December 10, 2014 learning blog

What

Today in class we marked our short story re-tests and that pretty much took up the whole first block but for the rest of the time we just did some silent reading with our lit circles books. The second block we started off by watching a video called failure and entrepreneurs. This video was about how failing is good and natural and how to develop your ideas that you just have floating around in your head. After that we watched Daniel Pink the one sentence project. This video was about how everybody has a sentence and how to create your own sentence. Then we watched a couple other videos of other kids and them coming up with their own sentence. Once we have finished watching all those inspirational videos we read on how for the longest time people have been setting their new year’s resolution but they always forget about it all together or just get tired of it. After all we just read we had to come up with three words that reflected on our habits and what we could have done better.

Why

We do tests so we can reflect on whatever we have just learned in our unit and refresh our memory of the subject. I think that we watched the video on the failures and entrepreneurs to show us that failure is just a part of growing and expanding your understanding on whatever subject that we wish to study. The one sentence project was great for reflecting on our past selves and by doing that we better the understanding of ourselves.

Reflections

I think that we could use the one sentence project and the three words that we came up with in our everyday lives because it just helps you get a better understanding of our selves and it could pull you together if you were struggling or falling apart. For example if you didn’t get that essay done on time and you were a bit behind on your work you could come up with three words that could motivate you to catch up and get back on track.

Homework

For homework today we have to come up with your three words and also your sentence. For our lit circles we have to finish our novels and dialectical journals for Friday.