Learning Log ~ February 24, 2012

Learning Log ~ February 24, 2012

What We Did It

Today (Friday) we started off making sure that everybody was on the right track and that we had our novel questions finished all the way up to Chapter 10. Ms. Lees walked around the room and looked over our answers and asked if we had any trouble with any of the questions. She initialed all of our papers.

We then reviewed our questions from chapters 6-10 for our quiz that we had after this review.

The quiz had generally the same sort of questions. We had to order events in the book, and do some true and false questions.

After Ms. Lees had checked everybody’s answers and we had our quiz, we had a little bit of quiet work time where we work on anything we saw the need for. Some people worked on extra note taking on their Middle Ages role, some people worked on their diary entries, and some people worked on Chapter 11 novel questions.

We got a sheet of how to make a bibliography. We learned how to cite different sources like websites, and books.

At the end of what felt like 20 minutes, our Humanities block was over and we had to clean up all our things and head off to our last classes of the day.

Why We Did It/Connections and Reflections

Ms. Lees wanted to check and make sure that we were keeping up with our work because we are almost finished and she doesn’t want anyone to be way behind when everyone else finishes There Will Be Wolves.

Reviewing the questions was really useful because I had a few that I was a bit confused on. I found the opinion questions very easy because I feel very strongly about some of the topics that they are discussing. It was pretty hard to write down my opinions. You can probably understand what I mean. When I know what I’m thinking but I can’t explain it.

We have to be able to put our thought s into words and be able to communicate and collaborate with other people all our lives so why not start now. It’s easier when you’re younger because everybody’s more open to talking to other people that are around.

For the quiz, I found that I am always confused when I have to order major events. I guess I just have a really bad memory for these types of things.

The work time really helped me out because I knew I was going to have a really busy weekend with basketball. I got started on my chapter 11 questions.

I never knew that making a bibliography was so confusing! I always just thought that you put some random information into any kind of order... or the order that you found it! I was really surprised at how many details you need to remember while you make one bibliography.

Homework and Tips

We had to finish our diary entries for Monday, along with our bibliography. If you get your diary done, you’ll have more time to work with your group, just a tip...

Make sure all you research is done, too. If your research is not done, you can’t get placed into a group either.

One last thing is that if you know that you’re going to be busy, work ahead on the novel chapter questions.

Have a nice evening! I hope to see you all in class on Monday!