This semester has been long and daunting and with AP tests coming up, it will be a lot darker before the dawn of the upcoming semester. So in order to better prepare, I have decided to partake in mock AP tests at school and at home. Not only am I preparing to be successful on the days of the test but also I intend to be academically prepared to be even more successful in the future. These test do more than just assess my skills in English and history but also in time management and text interaction which includes highlighting, underlining, and annotating.
All which are good habits that I have yet to adopt, after all these are college worthy skills that will not only aid my preparation for these type of major assessments but also serve as practice for college finals where the stakes are higher.Therefore, I commenced the process of honing these skills in synchronization with time management and text interaction both are
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Combined, these skills have practiced helped me boost my understanding of a text and minimize the time I spend reading it to maximize efficiency in the shortest amount of time possible. Forging me into a better test taker ready to take the exams, confident that I will do well. As for my growth as a global citizen, this semester in my English class, I was to complete a project regarding the class’s civil rights unit. For this project, we had to choose from a variety of issues that piqued our interest and we were grouped according to our selections. My group was assigned to the topic regarding gifted students in public schools who weren’t having their special needs met and as a result have fallen behind on their school work and misbehaving out of boredom. Once assigned to the topic, our job then was to familiarize
In Ap biology, we were handed a Campbell Textbook before the class began in order to complete the pre-modules. I consider the textbook to be the most beneficial resource that we had during this course, due to the amount of detail, examples, and images that it contained explaining each concepts in a reliable way. The power points that were made to summarize the main points from the textbook were helpful, however they were really long and made me miss what was actually important and take additional notes on filler information. Due to the long powerpoints, I felt implied to take long and details notes, which people struggled in this class, either taking too much or too less. After two units passed, we were taught how our notes should be, which will later help us in college. This strategy allowed me to understand the important information and identify the filler information, resulting in
4. Meredith Segal and Tobin Van Ostern’s story appeals to a generation of young adults. While i found inspiration and knowledge in the lessons of Pete Knutson and Rich Cizik, their story really reached out to me on a deeper level. The two were college students; they had to juggle work, education, and this new project for the election campaign. It was even worse for Meredith before she got help. This story shows that, while juggling social activism and school seems very difficult, it has been done before. It also reinforces the idea that it is wise to ask for help when you feel
As the semester finally approaches the finish line, I revisit my past work to compare and contrast how this class has developed me into a successful writer at the college level. Throughout the year my writing style has developed and become broader as I have learned how to incorporate more of my personal views as well as reliable, unbiased information. This portfolio is a representation of how many things I have learned along the way while being an English 102 student.
I never felt that my intelligence was tested in school until I was in the tenth grade. Throughout my schooling I had coasted by receiving “A’s” and “B’s”, yet never standing out amongst my peers. I was never challenged by anything educational related. In my sophomore year of high school I decided to take AP World History. It was set to be my first AP course I had ever taken. I chose the course like a sheep following the herd that was my intelligent peers. My time in the class was very turbulent. Through ups and downs I was able to reflect and gained knowledge about my own character and education.
I was taking AP World History, my first AP class. Keeping up my grades in the class was one of my biggest concerns, but surprisingly, it turned out to be a relatively laid-back class without much homework. Throughout the year, the class was mainly notes and document analysis. The only difficult part of the class was the tests. They were long and arduous with several vague questions based on specific parts of the curriculum that we had only gone over lightly. The course became more vigorous as the exam date drew closer; we began writing more essays, the tests we took grew longer, there were after school study sessions, and even a mock
I am deeply committed to social activism; the words of Desmond Tutu inform my actions every day: “If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.” At Phillips Academy, I am active in Women’s Forum, BOSS Magazine, and GSA.These activities give me the opportunity to speak out on issues such as race, feminism, LGBTQ+ rights, and intersectionality, but as much I value discussion, I would like to move beyond mere conversation; I want to do something. I want my life and my work to make a difference in the world.
This task offers students an opportunity to engage with topics that have immediate consequences in their own lives. Students consider a variety of print and multimedia texts about issues affecting their schools, neighborhoods, or communities, and may also wish to attend a town-hall meeting or to interview experts or those affected by the issue before determining their own stance. Of course the issues may be difficult for juniors to solve, but students should avoid describing or offering an overly simplistic argument. Instead, students should craft claims that propose a call to action or
Unfortunately, the society at Oakleaf High School disappointed me in more ways than one. It painted itself as very disorganized and incapable of encouraging anyone to pursue a career in the STEM field or help the community using our knowledge of science in any way shape or form. Even though it lacked all of these virtues, I still continued to attend the meetings, observing and writing down notes on what could be changed to make the society more functional and opportunistic. I shared my findings with the rest of the members, and we all agreed that by implementing these changes into the society, it would raise the program to a higher standard; for not only us but the school and the community as a whole. My only hindrance at the time was lacking the ability to take action with regard to my
The movie “The Class Divided” was a very inspirational movie because it taught a lesson on discrimination and racism. The film covers Jane Elliot experience with the “eye-color” exercise and it shows how the participants responded to being a victim of discrimination. The teacher who came up with the exercise was a third grade –teacher that wanted to explain to her kids the reasons behind Martin Luther King death. She divided each class she taught up by their eye color and treated them according to whatever eye color was more superior that day. Her lesson influenced and inspired the younger kids and older adults because it taught them a life learning lesson that could stick with them for years to come.
Throughout my practice for the SAT, I have discovered which topics I need to continue to work on and others I excel in. I will base my schedule around this knowledge and attempt to be at my best for the SAT test date, which is March 11th.
I took AP Statistics my junior year of high school and I was the only junior in a senior class. At first, I was really shy because I did not know anyone in the class, but after a few weeks, I had made new friends and was enjoying everyone's company. Usually, I am used to excelling in math with minimal effort, it simply came naturally, however anyone who has taken statistics knows it is not like other math class. It was extremely difficult in the beginning and was trying as best I could to understand what we were learning, but it was like nothing I had done before, however, it was the teachers first time teaching AP Statistics so, she was trying to figure things out just like the rest of us in the class. On open house night, my mother and I
These are skills that I have quickly adopted and put to use in group projects in my other classes to defuse arguments or get my group’s discussion back on track. I have also gotten myself into a habit of using any school resources available, such as the Library, in order to effectively manage my time and get work accomplished. One thing that I definitely need to improve upon myself with as the first semester comes to a close is being aware of when class schedules change. I have noticed now that I will have some work done a full week in advance because I was unaware that the class schedule changed. While having work done in advance is not a bad thing, this could be potentially harmful to my grades if something were to get moved up suddenly and I did not know. Overall, I think that my first semester has gone as well as anyone could have hoped for. Now I will be able to apply the skills that I have learned in this semester and apply them no only to the rest of my college career, but also to the rest of my life as a lot of these skills are transferable and could aid me in any future jobs. That is how my first six weeks of college have
As I reflect on my past assessment process, I realized how much my assessments have changed over the years. In my early years, I used tests for informational recall as my assessments. I felt these were appropriate guidelines in which I needed to follow in order to substantiate a student’s grade. Every assignment or tests was given a point value and then based on the amount of points, a grade was given. Every student’s assessment was exactly the same, and the assessments did not contain any subjectivity. I felt confident in giving the grade based on a valid point system. However reflecting back, I see that I did not include any performance-based assessments or individual learning styles in my early assessment. I also did not take into consideration the individual needs of my students. My assessment approach was awful. I am embarrassed that I use to assess students in this manner.
I continue to build my visual art skills and excel in my academics. Activism has been my mission since middle school. I have stood for things such a black pride and taken a stand against things such as poverty, bullying, and police brutality. Though the walks, the marches, plays, and workshops that I have done influenced my community but I want to invoke change. Through First Wave, I want to find more creative ways to grab the attention of the vast majority and bring awareness to a social issue. As future leaders of tomorrow, we are responsible in finding a resolution to the reoccurring problems that society has.
Project Citizen is a project that seventh-graders do annually. The students take one problem and find a way to solve it. The goals of Project Citizen are straightforward. There are four steps to Project Citizen. First, the students need to identify a problem in the school or community. Then, they research that problem. The students need to finish about twenty tasks, each related to a category of school safety. Next, they evaluate possible solutions to that problem. The solutions are put into a research paper, which is what this paper is. After that, they develop public policy ideas. These are put into a group presentation and later presented to a larger audience. The four keys to being successful in Project Citizen are to work hard, work as a team, research well, and stay organized.