My Learner Profile Reflection

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Just recently, my class and I were assigned to an activity in my Humanities class where we would all find out about what our learner profiles are. Each of us were given a sort of questionnaire/diagram that we had to fill out in order to tell what learner profile we belong to. 


Here's a reflection of my activity regarding my learner profiles. 


I  learn best when their are hardly any distractions within range when I'm doing my work. Usually, whenever I go home, I'm often distracted from doing my homework by things like computers, my baby brother, Television etc. Though, if their are no distractions within my vicinity, then I am usually more focused into doing my work. I realized this tactic not so long ago, when I first joined homework help; an after school activity that gives you you're own time and space to do your homework. After I finished my homework help activity I realized a remarkable thing, I finished my homework! I came to realize that the reason why I didn't really get any work done at home was because of the fact that I was too distracted, thus making me lose my focus of doing homework. 


In my own opinion, I think that I need to be a little bit more invulnerable to distractions that I usually come across whenever I work on my homework. What I mean is, whenever I do my work, I get distracted, this however, is a bit frustrating to deal with. So, my what I think is a good solution to this, is to maybe try to be a bit more distraction proof, so that I can be able to complete my work more often.


Some strategies that would help me in my learning is to maybe try to avoid getting of topic whenever my teacher is trying to explain something to the entire class. If possible, then I think that I would find it easier to learn new things because of the fact that I will be able to avoid distractions that could keep me from learning.


I think that I would like my teacher to know that one of the things that prevents me from learning would be that distractions that I find during my work time are one of the main things that effects my academic life. Just today, I had trouble remembering how to convert decimals, into fractions. This however, is another example of my weakness to distractions.

My Lit. Circle 3 Feedback :D

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For my third Literature circle, my humanities teacher Mrs Narsiman, assigned everyone in our class, to work on our next Lit. circle with a partner. During the past few days, me and my partner Gard have came across some obstacles, challenges, and much much more, though we have triumphed, and we have conquered. Though, without further ado, I am here to tell YOU about what I have discovered when I was working on my Lit. Circle. 

Obstacles.............

First of, let me start of with saying what obstacles that I have discovered and conquered during this assignment. One obstacle that I have discovered during this Literature circle, was when I had to talk to my partner, Gard and tell him what he should, or shouldn't do when we typing on our Literature circle sheet on google docs. This was especially hard because I kind of found it difficult to make him understand what I was trying to say to him. In other words, it was kind of hard to explain my tactic of a great, well structured paragraph. Another obstacle that I have found very irritating when I was typing up my Literature circle passage, was when I had to try to look for a very significant passage that I liked and try to look for reasons why I thought it was significant. To me, this was one of the most hardest parts of typing literature circles, Because if you can't find a very significant passage in the book, then you won't have much to write! 

Obstacles!!

Another Obstacle that I also found quite irritating when I was doing my assignment with Gard, was when I had to help him try to answer his questions. Not that I came up with the answer before Gard did, It was actually really hard to tell Gard what was wrong with his questions, and how he could improve upon it. This was especially hard considering the fact that I am also not so good at coming up with good questions. Plus, What I found really annoying was when I always had to tell Gard to provide examples and evidence. But I don't really blame Gard for not knowing how to provide examples and evidence, because when I did my first literature circle, I had NO idea of how to provide examples and evidence myself!

Challenges!!

Challenges....
Some challenges that I came across during this assignment was when I had to figure out how to put A LOT of text into my passage for the literature circles. I figured that, in order for me to be able to provide a lot of information into my passage, is to look for a really important part of the book that is very key to the entire book. This however, was a bit difficult because when I tried flipping through some of the pages inside the book, I couldn't find much to write about, this is because of the fact that not a lot of the scenes in this part of the book were that important. But with a bit of thinking I was able to provide a lot of information into my literature circle sheet, all from the help from page 150. 

Another challenge that I found very frustrating, was when I had to figure out some ways to help Gard improve upon his passages and Questions. This is because of the fact that Gard didn't put any examples nor evidence into his Literature circle sheet. I found this very frustrating because I had to try to explain to Gard what I actually mean by evidence and examples. Also, I had to constantly explain to Gard to add page numbers inside his passage, because he isn't really that specific whenever he types down into his literature circle sheet. Plus, I had to explain to Gard of how to make his questions more clear because they were a bit hard to understand.

New Understandings......

Some new understanding that I got from my Literature circle, was when I was able to learn more about Jacob's past life. For example: "Just a little rain can turn this hard grim land, into a soft green landscape...". When I read this statement in my book, it already tells me about how Jacob and his father usually bond together. Another new understanding that I have got just from typing up this literature circle, was how I realized why this book was called thunder cave, this was because of how Supeet explains to Jake of what exactly is the "thunder cave", thus giving me an understanding of why the book is called thunder cave. 

Some Benefits of working with someone....

One benefit that I came across when I was working with Gard was the fact that we were able to finish our Literature Circle much more faster then if we were working individually. Also, another benefit that would help me during this Literature circle, was the fact that we were able to provide feed back for each other, saying what are the do's and don'ts when we were typing this up. Also, just in case we didn't know how to do certain things in our Lit. circle sheets, we could always rely on each other for help. One last benefit that I would like to explain, was when me and Gard tried to "scan" each others work, and see how we could improve upon it. This especially was very useful, because if I never did this, then Gard would have not been able to think more upon his passage, because at first, it was a bit low quality, but now since we sort of, peer edited each others work, he was able to get a high quality passage!

My lit. circle refletion

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In my opinion, I think that my group discussion has helped me understand the book in may ways. One way was when Jesper told the group about how Sam's and Jacob's relationship was with each other when we were discussing our lit. circle discussion questions. Our discussion also helped me understand more about Jacob's relationship with his real father, because I kind of found the story of Jacob's Father kind of hard to understand when I was reading the book, but luckily, we were able to talk about it during our discussion time. I also found this discussion quite useful because now since everyone in my discussion group has told me some info about "thunder cave", I now have a few Ideas of how I'm going to make my next Lit. Circle. 

For my connections, I put 2 things, 1 connection that I did was about the time when my grandma passed away, due to cancer. The reason why I chose this connection was because of how much it relates to the experience that Jacob has. For example, when I was attending my Grandma's funeral, it was an extremely sad moment for me, but when I read this book, it sort of reminds me about my grandma's death. So that's pretty much why I put that in as 1 of my connections. As for my second connection, I picked that because of how much it relates to the experience that Jacob's mom had. Luckily, my mom wasn't injured  that badly, which makes me feel quite relieved when I think about it, but luckily, my mum just had her foot injured. 

My Prediction:

I assume that Jacob will probably have a problem that may occur when he tries to arrange for a flight to Kenya. I say this because of how inconvenient his flight will be to Kenya, my reasons to support this, will be that, how can Jacob arrange a flight to Kenya in such a short time period? Surely, Jacob probably wants his flight to be arranged in just a few days, which is pretty hard because people are meant to book a flight ticket A MONTH before they actually fly on the plane. Plus, where will he get the money to even by a ticket? A flight ticket arranged to take him ALL the way to Kenya would probably cost thousands of dollars (And probably a few hundred more dollars more because his flight it had to be arranged in such a short period of time)! 

Besides that, let me talk more about what I THINK Jacob might discover in Kenya. I think that Jacob will  discover the "Thunder Cave". In my own opinion, I think that the thunder cave might be some sort of ancient cave, that; is what caused the drought in Kenya in the first place, somehow, something must've triggered the events in Kenya to happen. As mentioned at the back of the book: "Will Jacob end the drought in Kenya?". This sort of gives me a clue of what this story is REALLY about, plus it also mentioned "And save the elephants from extinctions?" I this also gives me a clue about what might probably happen in the story. Overall, I would say that the thunder cave is actually the cave that (I don't how) causes the rain in Kenya to happen, which is why Jacob must go their when he visits Kenya.