30 day challenge report

For my 30 day challenge I had to have 45 minutes of exercise each day and I think I didn't miss any days except maybe a couple but I was successful for my 30 day challenge. For this challenge I reminded myself every time when I was outside. I ether ran or walked and mostly ran for my 30 day challenge goal. Within the last two weeks or after I wrote my last 30 day challenge progress report I think I have improved on my running since I ran more than anything else. I think it was a good idea to do a 30 day challenge since I keep improving on my running and I hope I would make another 30 day challenge for myself.

Today we were put into groups but for the people who didn't finish their diary, bibliography and notes for their researched character (Which was most f us) had to finish it. The people who did not finish everything had to finish their work but the people assigned to groups already talked about what their skit would be about.

We did this because most of us were behind and had to catch up. And the people in their groups talked about their skit so they could plan a a script and how the play would go. The people still working have to get everything done by tomorrow so they can start planning their skit so they don't have to plan on their own time.

Planning for future work is good because you can decide what you want to do before hand and be able to figure everything out so you don't have to on the spot. Finishing work is really good because it saves you time for doing other things but if you do not do the work it results in decreased marks because of the work being late.

Today the homework was for the people who did not finish their homework to finish their homework. And for the people who are already in their groups, they have to plan out their skits and start working on the script for their skit.

February 24, 2012

What We Did Today

Today, we started the block by talking about the “There Will Be Wolves” questions. Ms. Lees took a look at our responses and answers for the previous chapter questions that was due the week before and she wasn’t really impressed on the quality of our work. After talking about the chapter questions, we reviewed the questions from chapter 6-10 and the main events. Then we had the quiz which wasn’t long so it only took a couple of minutes to finish. The quiz only had 10 questions. First 5 questions were ordering the main events and the other 5 were true or false. Then we went over the criteria for a bibliography.

Why We Did It

We talked about the novel questions because some people weren’t done the chapter questions and we had to make sure that everyone would do it next time. We reviewed the chapters 6-10 novel questions because Ms. Lees wanted us to get a good mark on the quiz. We went over the criteria for a bibliography because some people didn’t know what we needed for a bibliography or some people didn’t know what order we had to put the bibliography in.

Connections/ Reflections

It is always nice to review for a test or a quiz and the skill for reviewing could be handy for other subjects and jobs. By learning how to make a bibliography could help in the future for other subjects and maybe future jobs.

Homework and Tips

For homework, the diary is due on Monday and I suggest you start on the chapter 11 questions for our novel.

February 22, 2012

What we did today

Today, we had a double block of humanities so we started by talking about what we were going to do within 2 weeks before spring break. For example we talked about finishing There Will Be Wolves questions, the novel, and quizzes that we would have before spring break. We also talked about other up-coming things like the diary and the skit that comes with it and portfolio preparation. We also talked about sharing our blogs and portfolios to our parents. After talking about what’s coming up, we reviewed the questions from There Will Be Wolves since we had a quiz about the main topics from chapters 1 to 5 today. We had a break after reviewing chapters 1 to 5 but after we had the quiz. The There Will Be Wolves quiz wasn’t too bad because it was only 10 questions. Five questions were multiple choice and the other half was list the events in order. After the quiz, we had a choice of doing 3 things, work on chapter 10 questions of There Will Be Wolves, notes for our diary entry, or get started on the diary entry. We worked on those 3 things until the double block was over.

Why we did it

We talked about what we were doing within 2 weeks before spring break because Ms. Lees didn’t know when she will be absent again. When we talked about the things that were coming up within 2 weeks it helped everyone since we wanted to know when we were doing and it is always nice to know what is coming up. We reviewed the novel questions because we didn’t know what could be on the test so we thought of maybe the worst and reviewed or refreshed the things that happened in the book. We did the novel quiz because Ms. Lees wanted to know how much we knew about the book. Ms. Lees gave us a choice because she knew that we had different things to do so she gave us an opportunity to work on these pieces of work.

Connections/ reflections

This skill of knowing what’s coming up can help us in the future for planning different things in the future for example for There Will Be Wolves questions. Reviewing what happened in the novel can help for the future for different kinds of up-coming tests. This way of studying could maybe help us in the future for tests that is better to study in this way.

Homework and Tips

For homework there was the Middle Ages notes all finished with bibliography and chapter 10 of There Will Be Wolves questions which is due Friday. There also will be a chapter 6 to 10 quiz on Friday so make sure to study for that. For tips I suggest you to study for the quiz.

30 day challenge progress report

Unfortunately I was sick yesterday and so I couldn't write my progress report so I am going to do my progress report today. Yes, I have been successful on my 30 day challenge because I usually remind myself like for example I usually remind myself every time I am outside so I can start running and usually everyday I remind myself to think a head of time about running at a good time in my day which is always good. I am feeling good about my progress because it is improving a little bit on my beep test score. I would like to keep this up because it is good for my body and it helps me improve.

02/21/2012

What We Did Today:

Today, we took some more notes in the library. Since there was a substitute, we should've been very responsible and well... more mature since we had pretty much free roaming in the library, but I think that some of us were just listening to our iPods, watching youtube videos on the computers, talking, browsing the internet, and just socializing with their peers. SOME of us.

Anyway, we were supposed to try and finish off the notes for our research project, but most of us didn't really finish it, so now we have to finish our notes on our own times (at home/after school/library). But make sure that you remember what websites you go on or which books you use. Because we are going to need to write out a bibliography. You can see the criteria for the bibliography on my other post.

Why we Did This:

We wrote these notes because we need them... for our diary entries and our role-play.

20/02/2012

What We did Today:

Today, we started taking notes for our research project. This was all done at the library. First, we learned how to write out a bibliography.

How to write a bibliography:

Book - Author or editors (last name, first name), title, publishing company, copyright date (most recent), publishing city (Canadian city, closest to Vancouver)

Encyclopedia - title, year/edition, article (what you're looking up in the encyclopedia), copyright date

Online - web address/URL, title-page, author(s), look for "How to Cite this Page," date accessed.

Then, we picked some medieval jobs out of a bucket, researching, and taking notes on who we were! (I got the daughter of the lord :) )

Why we did This:

We learned how to do the bibliography because most of us didn't know how to write out a bibliography.

We picked the names out of the bucket and took notes on them because... that was our project. We were going to need to know those facts for later, when we do our role-playing... yes.

Connections/Reflections

You may have to use the bibliography in any other subject when you do some sort of researching, or a project. And as I always say, it can be used in future careers (;. Role playing can be used in drama class... and also if you want to be some sort of shifty man, you'll need a double-life, and be able to think on the fly... nah, I'm just kidding. Be safe :)

As I said on my last post, I really dislike note-taking... but I LOVE acting and role-playing, so I'm really looking forward to that. So excited! :D

Homework and Tips

If you wrote very little on your notes, you may want to take it home and work on it a bit then, because it'll be good to have a lot of information for the role-playing part. Also, you have to finish chapter nine questions for Tuesday.

You should make sure to write down every source you use to take the notes! And if you have any questions about... the questions, you should post it on the blog so that everyone can help you out. Flex will be tomorrow, see yah guys! (sorry about the short post, it was late after math homework, and I was rushing... also, I couldn't really think of much to write about...

30 Day Challenge Review

Yes, I was quite successful in my challenge... except I'm not posting my haikus on blogger because... I'm somewhat self conscious when sharing written work ;). I've motivated myself to write these things because... it's for the good of my writing skills... and my mark. Also, some people have been pressuring me on facebook so.... -_-

I'm feeling that that I'm doing well on this challenge! And I also think that this is really helping my writing skills because... the