YOUR Q4 requirements

YOUR Quarter 4 Page should have the following:

1. Your Quarter 4 Macbeth Reflection. In at least 2 paragraphs, define a tragedy and a tragic hero and explain whether you think Macbeth fits the definition. If you use a source other than your own mind, please use parenthetical citations to cite your sources. Post with a RELEVANT IMAGE.

2. Your Quarter 4 ScienceBEAT Science Article. Post your final ScienceBEAT article with a RELEVANT IMAGE.

3. Your EOY REFLECTION. Post your 40 Questions, your List of Advice, and your Graph with an explanation to your ePortfolio.

ENG 10H | END OF THE YEAR REFLECTION

The 40 Reflection Questions, Advice and Graph

DIRECTIONS:

  1. Answer the 40 Reflection Questions and Post to our ePortfolio.
  2. Create a List of Advice for Future Students of DuVal. Include an Image with each piece of Advice and post to your ePortfolio.
  3. Create a Graph of your Year. Draw the graph. Then either digitize it or take a picture of it. Post to your ePortfolio.

 

Backward-Looking:

1. How much did you know about English, specifically writing persuasive or analytic papers before we started this year in August?

2. What process did you go through to produce the last ScienceBEAT piece we wrote? (Think: beginning, middle, and end). Is it the same process that you always use to write or was it different?

3. Have you done a similar kind of work (writing) in the past (earlier in the year or in a previous grade; in school or out of school)?

4. In what ways have you gotten better at this kind of work (writing)?

5. In what ways do you think you need to improve?

6. What problems did you encounter while you were working on the ScienceBEAT piece? How did you solve them?

7. What resources did you use while working on this piece? Which ones were especially helpful? Which ones would you use again?

8. Does the work displayed on your ePortfolio for the entire year work to tell a story?

Inward-Looking: Evaluating your ePortfolio.

  1. How do you feel about your ePortfolio as a piece of work? What parts of it do you particularly like? Dislike? Why? What did/do you enjoy about this piece or work?
  2. What was especially satisfying to you about either the process or the finished product?
  3. What did/do you find frustrating about it?
  4. What were your standards for this piece of work?
  5. Did you meet your standards?
  6. What were your goals for meeting this piece of work? Did your goals change as you worked on it? Did you meet your goals?
  7. What does this piece reveal about you as a learner?
  8. What did you learn about yourself as you worked on your ePortfolio throughout the year?
  9. Have you changed any ideas you used to have on this subject, English and writing?
  10. Look at a specific piece of work that you did at the beginning of the year in Quarter 1, maybe your best piece from Quarter 1 or maybe your worst. You decide. Then use that chosen work to compare and contrast with your final project of the year, your ScienceBEAT article. What changes can you see?
  11. How did those changes come about?
  12. What does that tell you about yourself and how you learn?

Outward-Looking:

  1. Did you do your work the way other people did theirs?
  2. In what ways did you do it differently?
  3. In what ways was your work or process similar?
  4. If you were the teacher, what comments would you make about your final ScienceBEAT article?
  5. What grade would you give your ScienceBEAT article? Why?
  6. In what ways did your SciecneBEAT work meet the standards for this assignment?
  7. In what ways did your ScienceBEAT article not meet those standards?
  8. What the one thing you particularly want people to notice when they look at your work overall, for example, when they view your ePortfolio?
  9. What do your classmates particularly notice about your ePortfolio when they look at it?
  10. If someone else were looking at your ePortfolio, what might they learn about who you are?

Forward-Looking:

  1. One thing I would like to improve upon is ...
  2. What would you change if you had a chance to do your ScienceBEAT article over again?
  3. What will you change in the next revision of this piece?
  4. What's the one thing that you have seen in your classmates' work or process that you would like to try in your next piece?
  5. As you look at this piece, what's one thing that you would like to try to improve upon?
  6. What's one goal you would like to set for yourself for next time you are doing a persuasive writing piece?
  7. What would you like to spend more time on in school?
  8. What might you want next year's teacher to know about you (what things you're good at)?
  9. What things you might want more help with?
  10. What work would you show your 11th grade teacher to help her understand those things?

Advice for Future Students

Make a list of advice for future DuVal students by reflecting on the year and share tips for success. Your list must be a minimum of 5 and a maximum of 10 pieces of advice. Include an image with each piece.

 

Graph of Highs and Lows

Draw a graph of your year’s highs and lows on copy paper with emoticons, symbols, lessons learned, songs of the month, etc. Use the month of the year as the x-axis, and your grades, emotions, what you learned academically, major life events, holidays, etc., as the y-axis. The Y-axis must have at least 10 things charted on your graph (grades per subject, emotions, major events, learning, work, etc). Take a picture of your graph to post on your ePortfolio.