Reflection #3

For this past week we started looking more into what skills we need to develop. When I was studying for the SAT I always write down the words I don't know and unfortunately I have stopped this skill when I stopped studying. So what we needed to do was to go back to this skill and keep on expanding our vocabulary this way we know what types of words are appropriate for the time it should be used. Then we wrote writing mats which are personalized for our errors. For me I but in adverbs as I find having a list of them would be really useful as well as connectives to make my sentences flow. Here below is what I created, I wanted to but some spaces blank that way I can add more as I go along.

From here we had discussion for stories the whole class has read. One of it was "under the Baobab Tree". We elected a certain roles to discuss this book.

discussion director - Stephanie
summarizer - Mia
quote finder - Lena
insightful illustrator - Myself
vocabulary enricher - Ann
connector - Lisa
travel tracer - Carlos

With these roles assigned we tried to explore the book more. As this was our first time it didn't go that smoothly since we didn't really know what to discuss on. But from here it was an experience and I am sure we will do much better next time. We should ask more questions with one another and give our own perspective. We decided to choose the book "To kill a Mockingbird" and this time I am the summarizer, hopefully there will be much more discussion. Towards the end of the class we looked into persuasive writing that we will explore more next lesson.

For this week the skills I picked up was to find out what my weaknesses are, find a way to get through it and as well as work as a group and try to discuss more.