Week Blog Review(Week 1)

Week Blog Review(Week 1)

The first week of school was fine; each day was without many incidents and stress. The first day of school(Tuesday) was a bit eventful due to me going to all my classes for the first time. I was very disappointed when I learnt that I shared only one class with my best friend Emily, one class with Daisy and no classes with Cindy.  I felt lonely without them, I learnt throughout the four days that I had lost my sense of greeting new students for the sake of knowing them without any fear. I, however, did recognize a few students in each class I had that I remembered from last school year. Advisory was good, the room we go to had changed to 281. It took me three days to go the short-way to the room instead of going a circle on the second floor of the Arts Building. First period Regulars Beginning Piano regular is thus far my favorite class. On Tuesday I had to go back to the room during my lunch period to ask Ms. Wiggins about sharps, flats, and intervals because I was confused about the difference of the terms. Ms. Wiggins also taught us more piano terms such as enharmonic notes, and accidentals on Wednesday and Thursday.  Today was the best of the four days for piano class, the teacher taught us how to play beginner songs, Ode to Joy and Lean on me.  Ode to Joy is amazing to practice during my lunch period, I practice pressing the keys C,D,E,F, and G correctly for the first 20 minutes of my lunch period. I felt exhilarated when playing the first two verses of the song, I felt empowered by the beginning verses of was playing and felt hope that I could play more well-known pieces of music; hearing Ms. Wiggins play in the room was also nice.

My second class was Honors Geometry, which was taught by Ms. Dotson. The first day was a hilarious start when the entire class was momentarily locked out of the class because the last student closed the door when we left outside the classroom and Ms. Dotson left her keys inside the room. Outside the room the class choose two options that Ms. Dotson would give us to understand what type of method of teaching do the majority of the class prefer along with other social media interests. The first assignment was for her to analyze how much to each student in the class remember from their prior math classes. The following days was simple reviewing of basic geometry terms that is usual introduced in sixth or seventh grade; it was a great refresher for me personally and I still have notecards from seventh grade. I completed each assignment on time each of the four days, the Thursday's assignment revealing to me that I need much more reviewing to do to remember many lessons I learnt from prior classes.

My third period class is Regulars Spanish 2. The class was very frustrating on the first two days of school for me. On the two days I realized how much information I forgotten over the 3 months and how I couldn't form correct sentences that I could have before the summer break; it anger me inside. I was better with understanding the lessons on Thursday when Ms. Gomez helped me by assuring me that I don't have to rush or felt any negativity over not remembering everything. On Friday, I was given the opportunity to learn some of the names of my classmates for partner assignments upcoming next week, I partnered up with both previous classmates from prior classes and new classmate. I also developed a plan for this weekend to review my Spanish notes from last school year to rewrite important and common words involving greetings/goodbyes, people, activities, adjectives, places/occasions, and school.

Honors English 2 is my fourth period class, which still impresses me now after three days, The teacher was the very few teacher I had that took the time to repeat the names of all their students to remember each name the best they could. Tuesday was a day of the class spending half the class getting to first know each other by hearing the names of each of our classmates, which I enjoyed. There were only a few teachers I had before this class that would take the time to try their best to memorize the names of their students. but his effort is double the difficulty as he must have around 100-200 students in total to teach. The teacher also has his student each day for the very first ten minutes of his class write in a journal of anything concept or topic they want, of course explaining anything inappropriate or serious going to be reported. I took the journal opportunity to express how mentally furious I was at myself for not remembering basic Spanish in period three. The journal report for Wednesday, and Thursday was more positive and hopeful for my worries in Spanish class and included my favorite moments in Piano class. Today was important the class created blogs, which was great for me because I was having a  hard time creating my blogs alone. Once completed, I also added a few more details such as interests, favorite movies, and music.

Fifth period class is P.E. 2: Drivers' Ed. On the first day Mr. Wiegmann assigned seats and explained some of the basic beginner rules of driving and important Illinois laws that we must follow in order to gain all the privileges of driving in Illinois. On Tuesday I was a bit bewildered by the complexity the entire progress of becoming a legalized Illinois driver and the multiple procedures one must do to maintain the status of a Illinois driver. Our first homework assignment was to read chapter 1, which was fairly easy with only a few pages. Drivers' Ed is the most average class I have, the lessons in the class is very informative and a bit lackluster unlike my other classes, I still appreciate the lessons thus far as learning them is the very first step to become a driver. On Wednesday and Thursday Mr. Wiegmann further describe the progress and review chapters 1,2 and 3. Friday was a strange day for this class because Mr. Wiegmann have the class watched a video about driving. We watched two other videos the day before, but what made this video practically unusual was the lessons of driving was portrayed differently. In the video, four teen students were in a game show competing with over the grand prize: A brand new car. The first half of the contest was two contestants paired up would drive to the location they received and each of the contestant is observed and graded by the 'host' of the show. The second half was each of the contestant answering question in a game studio in a normal game show style, when a contestant get one answer wrong they are eliminated. Throughout the contest, clips of people would explain tips and facts of driving such as reading signs, explaining the consequences of disobeying the laws and understanding the law.

Regular United States History was my next class after P.E. 2, taught by Mr. Dziedzic(still have trouble pronouncing his last name). Over the four days the class learnt about English colonies and made comparisons between colonial society to our society now. Each day there would be a informative debate between students and the teacher involving a question Mr. Dziedzic asked about a topic.  Each day the entire class would discuss about the section that the teacher assigned the day prior as homework, this method seems very efficient in teaching without the teacher having to spend two days to discuss the topic. The first day of school the entire class was taught about the discoveries of America by the Vikings and a Chinese fleet before Christopher Columbus had discovered America; he never discovered that he found an new country instead of part of Asia before his death. On Wednesday we review and discuss about the differences and connections between the Southern, Middle and New England Colonies. Thursday was discussion of colonial life and rules while Friday was on the social status of the different groups of the colonies

Seventh period is my lunch period. I was at first disappointed when I first received my schedule on registration day. I had hypothesized that I would had trouble with my lunch period because my lunch period last school year was perfectly situation between my classes at fourth period.. I manage well over the four days by eating at least two snacks before my seventh period, which is a large relief to me. My best friends Emily and Daisy also shared this lunch period, which also made me feel more comfortable and confident about the lunch period. For the first two days of school-Tuesday and Wednesday-I sat in Red house with five of my other friends. I have learn from last year about the lines of classmates, friend and best friend. The students who set with me was between classmates who I rarely talk to and friends who I have conversations with sometimes. I didn't felt completely noticed as a friend to them, mainly because I knew that they only sat next to me because I was sitting alone at a very clean table next to the window;in other words, I may have look like a seat-saver to them. On Thursday and Friday I sat with my real friends in Gold house, which happens to be close to my eighth period class: Regulars Chemistry.

My last class is Regular Chemistry taught by Ms. Marquez, who is also the  instructor for the American Chemical Society Club at the school. Having Ms. Marquez as my teacher will enable me to talk to her more about the ideas for the club as I want to help the club become a popular one such as the Bio Club, Japanese Club, Gamer Club and Anime Club at the school. I want to help the club by adding phrases to the bleak blue and yellow American Chemical society board right next to room 342. I believe a good experiment is repeating life hacks involving real chemistry. On Tuesday, the class was given Finn's Scientific Student Safety Contract and Ms. Marquez explain fifteen of the basic rules in a science lab to follow to prevent accidents in the lab. These basic rule includes recommended clothing, eye protect, behavior rules, and treatment of tools. Wednesday was spent reviewing and answering question from the safety contract. The teacher also showed the class two videos about lab safety made by the American Chemical Society. The class was given a pre-chemistry test on Thursday that works in a similar way to the REACH test. I believe I did very good for the pre-year test, the only questions that I may have wrote a wrong answer for being questions about metals and chemical properties.Friday  was the safety quiz on some of the questions from the Safety contract; the test itself was the safety exam practice sheet Ms. Marquez had suggested the class printed from Edline.net to use to practice for the quiz. Afterward, the class was given their first experiment. of observing what occurs when doing a series of instructions involving copper chloride crystals and aluminum foil. I didn't get the right result on the first try, I theorized I must have put all the copper chloride crystals in than just half of the amount. Monday I would get the opportunity to redo the experiment because the teacher decided that the entire class would see better results if the experiment was done for the entire class period.