Holy moly… The school year had moved so quickly! It seems like yesterday that we stepped into class for the first time in grade ten, and we were greeted with a “get ready, we are writing essays today” from Ms Willemse. Oh the good memories…

Anyways, it’s time for another Student Led Conference! I’m going to be leading you through some work that I am most proud of, the work that showed the most growth, and the work where I displayed a growth mindset.

The first post is based on my work that I’m proud of…

I’m The Proudest Of My Poetry…!

The second is the work that shows my growth as a learner…

New & Improved Writing Skills: SLC Special

And last but not least, this next post reflects on how I have demonstrated my growth mindset as a PLP learner.

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Thank you so, so much for stopping by my SLC, I’ll probably see you when I present my next one!

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Hey y’all! I’m back at it again with a new post for my recent SLC (Student Led Conference)! In this one, I am looking at some work that shows my growth as a learner; something that I have improved or worked really hard on. I have decided that my writing skills have gotten extremely better since the beginning of the year. Writing is something that I feel I have always had a natural ability for. But even though it comes easily, doesn’t mean I didn’t have room to improve.

When we first started writing essays this year, we began with an expository essay. When I handed it in, I thought it was a decent piece of writing, and when I got my mark back, an 85, I knew in my mind that I could improve.

As we wrote essay after essay, I could literally feel my writing skills expanding and getting better. The practice and feedback that I was receiving for pieces such as my synthesis and literary analysis essays, as well as our novel study writing prompts, were giving me room and confidence to take risks and step out of my comfort zone with my writing.

When it was announced that we would be writing one of our last essays before the English Exam, The narrative essay, I was prepared to try my hardest and do my best. For me, this essay was the easiest to write out of the billion essays that we wrote this year. Telling my story just came so naturally and I worked very hard to build up emotion and feeling into my words.

Even if there isn’t much left to work or improve on, I strive to work on and improve on it, and not only in my writing, but in all aspects of my learning. PLP has taught me this; that even when you can’t do any better, attempt it, work at it, and succeed at it.

Poetry.
What some might consider a boring unit in English class, I believed the same, until I actually dove deep into it. A while ago, in class, when we were told we would be performing a “reader’s theatre” in front of the whole class, I was so excited. Within my group we came up with the main theme of death, and found multiple poems that we would recite.

My two were “If I Should Die” by Emily Dickinson , and “Death Is Nothing At All” by Henry Scott-Holland. While preparing for the presentation, I really worked on memorization, so that I could also focus on portraying characters who were grieving or buried with sorrow.

As a group we came together to create a Keynote to go along with our performance. Here are my two slides:

 

On the day, my group and I did an awesome job, from setting up the scene, to getting all the words right. I was very happy with my performance and I managed to stay in character, which was one of my main goals.

Overall, I really had fun with this project, and I loved how even though it had boundaries, we could choose a theme that gave a message and emotion across to our listeners.

And so, in the end, most might think of poetry, and categorize it among rainy days, and throwing up. But now, when I hear the word, I think of it to be a misunderstood, and enticing topic