Final assessment

I honestly think I deserve for my final assignment 76%. The reason I think I deserve 76% is because I have done decent in these categories.

-Assignments. I have done 14 posts, I put in 90% in each post on my blog. I feel that I have actually worked harder when time went along because I kept on pushing myself every time an assignment was placed. I feel that writing is a little waste of time but will also help you improve your writing capabilities. what I do well is I can think deeply on one thing and focus all my time and energy into that one topic but I have to connect to it. What needs work is the fact I can get sidetracked easily if I have not focused onto a topic. I learnt that you do not always need to do the assignments for the teacher and that once you do the assignments for yourself for no marks, you will learn that it is easier to do them. 

Some examples are from these blog posts. 

the tattoo assignment, I am interested in getting this tattoo because the symbol is first off irish, second of all it is a symbol meaning love, third I would get this so I could put my mom and dad's names over and under this tattoo to symbolized they will always be with me no matter what. 

from the hamlet soliloquy, I believe that shakespeare was trying to put an outlook of the play hamlet as a what if scenario but the message I got from this is that love, death, betrayal, suicide and loss of sense are just a part of life.
from when we had to create a poem,This poem to me reminds me of my papa who was very influential to me. The reasoning for me writing it for him was because he still is very special to me and even though he is dead he is still with me also because he fought in World War II...

For future assignments my goal is to always think about the topic it is asking for and only focus on that. 

-Comments.  I have commented around 40 comments. I commented on spencer's, ryley's, fernando's, reanna's, sabrina's, gurkarn's, harjas's, mine, cody's, adrian's, alex's. I wrote what was on my mind if that was to correct or to guide or just to say good job, I said what was on my mind. I responded I think 7 times. I made quite a few corrections I do not know how many but it was around 4 times. I learnt that the more you help others succeed the more you feel that you are connected to a unit. I would assess that I participated to the social constructivist group by these comments I have made. 
I posted this on ryleys blog. I learnt more that I thought possible. I did not think of one thing you could have changed. To me ryley that was perfect.
On fernando's blog. fernando, for your HTML I learnt that when you change the color of your html page. I think you could have done a little better at that video but due to the fact you did not want to talk in-front of the class I respect that. I think you did a great job fernando that was a great presentation.

My goals for the sullivan community and for my classes next year are to be on the ball with my work, to always do my work so I do not get homework. 

-Self regulation.  For my self regulation I feel that I did control my behavior for the most part except for a few occasions. I have missed 12 classes. I stayed on task I would say around 80% overall. I took full responsibility for missing classes by asking my buddies what I missed. I do not think it affected anyone in anyway. Again I do not think I affected anyone if anything I got affected by others. I believe that my self regulation helped a little with the succession of the class as a whole. I have learnt I actually can overcome my fear of speaking in front of a crowd. I feel that I do not need to change myself in anyway I honestly think I am fine the way I am. 

-Genius hour. I chose to do my topic on guitar because it is something I enjoy. I planned my learning by learning songs. I originally planned to do a video but I decided to suck it up and go up there instead. I feel I was successful because I would learn a song when I try. When I did read the comments I was glad to see people enjoyed it and that they wanted to know things like how long I have played for. I learnt that I should not always be so harsh on myself because I was proven wrong by the comments. I learnt that if I do something that I can enjoy it becomes easy and that if I dedicate my time I can do well. I come to school so that I can get a good career and that I learn so I do not get used and told lies to, so that I can take my own learning into my own hands and prove I am not a screw up, to prove that I do control my life and I will not let anyone tell me I can not do something. 

Genius hour

For my genius hour, I honestly think I didn't do well. I was shuddering, became side tracked and was not doing well. The only thing that was good was that I actually had the guts to go up there and play not just go over a video. I think that was my downfall. This is what I think on how I did.

final regular post

I honestly thought the point of this class was to tech us how to become better by writing on paper and writing poems. When I first got to this class I was first thinking it was going to be all writing not typing.  As for the purpose I figured the purpose would be to well learn what the government wants us to learn not what we have been doing which to me is honestly better. I see my responsibility in this class is to regulate my work habits and to also help my classmates out by giving them my feedback on there work.

The purpose I thought had changed dramatically due to the unexpected words from neuf by him saying for us to regulate our own work and if we don't do our work, it is our choice to pass or not.

 

Honestly I have no idea what neuf had in store for the wiki and the blogs. I find learning to be essential to life, but it does have its limits, I say that because the way it is taught can limit what your trying to say or what you are trying teach can actually take a different turn. As for the learning process I find it to be quite sickening in some ways, the reason I say this is because sometimes it is not the person who is bad it can easily be the way it is being taught, it is best to let everyone let them find out the best way for life is to go by the way they want to learn. I believe learning is something that everyone needs but only if they pick a thing they want to do as for math, science, english, socials, that way people will enjoy what they do not just slack and hate a class. Honestly my peers have not helped as much as I had hoped because if I were to get advice or help I would wiser, smarter and have feed on what to change and what is good. 

I have tried to help others by giving my own personal advice on what I think but that is only my opinion it is their choice to listen or not. A example of my own thinking is when I comment on blogs, it is what I actually think personally. I know what I believe because I go by what I think and if I feel as if it is wrong I will google it. I believe what I say because if I ever feel doubt I will look into it. I think that neuf looks into what he thinks before he says it because h does not want to be wrong. To me learning looks like a way someone enjoys what they do or read, if that means by connecting it to something or just being interested. When I am learning my biggest tell is that I am so absorbed in what I enjoy that I get lost in it and eventually fade to a place where I can not hear anyone. 

list of daily things I do

This is the list I have made for the things I choose to do. It will have no particular order.

1) play guitar. This falls under three categories freedom, fun, and belonging. The reason this falls under those categories is because it makes me feel like I belong to something, is a fun thing to do, and makes me feel like I have my own freedom to play whatever I feel like.

2) getting dressed. This falls under the freedom category because of the fact I wear what i want and no one can take that away from me.

3)  not doing homework. This falls under dirty power. The reason it does is because I have the power to choose if i want to do work or not.

4) walk my dog. This is under the fun category because my dog loves walks and I also like to get out of the house a lot more.

5) play video games. This would be under power, freedom, and fun. The reason it is under these categories is because gaming to me is where I  can just escape and do what I want. Its fun because it just brightens my day up. It is for power because if I do something I control what happens if it is a free roam game.

6) Eat. It is under survival well because you need to eat.

7) Sleep. It is under survival because you have to sleep and if you go too long without sleep you will die.
 
There are the few negative powers like not doing homework.  The reason it is under that category is because some of it is so boring to me and I can never connect it to anything but it all depends on the type of homework.

connections

I am going to connect high school to the rule of mao zedong. They connect by a few things:

-lust of power
-the want of attention
-the demand of rule
-wanting to be the one who decides what will happen to other people
- the power to pick what girls you want

These are all reasons of connections that I know of from high school to mao zedong.

At sullivan heights groups get chosen by people titled "popular" all the way down to the people titled the "nerds" which is entirely in there perspective. Personally I think that to be very cruel to everyone who is less than popular because they may have low self esteem or anything of the sort, no one knows what other people go through so why put titles for people, why not be equals. Something that increases and or decreases the tension between groups can very from a wide range of options. It can go from bullying all the way to being friends (scale of intensity of increases to decreases), due to this it will add or deplete tension which can make sullivan a better atmosphere to be in. There can possibly be outside influences but i do not know of any.
Different groups value different things, for instance what i can tell is the more "popular" care about there popularity more than anything also there egos. The group i am in cares about having friends to talk to, not so much of the way they act because the kind of group im in is a little less than average. A reason i have heard for groups to hate on other groups is these people are the ones who sleep around with everyone, to stay away. I honestly think that it would be non of there business if they do or not, its not your live so why care? My guess of there reasons are most likely around 12% because a lot of the times there may be one person who has a problem yet the others do not but follow like lost dogs in a pack.
Close to 88% is based on propaganda, rumors and some half-truths. The reasoning behind that is the fact that not a lot of things are truth and a lot of the time it is what one person has a problem and others follow. These messages spread through sullivan due to a few things, one being the internet via facebook, twitter, etc... second being in person. What stops others from learning things on there own is the sheer urge of acceptance, stature, popularity, or to lazy to learn themselves.

everlasting battle.

Since I did get help on the last poem I will write one that is a random poem about something relating to hotel rwanda.

                                           Everlasting battle- michael cannon
Time is in the way,
It is so hard to say,
That on this day,
I will make my life a better place to stay,
Due to the conundrum on a frightful night,
Where all we do is fight,
It just don't feel right,
That it all ends here tonight,
Just too much on my mind,
Guns just blazing by,
Im so scared tonight,
That it will be my last night.
Tired of being right,
I hope its the final night,
Where there is no fright,
When will it end?
Will i ever see a happy day again?

This poem to me reminds me of my papa who was very influential to me. The reasoning for me writing it for him was because he still is very special to me and even though he is dead he is still with me also because he fought in World War II and I have been told that the people who fought in it thought it would never stop. Trying to push yet always being at a stand still. My grandpa was a good soldier and an even greater man. For this I wrote him this poem for him to always be remembered by me.


                                             

poem found based on death/genocide

SydneyVictoria "Sonnet X: Genocide"

Sonnet X: Genocide

Tell Me, How Much Pain Can One Tear Contain?
What Is It Like To Stare In Hungry Eyes?
What Is It Like To Only Own A Name?
What Is It Like To Feel Cruel Genocide?

Children Watch As Their Mothers Slowly Fade,
Mothers Watch As Their Daughters Slowly Starve,
A Father Watches His Son Go To Trade,
As Tears Travel Down The Gully They've Carved

Haunted Eyes Softly Whisper To The Sky,
Disease Scuttles Through Brittle Broken Bones,
Hours Fill Their Schedule On Which They Cry,
As They Shuffle With Bare Feet On Small Stones

What Is It Like To Own Unearthly Eyes?
Why Does Our World Still Harbor Genocide?

 This poem was the one that struck my interest due to the fact that it made me think of something. Something that is to me, a topic to want to understand yet I found no answer. This poem to me has one meaning and that meaning is how genocide will affect life, not just one life but the life of the entire place that it has occurred. This poem is based on how genocide affects/ deteriorates ones way of life. This is why I chose this poem.