THE END IS NEAR........................

1. What piece of work and learning are you most proud? Explain.

I completed many pieces of work this year, but probably my favorite piece if work is the Egyptian diary, where we took the place of an ancient Egyptian person, and wrote three diary entries about daily lives, what we did, what we ate, free time activities, more or less how we lived our lives. I enjoyed, and felt really proud of this project, as I put a lot of planning into it (as my friends' and my stories had connections to each other's) and I put a lot of effort into it, trying to find better words, making the sentence length vary, trying to put humor into it, all took time to think through. To make me even prouder of that diary, I succeeded in what I had tried to do.

2. What were your greatest challenges? Explain.

Humanities dosen't challenge me much, writing and learning about ancient civilizations were relatively easy to me, writing other stories with no actual basis is a little harder, as I have to create my own guideline to write by, but the literature circles (lit circles for short) we had to do, were nightmares. Although I get relatively good marks on these, I almost always worked harder than usual at these, in the lit circles, there, again, had the easy part and the hard parts. Finding important passages, were on the borderline between normal and hard for me, as (due to reading so much Harry Potter books) I thought that every passage can contribute to the story. Finding vocabulary, a breeze, as my vocabulary is ever increasing, and I am always finding new words. However, writing a question, and answering it by myself, challenged me greatly. I was always good at answering questions, but writing questions, was kind of difficult as I did not really had any questions (this was, again, due to reading the harry potter series so much, as J.K Rowling always put clues in the story, for example, something that happened during the second book wasn't mentioned until the sixth book) but when do have a question, answering it would become easy.


3. Reflecting on your growth this year, what did you learn about yourself as a learner?

I only really started to work with others keenly this year, before, I preferred to work alone. This year, I found out that liked to
work with others much more, possibly because I see that it is actually more beneficial to me and my partner, and also because I just like o work with others, as I receive constant feedback from my peers, and I also get to enjoy hanging around (still beneficially) with my friends.

4. To evaluate your work habits, choose 1 of the following from each category (and provide explanations):

the choice which is CAPITALIZED is the one I choose


a) Behavior

Could be improved

SATISFACTORY

Perfect - the model student

Explanation: I can't say that anybody was a model student, perfect in every way, nobody is perfect, as they say. I always know where to draw my line, and never to cross that line. Even so, I did not try to get other people to act in the same way, only saying a quick "Guys! Listen!" to try and get their attention, but my personal behavior is one with an I'm-going-to-do-what-it-takes-to-be-a-good-student attitude.


b) Participation

None

SATISFACTORY

Actively participate in class

Explanation: I was never really a quiet student, but I'm also not the type of student that is so participative that it gets kind of annoying as you never get the chance of answering correctly, I'm kind of at the "quarter" mark. I only speak when spoken to, so I give a chance to everybody that wants to answer.



c) Organization

Needs serious help

SATISFACTORY

I'm super organized

Explanation: Actually, where I am now is on the borderline of being super organized. I can manage my work and everything, I keep everything in separate folders, and memorized my schedule and everything. In that sense, I am super organized. However my work space is kind of messy; folders here, loose papers over there, oh! a pencil over here! it's a wonder that I could find everything in time for class!



d) Effort

Needs serious help

SATISFACTORY

I always go above and beyond what is required.

Explanation: This time, I think that I am on the edge of "satisfactory" and "I always go above and beyond what is required.". As I have said before, I always want to try my best, even if I can't do it, I'll try. But I sometimes wish I would try a little harder, as a lot of my mistakes involve me being careless.




5. Based upon your reflections, write two personal learning goals for Grade 7 next year.


Goal 1 -
In Grade 7, I plan to try to be more focused on the task at hand, as I have said before, I sometimes am careless with my work.

Goal 2 -

In Grade 7, I plan to get a little more organized with my locker, and with my timetable, as I have said that I don't really care about my locker.


6. Is there any more information about yourself that you would like the teachers to know?

Actually, there is one thing that the teachers need to know about me; I sometimes can't resist to just whisper a comment to one of my fellow students, but I have tried to grow out of this, and I think I am improving at NOT talking.


7. What was your favorite activity lesson in Humanities this year? What did you enjoy about it?

My favorite activity this year were probably the six tic-tac-toe projects that we accomplished this year, a fire narrative about how early humans discovered fire, an Imovie of a trailer for a movie based on the book "call it courage", and a small diorama displaying how early humans lived, and how their homes and things would have looked like, except in miniature, was the three tasks we did at the start of the year. Towards the end of the year, we did another three projects. These were the Greek architectural essay, where we wrote about an architectural achievement that the Greeks accomplished, an Imovie about a Greek leader (in our case Alexander The Great) and a timeline consisting of eighteen events that happened during Greece's history.
I enjoyed these activities because they all allowed us to imagine, and to create, something I always liked, and also a chance to cooperate constructively with our peers and friends.


8. What activity do you wish we could have spent more time on?

I think our teacher planned everything out pretty nicely, never doing the same type of activities right after we finished one, but I hoped that we would be doing more of the "tic-tac-toe" projects, or creating Imovies, or things similar to those.


9. Finally, cast your minds back to the first few months of middle school (when you arrived in Grade 6 ) what "Words of
Wisdom" or "Advice" could you pass on to the Class of 2018?

There aren't really much I have to say to the students taking our place as sixth graders. Us kids just normally go with the flow. But one bit of advice I do want to give the class of 2018, is BE READY FOR ANYTHING, AND WHEN I SAY ANYTHING, I MEAN ANYTHING, EVERYTHING'S ABOUT TO CHANGE, AND STAY ON TOP OF THINGS!! which is what I had to figure out by myself, as long as they follow this general rules, sixth grade's going to be a breeze, at least it did for me...

BOOKS! BOOKS! BOOKS!!!

SPOILER ALERT: DO NOT READ UNTIL YOU'VE READ THE ENTIRE SERIES, OR DO NOT INTEND TO FINISH THE SERIES, ALTHOUGH I DOUBT THAT IS POSSIBLE IF YOU'VE ALREADY START READING.

As you may have seen in the picture, I chose a series of books; the Harry potter series. During our student led conferences, our parents had a chance to meet up with our teachers, and when meeting Mr. Fischer, we talked about how us kids can learn better through reading. Below are some questions we answered about this topic.

Title: Harry Potter and the... Sorcerer's stone, Chamber of Secrets, Prisoner of Azkaban, Goblet of Fire, Order of the Phoenix, Half Blood Prince, Deathly hallows

Author: J.K. Rowling


1. This book made me think about ...

I have ALWAYS enjoyed the harry potter books, due to the fascinating "Harry Potter Franchise" outside the books, the Story, how I could almost feel that I was in the book itself, and the way everything was perfectly planned. IF you've read the entire series, you'll notice that almost every little detail counts like Draco Malfoy buying the "hand of glory" in the second book, the hand does not appear until the sixth book, and plays a major role in the storyline. Everything made me feel as if Mrs. Rowling had planned the entire series out even before she wrote the first book. This Book made me think about planning more carefully before writing a story.

2. This book challenged me as a reader by ...

Remember what I said about almost every little detail counts in this book? Well, After reading the entire Harry Potter series, I got used to it, and learnt not to ask too many questions, knowing that if I read on, They will be answered. That little habit forced me to apply that same skill to other books, which may be a different format altogether. That also made writing literature circe questions quite hard, as I don't ask many questions. But I'm sure I'll learn from those mistakes.

3. Don't read this book if ...

I don't think anybody should not read this book. It seems like it is perfect book for people of all ages. But it my be a more difficult read for people that likes to understand every single detail and is easy to guess how everything can affect the story.