Learning Profile-How do I learn Best?:)

In class, my class and I were shown what our profile was and surprisingly my profile letter was the letter "I". Well, actually I wasn't really that surprised when I got an "I" because it says I am "Limited Under Stress", and I guess sometimes I am.  I talk with my friends sometimes when the teacher is talking and I also like to move a lot, so I already knew I was gestalt. I am stronger in the right side of my brain because I love free-flow when I come into a classroom, and I don't like orderly things like bullet points on the board. Here are few things about myself:

I learn best when the teacher shows lots of examples on the board and draws examples. The reason why I learn better when my teacher draws examples on the board is because I understand it better when I see it, not hear the teacher just talking about it the whole time.

I have to fiddle with something when the teacher is talking.  I just find the need to move because I can't sit in the same place for a really long time because I might get really bored and feel tired.

The strategies that would help me in my learning is that I need to study for a test or a quiz about two to three times for me to get better grades. Also another strategy is that I also sometimes need help from the teacher but I always don't ask the teacher for some help because I understand the topic that we are learning about most of the time.

I would like my teacher to know this about me: when I sit at the back I can't really see the board, and I don't like sitting at the front.  So I'd like to sit in the middle.  Also I would like my teacher to know that I like to ask lots of questions when I don't understand something. That is probably it and I hope my teacher understands when I start asking them questions. :)

Hathcet By:Gary Paulsen, Collaborative Lit Circles! :)

What does the word Collaborative mean? To me Collaborative means working together and talking together about what you are going to do for the next Lit Circles which is about what we do. I am going to talk about how me and my partner worked Collaboratively as partners. It is about the book "Hathcet By: Gary Paulsen" I am going to answer these 3 questions which are: 1.The benefits of working with a classmate, 2.Challenges/ obstacles which you overcome (tried to overcome) and 3.New understandings that you gained about the novel. Those are all the questions that I will answer in the next 3 paragraphs and I will give some information.

For the 1st answer to the question, I think that collaborating with a partner when I am doing my lit circle is way better then working alone on your lit circle. I think that because when I work alone on it, its hard for me to think about 2 passages 2 questions especially but 2 connections and 2 vocabulary is easy for me. Now to the real point about the benefits, is that when I work with a partner what I predict is that I will get better grades because when I finish the part I have to do, then my partner comments on it then I edit it then it is better then maybe I can get better grades then the previous ones that I worked alone on.

Now the 2nd answer to the question, about my challenges and everything was that when it is my turn to say my talk about my lit circle then I get really scared because I don't think what I wrote about my lit circle was that good because I am not really good at thinking about 2 things at a time for my passage I have to find a certain page to write about I can't just pick a random page and write about it. Sometimes it is easy for me to think about 2 of the passages at the same time because I pick an easy page so it is easier for me to understand and I can do it a bit quicker.

Then my 3rd answer to the question, things that I understand about the novel is that how Brian made the fire and learned from the 2 dreams that he had about his father and his friend how they were trying to explain about the fire. He finally understand what his 2nd dream was about when he had the dream about his friend cooking something and he was trying to explain and he understand that Brian had to use his Hathcet to make the fire. I also learned how Brian survived after the plane crash that he had food to eat, water to drink and also fire that he treated like his friend. That is all I have learned so far.

I like reading this book Hathchet I think that it is really interesting and it is a great book but I think that there were repeating words, but after all I think it is a awesome book.:)

Literature Circle!!! :)

My groups discussion helped me understand the novel because if I did the discussion every time then I can think of more ideas the next time me and my group do the discussion. When we do the discussion we all have different things on our lit circle sheets that is on the computer and we have different passages, questions, connections and vocabulary. If we all wrote different things on our lit circle then it would be much interesting because if we all have the same thing written on our sheet then it would be boring. By reading my groups lit circle it is easier to understand then the person reading it to us.

The connection that I made during the discussion was when I heard this story form this man that there was a plane crash and also when I was on a plane the plane made a roring sound for like 10 seconds. When the other person was saying their connections I didn't really make connections with the other persons connections.

http://missjkim.wordpress.com/2010/03/30/hatchet-diorama-project/

My prediction for the next few chapters would be that maybe Brian would crash into the forest into and it would be hard for him to look for food and water that is my prediction for the next few chapters.