Learning log Jan 4

What we did

Today we started the day by practicing the Geography Challenge in which we answered 30 hard questions about geographical history etc. After that we re-watched a video about the middle ages and the three various periods of the middle ages (early, high and late) while taking notes at the same time. After the break, we all went to the library to go and work on our various blogs, by discussing criteria and expectations for the blogs. For the rest of the block we were discussing the quality of blog posts of the fellow blogers in our blog groups by grading them on a scale of 1-5, 1 being the worst, and 5 being the best.

Why We did it

We practiced our Geography Challenge to prepare for the upcoming official Geography Challenge and to increase our overall speed in finishing them, since there will be many questions. We watched the video to learn about the middle ages and to finish it because we didn't the last time we watched it.
We spent a whole hour working on our blogging skills to improve them and to asses weak points to improve on and to decide who's good at posting and who's not so good.

My reflections/connections

I believe that by taking notes on the middle ages video, we would have improved our note taking skills, since we were watching a video instead of reading a book we would have to deal with taking notes and listening for more things to take notes on at the same time, so we should have improved. When doing our blog work on the second block I believe we improved our blog writing by looking for parts that are bad in the blog and improving on them, the blogging skills can be further used to help with essays you may write in the future or if you grow up to have a formal blog of your own.

Homework

Finish reading your novels, you have until Monday to finish