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In 3^rd quarter of English class, we studied poetry which was challenge for me. This unit was a quiet easy unit for me so far because all you had to do to get an outstanding grade is just to complete your assignments and the poetry book. It was difficult to write poems and make the actual poetry book. At first I was not that sure what exactly poetry is and it was not that fascinating to me because it was boring and monotonous. On the other hand, at the end of this quarter my opinions about the poetry were with a complete difference. Poetry made me think of myself again and has redressed me with improvements. I started thinking more carefully and thoughtfully even if it was just a simple thing.

In our school, there are some things called ESLRs (Expected School-wide Learning Results). There are critical thinkers, effective communicators, involved citizens, academic achievers, and self-directed learners. Self-directed learners are basically people who have responsibilities for their own learning. They take creative risks in developing untried ideas which means that they challenge on new problems. Academic achievers are practically people who demonstrate the ability to work both independently and collaboratively. They demonstrate the ability to work both independently and collaboratively which means that you have an ability to work alone and to work with other teammates. Involved citizens are people who demonstrate care for environment, responsibilities and respects for others. They demonstrate awareness and respect for the rights of others which means that you care about other people with respects. Effective communicators are people who listen respectfully and ask questions to achieve goals and insight. They listen respectfully and ask questions to facilitate understanding and achieve insight which means that they respect other people’s opinions and ask what exactly they need. Critical thinkers are who solve incidents using a variety of strategies. They solve problems using a variety of strategies which means that you use many solutions to solve incidents.

The poetry book took me mountain of hours to complete. When I was creating this book, I was a self-directed learner and an academic achiever. I took creative risks in developing untried ideas because I wanted to be extraordinary and unique from my classmates. I bought empty lined book, I covered the covers with the images I chose, for each page, I glued different colors of paper and I glued my poems in different fonts with edited images. I demonstrated technological literacy and the use of technology as a tool for the efficient and creative completion of a project. We, the students in 8^th grade, used Photoshop to compose and edit images for the book. After I completed my book, I examined over it and I was very satisfied myself with most of my work.

The poetry night was great because we had all the modern technology we could get in our school. We had all varieties of food, and our impressive and intensive poetry books. The poetry night made me nervous and I thought that was the time when we all had to show how much we learned about poetry. I was very nervous while I was presenting my poem but I was very satisfied because everyone cheered me up very loudly. While participating in Poetry Night, I was an academic achiever and an involved citizen. I demonstrated technological literacy and the use of technology as a tool for the efficient and creative completion of a project with all my classmates and my teacher. We set up all the technological equipments like sounds and videos. I demonstrated awareness and respect for the rights of others because meanwhile I was giving a speech, I was thinking about what I can do to show my respect to other audience and I performed my best.

In the Teen life project, it was very confusing at the beginning because I honestly had no idea what this project was about. However, I started to be familiar with the teen life project and I put some introduction of myself, a poem for my topic and a picture I made. While I was involving in this teenlife project, I was an effective communicator and a self-directed learner. I collaborated with others in appropriate learning situations to achieve group goals which mean that I worked with other people to complete a project or to achieve my or their goals. For this project, I had a partner and we communicated about it and performed our best. I took creative risks in developing untried ideas because this project was all new to us and we found the key to solve the incidents.

While writing my book, participating in Poetry Night, and completing the Teenlife Project, I flash back myself what I could have done better if I had an opportunity to do them again. For my poetry book, I regret that I didn’t start it early so I didn’t have much time to decorate and actually visualize of a perfect book. I could also have thought of some more creative ideas that people haven’t given a shot yet. For the Poetry Night, I should have planned about my poetry presentation because mine was too simple. I was amazed at people who actually planned this in a short amount of time. I regret that I didn’t use the time wisely because every single second was gold. For the Teenlife project, I keep thinking myself that I should have spent more time on it and be an involved in it more and be more active. I also didn’t really talk much with my teammates except my partner in my school. I should have done some extra work on this to impress myself and others and should have been more responsible for this project.

Overall this Poetry Unit will be my favorite unit out of all my units I had in my whole school life. In my opinion, poems have affected everything in the universe. Everything is related to poems and writing poems is a magnificent way to express your emotions. Everyday I had to write poems which I enjoyed and that was one of my joys I could have during 8^th grade. I’m appreciative to my English teacher, Mr. Raisdana, for teaching us such an intelligent unit that has affected my life. It was somewhat hard for me to match my work with ESLRs but they make me reflect myself. I would give myself a B+ or an A-. I think academic achievers assisted me the most to complete my duties because I demonstrated technological literacy and the use of technology as a tool for the efficient and creative completion of a project. I also demonstrated the ability to work both independently and collaboratively.

 In 3^rd quarter of English class, we studied poetry which was challenge for me. This unit was a quiet easy unit for me so far because all you had to do to get an outstanding grade is just to complete your assignments and the poetry book. It was difficult to write poems and make the actual poetry book. At first I was not that sure what exactly poetry is and it was not that fascinating to me because it was boring and monotonous. On the other hand, at the end of this quarter my opinions about the poetry were with a complete difference. Poetry made me think of myself again and has redressed me with improvements. I started thinking more carefully and thoughtfully even if it was just a simple thing.

In our school, there are some things called ESLRs (Expected School-wide Learning Results). There are critical thinkers, effective communicators, involved citizens, academic achievers, and self-directed learners. Self-directed learners are basically people who have responsibilities for their own learning. They take creative risks in developing untried ideas which means that they challenge on new problems. Academic achievers are practically people who demonstrate the ability to work both independently and collaboratively. They demonstrate the ability to work both independently and collaboratively which means that you have an ability to work alone and to work with other teammates. Involved citizens are people who demonstrate care for environment, responsibilities and respects for others. They demonstrate awareness and respect for the rights of others which means that you care about other people with respects. Effective communicators are people who listen respectfully and ask questions to achieve goals and insight. They listen respectfully and ask questions to facilitate understanding and achieve insight which means that they respect other people’s opinions and ask what exactly they need. Critical thinkers are who solve incidents using a variety of strategies. They solve problems using a variety of strategies which means that you use many solutions to solve incidents.

The poetry book took me mountain of hours to complete. When I was creating this book, I was a self-directed learner and an academic achiever. I took creative risks in developing untried ideas because I wanted to be extraordinary and unique from my classmates. I bought empty lined book, I covered the covers with the images I chose, for each page, I glued different colors of paper and I glued my poems in different fonts with edited images. I demonstrated technological literacy and the use of technology as a tool for the efficient and creative completion of a project. We, the students in 8^th grade, used Photoshop to compose and edit images for the book. After I completed my book, I examined over it and I was very satisfied myself with most of my work.

The poetry night was great because we had all the modern technology we could get in our school. We had all varieties of food, and our impressive and intensive poetry books. The poetry night made me nervous and I thought that was the time when we all had to show how much we learned about poetry. I was very nervous while I was presenting my poem but I was very satisfied because everyone cheered me up very loudly. While participating in Poetry Night, I was an academic achiever and an involved citizen. I demonstrated technological literacy and the use of technology as a tool for the efficient and creative completion of a project with all my classmates and my teacher. We set up all the technological equipments like sounds and videos. I demonstrated awareness and respect for the rights of others because meanwhile I was giving a speech, I was thinking about what I can do to show my respect to other audience and I performed my best.

In the Teen life project, it was very confusing at the beginning because I honestly had no idea what this project was about. However, I started to be familiar with the teen life project and I put some introduction of myself, a poem for my topic and a picture I made. While I was involving in this teenlife project, I was an effective communicator and a self-directed learner. I collaborated with others in appropriate learning situations to achieve group goals which mean that I worked with other people to complete a project or to achieve my or their goals. For this project, I had a partner and we communicated about it and performed our best. I took creative risks in developing untried ideas because this project was all new to us and we found the key to solve the incidents.

While writing my book, participating in Poetry Night, and completing the Teenlife Project, I flash back myself what I could have done better if I had an opportunity to do them again. For my poetry book, I regret that I didn’t start it early so I didn’t have much time to decorate and actually visualize of a perfect book. I could also have thought of some more creative ideas that people haven’t given a shot yet. For the Poetry Night, I should have planned about my poetry presentation because mine was too simple. I was amazed at people who actually planned this in a short amount of time. I regret that I didn’t use the time wisely because every single second was gold. For the Teenlife project, I keep thinking myself that I should have spent more time on it and be an involved in it more and be more active. I also didn’t really talk much with my teammates except my partner in my school. I should have done some extra work on this to impress myself and others and should have been more responsible for this project.

Overall this Poetry Unit will be my favorite unit out of all my units I had in my whole school life. In my opinion, poems have affected everything in the universe. Everything is related to poems and writing poems is a magnificent way to express your emotions. Everyday I had to write poems which I enjoyed and that was one of my joys I could have during 8^th grade. I’m appreciative to my English teacher, Mr. Raisdana, for teaching us such an intelligent unit that has affected my life. It was somewhat hard for me to match my work with ESLRs but they make me reflect myself. I would give myself a B+ or an A-. I think academic achievers assisted me the most to complete my duties because I demonstrated technological literacy and the use of technology as a tool for the efficient and creative completion of a project. I also demonstrated the ability to work both independently and collaboratively.

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During the first quarter, in Eighth Grade English class, we read a book called Lord of the Flies by William Golding. We were supposed to create a project about this book with the given twenty lists of choices. I selected to create diary or journal entries for a week in the voice of one of the characters because I wanted to experience one of the characters thoughts more accurately and precisely. I chose Piggy because I comprehended Piggys characteristic the most in this story. I think he is the most special, intelligent, significant and important character in this book.

While I was making this project, I was a critical thinker because I built meaning and understanding using prior knowledge and new information. I gathered analyzed and processed information from a variety of sources, and I applied problem-solving skills to facilitate learning I used my knowledge from what I understood about the book and new information from the internet. For me to create this journal entry, I asked my friends for help and advices for this project because I didnt get some ideas and stories, so it demonstrates that I built meaning and understanding using prior knowledge and new information. I used internet websites and pictures, so I could obtain some information that I didnt know. I also used book and asked friends about the book about how I should write a diary like the formats, introductions and conclusions. This shows that I gathered, analyzed, and processed information from a variety of sources. However, I was not a critical thinker in another way because I didnt select, monitor, and adjust problem solving strategies. If I have participated in discussions more carefully and if I have researched more accurate information, I would have improved making my project. I think I was a fine critical thinker and the critical thinker is the greatest ESLR for this project.

I was also an involved citizen while I was finishing this project because I demonstrated responsibility in active decision-making. I asked my friends and thought what they said and what I thought through, so it shows that I demonstrated responsibility in active decision-making. In English class, I sometimes got involved in some discussion questions and while executing this project, I made myself some decisions for the diary entries like how Piggy would consider about some situations and how Piggy would feel. I When I was completing this project, I think I was not being an effective communicator because I didnt listen respectfully and ask questions to facilitate understanding and achieve insight. I didnt ask my English teacher if I had questions about the project or the book and I didnt listen to other peoples decisions and a few opinions which were beneficial for my project, so it shows that I did not listen respectfully and ask questions to facilitate understanding and achieve insight. I just did this project by myself, but I seldom asked my friends for this project. I can be an effective communicator by listening respectfully and asking questions to my teacher and my friends. However, most of the time, I completed this by myself and did the diary entries with my opinions and thinking, so it shows that I didnt collaborate with others in appropriate learning situations to achieve my goals. I was not being a self-directed learner too because I didnt monitor, adjust and document work in progress like writing the date, writing numbers of pages, and using the clear font for my diary entries. However, I identified needs and applied appropriate learning strategies like taking notes.

While I was doing this project, I was on msn or on other messengers most of the time and I was chatting with my friends for a long time and sometimes for a while, so it kind of disturbed me. On the other hand, when I turned it off, I could concentrate and could do my best. I was very busy when I was doing this project because I decided to do another project when only 2 days were left, so I spent those two days doing my project as perfect as I could. I was also an academic achiever because I used Microsoft and other tools like internet and my phone to complete this project, so it shows that I demonstrated technological literacy and the use of technology as a tool for the efficient and creative completion of a project. I could have used some books, and references to acquire better information and knowledge.

Next time, if I have to complete any projects and assignments or if I do any kinds of projects, I will try to collaborate with others in appropriate learning situations to achieve group goals and listen respectfully and will ask questions to facilitate understanding and achieve insight, in other words, I will be an effective communicator. I will also put a lot of effort on the projects and will be a much better and accurate critical thinker for the projects. Im also planning to participate or involve more and actively in all of my classes, so I can get better and more information than I would have in my brain. I will also prepare some discussion questions, so I would know what I want much excellently and I can make sure that I know the question or a conflict that I wanted to know.

To evaluate myself, I think I was a critical thinker and an academic achiever most of the time because I wrote every single sentence for diary or journal entries by thinking carefully and I reflected and tries different things myself to make better diary entries. Overall, I think I did a great job because I put a lot of efforts on it by writing a lot of words and sentences. If I can evaluate or give myself a grade even though I already got a grade from Mr. R, I would give myself an A- because I wrote a lot and I spent most of my days working on this diary entries, but I still satisfied with my grade that Mr. R gave me because I think I deserved that grade.

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