Humanities 8 29/02/12

What We Did

Today we started to prepare our portfolios for semester 2! The first time I worked with portfolios it was quite challenging for me because I was really disorganized. This time I am prepared to take on the mighty portfolio and come out victorious!

Learning Intentions

Adding our work to our portfolios allows us to keep track on how we are improving with our work. This is very important because it will tell us what we need to work on more. It is also a great way to provide proof of your achievements.

Connections Beyond Humanities

Portfolios are used in many job cases, and for the same purpose. To keep track of your work and to provide proof of your work. Portfolios are very important as you can see.

Homework

Our homework for Friday is to finish the work review sheets we received. Other than that we are free!

Feb 20th

Okay, so today in Humanities class we were mainly assigned rolls for our new research project that we started today. What we will be doing is using our roll to find new information on the medieval times. We research to discover what the person of our roll (mine is a merchants son) would do in a regular day of life back in that time.

We are doing this project because it will be fun to learn all of the stuff on this person because first of all we get to act and pretend to be a person in the middle ages but we also get to use the computers and the library for research which I weirdly find to be fun.

I have honestly never done anything very alike this, i have researched about people in older times and I have also acted. Those can both be two fun things to do but they can also be VERY difficult.

Some tips that I may give you are to not stay on website or book for too long because first you can waste lots of time searching that one thing and also if you dont find anything by skimming there may not be anything that is very usefull. You should just skim through it the first time and if you see anything usefull go back and read it again. And if you dont find anythig by skimming you can just go check a new website or book/encyclopedia that may be a lot better.

Hum 8 Homework

Sorry this learning blog was so late! I was swimming & doing some other homework from school.
What We Did

         Today, our class broke out our uncommenly used, but amazing "Pathways" textbook and took turns reading some paragraphs. Fredrick & I decided it with rock-paper-scissors and i won so he had to read. we also made some awesome graphs about nobles, Kings, serfs, and all that stuff. while making the last graph, Ms. Lees thought that we were being too slow, so she gave us her thoughts about it and we zoomed past it. Awesome!

Learning Intention

         Our learning intention was to learn about how the classes of the middle ages worked and what were the duties  of each person who lived there.

Connections Beyond Humanities

         The connections for knowing this in Humanities and something that is not, is when you're a tour guide for a museum. when tou're telling people stuff about the middle ages, you have to tell them something that they don't know, not like "The middle ages is a time period that existed a long time ago", or knights fought with swords.

Homework

         Our homework is to do a little venn diagram about tha oath of canadian citizenship, and one from the middle ages ( i hope that's right).

Tips for in class

          NEVER... EVER work slow, because Ms. Lees will get very upset with you!!!!

30 Day Challenge Update Week 1

The first week of my vegetable challenge went very well! It was quite easy to eat vegetables every day. It really helps if you buy a pre-made vegetable platter from the grocery store. That way you get variety and some good dipping sauce! Let's see how well I will do next week...

30 day challenge

My 30 day challenge will be to eat breakfast every day

My goal for the next month

My 30 day goal.
For the next 30 days I will try to eat at least a serving of fruits or vegetables twice a day. I think that I can acheive this goal because some fruits and vegetables taste very good. I want to acheive this goal so that I will be more healthy and I will live a better life.
Ben

Goals for 30 Days

Goals For 30 Days

My goal that i plan to achieve in 30 days is to get a time that's at least 10 seconds faster than my old time in a 400 IM. My plan to achieve this goal is to try to improve by 2 seconds each week. if i do that, i'll be sure to move up to the next level before i know it! i might even get my A or AA time!

What We Did:

Today in class we reviewed blogs and blog post and Ms Lees showed us how to critique and what a good post. She also showed us how to rate it for example if they didn't have enough information it could be a 5 or a 4. She explained that a post that is a 5 does not have to be perfect. After she showed us how to critique posts we watched a video with a guy talking about goals he set for 30 days and accomplished and sometimes still does because its fun.

Connections Beyond English:

I think the critique helped us in class because some of us were unclear and not sure what to do and Ms Lees cleared that up. The critique could help us in the future or out of humanities class because we will learn how to give feedback without making someone upset. For the video we could learn to try something new.

Homework and Homework Tips

For homework all we had to do is post on the blog a paragraph about something we are going to do for 30 days.

Tips:

Look on Ms Lees blog if you are unsure what to do for your 30 day goal

30 Day Challenge

My goal for 30 days is to eat breakfast every morning. I can keep doing this goal by not eating before bed the night before. The other thing is to wake up earlier so I can get hungry by that I mean that i am never hungry right when I wake up.

30 Day Challenge!

Today we were watching a video in class. It was about a guy that tried changing something about his life style for 30 days. This could mean getting more exercise, eating healthier, doing homework every night, etc... The challenge could be anything that could better you as a person. He was talking on stage and trying to convince all his viewers that it isn't that hard to change your life style as long as you keep a habit going. I decided to accept this challenge and eat healthier. Don't get me wrong I am not going to stop drinking soda and stop eating sweet food. I am going to eat some vegetables every day (something very rare for me to do). I will also be doing a weekly report on how the challenge has been going. Let's hope I don't abandon it!

Homehork for Friday

What We Did

Today our class finished up presenting our novel posters and had a few single person presentations. Our teacher Ms.Lees instructed us to listen very carefully to other group's presentations because we were not allowed to copy any part of anyone elses presentations. I think it was quite smart. every group's speeches were amazing, especially ours. Coltin felt a little bit left out during the speech, but we'll make it up to him... someday. After we were finished with the posters, Ms. Lees Showed us a video we never saw before involving shopping carts, teamwork, great leadership, and fantastic ideas.

Learning Intentions

The reason why we had to listen so carefully was to not repete what anyone else said. We lost track of what had already been said, but luckily, we made it through, or that Ms. Lees forgot everything as well. The reason why we watched the mysterious video was to learn leadership skills, by listening to the group members comments, ideas, or any other mumbo jumbo. the clip was pretty enjoyable though.

Connections Beyond Hum.

Listening to other people's opinions or ideas will be a very good skill to use when in court. By court i mean a trial for a bad guy, with lawyers, Judges, and jurys. If the suspect is ignored, then he'll be toast. might as jump off a bridge. Being a good leader or having really good leadership skills will help when leading a protest or when working on a project in school. Both of these activities need leaders, of the protest or project will fail. Leadership is important in many things, but i can't list them all.

Homework

 thank god that we didn't get any homework over the weekend. I would like to thank the Class, Ms. Lees, and mostly, the Class for this homework free weekend. i enjoyed it a lot!