in any project given to you. I also learned that collaborative group work helps you in the future and helps you become a better person for group work. 5. I always want to remember the sudden exhibition and how much we worked to not embarrass our selves in front of our audience. I always want to remember to hold on to any memories that I had spent with my friends. |
the book of us 2015:
The project of The Book Of Us is about writing stories that mean the most to you and stories that shape you into the person you are. This project was intended to really make us think outside of the box and creatively write what we want. I wrote about my awesome trip to Korea because I really wanted to remember this trip by writing down all my experiences and the cool things that I saw while in Asia. I wanted to capture all the moments in a writing piece. I thought that I would be able to express all my thoughts and experiences while in Korea.
REAL WORLD PURPOSES LINK
All of these Real world purposes fit into our writing because they helped shape our writing pieces and really helped us fit a format we wanted in our writing. This also helped us think of how we wanted our writing to be like and we really got ideas and wrote down articles or books of how we wanted our writing pieces to look like.
REAL WORLD PURPOSES LINK
All of these Real world purposes fit into our writing because they helped shape our writing pieces and really helped us fit a format we wanted in our writing. This also helped us think of how we wanted our writing to be like and we really got ideas and wrote down articles or books of how we wanted our writing pieces to look like.
1 topic= 18 topics
1 Topic= 18 Topics Organizer
I feel like I did not really like this organizer because to me it felts pointless and I felt like It did not help me on the long run. I felt like this was a waste of my personal time working on my essay. This did not really affect my thinking rather than I felt like it had to be perfect. I felt under pressure trying to fill out this organizer because I felt really pushed that it had to be perfect. I feel like I just wanted to make this as good as possible and just make it really turn out good for my self. At the end it kind of helped my because I felt like it helped shape my writing into something better.
I feel like I did not really like this organizer because to me it felts pointless and I felt like It did not help me on the long run. I felt like this was a waste of my personal time working on my essay. This did not really affect my thinking rather than I felt like it had to be perfect. I felt under pressure trying to fill out this organizer because I felt really pushed that it had to be perfect. I feel like I just wanted to make this as good as possible and just make it really turn out good for my self. At the end it kind of helped my because I felt like it helped shape my writing into something better.
5 minute quick writes
graphic organizerI think the outline tribute sheet helped out the most because it helped me break down my interview and really break it down so I understand and see my mistakes. I really used this to break my interview down because I feel like it was going to be very useful in order to edit my interview correctly. I think the sensory image organizer was the least helpful because I feel like I just wrote random stuff and it did not make any sense. At the end I feel like this one was not necessary.
final draftI am most proud for writing about my trip and really making it so everyone can experience everything that I experienced and I really described the different foods and all of the places I saw. I feel like next time I need to really make it into chronological order and really make it to where as I was writing a diary.
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Here's a picture of my five minute quick writes. I decided to do just one because I wanted to share this one. We did these five minute quick writes in order to really get our brains thinking and get out selves into writing mode. I feel like we also did these to get a feel and really work hard on our upcoming writing pieces we were going to write in class. These did not help me at all because they were not necessary and I feel like they don't really benefit me.
down draftI noticed that this down draft was really good for a first draft. I noticed a lot of errors such as bad transitions and bad paragraphs. I noticed that I needed more information about my experience and more basic information,
text graphic organizerA mentor text is something you use in order to really organize your own writing for humanities. I used a mentor text about an organization and really broke it down into each piece in order to really understand what I was reading. I looked back at some of the mentor text and I feel like I really did not use the work in my piece because I feel like It wasn't really beneficial for my self.
feedback & critiqueI think the scissors critique was most useful because I feel like I really got a good critique for my writing and I feel like this really helped me on the long run. This helped revise my grammar and my lines. This really helped me out the most because it broke my piece down into sections in order to critique. I hated the author led critique because It did not make any sense and it was not necessary for me in my own opinion. I think Dr.P should make less critique forms and just critique naturally. I did not get any other feedback from anyone. I just got feedback from my table but we did not use graphic organizers.
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reflection
I always wanted to write about a certain trip to any place that I have been too. I feel like these writings opened my mind more to always cherish any moments. I feel like these writing pieces really capture the beauty of something that is really important to someone. I really loved editing my writing piece and making it perfect to where as I'm going to be really proud of my work and just make it outstanding. I would want to make my piece in chronological order and make it seem like if I was writing a diary. Lastly, I loved this piece of writing because I loved the outcome and the way I typed everything to be so visual.
model un
This Model UN project was for us to truly understand what is going on with refugees all over the world and to understand why we have to be as professional as an actual model united nations committee. We did this project in order to be prepared and really know what we are talking about when it comes to Model United Nations. This project was very well constructed and it was very well formatted and I feel like it was very well ran by students at out school. The country that I represented was Syria and the committee I was in was UNHCR 1.
article
Useful Article
The thing that made it useful to me was that it shows pictures of refugees struggling and it really inspires me to really learn more about refugees and their struggles in their daily lives. I learned that the lives of these refugees are more than just smuggling each other from to place to place but rather than they struggle to get their children and family to other countries and it is a huge struggle to settle into other countries. I remember trying to look fro an article and I was so interested on this one because ti had a lot of pictures for me to see and it had a lot of special information on their daily travels through out Syria and other countries. I learned that these refugee lives are more than just leaving their country.
The thing that made it useful to me was that it shows pictures of refugees struggling and it really inspires me to really learn more about refugees and their struggles in their daily lives. I learned that the lives of these refugees are more than just smuggling each other from to place to place but rather than they struggle to get their children and family to other countries and it is a huge struggle to settle into other countries. I remember trying to look fro an article and I was so interested on this one because ti had a lot of pictures for me to see and it had a lot of special information on their daily travels through out Syria and other countries. I learned that these refugee lives are more than just leaving their country.
key moment
One moment in our conference where it all seemed lost is where my committee was talking about the Maldivians and their drought and we had a final conclusion of what we were going to do but then the UN chairs came in and asked us to talk about a different topic and we couldn't tie it to what we were already talking about. I did not really like the fact that they came in and switched everything around because the whole committee was confused and we were all thrown off by what they had said. Another moment I felt lost was that I felt like I did not have anything to say since my country produced these refugees and I was a bit thrown off when I got called out. I did not really know what to do and I wish that I had more time to really to prepare my self and really share what I wanted to say in a professional way.
position paper
The thing I changed between these three different drafts were that I added more depth and sadness to these paragrpahs to make them really grasp onto my subject and really understand what my topic was about. An important peice of imformation my friend Litzye gave me was that my paragraphs need to have more of a personal touch and my own opinions added to it. My writing improved drastically because I added more of my own opinions and what my country is going to do towards this crisis and the horrible things they are going to through. I am so proud of the way I wrote this because it sounded so proffesional and like it was my work. I absolutely loved all of my well thought information and all of the things I wrote about the UN and everything they are going to do to approach this crisis. Another piece of critique was that Mr.Craig told me to fix my grammar and the way that I worder things. This helped my writing sound more professional and my level of writing. I did really appreciate that helped me with that because it sounds more professional.
opening speech
Link to opening speech
I did not change anything about my opening speech because I feel like I was very focused on my first draft and really read all of the example opening speeches and really grasped the idea of what it should look like. But after all of the critiques we had I ended changing up the ending to a really good fact that will grab everyones attention at the ending. My friend victor said I should change the way I word things which made it sound better. This made my writing sound more professional and my level. My friend Litzye gave me a critique that said I should add more facts that are the ones who are going to grab everyones attention in the beginning. I would change the facts that I did because I feel like I kind of went off topic and maybe next time I could research more about my topic to kake it a better opening speech.
I did not change anything about my opening speech because I feel like I was very focused on my first draft and really read all of the example opening speeches and really grasped the idea of what it should look like. But after all of the critiques we had I ended changing up the ending to a really good fact that will grab everyones attention at the ending. My friend victor said I should change the way I word things which made it sound better. This made my writing sound more professional and my level. My friend Litzye gave me a critique that said I should add more facts that are the ones who are going to grab everyones attention in the beginning. I would change the facts that I did because I feel like I kind of went off topic and maybe next time I could research more about my topic to kake it a better opening speech.
experience at confrence
At this confrence I was mostly proud of trying to speak up for my country. I felt like I needed more time to prepare but at the same time I am very proud of my hard work trying to push myself. I am proud of my committee for really trying their best to make this as professional as possible. My committee really tried their absolute best to always come up with a well written resolution of the topic and tried their best to make it sound realistic. I would speak up more next time since it was the biggest country with this refugee crisis and maybe I would try to speak for every time we changed the topics. I would really push that the chair would not point out countries because that puts you on the spot and I would totally help each student understand the refugee crisis very well before they debate.