Dec.17 learning blog

Today we went over the chapter 8 and 9 vocabulary. Since there were a lot of people who didn't finish, they were sent outside to complete the homework. The vocabulary questions we worked on were mainly defining the meaning in the statement. This skill can benefit greatly by translating normal conversations with slang into words most people would understand. These skills will help in the future during job interviews;instead of using the normal slang people are used to, they can speak normally on a format most people know. The reason why we checked over the questions was because people would know the answers to the questions on the quiz. Homework We have to finish chapters 9 to 12 by Wednesday, and the people who haven't brought in the money for adopt a family still has to gve it to the teacher. I think that is it.

motivation

What is motivation? Motivation is something that makes you more confident and something that brings you up. When people say I will give you candy or money if you finish your work the person will be more motivated to get the reward.


Nelson is primarily emotional and his views are often dominated by his feelings and his own personal subjective experiences, either than reason, logic or abstract principles. It is difficult for him to judge situations fairly and objectively because his personal sympathies and loyalties usually factor in. Nelson Mandela takes things very personally and sometimes builds a wall around himself to shield himself from pain and rejection. Nelson Mandela feels rather shy and vulnerable at heart. He also is moody and experiences frequent mood swings. Nelson Mandela needs to have a place and time in his life to withdraw, introspect, dream and replenish himself; Nelson Mandela becomes cranky and unhappy with those around him.

Nelson Mandela functions in an instinctive, irrational manner and likes to immerse himself in creative activities where he can express his feelings, imagination and instincts. Mandela often loves to cook, since it can be both creative and a way to nurture and nourish others. Nelson Mandela also has a great affinity for music, because it evokes and communicates feelings that may be difficult or impossible to put into words. His compassion, sensitivity, and imagination are Mandela's strong points. His faults include an inability to let go of the past and move forward, clannishness and prejudice, and a tendency for self-pity when facing hardship.

Humanities Reflections

Today in humanities we talked about motivation and about what keeps us motivated. From what I learnt, a couple of things that motivate us are money, love for what you are doing or any kind of reward. But I think that it all depends on what we are doing. I think that money would be a good reward but only once in a while because then we will start to get used to it and slack off. I believe that if you are doing something because you love it is the best kind to motivation because you don't really get anything out of it but it still makes you happy doing it

Learning blog

What did we do today?

We discussed about money for adopted a family and see who brought money and who didn't; we also were talking about who was going to go shopping for toys, food, and clothing. We were talking about if there should be a consequence for not bringing the money on time. After that we checked who finished the October/ November HACE assignments; you have to hand in or redo your HACE homework before December 20, 2013. At the end of class we had to hand in our questions for chapter 1-8 and read up to chapter 9.


Why we did it?

We are talking about who brought the money in for adopt a family because we committed to it; we also talked about toys,food, clothing so it will be easier for everyone instead of one person going. For the HACE homework we talked about it because some people didn't finish it or did a bad job on it, and mrs. Caldwell will give us a I if we don finish it before December 20th.


Reflections/ connections?

Adopt a family helps you outside humanities for planning out if you have a baby or something and it also gives you more responsibility. Hace helps you outside for jobs because when you get older you can look
back.


Tips?


Don`t forget to buy food,clothing and toys and to finish your HACE homework.

Motivation

    Motivation, what's that? Motivation is something that helps you want to do something or inspires you to do something. Things like receiving money or candy etc. may help us want to do something since we are getting a reward in return. You might not like going to school, but maybe you are going on a field trip with your class and maybe you want to go because it's going to be fun. Fun things will help to motivate you. There are also punishments. Maybe if you don't like to do your homework, your teacher gives you a detention and then you can't go to Tim Horton's with your friends for lunch. If you understood that if you do your homework all the time, you will not get a detention and you will be able to go out for lunch with your friends. You may hate doing your chores, but if your parents gave you $10 dollars every week if you did them, it is motivating you to do them; just think by the end of the month you would have $40 dollars, which would mean you would be making $480 dollars a year just by doing a few chores around the house. Anything can motivate you!

    Ever wonder how Nelson Mandela got motivated to change the world? The same way you might get motivated to do something. He created the first law firm in South Africa for black people, he did that so he could help them with their difficulties. Mandela was motivated to do that. He wanted to change the world. He wanted to change society in South Africa between blacks and whites. Mandela believed that every single race is equal to one another and that is the way that it should be. Nelson Mandela went to prison for 27 years, that motivated him. What did it motivate him to do? It motivated Mandela to take a stand for what he believed in.

10 things about Nelson Mandela.

1. He served as a counselor to tribal chiefs for several years.
2. Nelson Mandela won the Nobel prize in 1993.
3. Nelson was the first African  president  who was elected in a complete democratic  election.
4. Nelson spent 27 years in prison.
5. He was the the first black person to be president in south Africa.
6. He is known as one of the best leaders in the world.
7. He was born in Mvezo on july 18/ 1918.
8. During 2004 Nelson Mandela announced his retirement for public life
9. Left jail in 1990.
10. lived till December 5, 2013. Age 95. 

 R.I.P <3

Nelson Mandela

The accomplishments that make Nelson Mandela memorable are the facts that he managed to stop apartheism in South Africa and uniting the "blacks" and the "whites". The served as president of South Africa for 5 years, and served as president of the ANC as well during his lifetime. He managed to obliterate racism and apartheism without holding any rage against those who insulted him racially. Nelson Mandela founded the "Nelson Mandela Foundation" to support the cure to HIV/AIDS in South Africa. He has been known as the "saviour" and "father of the nation" in South Africa. Nelson Mandela is the man that managed to stop racism not only in South Africa, but also worldwide. He overcame the challenges held against him, and created a national accomplishment known worldwide.

Nelson Mandela

1.  Nelson Mandela was the first South African president who was elected in a completely democratic election.
2. He won the Nobel Peace prize in 1993.
3. Retired from public life in June 1999
4. He spent 27 years in prison
5. He was born in Mvezo on July 18,
1918
6. He died on Dec.5 2013
7. Mandela lived simply, donating a third of his annual income to the Nelson Mandela children's fund which he founded in 1995
8. On Nov.7 1962 he was sentenced to 5 years in prison for leaving the country without a passport.
9. He sacrificed his private life and his youth for his country and he never gave up.
10. He not only rescued South Africa from a dangerous , racially charged civil war ; he also gave hope to millions that wanted the right to live with freedom and dignity.

Here are some links
http://WWW.nelsonmandela.org/content/page/biography

HTTP://edition.CNN.com./2013/12/06/world/Africa/nelson-mandela-surprising-facts/?hpt=HP_t2

10 Reasons why Nelson Mandela's Life was Celebrated

1. He gave South Africans their freedom

2. He helped make the country democratic

3. He gets messages across peacefully

4. He never lost hope

5. He believed that education was important, and even studied in jail

6. He forgave the people that put him in jail, even though it was 27 years.

7. He was a good leader

8. He faught for the rights of non-white people

9. He won the Nobel Peace Prize

10. He liked children, because he hasn't seen them for 27 years straight.

11. He was very brave.

Why Nelson Mandela was so important....

There are many different reasons why Nelson Mandela was so important.

1. Nelson Mandela went to prison for 27 years.
2. Nelson was the first living person to obtain an honorary Canadian citizenship.
3. Mandela opened the first black law firm in South Africa with fellow lawyer Oliver Tambo and they provided free legal advice to the black people of South Africa.
4. In 1947, he was promoted to the secretary at the ANCYL.
5. Mandela was an activist against apartheid.
6. The United Nations made Mandela s birthday July 18th, Nelson Mandela International Day.
7. In 1993, Mandela received the Nobel Peace Prize.
8. Mandela became the first black president of South Africa.
9. Nelson Mandela was born on July 18th 1918 in Mvezo, Cape Province Union of South Africa.    
10. Nelson Mandela passed away on December 5th 2013 in Johannesburg, South Africa.

These links stated the facts included in my post:
http://biography.yourdictionary.com/articles/nelson-mandela-facts.html
http://mg.co.za/data/2013-06-26-15-things-you-didnt-know-about-nelson-mandela
http://www.looklocal.co.za/looklocal/content/en/springs/springs-news-general?oid=8008100&sn=Detail&pid=490317&21-interesting-facts-about-Mandela-s-life
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_important_things_did_Nelson_Mandela_did_in_the_world#slide2

RIP Nelson Mandela "There is no passion to be found playing small, in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living." -Nelson Mandela

Dec.10th Learning Blog

Today in humanities we started off by looking at everyone's group blogs to make sure they did it and if they didn't then they would have to come in at flex. Next we did our quiz on chapters 7-8 of 'The Outsiders'. Then we watched a video of tips for students and teachers and it explained that even students can sometimes be teachers and that teachers can sometimes be students.
Connections: The homework check today was important because in the future no one will tell us to do our homework and the next thing you know, the teacher will come and collect it if your done or not. The connections I have with the video are that when you need help from a classmate then their temporarily the teacher and when someone else needs help then your temporarily the teacher.
Reminders/Homework tips:
* Remember to bring $10 for adopt a family
* Write 10 things about Nelson Mandela and about what made him so important and then post it on the blog. Also write a couple of links down too.

What makes good collaboration

One really important thing about collaboration is to have communication skills. If you talk to your teammates, you can share your ideas and combine them to better ideas. A perfect example of that is the invention of the internet. I am not 100% sure what small ideas lead up to it but I do know that it was made of small ideas. 

        Another important thing is to encourage crazy ideas. The idea of the plane was insane, but when people actually did it, it worked! Then the idea of flying over the Atlantic Ocean over to Europe came up. That was also insane, but people accepted the challenge, and did it!

       The last thing I know is good for collaboration is teamwork. Working together can get things done faster, and can also help you for later group projects. It gets things done. 

Collaboration work

During the video on IDEO working on the shopping cart, there were many useful tips in collaboration, such as not critisizing others which can relieve the fear of having a bad idea. Diverse background is also useful by connecting the good part of knowledge one has to another. Never once during the video they argued over anything because they accept wild ideas, in fact encourage them fairly because the more times you fail, the quicker you will succeed. By posting ideas on a wall and recieving feedback from fellow peers, also helps to improve the group project/assignment. By working together, like they said in the video will be fun for all the people who participate.

Dec. 9 learning blog

Today we talked about collaboration work and learning blogs. The reason why Ms.Lees talked about the learning blogs was because apparently some people who were supposed to do the learning blog did not follow the criteria, thus the extra two weeks of learning blogs was added as homework. We reviewed the criteria to recieve a 3/5, which is the average mark of on which the teacher expects. Later in the block, we watched the IDEO video on recreating a shopping cart, as a better model which includes people nesscesities and safety compared to the present shopping carts. We were supposed to write a paragraph about the teamwork tips based on the video. The reason why Ms.Lees had to review the expectations of the learning blog was because so that people who do the learning blog would ubderstand the proper criteria. This is a valuable skill that will be needed during a job because then you will know the expectations the boss holds for you, thus can prevent you from being fired. The reason why we watched the video about IDEO recreating the shopping cart was to understand collaboration work and to get along with fellow team members or something like that. This skill will be used often during work because most people will have to work with their coworkers. The homework was to write a paragraph on the collaboration work IDEO did on tips and skills that you would use during group work. Dec.10 is the test on chapter 7~8. For people who have already read the story, please review the chapter by rereading, or skimming through in order to not get confused with the other chapters.

Good collaboration skills

There are many things you need to be when you want to have good collaboration with your team.
#1. If no one else wants to be the team leader then you should take charge. This will show that you want to be part of the team and that you are willing to help.
#2. If the members of your group are working on one project together the be sure to divide the work evenly so that everyone is doing something important and contributing to the team. Also be sure to listen to everyone's ideas and try to include a little bit of everyones.
#3. Let the team trust you. By this I mean that if its your day to write a paragraph then be responsible and put all your effort into it. If you don't understand something then you can post a question on the blogger and get your classmates to help you out.

These are some of the things you need to be to become a good group member and to work well with your team.

Good Collaboration

    Good collaboration is a great way of putting our minds together. Their are many different ways of good collaboration. One of them could be pooling all of your ideas together to make an even bigger and better idea. Try to be respectful to each other, even if their idea is not the best you don’t need to be rude about it. Everyone’s idea is helpful and can be used in a different way. I think communication with each other is also important, because if you don’t communicate how are you going to be successful with your group project. “Collaboration and cooperation will beat competition every time.” –Gail Lynn Goodwin

Learning Blogs Feedback

Thank you for your blog entries.  I have added comments on some of them and I would like you to read them.  I have noticed that there are some dates missing and one member did not post any entries (meaning they will be receiving an I for this assignment).  Although this is a group blog, everyone needs to take responsibility for his or her share of the work.  Manreet, Osman, and Yee Jun please go into your profiles and change your display names to only your first name and last initial.  If you are having trouble with this speak to your classmates to help you change this (or Ms. Lees if no one can help).

Nov26

On Nov. 26 for have we talked about being prejudice and how its something we shouldn't be. Then we talked about whether we want to adopt a family of just collect food for Christmas. We can use this in the future because we need to learn to donate to the less fortunate. We also read the first chapter of 'the outsiders' and then had to answer some questions about the characters for homework.

LEARNING BLOG SCHEDULE

November 22nd Learning Blog

Today in Humanities, we had a short story quiz, we read and answered questions about the story "The Bet". The learning intention was to practice answering questions and reading for a purpose. I can explain what we did and how to do it properly. We can take this beyond humanities because we may need to do activities like this in university to help us get a degree or certificate. We also received our report cards and there is no homework over the weekend!

Nov 20 learning log

Today we marked yesterday's homework which was to finish the booklet on fragment sentences. After, we were given the booklet for run on sentences. Later in the second block of humanities, we went over the test on short stories. Since the average test mark for the entire class wasn't that good, there is going to be a retest on friday. The self marking for the homework can help us know what was wrong and understand why. This skill will help greatly during work and post secondary education. Working on run on sentences can improve our overall writing skills, which can later help us while writing future essays. By going over the test on short stories, we can know what was a mistake and improve by not making the same error again. This will help when taking advanced classes which will move at a very fast pace such as university classes. The only homework was to study short story application.

Learning Log Nov.19 2013

         Today we had to read different sentences and determine if they're fragments, or full sentences. If there is a sentence fragment, you have to finish it whatever way you want, that makes it a complete sentence. The purpose of that is if you're writing for realzees, you shouldn't be writing sentence fragments, but full sentences. Pretty much you learn not to write sentence fragments. For homework we have to finish the booklet that we had started today.

Very Cool

I Love the background graphics for your blog.  You will have to teach me how to do some of that when I get back.  I still tend to stick to easy-peasy templates.

Keep up the good work!

Nov.7 learning blog

Today for humanities we got back our rough draft of the descriptive paragraph that the teacher had edited. The we had to write the good copy of the paragraph and we had to make sure that this copy was detailed and had no errors. I think we did this because we will have to write many paragraphs throughout the years and for the following years as well, also we need to learn to use more descriptive words for the work that we write. Then after we were  done writing the good copy we set up our portfolios and filled them up with some stuff we have done so far such as think alouds, short story practice sheets, and something to show the teacher the progress we have made from the past few months. I think we did this because we need to learn how to organize our work properly and we will use this skill outside of humanities when we have to write our grad transmissions in grade 12 to show how much we've improved.
Reminder: Next week is innovation week so bring all your supplies to school and don't forget to bring your proposal sheet. Also there is no school on Monday.

Nov 6 learning log

For today we first did silent reading, after we handed out the homework on brainstorming. Shortly afterwards, we wrote a paragraph based on the brainstorm we did on a certain person/place. When we finished the paragraphs, we exchanged paragrphs to mark each others work.there was no homework i think The reason why we did the paragraphs is because so then we will be able to write in detail, and learn how to properly write a paragraph. We exchanged papers with classmates to edit is because so then we can help others improve writhing by editing their work. In the future, these skills can be used to write exams/essays during university/college, as well as during work. Peer editing can also help by being able to find and mark another's mistake and improve your own paragraph as well.

November 5th 2013 Learning Blog

Today in Humanities, we discussed concluding sentences and using the five senses in descriptive paragraphs. The learning intention was to learning and practicing concluding sentences, so we can learn to properly end a paragraph. We learned about using the five senses in a paragraph, so we can describe what we see, feel, hear, smell, and taste in descriptive paragraphs with lots of detail. I am able to explain what we did and how we did it. We can take this beyond humanities because we will need to write paragraphs during university and in future careers. Our homework is to brainstorm a person or place to describe.

November 4th 2013 Learning Log

Today we were working in the paragraph writing booklet. We had to look at a scrambled up paragraph and put the sentences in the right order with the topic sentence first and the supporting details after that. I don't think we had any homework today so that's why this is a little bit short.

Today for humanities we learnt about writing paragraphs and topic sentences also known as introduction sentences and then we made our portfolios. I think we learnt about topic sentences because we need to know how to make a proper intro for a paragraph an how much detail to put in it. We made our portfolios to organize our stuff and to see how much we have improved throughout the year. For connections outside of humanities we will have to write a lot of paragraphs for essays. We do not have any homework:).

By: Manreet

Oct 28 learning log.

We did the practice sheet for "Side Bet" and went over the jobs for the learning logs In the practice sheet, it was the same as the one we did for "The Open Window" We did the practice sheet and the blog group learning logs because for the practice sheet there is going to be a test on it on wednesday and for the blog is to properly organize the days so everyone has a fair share of work. The connectiobs for the practice sheet is that so that you will be able to understand and comprehend everything you read and properly write it down for exams and assignments such as book reviews. The connection for the blog work is so that in the future, you will be able to cooperate with your coworkers and assign jobs evenly by yourselves. There was no homework I think. Test on wednesday on the short storie's format and character types. Basically everything on the sheet that Ms. Snodden gave I thnk you have to memorize everythibg on it.

What i want to be when i grow up

When i grow up I want to be a chef because I enjoy cooking in my spare time and also enjoy reading about new recipes, and eventually trying them out. I also want to be an egyptologist because i enjoy studying about egypt and learning about the mysteries hidden in the ancient world. I believe that what we have discovered so far about historical facts might actually be the opposite of what we think they are. Ancient Egpyt has one of the seven wonders of the ancient world as well, and i find new artifacts hidden deep in the pyramids also very interesting.

What I want to be when I grow up.

When I grow up I want to be an Electronic Music Artist. Even though I have no musical background, I still really want to learn for some reason. The main kind of music I would like to create is Drum and Bass. An example of a DnB (drum and bass) is this. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLwRmmVRMuw. I have tried making some but I am really bad at it. But I am willing to learn. The End.

What I wanna be when I grow up.

When I grow up i wanna be a professional Hockey player or a doctor.  

What I want to be when I grow up.....

I have never really known for sure what I want to be when I grow up, but I have always liked the idea of being a lawyer.  I have an interest in the law and I find it fascinating to learn about. I want to be able to help people who need legal help, and make the world a safer and happier place.

The video below shows a scene of a lawyer:

What I Want To Be When I Grow Up

   The first choices that come to my mind when someone asks me what I want to be when I want to grow up are doctor, vet, and artist. If I was to become a doctor I would want to be a pediatrician, because I enjoy working around small children and it seems like a fun but serious job. I would want to become a vet because I love animals and I would really like to work around them. My third choice is an artist because I love to paint and I love how many different choices there are in art such as pottery, sketching and painting. I hope to become one to these three choices when I grow up.