Did you Know

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What does it mean to fail? To me it means that you did not do something to your best of ability that you could have done better. I think that Failure is a good thing in life because that is how you can the best at some thins but no matter what you are going to fail at something in your life.  Two new word that I learned about this week are denotative and connotation. These words go well with each other because if you do not know the difference between these words then you will get them mixed up. Denotative is the real meaning of the work or the literal meaning of the word like it is described in a dictionary. Connotation is the meaning of the word that is given to it by the way it is used in everyday life.

 

Denotative and Connotation

Things to Fix

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I think that one thing that I need to work on this week are my study habits. I feel like that I wait until the last minutes to start to study. I do not think that is the best way to study especially when I have two test on the same day then I feel like I am just not getting the information that I need to know to do good on the test. What I am going to do this week is try to study every day for an hour so I can figure out things I do not get and go over the things that I know. I can keep looking over them so I am not just walking into the test thinking that I know that why should I have studied for it. The thing that made me see that I need to change how I was studying was that I know that I could be getting higher grades on my test and quizzes that I was taking. I just want to do that best that I can so I do good in school. The things that I am learning are very important to my school work. I am also going to try go to a tutor so I can talk to someone about things that I am not understanding that well. I think if I can do this every week then I will do well on my midterms and my tests for the rest of the year. I just need to look at my schedule and see where I can take out the time to just sit in a quiet room and go over my notes. I think that I have to learn that I need to find that right away how to study and the right habits for me so I can do my best. I know once I get into doing this every week I will not even think of it as something I have to do it will just be part of my routine for school.
http://campushealth.unc.edu/healthtopics/academics-success/study-skills.html

Can you Fail

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I know from first hand experiences that kids are not allowed to fail in any way. They cannot fail at school ever even when they are playing a game there will always be a tie because then everyone is a winner. The kids in the generation below mine are very much protected from failure and do not know how to fail or what it failure is. I think that they are very much pressured not to fail in many thing. Now how you have to be the best in your class as a kindergarten, to be the smartest in school or the best at sports. If you are not then you are not good enough. I do not think there is a safe space to fail for kids or they might not feel comfortable with failing in front of others. I think if you do not know how to fail then how will you learn to fail from your mistakes. That no one is perfect and that everyone on is going to fail at something as easy as a test because you did not study. If you think you cannot fail and if you do fail then you will just crumble. How can you do anything if you are the only thinking about failing?  If you cannot fail I do not think that you will get very far in life.  You can learn the most from things you have failed at like in the article The Myth of ‘Practice Makes Perfect’ it says “But what we don’t do is intentionally look for ways that we’re failing and hammer away at those flaws until they’re gone, then search for more ways we’re messing up.” That when you see what you have failed at then you will be able to learn that much more from your failures in life.  

Read more: http://ideas.time.com/2012/01/25/the-myth-of-practice-makes-perfect/#ixzz2hYJFVhrM

The hall

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This week I went to my hall counselor. I thought that it would be boring but I found out a lot of cool things that were going on around school. One thing that I did not know is that we can help make things for homecoming weekend like a banner or the float. I also like that if I had something to say or an idea we could share it and other people would talk about it to see if it was something that we could do for my building. I am happy that I went I am going to back next week.

 

 

word to think about

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If I said you do not give up that you work hard and do not stop till you get done would you think that I am talking about persistence? To me persistence is someone who is not going to give up because you have to work hard to get something done, that you will not quit half way through it. You need to be like that because you cannot walk around giving up on things. Some other words that were important are Synthesizing and Analyze. Synthesizing means to when you combined different thing to get a new mean or a better understanding of it. Analyze is when you look at something closer to get a new understanding of it.

Synthesizing and Analyze

Try And Try again

Blog B6

This week we talked about how it is okay to be wrong. That you should own up to your mistakes that you can actually learn a lot about yourself if you are willing to say yes I made a mistake. Sometimes you need to make mistake to learn new things. This is about taking responsibility for what you have done. It is like the marshmallow test they did on the children where they had to wait and not eat a the marshmallow because it tells you a lot about yourself like "the children who rang the bell quickly, seemed more likely to have behavioral problems, both in school and at home.” They had more problems at home than the one that could wait and control themselves.  It is all about how you act when you are faced with a challenge in life it is all about who you can handle it.  If you can be like yes I did mess up but I know what to do. If you want to do something good with your life do you need to know how to get passed a challenge that might stand in your way? I think that you need to know how to do that if you want to go far in life.

            When you can work hard you are gritty. That is a good thing to be in life but there is different levels of gritty there is scale of 1-5 that you can be on. It just tells you how hard you will work at something in life. When “people might be gritty about some things and not others.” that they might not get all their work done if they are not willing to put in the hard work all of the time. When you are working you need to know that you cannot work hard at one thing and not another because you do not like it.

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/05/18/090518fa_fact_lehrer

 

http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/tomorrows-college/grit/angela-duckworth-grit.html

The right word

Blog A6

I think that the big challenge in my life that I had to overcome was my speech impediment. I had to go to speech form the age of 2 till I was about 15 years old. It took a lot of work for me just to talk so others could know what I was saying. When I was talking and would come to a word that I know that I could not say right I would have to say it many times just so they would know what I was talking about. I would go to a speech class every day at school just to work on my speech. I would also go home with a list of words to say so I could practice to get better at them. If I was not working on the list of worlds I would be practicing making the sounds over and over so I would know how I to get it right when I would talk. The letter that I had the hardest time with is the letter R the sound and words with R in it. When I was younger I would get embarrassed when I could not say a word right and just said never mind and stop talking. I felt different for other people. I did not understand why I could not talk like other people did or I would ask myself why does everyone else talk right but not me. I think that thing that I learned from it was that I would have to work hard at something if I wanted to get better at it and that everyone has something that they would like to change about themselves so life could be easier. That if you do put time and effort into something that does not come easy to you that one day you will get better at it. Then you will not have to work at it and it will come to you without thinking about it and you are going to say that word right.