Week 10

This week I have learned what is useful information and what isn't. Although it's easy to find a lot of interesting things on the internet, I've learned that without a reference it means nothing. It could have been made up if it's not supported or backed up on real facts. I suppose I have always been told this but like Thom said in class, sometimes we are told something over a million times but we do not soak it in until we are ready to learn.

On a different topic I have learned that we need to pay more attention to the information that is being handed to us about what is for homework. Everyone seemed to be confused this week even after having a major discussion on the issue, but it's all a matter of focus and paying attention. I still enjoy the topic of Pirates and I love the group I was put in. I've learned it takes a lot of time to research something and you need a lot of patience or else you won't do your best.

You can't give up!!!

Yarr!

This week was also about pirates, along with the rest of the term and I am very excited for it. We learned more on how to research our questions and we are narrowing our questions down to one major subject to study. Myself along with a few other people are going to research how Captain Hook has changed through the media, and everything that comes along with him. It seems like a great topic to allow all of us to learn more about pirates; real and fake.

Week 8

Last week seemed to be a big change for me because we went back to our old routine with all three teachers in the classroom instead of teaching their individual subjects. I like learning in Aquinas both of these ways but miss the classes individually. On Tuesday we were all given a great suprise and everyone seemed to really enjoy it, we were told that we would be learning more about pirates! Inkshedding about what we already knew about piracy, etc was extremely hillarious and everyone had a lot of fun.

We were given an article to read on pirates and we brainstormed questions on the white board. Once everyone chose a question to further research we brought our finding's back to the class on Thursday. It was difficult for the majority of us to find what we wanted exactly so on Thursday we learned better ways of finding answers, and the material we are looking for. Although we weren't actually talking about pirates on Thursday it was still good to learn how to search for information.