Laurels

media type="file" key="Let's Go Laureling.m4a" width="300" height="300" Laurels are special assignments that you need to complete in order to graduate. These projects make you more responsible!

I think my Greek City-State was my best work because it was really colorful and neat. I also turned it in much earlier than the due date. I felt really confident creating it because I knew all of the information that needed to go into it. It took me enough time to finish, but not too little time. The other part of my city-state was creating a city-state address. I think that even though it was long (not in a bad way), it met the requirements and even more than that.

The time management was a little harder task, but I worked on everything every night a little at a time. When I got a new laurel, I worked on it for most of the night, just so that there was not as much pressure on me. When I did the math laurel, I did 14 of the 15 required pages just the first night. It gave me more time to work on the projects that were due earlier. Time management was not too much of a problem, but I know that I will have to get used to it for middle school.

I think that the most challenging part of the laurels was making sure that everything was my best work. There was a lot of rewriting and making sure that you finished everything on time. I was really confused, at first, but as more projects were handed out, I had to cope. It was not that hard, but I play sports out of school, so weekends were not an option to work on them. Most of the work was done in school, when I needed to ask questions, so it was easier to complete too.

The Author Study was a project where we had to write about an author who we had read a book from earlier in the year. I wrote about Michael Morpurgo and had read the book Kensuke's Kingdom earlier with 2 other people in a small group. My brochure was my best work, but my essay was just ok. It was alright, and I completed it in only 3 days.
 * Author Study

This was my 2nd best work because it was very thorough. I completed it 3 days early, which made me kind of mad. There was so much information going through my head, but overall I think it was very well done.
 * Let's Go Traveling

A Zine is a collection of writing of different kinds. I was really confident making my Zine, because Ms. Eiteljorg helped me feel better about my writing this year. I felt super, and my favorite piece is called **__A Softball, Game, and Glove__**. I worked super hard on it, and I think that it has been a great success!!
 * Zine

I felt great doing the math packet because it had all of my favorite kinds of math. There were word problems, logic, and plain old math which by far is my favorite. I hope that I got most of the problems right because I worked super hard on it.
 * Math

I really enjoyed working on my friendship laurel. For the laurel we had to write a paragraph about someone that was really special and has changed people's lives. I chose to interview my Aunt Shari. I chose her because she has a son with a syndrome. This syndrome is called Angelman's and he is unable to walk, talk, eat, or do many things without assistance. My aunt is really brave because she learned to take care of someone with a disease that she had never heard of before. I think that I did very well on this project because I was able to really connect because she is family.
 * Friendship

French was a very hard laurel to complete. You had to write a script requiring 8 guidelines, and memorize it, and then recite in front of the class with a partner. I was having trouble with my partner not cooperating, but we did get it settled. Even though we did, it took us a long time to finish it, and memorization was not exactly perfect for both of us. Even though we had some set backs, we did get in the 8 requirements and we did pass!
 * French

I really liked the music laurel. We had to write a paragraph about an ancient Greek instrument, and recreate an ancient instrument. I worked really hard on it and it was a complete success!!!
 * Music