City Connection

4) What did you learn from the city presentations of others?

All the presentations were enjoyable. When I watched their presentation I just couldn't stop admiring the presentations. Even though they all did little bit of mistakes, they looked very natural and the presenters didn't seemed to be nervous. They each had their own styles of presenting and learned that everyone has their own boxes. I mean the box used in "Think out side of the box." Some of us had fascinating designs, projecting their voice enough to be heard and telling stories from pictures to audience. If I have to choose 3 well prepared presentations I will choose: Maria, Joseph and Tem. First, I chose Maria because she used interesting movements in the slides and contained lots of details. Before hearing to hers, I didn't even knew what Bogota was. However, after hearing to hers I noticed that it was a city in Columbia and it is located in high altitude. On the other hand, she rushed and presentation suddenly went forward by mistake, it just smashed my expectation. However, it was well constructed presentation. Secondly, Josephs was the best example of reading stories out of pictures. Even though he didn't had as much informations as Maria, he talked as much as her. One of his pictures that I still remember is the food like sausages,tofu and vegetables. He explained what it was and his own experiences about the food. Lastly, Tem's was simple but very descriptive. She memorized hers perfectly,which I have to learn from her, and she didn't hesitated because of the articulation. Hers included every features of her city. For example, clear maps, resources that made her city developed and other informations. I think I need to learn memorizing and putting informations like Tem. To improve I also need to learn from others like using skills of slides, putting certain color in the text to be seen, and other skills people had. Next time, I suppose I must memorize mine and color the text in different color to be seen.

Domi profile

In last Humanities class, we used our time knowing about ourselves. We did something called domi profiles, to know  how we have to study by testing which is our dominant eye, leg, hand, ear and hemisphere. I noticed that my right eye, hand and leg are dominant and my left hemisphere. As a result, I got profile A, which was different from my last  test. Maybe I have changed from few months ago.

I learn best when I pay attention to details of the subject I learn. I am not sure of this answer even though its from the domi profile. However, I think it could be right because when I study, I read all chapters of the chapter, but it could be also not right because I don't pay much attention to how I study.

I need to summarize what I have learned, speak out and write about it to memorize what I have learned. This answer from domifile I really agree. When I write or speak what I learned (usually writing) it is normally remembered by my brain correctly.

The strategies that would help me in my learning would be reading and taking notes of what I have learned. When I learn something, I try to read over and over again. However, taking note, when I take note even though I have note them down I feel worried because I feel like I haven't wrote down some thing.

I would like my teachers to know that I like the idea of reading the textbook together and note taking in groups which I prefer to be continued.

2011

          This year is 2011. To asians or to most asians, this year is year of rabbit. Even though a year has passed, I don't feel special or changes. However, there are some changes in my house. First, my cousin started to study in malaysia with me but different school. Even though we live in same house, we hardly see each other in the morning, because she goes to school at seven forty in the morning and I go to school at seven am. In my opinion, my cousin also has same problem with me, vocabulary which one of my goal. My other goal is to get A on Humanities. 


         Getting A on Humanities is my biggest goal and what I wants most. However, it is a task that could be easy  or could not be easy. Now, my humanities grade is not very far from my goal, but I think it will take many months. The first skill that could be a step toward my goal would be writing. I believe that is the skill that needs to be improved the most. To improve this skill, I go to a tuition center three days a week and write essays, and in my free times, I read books. I also work to learn more vocabularies which is my second goal.

         Building on my vocabulary is a part of my doing better at writing. I chose this for my goal of this year because this can upgrade my writing skills by sentence structures and word for right place. I really need to know more vocabularies because when I write some paragraphs, I usually struggle with words. To use more vocabularies, I read books, get tested on spellings in tuition center and memo word that seems useful. In holidays, I read a book called "The red pyramid" which is written by my favorite author who's name is Rick Riordan. I read this for 3 times which makes me easier to understand.

         Over my winter holidays, I spent my time in my home country, Korea. When I visited my grandparents, our family met grandmother, aunt's family and uncle's family. We rested until we night. That night since we were bored, our whole family including aunt's family and grandmother decided to drive through the new road undersea going to an island named Gagu(e)do. I was expecting to undersea and peaceful view of the sea. Unfortunately, as it as dark, I was not able to see anything and there was tunnels and bridges which were boring. However, the smell of the sea was cool enough to stroke my nose. At the end of the road we reached a car resting place was filled with people even though it was eleven o'clock at night.


         Everyone has a talent, but I don't exactly know mine. My friends say I am good at making people laugh but I am not very sure. However,  instruments I can play are piano, recorder and clarinet. However, for piano, I have quitted that when I was young, and for recorder and clarinet, I haven't play for them for half of the year. I still have one talent, that I got black and red mixed belt(right under complete black) from a huge competition when I was seven. Unfortunately, I didn't joined taekwondo since I was nine because I flew abroad to study. However, I am going to start taekwondo again. This year will be the time for upgrading myself. 

1.The benefits of working with a classmate.


Unfortunately, I think me and my partner both had very little benefit, but we still had few benefits. First benefit was that by looking through partner's literature, we can absord their skills and learn from them. This benefit really helped me when I was writing connection, which I am always confused with. For me, I believe it also helped me to develop my writing skills. Secondly, by checking partner's job, I noticed that I have few mistakes same as my partner. As a result, I was able to fix and develop mine too.

2. Challenges / obstacles which you overcame (tried to overcome).

There were very few great cooperation with partner, and also there were few challenges and obstacles while working with partner. First challenge that we had to face was searching for different passage each. Since we couldn't just choose anything, we communicated with each other to remind each other what we chose. Second obstacle was time. Since we started quite late, it was hard to check in short time.

3. New understandings that you gained about the novel.

Since our passages were near, I didn't gained any new understanding about the book. However, we discussed about the book few times about parts that had some interesting survival. For example, when we were reading about Brian eating turtle eggs, we talked about eating eggs raw.

Discussion

          Discussing in group helped me to under stand better by sharing opinions and ideas about what is important to the story. Also, discussing in group made me sure about my idea because of agreement. When members of the group agree to an idea, it makes person who thought that idea feel sure about their ideas. Divorce and hatchet. Thoughts of divorce always bothers him and makes him think about his mother's secret and other facts related to his parents' divorce. For hatchet, it is only tool he has and which he needs to suvive in wilderness.
           Usually, my connections related to plane crush, his parents' divorce and other important events happened to him. For the first chapter, I wrote connections about the plane crush, which was the crucial event to the story, and about his parents' divorce which gave huge impact on him. For example, plane crush because of strange lights from the ground and watching program about living with divorced parents. For 3~6 chapters, I made connections about Brian's survival part when he drank water and vomit. For example, vomitting after drinking too much water, which happened to me few months ago.
          
          I think Brian will survive and finally he will be rescued, because even though his head busy thinking about divorce and plane crush, he is working hard to survive until the plane will come and get him. Also, now, he does not really think of divorce and other events very much and he is thinking about survival. As a result I think he will escape from the wilderness.

symmetry

This is candle holder. This candle holder has lots of lines of symmetry. This is because, this candle holder is circle. You can find out that you can draw lines of symmetry from top to bottom, right ot left and more.

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When we went to Kuala Selangor, we had a time to learn about mangrove and plant them. Most of them in Malaysia are destroyed by their uses. Only 1 over 3 or 4 had survived and still living. They grow in wet land. Wet Land is a unique place where is filled with mud. They are also essential to enviroment.

First, wet land cleans trashes and polluted water. Animals, Insects and bacterias are the cleaners of the sea. They live in wet land and they break and destroy polluted water. Secondly, wet land defend us from disasters. When there is a tsunami, wet land absorbs the energy of the wave and changes into weaker wave. Wet land could also absorb and save water when there is flood. As they makes the disasters weaker, we get less damages.

Mangrove trees are very helpful. Planting mangrove is a way to save them. There are lots of living things in the mangrove forest. There are monkeys, birds and in insects. They are all important in wild life. Mangrove trees prevent salt from going into river. Another advantage of planting mangrove is they protect coastlines from wave and winds.