Monique

//I feel like I haven’t put in my best effort, and I feel like I’ve let myself down for not achieving my total best. In all my recent reports it has been the same things said over and over. This semester I think it’s about time I try listening to my teacher’s feedback and actually show them just how much I can achieve when I set my mind to it. //  **3. List the three main strengths evident in your Semester 1 reports (mentioned in two or more subject reports).** //My main strengths vary according to the subject. I’m very confident in my English except this Semester I haven’t really handed in my best work. //  **4. Outline any areas of weakness which have been mentioned and explain how you intend to address these areas in Semester 2.** //I really need to start organising my homework and start handing it in on time. I need to allow myself to start as soon as possible on a set task so I have enough time to fix, change and improve anything. I need to complete homework when given out so I don’t fall behind in any of my subjects. // //I intend to address these areas by having a tutor come during the week to help me out with homework (especially maths as it is my weakest subject). I will set more time for myself to finish and organise homework and less time watching TV and mucking around with other electronic games.//**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)** //Out of all three goals I had set myself for Semester 1, I had only achieved one. That was to improve my handwriting. Honestly I think my efforts in Semester 1 were pretty pathetic and I intend on changing that dramatically. My other two goals were to achieve better grades and participate more in class and put more effort in. I was unsuccessful at fulfilling those goals. //**6. (Think carefully before you complete this task) Write a paragraph outlining the skills and attributes you believe you have demonstrated or possess which will enable you to succeed in VCE studies next year.** //One of the skills that I believe I have but haven’t been using this semester is that when I set my mind to something and put a great deal of effort in it, no matter how long it will take me to complete it, I will finish it to the best of my abilities. //**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. **
 * 1. Write a paragraph which provides an overview of your Semester 1 reports. ** //My report for Semester 1 clearly stated that I needed to improve my working behaviour. It’s been a kind of wakeup call for me to actually improve in my studies. I’m not saying that my report was the worst. But comparing to what I know I can achieve when I set my mind to it, it was terrible. //   2. **Write a paragraph explaining how you feel about your report and the comments made by your teachers.**

I am always prepared for learning, I always have my books and pens with me, I’m always on time and I’m always at school. I may not always participate during class discussions but I nearly always listen. I put a lot of effort in my workbook and any other set tasks, I always make sure to write neatly and keep all my sheets as well as my work book well organised. Some topics for me are hard to understand, but I do all I can to ensure I do get some type of understanding for them. Most of the time I find it easy to understand tasks and homework assignments we receive. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Californian FB','serif'; font-size: 19px;">In my opinion I believe I have improved this term with my homework, I hardly hand in my homework late anymore in all subjects now. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Californian FB','serif'; font-size: 19px;">Depending on my strength with the topic of a task which we receive shows in the quality of the work I hand in. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Californian FB','serif'; font-size: 19px;">What I want to improve in is to start on assignments earlier so I can get feedback and make a final copy to ensure I don’t make mistakes in my writing and that my information is correct and it all makes sense.
 * **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Californian FB','serif'; font-size: 19px;">Preparedness for Learning (books, pens, attendance, punctuality, attitude, engagement in lessons) **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Californian FB','serif'; font-size: 19px;">Effort **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Californian FB','serif'; font-size: 19px;">Level of Understanding **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Californian FB','serif'; font-size: 19px;">Homework and Meeting Deadlines (including unfinished, late or tasks not attempted) **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Californian FB','serif'; font-size: 19px;">Quality of Work Produce **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Californian FB','serif'; font-size: 19px;">Areas for Improvement (outline two and the strategies you might use to improve) **

**<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">During the past few weeks: **

**<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;">I have learnt ** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;">about the importance of staying safe online & how it can affect you & the people around you. **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;">I most enjoyed ** **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;">the Humanities class on **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;"> cyber safety discussions because it teaches me how to be safe online & be cautious about what I do on it. **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;">My attitude has **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;">approved by studying the talk at home more carefully & keeping my workbook more tidy & up to date. **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;">My behaviour has **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;">changed dramatically on the way I use facebook. I now am more cautious about who I speak to, who I allow to see personal information & who I add as my friend on facebook. **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;">My interim report in this subject will indicate that I ** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;">am more neat in my workbook pages & my homework is completed more in depth & understanding. **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;">The hardest task I have had to complete ** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;">was keep my wiki up to date, it’s hard to keep it up to date when I’m not allowed to use the internet during school weeks. But I’m trying to convince my mum that it’s only for school purposes. **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;">My workbook is **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;">way more up to date then it ever was last year & my handwriting had improved a lot. **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;">Group work is **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;">much more fun than working alone. It means I can get closer to the people in the class & I get to talk about the subject & see different views & different ways of thinking. **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;">My greatest strength is **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;">gathering information & putting it together in my own words. **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;">The two areas of my learning that I want to focus on improving are: ** **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;">1. **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;">to be able to paraphrase information easier & faster. **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;">2. ** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;">To be able to talk in front of the class with ought hesitations & learn how to speak without making mistakes or long pauses & to become more confident. **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;">I am happy ** **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;">with **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;"> the topics we have planned to learn in humanities, they seem interesting so when we actually learn about I don’t feel like falling asleep in the middle of class. **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;">The class wiki offers me **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;">a way to communicate to others out of school that I wouldn’t usually talk to in the class, & maybe become friends with them. **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;">The Hall of Fame is a **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;">great way to show off your good work & achievements.

**<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;">My strengths (what I am good at) in Humanities include **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;">Learning topics that interest me, & get the feeling of how it must have been back in the medieval times. **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;">My greatest area of improvement in Humanities is **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;">The understanding about knights & other medieval thing’s. I had no idea about this topic before we started it in humanities & English. **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;">Things which distract me and prevent me from learning include **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;">Are the very long lectures & discussions teachers give our class, I think that we should read, watch & write in our books more often. **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;">To continue to improve and become a better student, I need to **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;">Ask questions more and research some of the things we talk about as a class. **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;">My workbook is **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;"> Up to date, but I would like to use it more during class times & discussions. **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;">My record for doing homework is **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;">Often, but sometimes I give in my homework maybe a day or two late, which I am not proud of & want to fix. But I do end up completing all homework no matter what. **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;">I think that in class it is important to **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;">catch up on work your behind on as soon as possible before you get too far behind in your class work. **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;">My classmates **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;">are sometimes loud, but are very hardworking students, but sometimes (even myself) get behind on some of the homework tasks & I think everyone should improve on that. **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;">My favourite class activity is **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;">Probably got to be watching movies based on what we are learning on in class, it gives me a visual understanding of the topic. **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;">If my teacher was writing my report today he would say that I **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;">Need to improve on getting my homework in on time, & to ask more questions during discussions. **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;">My teacher will not say that **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;">I always participate during classroom discussions & ask questions. **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;">What progress have you made towards meeting the goals you set yourself in Term 1? **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;">I made goals to get better in my maths; I didn’t really have goals for humanities. **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;">Do your goals need to be reviewed and new goals set? **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;">Yes, because my new goals would be to finish all homework on time. Also to participate during classroom discussions & to ask questions more. **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;">Yesterday **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;">We were talking about the social ladder of medieval times, & reading “To the manor born” **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;">Tomorrow **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;">I will be working on catching up on most of my homework class, so I don’t get behind on homework anymore. **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;">I will **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;">improve on keeping my mind set on school, without any distractions & to get a better report. **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;">I refuse t o **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;">ignore my bad working habits. **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;">My favourite **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;">section on the Vikings & medieval times would have to be medieval day and the movie we watched. **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;">The best part of this wiki is **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;">the reason that we get to view each other’s work, and see how we can improve on ours & gain others good working habits. **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;">If I had a rubber ducky I would **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;">Have a bath with it! **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;">Brain busters are **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;">sometimes frustrating, but are interesting **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;">My teachers always **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;">want me to do my best. **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;">My teachers never **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;">Give us a break on homework. **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;">Ms King was **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;">A really good teacher, and made classroom activities really fun! **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;">I don't like teachers who **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;">Always complain a <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">bout other students, and don’t teach the students who don’t do anything, anything. **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;">Mr Reichelt is **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;">a really good teacher, because he doesn’t just give us work. He gives us an understanding of it, and helps us until we get it.

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