Final Reflection

1) Self Regulation: I think I am doing well at self regulating. When it comes to things like attendance, coming to class on time, and choosing my seating partners wisely, those are pretty simple things. I come to class everyday with my iPod fully charged so I'm ready for whatever we are going to be doing in class. Our table is pretty good at self regulating. When told to discuss certain things, we do and we talk about essays and topics and ideas to help each other improve and hopefully do the best we can. We do tend to get off topic sometimes and talk about things that aren't necessarily related to English, but we get our work done so I don't think it's a huge distraction. When I miss a day of school, like when I was sick for example, I usually text Erlynn and ask her what I missed that day or I ask my table group what I missed. I never really had a problem with my devices, but what I used to do was go on Twitter/Instagram or other things during class time and I would do the assignment at home the day before it was due. Towards the end of the semester I started to improve on that a lot. For example, The "Who Killed Wellington" essay was due on the th and I handed it in on the th and  the Sunmative essay that we did was due on January 15 but I worked on it in class instead of wasting time in class and I got it done on the 13th. I did both of these essays in class so I was able to publish them before the due dates!

The Romeo and Juliet essay that we did in November was submitted later than the due date because in class I would go on Instagram or Twitter, than talk to Erlynn about the essay a little bit, then write a couple of notes, then go back to doing other things. Then I would go home and try to quickly write the essay. I also did better on the Summative and Who Killed Wellington essays than the R+J essay because I put a lot more thought and effort into them because I used my class time wisely. 

I can't find the day that I submitted the essay, but I know that it was due on a Friday and I submitted it on Sunday or Monday. My self regulation has improved a lot when it comes to class time since the beginning of the semester and I know that I started to work much harder so I think that I should get 31/33

2)

I think I am doing well and meeting the standards for grade 10. 

Here is an example of how I made inferences in te "Who Killed Wellington?" essay. Basically the whole essay was about making inferences, but here is one of my points. In this essay it shows me making and supporting reasoned judgements. If you read the rest of  the paragraph, there is more evidence.

Now, here is an example of when I made a personal connection to the essay topic.

And this is me relating to the song "Confetti" by Tori Kelly.

Here is a time when I used articles and reports to create a persuasive essay

This is the example of me using literary devices in my short story. In this part of my short story, I used personification becauses I said the "warmth danced" and dancing is a human characteristic but warmth is not a human

I think that the work that I do is often personal and I chose topics because I can relate to them or feel for the character or situation. I think that I also put a lot of thought and effort into all of the work that I do. I think I should get 31/33

3) Contribution to the Learning Environment: I think I have been ok when it comes to contributing or sharing ideas with the whole class. I think that I am better at sharig with smaller groups. It's not just that I'm more comfortable with my table group, but I like sharing my ideas and listening to other people's ideas in smaller group so that everyone can connect with each other. I also help people with technology issues. For example, Unjali was having trouble with her iPod so I let her use mine to go on edmodo and blogger and submit her assignments. I also try to give my classmates constructive comments on their work. When I comment, I usually try to tell them something good or something I liked that they did and what they could work on without making it sound rude. here is one of my comments:

I also always complete my assignments on time so that I can get input from classmates and so I can help them by commenting on their work. I posted some pictures up in the first section showing that I posted the assignments a couple days before it was due. Then in class I was able to read the work done by others. I think I should get 29/33

      Overall, that would be 31+31+29+ the extra bonus one you said you would give us for being cool so I would give myself 92%. I really liked the way we were able to fix our mistakes in our essays and that we could take ideas from other people's essays that we thought were really good ideas. It was fun how the class could all learn from each other. I think that we didn't just learn English in this class, but we also learned how to learn from each other and use our surroundings to expand our knowledge. Thanks for helping make this a really fun year of English!!