Monday 11/29/10

Today it was nice to get back into the routine of school. We worked a lot on PBL today. We did this really cool  way to discuss our Frederick Douglass book. We all worked on a Google Document and answered questions on the book and commented on each others answers. I am moving along in my classes and I am excited to be done with them soon.

Monday 11/15/10

Today was a pretty normal day. Mira and I actually got pretty far on our PBL project. That means that I have quite a bit of FLVS to do tonight. I am actually getting pretty far along in my classes and I am almost done with the semester! I am furthest along in H.O.P.E. and then Geometry and Spanish are tied with a 74% completion. Biology comes in last with 55% completed but that's just because I didn't realize I had to do the regular tests as well as the honors tests. Today we had the second part of our Frederick Douglass discussion. We had an awesome debate but we ended up tied! I am really excited for my PBL project to be completed.

Wednesday 11/10/10

Today was a pretty good day. I got pretty far on my PBL projects. This morning I took my module three Spanish test. If I get a perfect score on my essays I will get a pretty good grade. I also did some math today. I am working on angle bisectors, medians, and altitudes of triangles. Today we also got our writings back from Mrs. Sylvia. I have a few corrections to make and I can't wait to meet with her to go over it all. Kickball was pretty intense today. We've gone back to our old teams, The Butterflies of Hope and the Dominators. Today the Butterflies of Hope won! Which is great for them because they haven't won in awhile. I am having fun reffing the games. Well, that's it for today!

Monday 11/08/10

Today was pretty productive and a great Monday! The day started out with two whips, which were pretty funny actually. I started out working on a few Geometry assignments and a few biology assignments. I scheduled a few DBA's with a few of my teachers. We then had brain break-- everyone played Tongue and Blob Tag. Then it was PBL time! I am working with Mira and Alex on an Abraham Lincoln project. We are looking into his actual opinion on slavery at the start of his presidency opposed to his opinion on slavery towards the end of his presidency. Then was kickball! I love watching it! After that I came back upstairs and the High School had music. We practiced a few of our old songs and are working on TNT by ACDC which McKenzie is singing. :)

Literary Response #3

I have just finished the book Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte. I have to say that I thoroughly enjoyed the book! I even watched the mini series. I also really felt like I connected with Jane in the book. Even though Jane and I have nothing in common I really felt like I understood her. Jane Eyre is  such a great love story, but it is also really mysterious. This book definitely made me feel. I felt everything that Jane felt; I was able to feel her hurt, and more so the love that she had for Mr. Rochester. It was put across how difficult it was for Jane to leave Mr. Rochester after they couldn't be married. To me Jane is a strong character. She has confidence, but her one flaw would be not letting  other people into her life without extreme caution. For awhile she refused to let herself love Mr. Rochester, she would even tell herself that he didn't love her, how he couldn't love her. She had so much love for him she returned to him at the end--even when he was blind. Overall this was a great book.

Monday 11/01/10

Today was pretty busy. We focused a lot on our PBL. This morning I started out by working on Spanish. I have to to a collaboration with other students throughout the class, and we have to work on a debate. I had to decide which side my team would be taking (affirmative or negative) and I had to come up with strong opinion statements. I also worked on Geometry this morning. Right now I am learning about triangles and learning how to prove them using several different postulates and theorems. We are starting weak one  of our PBL cycle and I think that the cycle will be very affective help me stay more focused. We started with choosing our essential question for our project that we are going to be doing on the civil war. I am probably going to work in a group with Hunter, McKenzie, Mira, and Alex. We also are starting our literary analysis papers on our novels that we personally chose. ( As you know I chose Jane Eyre). We played heads up seven up during brain break which I could play! Kickball was fun to watch today and I have spent most of my afternoon working on Geometry. Music was really fun and we started working on a new song, "Back to December" by Taylor Swift!

Civil War PBL Project

The high school is going through the first week of the PBL cycle. Right now we are choosing our essential question for our Civil War project. The high school girls are thinking about doing the project together. We might do the project in separate groups and then come together or we might just do one big project together.The question I am thinking about exploring is:

" How did Abraham Lincoln's decision to change his view on slavery affect the outcome of the civil war?"