Monthly Archives: March 2019

Purim Reflection

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The Purim story influences our values as Jews today by show us how to stand up for ourselves for example when Esther went to the king to tell him what happened even though she could of gotten killed. We can act on these values by standing up for what you believe in. A problem that I see in the world are shootings. I would stand up by saying I don’t want people who aren’t in the military not to buy guns because people are getting shot. For example I could write to the senator and say what I feel about the laws. I could also talk to my class and to my family about how I think the laws should change.

One challenge that I had was reading/doing the megillah because I can’t read Hebrew. I practiced a lot in school by listening to it and also having it in hebrish (Hebrew-English) was really helpful. I had to learn how to make is interesting for the kids but also for me.

Civil War Speed Dating Reflection

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  • What role did your character play in causing the Civil War? My character was Lloyd Garraison and he lead a campaign against slavery. 
  • Did your Character believe in slavery? Why? Why not? No because he thought it was so bad that he told north to leave because he didn’t want them to get hurt.
  • Does your character believe that the government should have power to tell states what to do? He was outspoken and for most of his life he created a new government that prevented slaves and gave all men equal rights.
  • What other person/people does your character believe is most at fault for causing the war? He thinks it’s south because they wanted slaves but north did not.
  • Do you like the character you were assigned? Why?  Yes because he tried to stop slavery and slavery was really bad.

San Diego Breakout Reflection

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  • How did having limited time to play the game impact your teamwork? It didn’t really impact my team because we added an extra 20 minutes.
    • What strategies might you use to help this?
    • What tips would you suggest to others?
  • How did having limited time impact or shape your thinking during the game? It just made me think harder because we felt a little presser even though the time didn’t make us work faster or slower.
    • What strategies might you use to support your thinking?
    • What tips would you suggest to others?
  • In what way(s) were your critical thinking and strategies different during the timed games than they were during the initial games? It impact my team because even during timed games I would not get distracted but during this game my team and I kept getting really distracted.
  • What Top 3 strategies/tips would you suggest to others when playing a timed game? Make sure you ask your self did I click everything? Am I working with my team? Am I asking myself the google doc questions?

Minecraft Reflection

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  • What did you notice or observe during this challenge? I noticed that the last question that I was working on was really hard and we had to try 3 times and we still didn’t get it also I noticed that the questions were easy and then they got harder as the challenge went.
  • What kind of questions did you ask yourself (meta)? I asked myself did I click everything?  Did I make sure that I was writing everything down and making sure I check my work more then once?

 

  • What was your “aha” moment during this challenge? How did this impact finishing the challenge?  My biggest aha moment was I finished the questions because some of them were really hard.

 

  • How did this challenge compare to the other two we have completed? This one it was easy and then got hard but the other ones were pretty much all easy.

 

  • What was the most challenging aspect of this challenge? The last question because I still didn’t have enough time to finish it and it was really challenging.

 

  • What two strategies helped you and your team the most when completing the challenge? (Use the strategy sheet for this! If you used a different strategy, list it here as well) We used a sheet to write down the answers that were wrong and we circled the ones that were right.

Slavery Primary Sources

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How did the experiences of slaves first hand compare to what we have read about in the past? Were our secondary sources accurate to the slave experience? Explain. It was different because at first it was from people who have done research but know is was from the slaves prospective and through    there eyes how it went down and what was going on.

What was one new thing you learned from reading these stories? I learned that a lot of families go in together because I thought is was rare to go with your families but in the stories there was people with there mom, dad, grandma, brothers and sisters.

Did reading these stories from slaves change your perspective? How so? Yes because you could see there story and there stories through there eyes with there families or by themselves.

How do you think that the stories of slaves relates to our essential question of “Why do people move?” ? I think it connects because some people were forced to go and be slaves but some people had to get out of there place because of problems there or needed to go some where for better food, jobs, etc. 

Why did slaves move? Be specific in your answer. They moved because they were either forced to because I pretty sure know one wants to be a slave and work for people and get bet up.

Silly Shamrocks Reflection

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  • What did you notice or observe during this challenge? I noticed that the questions got harder as we went through the challenge.

 

  • What kind of questions did you ask yourself (meta)? I asked my self did I check everything and did I read more then once.

 

  • How did the time limit impact your ability to solve this breakout session? No it just stressed us out.

 

  • What were your biggest connections when solving this challenge? When we realized that the guy was wearing a hat.

 

  • What was the most challenging aspect of this challenge?  The time limit because we only had a little bit of time.

 

  • What two strategies helped you and your team the most when completing the challenge? One was clicking everything and reading more then once.