Saturday, April 30, 2011
Best of the Week: Last day
For my last week of the year, I was to a presentation in Humanities and another in Spanish class. Seeing as the week was only 2.3 days long for me, I was a little bit nervous. On Monday I gave my TED presentation about Amber Case and her talk about how humans are kind of like cyborgs. I went into the presentation well enough prepared, but very nervous as I do for most speeches. However, I noticed this time that it wasn't as much of nerves as it was an excitement. I knew that this would be my last time speaking in front of a class at Glenbrook South. After that, I would be done. It gave me excitement and closure. For the rest of my life if I do pursue a career in education, I know I'll be doing the same thing: speaking in front of classes every day. This is even what I'm doing on senior project. In a way, I'm continuing on with high school with this project, but just in a different atmosphere. It took this class project/presentation for me to realize that.
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Best of the Week [DO YOU MIND?!]
Taking the whole week into perspective, I'd have to say that the best thing that happened this week was our discussion on Tuesday of the "Do you mind" questions. I thought we had a very deep discussion. It turned out to be a lot more interesting to follow than our other class reading. The questions we answered were kind of related which made an even stronger discussion. It really impacted me though and made it the best of my week because I actually related very personally to it. The questions had to do with our minds and how fast they work and when they are conscious. I had just come from choir where I experienced a perfect example of when my mind is conscious. I discussed it in class and found that throughout the entire discussion I was conscious and aware of the conversation.
Monday, April 18, 2011
Blogging Around
Stephanie Gordon posted a blog called, "Captured Thought: The end is near". This caught my attention right away because I had a good idea what it would be about. Stephanie explained how and when it hit her that high school is quickly coming to an end. She questions what the future will hold for her.
beccaw2010humanities said...
The second blog I looked at was Marlee's blog entitled "Metacognition: First semester in Humanities". In this blog, Marlee explains how she has subconsciously taken away material learned in class such as philosophy and ideas from different articles. She has applied these outside the class room which I find very impressive!
beccaw2010humanities said...
HEY STEPHHHH!!!
I could not agree more with that entire entry. I think it was just the beginning of this month that I realized how limited my time was. Since I'm doing senior project, I have 6 more real days of school left. HOLY COW. I'm done after this. Like you, I always thought high school would go by nice and slowly even though everyone said how fast it would be. It seems like only yesterday we were on habitat anticipating senior year. I wish I could start over from freshman year, but like you said, now I can prepare myself for how fast these next four years in college will be!
I could not agree more with that entire entry. I think it was just the beginning of this month that I realized how limited my time was. Since I'm doing senior project, I have 6 more real days of school left. HOLY COW. I'm done after this. Like you, I always thought high school would go by nice and slowly even though everyone said how fast it would be. It seems like only yesterday we were on habitat anticipating senior year. I wish I could start over from freshman year, but like you said, now I can prepare myself for how fast these next four years in college will be!
Yo Marlee!!!!
Wow, great blog! So true... I agree with a lot of what you said about the classroom material from this year. I think some of it was alright, but it really took me a while and 'getting into' to enjoy what we were reading. Like Sophie's world for example, I also really didn't like that book, but sometimes I would catch myself reading it and enjoying it, until I remembered how cheesy and unrealistic it was.
But overall, I have to agree with you that I learned a lot about my mind. I'm happy with humanities first semester; I think it took me this class to understand some things about myself. Overall I'd say it was a very beneficial semester.
The same thing happened with Shadow Catcher, when Wiggins described her own life and boring art, I wasn't too interested. However, when she told the story of Edward and Clara, that's what really got me. I think Humanities helped me discover what type of reading I just 'get'.
Wow, great blog! So true... I agree with a lot of what you said about the classroom material from this year. I think some of it was alright, but it really took me a while and 'getting into' to enjoy what we were reading. Like Sophie's world for example, I also really didn't like that book, but sometimes I would catch myself reading it and enjoying it, until I remembered how cheesy and unrealistic it was.
But overall, I have to agree with you that I learned a lot about my mind. I'm happy with humanities first semester; I think it took me this class to understand some things about myself. Overall I'd say it was a very beneficial semester.
The same thing happened with Shadow Catcher, when Wiggins described her own life and boring art, I wasn't too interested. However, when she told the story of Edward and Clara, that's what really got me. I think Humanities helped me discover what type of reading I just 'get'.
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