Learning Blog 17/12/14

What Did We Do?

First we went over the paragraph booklets, our teacher was going over what was assigned and instructions for the next assignments. We went over questions and answered them for people that were unclear about the instructions. Next we were told to work on our critiques for our lit circle novel. We needed to put at least ten pros and cons to our story. We worked on our individual critiques while the teacher came around to check every body's.

Why?

We went over the booklet to make sure everybody had a clear understanding on hat needed to be done. We do the booklet to be able to improve our paragraphs and writing skills. We wrote a critique about our novel because we want to try and practice our constructive criticism and be able to identify each part ( ex. we had to be able to think about the target audience and be able to identify the pros and cons about the book). We also wanted to try and back up our points with specific details and examples from the story. That way our points become more reasonable

Reflections and Connections

Criticism is important even outside of novels. Since we are identifyingstuff like the pro's and con's and finding the target audience. WE are building up our constructive criticism. We can use this skill for a wide variety, whether it's a poem or even a movie. Being able to find the pints and improve upon benefits both your own skills and youracademic skills. Also to improve our writing skills is going to be very useful as well as developing paragraphs because we are going to needing that skill quite a lot in our high school life, we also want to be able to develop our explanation skills

Homework Reminders

For block 1: remember to work on your paragraph booklet. 
The first four paragraphs will be due Friday.

Homework Tips

If you ever need help remember to ask your study buddy or even just your friend from Humanities.
Don't be afraid to ask Ms.Lees any questions about the paragraphs.

3 Words

Hello my name is Shirley and I'm here to present my three words that I strive for 2015.
The challenge is to come up with three words that you want to live by or a goal for the New Years.

Open: I have to the bad habit of always concealing my feelings and bottling them up. This word means I want to be able to express my feelings more openly and freely. To be able to tell someone how I feel even if it's hard.

Relaxed: I can be really hard on myself and my self esteem is quite low. So I want to be a bit more laid back and go easier on myself because if I'm being too hard on myself, it'll only add to my stress and that's not good for my health.

Health: I have always been conscious about my health, both mentally and physically. I want to be become more cautious because you can always achieve higher. I want to be able to eat right and exercise more. Because this will help benefit me in many ways.



For more information on the challenge you can visit it here -->http://sheownsit.com/forget-year-resolutions-just-pick-three-words-live-your-life-by/

Have a nice day everybody!

140 Word Challenge Pure Storyline

At the moment I'm creating a dramatic story. The title is called:Pure, the genres this story fits in are:drama, slice of life and adventure. The story focuses around a girl named: Ran Mangetsu. She is your average student in Japan, however because of her below average grades her mother isn't very fond of her. AS the story progresses, Ran becomes a victim of bullying up until high school. At the moment Ran is only thirteen years old, and her life is already a bit rough. Ran also had feelings for this boy in her class named:Raion and he's amazingly smart. That's currently where I left the story of because I want to think of how the bullying begins. Raion invites Ran to the summer festival and I want that to be the part where she confesses her feelings.