Liam’s Humanities 3rd quarter comment

This quarter has been very big, but a great learning time. I am both a visual and a listening learner. I don’t think I could learn without one of them and I am happy I can express both.

I think I have developed many strengths this quarter and one of them is writing a report on a book by looking back in the book and translating the information into my own voice. When we did the lit circles, this quality helped because we got assigned jobs and we got to summarise the book in our own voice. Also being a persistent and hard working person really came in handy for everything this quarter. My challenges in Humanities are being able to focus hard on tasks that I don’t enjoy as much as other work. I struggled with this when doing the plague letters. I think I am my best learner when I can first learn by Lynne talking in class, and then look at some kind of study guide, that reflects some of the important things Lynne talked about. This helped me a lot when doing are medieval women presentation because first Lynne told us about some of the important women and then we read more about that women. I think the skill I am most proud of is being able to work as hard as I can on something until I am proud of it. Sometimes I worry about a test or a quiz which some people might think is bad, but I look at the bright side. When I worry the only way to soothe my worry is to be absolutely sure of what I am doing, so I study. It prepares me and I like that quality about myself. This helped me on the Who the Heck are You? piece because I had to get the answer I wanted from my interviewer without pushing it on them.  I need to be able to take constructive criticism better and stop being as stubborn. Sometimes if I think I have a great idea and the teacher does not agree. It is hard for me to change that idea that I still think is so great, but I am working hard on it and I think I will soon change. I need to put my stubbornness aside and learn from the teachers. I think I could work on this with the plague letter. I made a very dramatic piece and I liked it but Julia didn’t, so I just had to trust her decision and put it behind me. My goals for the 4th quarter are to read more, work harder, and be able to relate with what the teacher wants more. I will try to work on writing exercises out of school on my own time, to help me improve. I want to wrap up this year well, and if I follow my goals I will be able to.