It has been a huge struggle for me this term and I am hoping I pass the class as well as my psychology class. I have learned a great deal about effective writing. Although, I do wish I could catch onto APA formatting a lot better. I have tried youtube videos and looking at other pages about it and I am having a difficult time catching on. I did enjoy everything I learned on peer reviews and how effective those can be.
Because my students are so young, I will make it my responsibility each week to type up their homework assignments for a whole week. Every Monday, each student will be given the assignments for the entire week. By doing it this way, the whole week has already been planned out and parents and students know what to expect ahead of time. I will try my best to be consistent each week. As the year goes on, I can gradually add more work.
Although I hadn’t yet become comfortable writing about my past during the first few quarters of school, I enjoyed writing for academic growth. I enjoyed analyzing and debating the issues, reflecting on books we had read, or just journaling my thoughts about the day. It wasn’t until my second year at Evergreen that I was able to revisit some of my past experiences and childhood memories by writing a required memoir for one of my classes. This process was very difficult, and I found myself re-writing over and over again. The experience, although very painful has sparked a desire in me to tell my life
In the beginning of the semester I read the work book to him, but now he simply follows my finger and reads the words I point to. Also, in the beginning of the semester Anders took longer to work and got frustrated very easily, but now he pulls through and finishes his work much faster. While we worked I promised him songs and stories that reminded him that if he works he can have fun after. After reading a specific chapter in the book I found that I should listen to his scripting and not ignore it, because it's his way of trying to tell someone what he needs. I also learned from you, Mrs. Beitner, that when Anders says or does something wrong I should correct him by saying things like: "is that ok?"
Going into AP English class, I knew there would much to learn and that I had much room to grow. After looking back critically over the work I had done throughout the first semester of my junior year, I realized that I have already come a long way. After looking back at the comments Mr. Murphy had written about my writings and the notes I had made to myself, I noticed that my conclusions, thesis, organization, word and verb choice needed work. In contrast, some positive aspects about my writings were good insights, citations and flow. When looking back on my old free responses the reoccurring weaknesses were my conclusions and thesis statements.
It was sort of a game to me but I learnt a lot from it because the next time he gave me an essay, I tried to make it better than the previous one. I remember growing up with lesser red ink on my work. Little did I know this experience will have such an impact on my writing
I mainly pushed them off because elementary teachers always wanted some kind of colorful and creative diorama or drawing. Even though I found this fairly simple, I just didn’t enjoy the trivial coloring or gluing. I would put these off so much that I would even have to ask my dad to come help me finish just so I could get to bed on time. However as I grew older I began to enjoy schoolwork more. It was becoming more complex, especially in math.
In fact, every time I just hope that my brain will come with something creative that I could start with. Writing assignments, sometimes it makes me feel as the world is conspiring against me; on one side of my brain are the negative thoughts and fear that keep me away from writing a great paper, and on the other side, instead of positive mind, I encounter with the thoughts like, “Do I ever going to present a really great essay?”, “Will I pass the class?” But, not everything had been unfavorable on my writing experience. Although of all these dissection, I have accomplished great things as well. For instance, I learned more about myself; I have learned things I needed to improve and change on my writing, and about my fears. Additionally, I have noticed tremendous progress on my writing skills, that is, I write much faster now, therefore, I get better papers and grades.
Strengths Activity Which activities you did in the past week did you really look forward to doing? Which did you find yourself volunteering for? * The activities that I did in the past week that I really looked forward was working out, and getting all homework done in advance, and typing two papers a week before they were due. I was volunteering to myself because I felt good about myself when I got all of those activities done. What are you naturally inquisitive about, you keep learning and researching around it?
Ever since I have taken a higher English class such as AP it became more challenging for me. As such the class need good writing skill beyond my capabilities, and causes me to struggle once again. Despite the setback, I shall not give up on such an issue; I definitely make my writing skill become better. Therefore I begin write to the best of my abilities and often ask other people around to help peer editing my essay. After many try of writing an essay, I got better understanding of what to fix when write and quickly know to make my own sentence sound best.