Brandon

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I have learnt about cyber safety, cyber bullying and the advantages, consequences and laws of the internet. I most enjoyed the Humanities class on introducing wikispaces and cyber safety. My attitude has been quite good and mature. My behaviour has met the expectations and has been quite well. My interim report will I indicate that I am progressing well through the year so far. The hardest task I have had to complete is the project on cyber safety in groups. My workbook is up to date and organised. Group work is good to do and I enjoy doing it, especially being able to research the internet as a team. My greatest strength is being able to take initiative in difficult situations. The two areas of my learning that I want to focus on improving are: 1. Working smarter and being more assertive. 2. Taking risks and asking more questions. I am happy with my efforts through this year and I wish to improve even more. The class wiki offers me a great website to keep up with all the students in the class, all the work and it also gives me an opportunity to do some more challenges. The Hall of Fame is a place where all the students who do something great or deserve an honourable mention get put up.


 * **My strengths (what I am good at) in Humanities include ..... ** Being able to think outside of the box and enjoying my work.
 * **My greatest area of improvement in Humanities is ..... ** Being more independent with my work.
 * **Things which distract me and prevent me from learning include ..... ** Good looking girls and people who call my name.
 * **To continue to improve and become a better student, I need to ..... ** Focus purely on what I am doing instead of other things.
 * **My workbook is..... ** Up to date.
 * **My record for doing homework is.... ** pretty good.
 * **I think that in class it is important to...... ** be a encouraging classmate.
 * **My classmates.... ** are very good.
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">My favourite class activity is.... **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> drawing and designing bridges.
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">If my teacher was writing my report today he would say that I ..... **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> Passed and did a decent job.
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">My teacher will not say that..... **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">I’m involving myself on the wiki a lot.
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">What progress have you made towards meeting the goals you set yourself in Term 1? **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> I have been working a lot smarter and taking risks particularly in the Vikings project.
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Do your goals need to be reviewed and new goals set? **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">It would be a good idea.

<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Now complete the following sentence stems:


 * **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Yesterday... **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> I struggled to get my homework done.
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Tomorrow... **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">I have football training and probably homework.
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">I will ... **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> try to manage my time better.
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">I refuse to.... **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> not get better in my work.
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">My favourite.... **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Food to eat is roast chicken.
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">The best part of this wiki is.... **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> that the whole class is connected together.
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">If I had a rubber ducky I would .... **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> Throw it at someone near me.
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Brain busters are.... **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> challenging.
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">My teachers always.... **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> have challenges for us students.
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">My teachers never..... **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> Come to class without work for us.
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Ms King was..... **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> a great student teacher for Humanities.
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">I don't like teachers who.... **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> have no insight for students.
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Mr Reichelt is..... **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">A guy who likes to give lots of lectures, but is a pretty good teacher**.**

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Areas for improvement can be to improve work rate and to produce work at a higher effort and to try to understand everything taught and if not ask questions
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Preparedness for Learning (books, pens, attendance, punctuality, attitude, engagement in lessons) **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">I always bring all my stationary to class, I open my book and have a good attitude to learning, attend all classes when possible and I try to learn when possible.
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Effort **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">I have put a medium amount of effort in my workbook, classwork, homework, essays and assignments.
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Level of Understanding **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">I have shown a high to medium level of understand through the essays, tasks and assignments I have done.
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Homework and Meeting Deadlines (including unfinished, late or tasks not attempted) **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">All the tasks I have done have been handed in on time and done with medium amount of effort however some task haven't been fully completed.
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Quality of Work Produce **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">The quality of work produce in my workbook, classwork, homework, essays and assignments have been done to a medium effort.
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Areas for Improvement (outline two and the strategies you might use to improve) **

<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12px;">My semester one report was one of my finest reports that I’ve had in my schooling years. All subjects I passed and received an A for five out of the seven subjects that had a common assessment task. Most my teachers gave me good feedback and said that I was making great progress during the first semester. Maths and English were some of great strengths according to my report however science and humanities seemed like weakness. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12px;">For most teachers I was very satisfied with the comments and feedback they gave back to me. Most teachers were honest and had a good understanding of what to write about me. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12px;">The strengths in my report that are highlighted say that I have a great ability to learn independently and can be trusted to produce high quality work. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12px;">The weaknesses highlighted in my report showed that I can sometime put in a lack of effort, and don’t complete all work on time to the best of my ability. <span style="color: navy; font-family: 'arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12px;">- <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12px;">To have ascended in knowledge <span style="color: navy; font-family: 'arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12px;">- <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12px;">To have a successful report <span style="color: navy; font-family: 'arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12px;">- <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12px;">To be respected by my peers around me as a positive role model. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12px;">For my first goal I was successful because I have learnt a lot when studying the aboriginals unit and European settlement unit. For the second goal I was successful because my report was really good and I received positive feedback. For my third and final goal I think I am successful however I would have to personally ask my classmates whether they view me as a role model or not. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12px;">I believe that my mathematical and problem solving abilities will give me a huge advantaged to being able to succeed. I’m also an independent learner so I’ll be able to cope will the huge amount of work being given. With homework I am capable of managing my time wisely so I will be able to cope with the huge workload VCE offers. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12px;">My three goals for semester two are: <span style="color: navy; font-family: 'arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12px;">- <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12px;">For my next report I wish to have shown improvement on my common assessment task for my core subjects <span style="color: navy; font-family: 'arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12px;">- <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12px;">To make people happy in a //positive manner// <span style="color: navy; font-family: 'arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12px;">- <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12px;">To be able to achieve the VCE subjects that I want for next year.
 * 1) **<span style="color: navy; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12px;">Write a paragraph which provides an overview of your Semester 1 reports. **
 * <span style="color: navy; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12px;">2. Write a paragraph explaining how you feel about your report and the comments made by your teachers. **
 * <span style="color: navy; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12px;">3. List the three main strengths evident in your Semester 1 reports (mentioned in two or more subject reports). **
 * <span style="color: navy; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12px;">4. Outline any areas of weakness which have been mentioned and explain how you intend to address these areas in Semester 2. **
 * <span style="color: navy; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12px;">5. Open your sealed envelope which contains the three goals you set yourself for Semester 1 in Humanities. Describe how successful you were at achieving each of these goals. (If you were unsuccessful or partially unsuccessful in achieving any goal, explain what steps you need to take in Semester 2) **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12px;">My three goals were:
 * <span style="color: navy; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12px;">6. (Think carefully before you complete this task) Write a paragraph outlining the skills and attitributes you believe you have demonstrated or possess which will enable you to succeed in VCE studies next year. **
 * <span style="color: navy; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12px;">7. Set yourself three goals for Semester 2 in Humanities AND explain how you intend to go about achieving each of these goals. Also outline how you will be able to measure / determine the degree to which you have been successful in achieving these goals **