Final Portfolio

In September 2013, I entered my World History class I was assigned to and found that my teacher was Mr. Block. I wasn’t very excited to have history because I never really liked the class, or the the things that were taught in it. But, the first day of history, we actually were having a discussion and ended up using M&M’s. M&M’s? Oh, I could tell that it was going to be a fun year!

My favorite activity and project in history this year was the first trial. Actually, it was all of the trials. I loved those. I loved that I could put my opinion in the trial along with all the research that I did, depending on what I was assigned to. It was also hard for me because other peoples opinions weren’t always right in my eyes and I don’t agree with people easily.

In one of my first journals, I said, "Not to procrastinate and to get my work done when I first get it.." (Journal Entry #4). This made me think about all the struggles I had in History class this year. It was hard for me to adjust  to the “sophomore lifestyle” but I think I did an okay job. I did slack for some quarters, and in the end I tried to pull everything together and I think I need to work on that the most. Next year I really need to begin to procrastinate less, because it is a very crucial and important year.

Creativity happened in history class this year during the keystone pipeline monologue project in the beginning in the year. For that project, I used creativity in the way I wrote my monologues, the way I talked in my video and just the whole thing overall.

So I did have some bad expectations and things that I didn’t like, but it turned out okay. There were a bunch of assignments I loved and a bunch that i hated. The projects and the worksheets were a little intense since we did sometimes get them back to back, but it was fine. I think that from all of this, I have learned to just be more productive at an earlier time.

Links to my work:

http://scienceleadership.org/blog/Pipeline_Monologue_Project-25

https://docs.google.com/a/scienceleadership.org/document/d/1_kp2JKv6YfH52AGvQKW93OifebhVutVrJsSOuPqYX_I/edit?usp=drive_web

https://docs.google.com/a/scienceleadership.org/document/d/1rgruHQE41gP0n0B9AtYBwcuVCzHZwlDaPBBk2Eko1Ws/edit?usp=drive_web

https://docs.google.com/a/scienceleadership.org/document/d/1cIG17epnv-g1niXB_lFjF8tHzkX0pxSM7VklYKosFiI/edit