First of all, how was the quiz? Was it what you expected? Harder? Easier?
Now, I would like each of you to think very hard about how our class has gone so far (many of you began this activity at the end of class today). What are some things you really like about our class? What are some things you wish would change? Do you feel like it is challenging enough or too challenging? What would you like to happen in our class over the next month?
Answering these types of questions honestly will help to make our classroom a better place! Remember, be honest!
Hello Ms Gelso and classmates!
ReplyDeleteThe quiz was what I was expecting, that means not too easy but not too hard in order to finish it quickly. But I didn't expect that it would have the rubric to check what we think that would be the best grade for our answers just as we did with the journals (0, 1 and 2), something that I found very nice.
Moreover, thank you for giving us the chance to say what we like about class. Something that I really like are the blog assignments ( in that way we can see how other people are thinking and maybe improve ourselves too!) and the reading materials ( the short stories) because we can learn a lot of new words and we can stop being boring using every time the same ones.
I don't think that there are things I don't like because our class is the best apart from that I believe it would be better if the independent time varies according to the importance of what we're doing.
Our class is challenging enough for at least the beginning of the year and we shouldn't change anything.
Finally, something that I'd like our class to have next month is to have more group assignments in class as we did with the thoughts, actions e.t.c. of Harrison Bergeron and with the climax with the narrator of “I Just Kept on Smiling”.
Thank you.
First of all, how was the quiz? Was it what you expected? Harder? Easier?
ReplyDeleteNow, I would like each of you to think very hard about how our class has gone so far (many of you began this activity at the end of class today). What are some things you really like about our class? What are some things you wish would change? Do you feel like it is challenging enough or too challenging? What would you like to happen in our class over the next month?
The quiz was challenging and interesting. I expected it not to hard and not to easy, in between.
In this class I like the blogs assignment, the posters, to do creative designs like the one of Harrison Bergeron, it was very fun.
I don't want to change anything of this class because I like it like this.
I feel that it is challenging.
I would like another creative project, poster like the one we finished on friday, the one of Harrison based on the story we read in class.
Hi
ReplyDeleteI think the quiz was not hard or easy but in between, it was the first English quiz of the year so I didn’t know what to expect.
Some thing I like about the class is we get to read a lot and we get to do homework on the computer by blog posts, which is a new way I found out to do home work.
There is nothing I would wish to change which is surprising because I usually don’t like English.
I think the class is not too easy but not hard either.
In the next month wish to start a new book.
Bye
Christian
Hello Ms. Gelso!
ReplyDeleteOnly a month has passed since the beginning of the year, and I can’t really judge the way any classes has been going on. Still I can already say that I am really interested in what we are studying.
I should say that the quiz was a little difficult because I had to think how to write the short answers while respecting the instructions.
In class we read a text that the teacher provides to the group and we comment on it together. We were encouraged to exchange ideas and debate about them when we felt necessary. Everyone was free to speak or stay silent.
I liked these sessions because I felt free to express ideas or simply to listen to others. It allows also each of us to know about others way of thinking.
The part I didn’t really enjoy about these classes is that I didn’t feel comfortable with the technic of writing notes, in the course of reading a text or a book because it compels me to stop and interrupt the fluidity of reading, of being with the author of the text.
These classes in my opinion are not exaggeratedly challenging but sometimes I need to stop and think before answering some of the questions
I would love it if next month we could more short stories and engage into creative projects.
Have a nice weekend.
Hi Ms Gelso!
ReplyDeleteThe quiz was pretty much fine, and yes it was what I actually excepted.
Some things that I really like about this class are independent time, group working and reading.
There is nothing yet I wish I could change... I think it's challenging enough. I would like that this month we would do an interesting project about reading!
Hope I helped... have a great weekend!
it was fine, not what i had expected,it was easier. I have done it alraedy do i have to do it on the blog too?
ReplyDeleteUchenna--you can hand it in this week. I saw you were working on it!
ReplyDeleteThank you everyone! We will definitely be thinking of you while planning for class!
Hi Ms Gelso!
ReplyDeleteThe quiz was pretty easy for me because, I have been doing much harder stuff last year with Ms Foley.
I think our class has been smooth enough for many people but for me, the group working part was fun but all the rest of stuff we have been doing is common and a bit boring.
The one and only thing I like about my class is the homework part.This is a really creative idea for us to do our homework on blogs.Its truly a better source of learning then just doing your homework on paper which consumes time and its a burden on our head. There is something i would like to change which is the way our class starts and ends.I am sorry to say this bout i think our class is just like all other classes we attend.Its just tiresome and we don't do anything special to make the class more interesting. Its too early for me to judge that if the class is challenging enough but til now its not challenging enough for me but i still don't want to make predictions about the future because it may get harder later, its just the beginning of the year. I would like to do some stuff in future which is more appalling. I am sorry if i sounded mean but i didn't want to. That just me being honest.
Have a good day
hello Ms.Gelso,
ReplyDeleteI have to admit that this test was quite easy, even though some qustions were chalenging I really liked the fact that in the quiz as bonus you put a wrong or misspelled word.
I have to say that this class is withought being mean or stuff, strange. Because I don't know it seems time never passes, maby to make the class more fun but still a place were we can study is that maybe sometimes go out, anddo the class. I know some of my ideas are crazy and some even impossible but maybe, for example the story we have just read talks about equality maby to make the class more fun, we coud show or demonstrate our qualities and teach them to another student to the class as a test or grade that is important in our report, so people take their work sriousy and show to the class and teacher who they really are. Last thing I would change for the class are the notebooks binders...because for me we should have a big binder with many sheets, so we don't have to always think wich book to get and it would be more simple....
I really enjoy this bog were we can write our homework because we don't have to loose time getting paper or having problems leaving the book in our lokers at school.
First of all,I think that the quiz was the right level. The only question I posed my self was why were there some questions about the stories we read... However the questions were the right level, nither easy nor hard.
ReplyDeleteNow, about the class. I really like how it's going in class. The best thing is that we can do our homework on the blog. Also, I love how we understand better the things we read, by using the post-its...
As last, I would like to say that i don't find a big problem about the class and how we are going on...
First of all, how was the quiz? Was it what you expected? Harder? Easier?
ReplyDeleteThe quiz was a normal quiz that reached my expectations I didn't think it was hard but it wasn't also that easy.
What are some things you really like about our class? What are some things you wish would change? Do you feel like it is challenging enough or too challenging? What would you like to happen in our class over the next month?
Something that I like about this class are the blog assignments because you don0t have to worry if you forgot the binder or the books at school, also it helps sharing our ideas or even disagreeing with other people. I think this class is okay it isn't challenging, it is a normal and regular class for me I don’t know about others. Something I don't like about this class is that we have it first period and in the second floor because I risk arriving late but the other things are okay with me. Something I would like to happen over this month is having more group assignments because we can share ideas with other people and because you don’t have to think as much!
First of all I would like to thank Ms.Gelso for questioning us about our quiz.
ReplyDeleteNo it was actually not what I espected in format but it was in diffuculty. Not only it had actualy a better format than what I thought it was going to be.
I think our class has an outstanding mentality. The best thing about our class is that it has a unique way of doing homework which I personally find outstanding;because we don't have to have loose pieces of paper (which I would loose).
The thing that I dislike about our class is that it doesn't feel challiging (at least to me). Something I would love some more projects like the one about yourself or things that include group work. :)
Ones again thanks for being so intrested in our studies
hi everyone!
ReplyDeletei found the test actually pretty easy, even thow i found hard to find the miss spelledword on it! =) anyways the important thing is that I understood the style of your tests and i know how to prepare.
i really like this idea of the blog assignement because it makes it all easier, and helps me to organize better with my homework because it is a faster and easier way to do them.
there is nothing i would like to change in the class and for now everything is perfect.
Another thing i really like is the individual time in class and the way we grade all the things with the rubric! I think that at the end of the year, if we all continue like thiss, we will get an A and be proud of ourselves!!
Hy Ms Gelso i think the quiz was perfect because i never did english in this class and it's the fist quiz of the year and i liked a lot it wasn't to hard and it wasen't to easy.
ReplyDeleteNo there is nothing i would like to change because i really like our class i love the new thing of doing our homework on the computer on the blog.
I liked a lot the books like "I just keept on smiling" and "Harrison Bergeron".
I hope you would give ous too read more books similar
Hi Ms Gelso!
ReplyDeleteI love our independent time, and working as a group and doing projects and activities. I like even the homework on the blog beacuase it is more simple and better for our concentration than writing on a piece of paper.There is nothing I would want to change right now, but yes the class is challenging for me. I hope that this month we will do more active and crative things, and working as a group.
I am really glad to hear that most of you are liking the way homework is done. I am really enjoying it, too!
ReplyDeleteSofia--thank you for your ideas on some more creative projects we might be able to incorporate into class. Other students have requested creative projects, too. Ms. Soteres and I will think more about how we can do this!
Tomas--It can be tough to have class first period. However, on October 25th this changes! We go into a new cycle--what was your first class of the day becomes the last, the second becomes the first, the third becomes the second, and what was last becomes the third. SO our class will not be in a different room, but it will be the last period of the day.