Day 13

Monday 30th Of March 2009 - Journal Entry 

Today in class, we spent little time talking and more time on working. I admit, I was talking to one of my friend about something OFF the topic of the Humanities Ancient Civilization Project but in the end , I worked very well. I finished one note card front-to-back but I only finished two note cards in one one side so technically, I did FOUR cards. :D

Nothing happened today because it started off really slowly because we went in the heat to the picture and all of us were extremely tired so normally, we would ALL have worked harder. In the end, I did get some work done because my hand felt a lot better than from yesterday. I hope I can continue my good work until we go to the multi media labs which by then I would regret looking forward to using the Internet as a source than using a book as one.

Day 12

Sunday 29th Of March 2009 - Journal Entry

This is the first day of term three. In the beginning of the lesson, Mr Sparks and Mrs Fletcher told us to edit out Journal Entries so that it was up to date. Mine, luckily, was only two days behind. I normally forget to type it at home so I just write it down on my Exercise book. I often wait until the last day and do everything because as Mr Sparks knows, I am not the type of person that can multi-task that well. I hurt my hand yesterday by falling down the stairs. Mr Sparks said he could not do anything about it. For the whole lesson, I could not write any note-cards and I didn't. Although, I did manage to find more information on Ancient Egypt while I was searching for a book in the Ancient Egypt shelf. The best part is, at the end of the lesson, Mr Sparks told us our Term Two grades. I got a twenty-nine out of thirty-eight so that means I get a six out of seven in the report card ! I am so happy. That left me happy for the rest of the school day and it certainly did when I came home. :)

Day 11

Thursday 26th Of March 2009 - Journal Entry

In the last lesson of the day and of the week, Humanities was practically the BEST lesson I had the whole day. For some strange reason, I had fun working with my friend that talks to much. Not only did I finish three cards, I found an amazing book that I have been waiting to take for a very long time. I have been waiting for the book and researching for the book from the start of this very unit which was on Sunday 15th of March 2009. It has been waiting for over a week to get this book and now, finally, I have it. This book is really kid friendly and you can understand the words easily since it explains what every word means on the way. I adored the book so much. It has information on ALL the Ancient Civilizations. Not only Egypt, Not only Greece, Not Only Rome but CHINA too. This book is what I call spectacular. I hope next time when we go to the library again I would find this book and find even better books than this one so I would have a lot of note cards like her.

Day 10

Tuesday 24th Of March 2009 - Journal Entry

Today in Humanities , I worked extra well because I was not sitting with the group of people I always sit with. Today, even though I talked a lot, I managed to finish three note-cards. That is an improvement for me because If I did not mention this before, I ripped all my note-cards since they were not useful. Although, I did take some of the great information out of the notecards before ripping them. I started again because all my note-cards were bead quality, hard to read and really the worst note-cards I have ever seen in my life. I came to the library before class started, which was in break, and I got the three most important books about Ancient Egypt in the whole library. Since I came in break in the library, I got the books before other people get a chance too. I saw some people actually hiding the other books so when they come to the library the next time, they know where the book is and don't have to rush to library and get them before other people do. I think that is really wrong. Next time, I am going to continue sitting with the people I sat with today so I can get some work done before our time at the library is over.

Day 9

Monday 23rd Of March 2009 - Journal Entry

Today is my favorite day that we have Humanities on because Mrs.Korbatit's class is not here on Mondays. I went up to the library gleaming, but unluckily for me I didn't know that the worse had yet to come. The library was seriously packed. That was not the worst part, the worst part was that they were literally talking the whole entire lesson. My friend and I came in late because the last lesson was P.E. and we had to help the P.E. teacher to bring the balls and bibs inside and then we had to go change which normally takes us a lot of time to change and that is why we wound up late to class and got the worst place/table to use because it was right next to a bunch of screaming, non-shutting up girls. We couldn't move ourselves because there was nowhere to move to except the floor. My friend and I also needed books about Ancient Egypt but someone from the other class probably hid the books because we searched every shelf in the library and checked everybody in the library and didn't have the books we needed. We both barley got three quarters of a note card because some people fell into an argument on how many bloggers we should do. Then they had to drag everybody in our class which eventually made us not do anything the whole period. Next time I will work my best because I will be at the library in break and then third period we have Humanities, so a full two hours to work on my Process Journal.

Day 8

Sunday 22nd Of March 2009 - Journal Entry

Today, I moved myself to another table because my friends were talking to me about something off the subject about Humanities. I needed to get some work done because I only had at the beginning of the lesson, three and a half cards. I needed to get more than five cards today because I made up a new rule while I was writing the last Journal Entry which was on Thursday. The rule was that every single day, I would count all my note-cards and then give me a goal for the day which would often be to increase the amount of note cards that I would have. For example, today I had three and a half note cards. By the end of the Humanities lesson, I would have, lets say five note cards with useful information. But if i didn't have those five note cards by the end of the day, I would stay in break with a friend or two that would help me do the amount of note cards needed at that day. Today, I worked extremely well. I managed up to not only five note cards, but six note cards. If I keep this rule up for as long as I can or want to, I would pass this project with flying colors.

Day 7

Thursday 19th Of March 2009 - Journal Entry 

Today, when I went to the library, I just finished a really tiring English assessment. I had to reach the library before Mr. Sparks did so that he would not keep me in after-school. Fortunately, I got there before Mr. Sparks did. Unfortunately, that girl from yesterday took all the useful books that the other people wanted. She was hiding some books under the table because she didn't want the teacher to see that she has more than seven books because today their teacher shouted at me because I had four books about Ancient Egypt and her class wanted them as well, not just me. But it is not fair that she wants to pass her lovely students and she doesn't care about the other students that are not in her class. I do not care what she thought so I went to the girl and told her to give me a book. Any book that had useful words/ letters in it since the other books were the same books I used before yesterday. I could not just sit there and chat with my friends, I had to work so she still said no but luckily, I told my friend who was doing Ancient Egypt to give me her book so today, was the same thing as before yesterday on Tuesday but only slightly better.

Day 6

Tuesday 17th Of March 2009 - Journal Entry

Today is Tuesday. That means whenever we have Humanities, Mrs Korbatit's class has Humanities with us at the same time except for Monday. Yesterday, I had fun researching from the books and I found some pretty useful information for my Early Civilization project about Ancient Egypt. They will not take that away from me. I started running to the library. When I got there and rushed to the shelfs where they keep all the books about the Ancient Civilizations, so it would be much easier to take out, then to actually go find the somewhere in the library, I found out that something was different. They had Re-organized the shelves. All had stickers to show where each book was and which Ancient Civilization it belonged to. I quickly tried to find Ancient Egypt but when I got to the shelf, it was to late. I found only about four books left. When I came in the library, I did not notice the other class was there. This girl who was in the other class and was researching about Ancient Egypt took almost six books and when I kindly told her if I could borrow the book she was using that I used yesterday, she simply said the word that I love using but hate when people use it against me. No. Today, I simply did NOT write on any note-card since I didn't get any useful information. Maybe after tomorrow will be a MUCH better day that I could focus on than today.

Day 5

Monday 16th Of March 2009 - Journal Entry

Actually, today I managed to get a useful book. Hence, Mrs.Korbatit's class is not here in the library. We have Humanities fourth period while they have Humanities fifth period. Luckily, today nobody was talking to each other. Since that is happening, I can focus amazingly well. I finished two notecards and a half now. Though Mrs. Korbatit's class was not here, I still had problems with some of the students. Some people kept annoying me to the point that I actually went and got them the dictionary for them. I then had to force myself to move so that I could focus more. I was so glad that there was a lot more Ancient Egypt books left so that I could get an even better one when I didn't find information in a book or when I was finished taking the information out of the book. It made my life much more easier than it was then the day before because no one can take the useful books. All in all, today I actually got a lot of information in Humanities and I hope that it can continue. 

Day 4

Sunday 15th Of March 2009 - Journal Entry

Last time when we had Humanities, we were at the Multi Media Lab. All of us were at the computers and had to make another blogger in our own blogger. We also had to go to our wiki-spaces and post a link that would lead you directly to the Humanities Early Civilization blogger. Enough about last time, I want to talk about today. Today we wound up in the library today. Mr Sparks got all our Process Journals and passed them out. We had to start work immediately so all of us rushed to get the best books. Unluckily, I ended up with the worst book about Ancient Egypt in the whole library, since Mrs. Korbatit's class was there and almost everybody in our class and hers, was doing about Ancient Egypt. Our class, was for my opinion, a little bit too loud in the library today. I think it was because normally, our class and the other class were all friends since we have more than two lessons together. I couldn't focus today because a lot of people were talking to me when they are not supposed to be talking to me. In the end, I managed to get half a note-card's worth of useful information.

Day 3

Monday 9th of March 2009 - Journal Entry

Today, Mr Sparks came back. We did not go to the library today. Instead, Mr Sparks gave us a process Journal and six "Date Due" sticky paper to stick inside our Process Journal. It had to be orginized exactly as shown on the board. The class had to write on top of the six "Date Due" sticky paper each one thing. The first sticky paper, we had to write Introduction. For the second sticky paper, we had to write our first characteristic that we choose for the Early Civilization project. In the third sticky paper, we had to write our second characteristic, which mine is Art and Architecture. On the fourth sticky paper we had to write our third and final characteristic. Mine was Government and Law. Though on the fifth paper, we had to write Conclusion. And finally,  On our last sticky paper, we had to write Bibliography. On the pockets, we had to write all eight questions we had to make up on Thursday for all three characteristic. Today was a pretty simple lesson for me. Though it could have been better if we started the lesson earlier so we could have more time to write this Journal Entry. 

Day 2

Sunday 8th Of March 2009- Journal Entry

Today in class, we went to the library so the librarian would teach us how to take the information out of a book using the internet. The information of the book would be used to have a bibliography. Then we had to choose to use a book about any ancient civilization. I choose to use an Ancient China book but I found out that it was really hard , but then the bell rang so I didn't have time to finish the first page of the ancient China book. So, probably next time I'll choose a new ancient civilization and it would probably be Ancient Egypt because Ancient Egypt, in my opinion, the easiest to answer for my three characteristic which are Religion, Art and Architecture and Government and Law. While the librarien was explaining to us, I was paying asttention so the next time we go to the library, I would probably know what to do.

Day 1

Thursday 5th Of March 2009 - Journal Entry

This is my reflection. My first reflection. On Monday Second Of March Two-Thousand and Nine, We offically started this assigment. I thought it will be really hard to do since my cousin was in grade seven last year and she told me all about the experience. Until now, I think its pretty easy. On Monday, we started making questions to answer with. We all decided to choose these three characteristics : Art and Architecture, Goverment and Law and Social Class. We only finished Goverment and Law. On Tuesday Third Of March Two-Thousand and Nine, I was abscent so I didn't know what we had to do on the next day. Luckily, on Wednesday we did not have humanities. Today, we had to write eight questions for each subject about Government and Law, Art and Architecture and Religion. So that makes twenty-four question toatl to write on a peice of A-Four paper. I found it very easy to concentrate today because nobody spoke to me. They all just consentrated on the assignement. Today was a really sucsessful day. This is the end of my first real reflection and it was a really good day.