Learning Logs

What did we do in class?

      Today we looked at our blogs, to see if we did our learning logs. We talked about how our work has progressed : why we're improving in our writing, and why we're doing learning logs. We also talked about the last day of school before our Christmas break. To be more specific, we talked about the concert at the end of the day and why we should go watch it. (Also watched two videos recorded and put onto Youtube of the concert) After that, we marked our vocabulary sheets for the Outsiders chapters 7-9.

Why did we do it?

      We looked at our learning blogs and talked about it so that we get a better understanding of why we're doing it, why we're blogging when we can just write it out. If we blogged our learning logs, there'd be an audience to read our blogs, so you'd be put into more pressure to write better.When writing your work out and giving it to your teacher, the only audience is you and your teacher, which may cause you to be a bit more lazy in your work. It also brings out our social skills, and learning how to use Blogger. 

      We talked about the upcoming Christmas concert (this Friday), and how to be able to hold such event, all the participants must have good participation and collaboration. In our class, we lack both of participation and collaboration. We're a very quiet class and collabing with others seem to be a problem, because we're all in our own little worlds. It was also suggested that we should go to increase social skills, especially because its our first year here in Fraser Heights secondary, plus the concert is a traditional event and really fun to watch. (If you don't know about the Christmas concert, it's basically a concert where all the teachers and staff just goof off. Also if you're planning to go watch, you must bring a canned food (1) for donation.)

When will we use this outside of Humanities?

      Collaboration and social skills will always be used in life, for example if you're creating inventions as a job, you'll need collaboration skills to be able to work with others. If you socialize more and contribute more, the faster pace things will work because if you had a really quiet group, it would take a long time to be able to come up with one idea.

Homework/Reminders

      Remember to finish reading the Outsiders chapters 10 to 12 and the questions to be able to watch the movie! (Also remember to finish your hace and bring in your "Adopt a Family" money if you haven't.) There's also a quiz for the Outsiders for chapters 9 to 12.

Tips

     If you don't have time to study much for the quiz, try to answer the questions without reading the book again in the package. If you cant answer them, skim through the chapter. When reading chapters 10-12 today, remember some key points so studying wont be that hard.