01/02/2012 - Friday Reflection

This week during English, I only had one lesson due to holidays and going away for International Award. During the lesson we caught up on reading chapters in the novel 'Never Let Me Go', whilst also finishing off our literature circles. I believe I contributed a lot to my literature circles group as when we discussed, I came up with valid points as to why certain situations may have occurred in the novel, such as why they believed they had found Ruth's 'Possible'. Overall, I hope to catch up on the work that we missed this week due to holidays and International Award and progress further.

25/01/2013 Friday Reflection

This week during English we started to learn about poetry acronyms. For Example 'SMILE' which stands for Structure, Meaning, Imagery, Language and Effect allows you to keep these aspects in your mind whilst writing a poem or even an essay. It gives you something to start with, if you don't know where to begin. I believe that these acronyms will come in useful when it comes down to writing a real analysis of a poem in the exam, as we can refer to these acronyms.

We decided to make our own acronyms in groups using words which we though would help us remember what we need to include whilst writing a poem my groups was 'MOTELSRAP'. I was extremely proud of my contribution to the group when coming up with this name as my group felt that they would be able to remember this. Therefor I felt as though I provided my group with a basis to work on when they need to write a poem. I also believe this acronym has helped me a lot as well, as I will remember it and use it as a guideline to writing or analyzing a poem.

At first I felt as though I would need to improve on my Analysis of poems, but after creating this acronym I feel more confident and understand how to improve my analysis's. I need to link the poem to the acronym and discuss how they link. I intend to achieve this by writing the acronym down before starting to analyze any poem or article.

Overall this week was a success and I would like to know more about how I can keep on improving my analysis skills.

Starter Chapter 11 - Sex

• How much do you talk to your friends or family about sex? Occasionally, it is mostly based on the topic of contraception with my family though and staying safe from diseases etc... I mainly talk about the 'fun' side with my friends as we joke around.
• How important are the issues of sex to a teenager in your experience? They are extremely important so we get to understand how to stay more safe.
• How do you differentiate between sex and sexuality? What are the different issues connected to each one? Sex is more directed towards the action so it is based on age, yet sexuality or sexual orientation is religion or something along those lines.
• Do you think 'sex' is an open topic in your social circle or is it very much taboo? Yes, I believe it is an open topic in my social circle as people tend to be interested in the topic.
• Whatever your response, do you think this is the best way for your social circle to be? Yes, I do as to I can talk about anything and also we can learn from each other.
• Do you think sex outside of marriage is OK? Explain your answer. Yes, because I believe you wouldn't want to go into a marriage and not enjoy the sex.

Friday reflection January 4th 2013

During English this week we only had two lessons, therefore we used that time to work on our site. For example improve the layout and add the rest of the information needed on to Trello. I have developed sit managing skills, these will help in the future if we need to ad or delete anything from the site. I am proud of my contribution to the site due to the fact that I added images and text to different areas. I need to improve on my summarizing skills.

I believe I can do this by doing practice summaries on each chapter even if it’s not my role on that specific week.

Overall this week was well used I believe because we really needed to get the site organized and running, in order for us to be able to work on our classes study guide.