2nd Quarter Reflection Blog

In what area do you think you made your biggest improvements in English Language Arts?
      I think that my biggest improvements in English Language Arts is to read the text and analyze which quote is the best to support my topic sentence. In Language Arts, our teacher gives us an assignment called Article of the Week. The instructions are to first make annotations to help better your understanding of the article, take the pop quiz, and gather all your evidence to create a central idea of the article. There needs to be at least two to three pieces of evidence, the evidence we get from the article are quotes. The quotes have to relate back to the central idea, it was a struggle to find the quotes to tie back to the central idea. From all the text, there are many quotes that need to be mentioned and are there for extra information. It is important for me to follow the TIQA format, this format helps me throughout my reading. This is the area I think I made my biggest improvement because it becomes easier for me to look through the text and locate it. I have also become more manageable with my time. Studying for my vocabulary quizzes, reading for my 10 book challenge, and completing IXL goals that are due on Sunday.


What is something you have accomplished since the new year that you are proud of?
       Something I have accomplished since the New Year that I am proud of is becoming more organized. I would use one folder for all of my classes and I would lose all the important things I needed for Language Arts class, the notes , articles, they were lost. I had to make an effort to organize all of my things because if not, I would lead myself into consequences. Id possibly go to working lunch and be behind on what we were learning in class. Now that I am organized, I've become more successful and doing my homework diligently and strongly determined. I have pushed myself to strive and cite evidence to get to a four. Fours are hard to receive but in order to get one, you have to get past your limit .

What has been the most challenging part of 2nd Quarter for you and what did/can you do to help overcome this?
     The most challenging part of 2nd quarter for me was working on the investigative journalism unit. It was challenging because you had to make sure it was 3rd person point of view and all the research was extreme. I got a lot of information and paraphrasing the information intomy own words,was difficult. I overthink too much on the way it is supposed to be written. My TIQA format was a little off. I don't think that unit was my best however it was not my worst. The best I can do to overcome this is to read the text and analyze it and annotate it. For better understanding, and to overcome this, I have to work hard .