Helen Munoz

ERWC 12 P.4

Ms. Frederick

R.O.L. Semester One

Over these past months Ive learned many things. From September Ive learned

how to annotate bibliographies not just for my Senior Project but just in general for

future projects. I also learned how to analyze and annotate articles. My weakness was

finding website urls for my Senior Project and annotating articles. Even though I was

using advanced search on Google it made it hard to find certain things from my topic.

My strength was annotating the texts read in class.

In October I learned how to create an argumentative thesis for my essay on the

Animals Bill of Rights. I learned how to give my peers feedback on their essays and

what improvements to make on my own. On reading about Hamlets To Be or Not To

Be and Eberts The Essential man I learned how to chart multiple texts and splitting

the texts into their own titled divisions to better understand them. My weakness was

trying to use the articles in this unit to draft and weave into my speech. My strength was

analyzing the texts and being able to use my annotations in group discussions or in

answering questions based on the excerpts.

Going into November I learned about how much a person is actually worth to the

government after one dies. And through an activity called the Human Life Value

Calculator that lets you see how much you are worth from how much you earn in your

job and your savings. Also different tips and ideas to include on shaping our charity
speeches and make it persuasive. My strength was arguing and persuading the

audience on my groups organization to donate. My weakness was trying to weave some

of the texts that my group chose into our speech.

Ending of november to the first few weeks of December I learned how to

deconstruct the class standards for the final unit of Into the Wild. I also learned about

the main character and how the author came to write about the main characters

journey. My weakness was not being able to understand some of the epigraphs in the

chapters making some of my answers towards them be shorter than usual. There was

just too many words on some of them, and my reaction to some chapters was short

because it was hard to summarize or write about my thoughts or reaction towards it. At

the beginning I did not know what it was I was supposed to be writing about in my

journal. On the chapters that had a map it was also hard to describe.

My strength was being able to meet the standards for this unit on my essay for

the road lifestyle not being for everyone. I was able to use my journal to help me come

up with arguments for my essay and argue my points for the prompt.