Thursday, December 10, 2020

Independent Project Reflections

 Now that you're done presenting your projects, share and reflect on your experience.  Include the following:

  • Make sure you've submitted your project on Canvas.
  • Now reflect on Canvas.  Briefly describe your project, both your topic and the format in which you presented. 
  • What do/did you like most about your project?  Explain. 
  • Were you prepared to present on the due date?  Did you use your time wisely in class?  Explain your work ethic during the project work time.
  • If you could do the whole thing over again, what would you change and/or improve?  Why?
  • How does your project meet each letter of our Class Mission Statement?
    • We Grow by challenging ourselves and each other.
    • We Overcome our limits and failures.
    • We Advance our thinking and our expectations.
    • We Learn today to improve tomorrow.
  • If you have any genuine suggestions for Mrs. Edlin about how to improve this assignment or how to make this project more meaningful to future students.
 
Submit your reflection.  When you finish, you may visit any link under Idleness Prevention Society at the left-hand side of this blog.
 
 
 
 

Thursday, December 3, 2020

Mock Trial Reflection

6th grade GOAL students:

Answer the following questions in paragraph form on your Canvas reflection assignment.  Look over your work, and be thorough.  You do not have to copy the questions, but you need to set your paragraphs up so anyone reading your blog will know what the question was (TASTE method).
  1. What jobs have you had in Mock Trial?  What has been good about them?  What has been challenging about them?  Explain.
  2. Do you think you'd ever be interested in a career in the field of Law?  Why or why not?
  3. What questions do you still have about how our Legal system works?
  4. Watch the following TED talk.  Start at 5:30.  After watching the TED talk, reflect on what it made you think about concerning the topics of injustice, fairness, punishment, and equality.  Write a comment on this blog post including some of your thoughts.