First Quarter Reflection

Prompt: Where are you in your 40 Book Challenge? How have your blogs been progressing since August? What strategies have benefited you? What have you learned about the world? How have your research skills improved?

          I have progressed a lot since the quarter started. Over the summer I kind of forgot everything I learned but throughout this quarter I gained my skills back and improved. I lost my vocabulary skills and my writing skills too. I forgot my vocabulary words over the summer and now I'm improving on that so I can become better. My writing skills dropped over the summer too because I didn't write much over the summer besides my blogs. The narrative that we wrote helped me improve a lot in my writing skills. With the articles of the week I have caught up on what's going on in the world right now, since over the summer I didn't watch the news as often. I've also improved on my blogs a lot. In the summer my blogs weren't as good as they are now due to the fact that I lost my blogging skills. I have improved a lot since the beginning of August. 

          The articles of the week (aow) have helped me a lot on what has been happening around the world. For example, I never knew that in the next year people would be able the travel to space. That was really surprising to me and I never expected that to happen anytime soon. I've also learned how many of the Syrian Refugees suffer. They have many decisions to make and they determine if in the end they will die or survive their journey. I never knew that they could go through such harsh things such as watching their loved ones die, being stranded on an island, no money, no food, etc. The aow's have caught me up on everything that has been going on and the stories of other people's lives.

          

          Over the summer since I only did two blogs, my blogging skills kind of dropped. My blogs weren't as good as the ones I did during the school year. They weren't good enough cause I didn't use a topic sentence and support it. Now I've remembered to do that and the quality of my blogs have increased, or I think they have. Also, my blogs weren't as good because people didn't comment on them. I say this because when people comment on my blogs saying that I made a mistake somewhere I try to my make blog better by fixing that error. Since people didn't comment on then I didn't really know where I had made a mistake. Though, I think my blogs have progressed a lot since August.