The assignment was to reflect on an assignment in humanities. I will talk about my strengths and weaknesses and the process we went through to complete the assignment. I will also highlight my general strength and weakness in humanities in general.

I choose my Into Thin Air Essay as I thought this was my best piece of writing. To create this project I had to do research for my small essay. A requirement of this essay was to include multiple quotes from Jon Krackauer’s book Into Thin Air and websites or blogpost from the internet. I went to multiple websites to gather information and inspiration for my writing. In class we went over essay creation and how to use quotes in writing and I felt I was successful at recreating what we learned. The strength of my writing skills are my ideas and deep thinking to create an engaging topic and supporting ideas. I capitalized on that strength as you can see in my intro paragraph”The dangers and challenges of mountain climbing only escalate the sense of accomplishment and fulfilment when the task is complete. With these challenges also presents great opportunity to explore and discover the high altitudes. People climb mountains for self fulfilment, exploration, research and because they can.”. I felt like my weakness of my grammar and spelling were nullified in this project by multiple revisions of my writing and the use of an IPad.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Everest

My goals for humanities, science and work habits for the second half of the year.

For humanities my goal is to increase my understanding of punctuation and organization in my writing. I would like to do this as I feel it will allow me too enhance my writing tremendously. I would like too focus on improving basic writing and being able to recall real life events as I have no interest in pursuing a career were fiction writing is required.

For science my goal is to create a project that brings the maximum amount of revision. I would like to do this to keep developing the application process of what I am learning.

My goal to improve my work habits is to being able to understand how to put myself in a productive area to do work. This means not sitting with friends if I feel I am getting to distracted or delete distracting apps from my iPad.

The assignment was to reflect on an assignment in science . I will talk about my strengths and weaknesses and the process we went through to complete the assignment. I will also highlight my general strength and weakness in science as well.

My cancer project was an excellent project to dissect for positive and negative reasons. The goal of the project was to heavily investigate a certain cancer. By doing this we were supposed to understand the basics of cancer and the details of the specific cancer we choose. I presented my project through a prezi.

This was our assignment Reflect on your growth in Science/Math. 1. Choose a sample lab, quiz, test, or a specific project to describe in detail. After describing the process that you went through to create it, identify your strengths and target areas for improvement in future work. 2. Reflect about your overall strengths and weaknesses in Science/Math. You could mention projects, quizzes, etc. Identify specific Science/Math goals for the remaining academic year. My cancer project was an excellent project to dissect for positive and negative reasons. The goal of the project was to heavily investigate a certain cancer. By doing this we were supposed to understand the basics of cancer and the details of the specific cancer we choose. I presented my project through a prezi. Cancer Project I was able to use the prezi application to my advantage as I utilized the panning and fade in and out effect on the app to increase the visual value. The info I gathered was from reliable sources and highlighted the interesting facts to engage the audience. Were my project lacked was the little amount of visuals although I used effective visuals I didn’t have enough. In science I excel in most areas. Doing lab reports and test are my most successful activities. I struggle with some projects to display my learning. As you can see in my Phenylketonuria project.

Cancer Prezi

I was able to use the prezi application to my advantage as I utilized the panning and fade in and out effect on the app to increase the visual value. The info I gathered was from reliable sources and highlighted the interesting facts to engage the audience. Were my project lacked was the little amount of visuals although I used effective visuals I didn’t have enough.

In science I excel in most areas. Doing lab reports and test are my most successful activities. I struggle with some projects to display my learning. As you can see in my Phenylketonuria project.

The assignment of this blog post was to do an overall reflection of my SLC Portfolio. It had to include these ideas.
• Performance and effort thus far
• Study habits
• What are your strengths as a learner?
• What are your challenges as a learner?
• How can you take your academic performance to an even higher level?
• What are your social and participation strengths and challenges?
• How have you grown in the classroom this year as a young adult?

My first half of the year required me to adapt to a different kind of learning.

My effort and performance have been enough to create quality works. An example of this is my 12th Man Seattle project. I was able to use the iMovie app to produce the project and put in the time to create a high caliber project.

Seahawks 12th Man

My study habits were consistent as I successfully complete all my work on time. I was able to use my strengths such as productive work effort and collaboration to improve my works. The challenges I faced with my writing made it difficult to present what I was thinking about ,but the iPad really helped me overcome a lot of those problems such as spelling and grammar. One of the ways I can improve my academic performance is by continuing to discover ways to use my iPad efficiently such as fully understanding the capability of iMovie, Explain Everything and Notability. The social participation aspect of my first half of the year has been successful. I actively participate in class by asking thoughtful questions and listening. The challenge I face in class is staying on task at all times. I sometimes lose concentration and become off task. I need to use my class time more efficiently as I have to realize I would have to do the work at home anyways. I have grown as a student in the skilled based area such as writing. Although I have to continue to work on my skills I feel as I am more confident in my writing.

Congratulations on your purchase of class mate Christopher Ross Version 2014. Christopher Ross 2014 will respond to Chris and Christopher. Your device’s main features are as followed.

-Friend
-Student
-Basketball Geek
-Interested in Learning

Getting started
Chris will need an engaging topic to operate at full efficiency. You will need to be prepared for any question as he asks a lot. Chris will be tired in the morning so try to use him later in the day.
Chris requests effort from user or he will become unresponsive.

Accessibility

School hours
Chris is on time for most blocks but is frequently late for the the first block although he lives 100 meters from the school. Chris can be found at lunch in the gym or cafeteria. Chris is pretty tall so it shouldn’t be a problem to find him in the hallway between classes.

After School
Chris is hard to get a hold of after school. He rarely has his phone on and checks his e-mail about once a day. So try to find him during the day.

Settings
Chris changes settings 3 times a day.

1st Setting
Student from 8:30 to 3:00 you will be working with setting 90% of the time. This setting increases frequency of questions, production and listening skills which is useful during school. Chris enjoys math and science in this setting and enjoys helping others who don’t like those subjects.

2nd Setting
Friend whenever he is with friends. Chris enjoys talking about sports and video games and debating a wide variety of subjects. He will make stupid remarks in an attempt to get a laugh. Chris commonly plays sports, board games and video games with friends.

3rd setting
Sport Fanatic
Chris goes into this stage for about an hour were all he thinks about is sports he will only talk to you if want to talk about sports. You will see him consume as much sports through tv or iPad as possible in one hour.

Warning
This device may…
Ask to many questions
Talk to much during class
Be very tired in the morning

Trouble Shooting
If Chris thinks you are wrong about something and you no your not look it up on google and you will achieve great satisfaction out of the displeasure on Chris’s face.

FAQ
Chris looks tired should I use him?
Yes, looks can be deceiving Chris will still operate at high efficiency even on low battery and will conserve energy.

Is Chris Tired all the time?
No, Chris is tired during school hours do to overuse and manufactures are looking on increasing battery life.

Safety
Chris will get very upset if you talk bad about his favourite basketball team(Phoenix Suns)and will not be responsive for the rest of the day.

Christopher Ross

I got the idea for my writing from taking ideas from other story’s such as Godzilla and Incredible Hulk. I created this story with mindset of it being a movie script instead of a story.

http://youtu.be/THh53mIyPAs

The Finger Fetcher

In a post apocalyptic world were the Americas have been poisoned because of nuclear toxic waste. The radiation of the nukes has been mutating and killing off the masses of all animals in America.

It was a rainy day in New York Central Park a parrot had laid an egg on one of the willows for it only to be covered by nuclear waste from the acid rain.Then the egg developed features from nuclear mutation that combined a parrot, dog and turtle to created a genetically mutated creature. The animal was successful at retrieving human food from landfills and garbage dumps. By swimming in deep water, flying and holding onto the food with its powerful jaws. The landfills and garbage dumps were not the most reliable source of food so the finger fetcher had to adapt. Here is the first ever case recorded of the finger fetcher attack.

It was a windy night and I was searching thru the land fill in old New York when I saw something move in the rumble on the top of pile of electric machines. I walked towards the pile then stumbled over a microwave. There was a jacket that said Chris I picked it up and it fit snug. As I reached the top of the pile and I started to remove the computers from the top of the rubbish pile to uncover the figure. Then I am mesmerized, the cutest thing I have ever seen. It was like a dog and turtle with wings. Its blue eyes peered into mine and it was like a magnet that pulled me in. I leaned down to pick it up and then it happened. I heard a “snap” pain shot into my fingers. When I looked down to see my pinky figure completely dismembered from my hand. I fainted. I woke up to the light of the sun. First thing I do is look down at my hands to a pool of blood and missing fingers. I picked myself up off the ground to see I was not woke by the sun but a bright light. I am in a hospital. I felt nauseous do to blood loss all my fingers are gone. The Finger Fetcher has attacked me.

My video is on the 12th man(The Seahawks Fans). The Seahawks fans revolutionized the home field advantage and were one of the forerunners for how a team can change a city for the better by creating a sense of community. I created my video with my partners Nash and Zakaria. We created the video on iMovie and used the editing abilities on iMovie to help enhance our video by editing audio and visual. The point of are video was to tell you why the 12th man is crazy. The reason why the 12th man is crazy is because they changed the game and the city of Seattle by creating a positive community.

http://youtu.be/DjCTUyXVBb0

http://youtu.be/DjCTUyXVBb0