Learning Log for February 9th 2012

What We Did

Today in humanities we started off with discussing our 30 days challenge, it took almost a whole block. Everyone shared their challenge (including me) with the rest of the classmates and told everyone if we have accomplished them so far. Some people were having difficulties achieving their goals, so Ms.Lees would ask for some tips and suggestions from other students. When you are having a hard time reaching your goal(s) here are some tips that might help:

l Decrease the time of activity so it is more sustainable. When everything is steady and on track you can increase the time of the activity little by little.

l Start your challenge small, then work your way to something more challenging.

l Give yourself punishments when you didn’t do what you are supposed to do that day, give yourself treats for achieving goals. Doing this can help increase your motivations.

l Ask someone to remind you so that you won’t forget follow the rules you made.

After discussing, for about the last ten minutes of the block, Ms.Lees told us to write down the things that we know or learned from the crusade on a piece of paper. It doesn’t matter if it is written in point form or web form, as long as you put down where you get the information in brackets, whether it’s from There Will Be Wolves or Middle Ages novel

Ex: -everyone is welcome on the Crusade, even thieves and murderers (There Will Be Wolves)

-the symbol of the Crusade is Red Cross (novel)

Then it was break time~~~

During the beginning of second block we finished jotting down information about the Crusade we left off the first block. Then we watched a part of a movie called Kingdom of Heaven, it was talking about crusades. While we watch the movie, Ms.Lees would stop at some part and ask us what the characters just said and what it means. We also need to put down what we learned about the crusade from the movie on the paper. After that Ms.Lees let us work quietly on our There Will Be Wolves chapter 6 questions (in blue or black pen) in class.

Why We Did It

The purpose of letting everyone share their challenge one by one is so that we get ideas from other people on how to achieve goals and when you are struggling with your challenge you might get some really useful tips and suggestions from someone else. Another good thing is that you might discover some really interesting challenges.

The learning intention for writing down what we learned about crusade was to let us gather all our thoughts together. We had learned quite a lot about the crusade, I guess it might be clearer to write everything down on paper than keeping all in our brain. There might be a big big project waiting for us, so that might be something we will need later on.

We watched the movie because it contained some important information Ms.Lees wanted us to know. It is easier to learn from visual, when you read a book it might be hard to picture what is going on during that time period but if you watch a movie it would be easier to understand. Ms.Lees would pause and ask us what is going on was to make sure we are on the same page and that we understood the dialogue.

We worked on our chapter 6 in class so that if anyone has a question they can ask the teacher right away.

Reflections/Connections

I guess I am marvy today. So far I have no problems with achieving my goals. In the novel, Sword of the Rightful King because it took place in the dark ages it didn’t talk about the crusades. So almost everything from my paper is from There Will Be Wolves, I hope that is okay. I only had a little trouble when we were watching the movie; I couldn’t hear some parts so I had to wait for Ms.Lees to replay it in order to understand.

In the future you will need to share with others and give out tips for others. Later on in life when you realize something is not going well as you planned you will always need to find a way that that works the best, just like the tips in 30 days challenge you need to think about what helps and what doesn’t. Watching the movie and taking notes is needed in every subject, you write down what you heard from the movie.

Homework

There Will be Wolves chapter 6 questions is due on Monday. Remember to write it in pen or typed.

Tips

Make sure your answers of the questions are proofread. It would be better to let someone who had never read the story read your answers, if it’s a good answer than they should understand what you are talking about.