Final Assessment

A8 - Speak and Listen to make personal responses to texts by

making connections with prior knowledge and experiences

relating reactions and emotions to understanding of the text

generating thoughtful questions

making inferences

explaining opinions using reasons and evidence

B4 - Independently Select and Read, for sustained periods of times, texts for enjoyment and to increase fluency

C3 - Write effective imaginative texts to develop ideas and information to 

 strengthen connections and insights 

explore and adapt literary forms and techniques 

experiment with increasingly sophisticated language and style 

engage and entertain

This is my Final Assessment. In this post I’ll be telling you how I think I did in this school semester in this class. I’ll be grading myself on three different sections; Self Regulation, Quality of Communication Skills, and Contribution to the Learning Environment. The teacher might very well disagree on how I think I did, but that’s why I call this my self assessment; I’m assessing myself on how I think I did.

First, I have to grade myself in Self Regulation. I think I did fairly well in Self Regulation; I kept on task, I ignored messages and notifications I received, and tried to keep any talk with friends on task. When we went to the library, I had a bit of trouble though; considering for the majority of the time we were at the library I had no way of actually writing on the computer, it was a bit of a temptation to just do normal computer things. But then I finally made a gmail account, therefore I had access to google docs and was able to actually write on the computers, and was able to stay on task.

Final Assessment; 21/33

The first PLO I chose was A8; Speak and Listen to make personal responses to texts by making connections with prior knowledge and experiences, relating reactions and emotions to understanding of the text, generating thoughtful questions, making inferences, and explaining opinions using reasons and evidence.

I feel I do well at this PLO because I do all that it describes, and I do it without even realizing that I am. Some proof I have of this is in my essay where I tried to predict who killed Wellington;

“My proof of this is that when Mrs. Shears came over that first time, she pulled Mr. Boone's head to her bosom. This does not often happen between neighbours unless there's something between them.”

This example demonstrates ‘making connections with prior knowledge’, ‘generating thoughtful questions’, and ‘making inferences’. It shows making connections with prior knowledge by my understanding that neighbours don’t ordinarily act that way towards each other. It demonstrates generating thoughtful questions by showing that I considered if this behaviour was acceptable for neighbours or not. It then showed me making an inference of stating that there was something off about the two of them simply by their behaviours, which can also count as explaining opinions using reasons and evidence. In such a small section of an essay I demonstrated all the requirements for this PLO.

 The second PLO I chose was B4 - Independently Select and Read, for sustained periods of times, texts for enjoyment and to increase fluency.

As mentioned in my very first blog post, I have read and still continue to read various different novels in my spare time;

“,”But I've read tons and tons of books, like the Inheritance (Eragon) series, all four of them, and I've read the Ranger's Apprentice Series, the Chronicles of Narnia, and many others,” 

This section of the post is self-explanatory; it displays the fact that not only do I read outside of class, but that I also explicitly enjoyed them and have looked to a variety of different types. This shows that this PLO describes me perfectly.

The third and final PLO I chose was C3 - Write effective imaginative texts to develop ideas and information, to strengthen connections and insights, explore and adapt literary forms and techniques, experiment with increasingly sophisticated language and style, and engage and entertain.

Yet again, let me take an example from my first post;

“I also spend huge amounts of my time writing various random little stories in Microsoft Word, some of them ranging to around 34-37 pages, one even at 64 pgs!”

I write not only to get better at it, but because I enjoy it, and because maybe if I get better at it I might be able to actually publish a book one day. Because of writing I’ve learned a larger variety of descriptive, conversation, and other types of words. I hope that if I ever publish something I wrote, that people enjoy them.

Those were the three PLOs I chose, and I think I did them well.

Final Assessment; 30/33

The third section I have to go over is my Contribution to the Learning Environment. I think I did well in this section; I often comment on topics going around, try to contribute to figuring out predictions or issues, I’ve been known to help with tech if I know the solution/help to try and find the solution. I discuss things with those at my table, and raise my hand if I have a point to add to a verbal discussion amongst the class. I attempt to be helpful in comments on others’ blogs, and encourage them with their writing. All in all, I think I did fairly well in this section.

Final Assessment 29/33