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Semester Reflection Letter
SUBMIT TO TURNITIN.COM
by midnight
End of Year/Final Reflection Letter
10 points
Thank you for a fantastic year. Your thoughts about it are very important.
Write short answers to each of the following questions. Answer in any order.
If you run out of time before finishing, that is okay. It should take most of the period.
Submit to Final Reflection on turnitin.com
(Doubled spaced / Times New Roman x12)
Format as a letter to me (Dear Mr. Slater/Mrs. Marshall…)
6th Grade
Question Zero: We've studied the history of philosophy and the history of the universe this year. The first questions to answers, in light of all you've learned this year, are:
Who are you?
Where does the world come from?
After answering those, answer the rest of these:
1) What did you learn from reading A Face Like Glass?
2) What did you learn from reading Watership Down?
3) What did you learn from reading Sophie's World?
4) Which to you prefer: Socratic Seminars or Lit Circles? Why?
5) What did you learn from and/or about taking in-class essay tests?
6) What did you learn about Process essays?
7) What did learn/get out of doing the Poetry book project?
8) What did you learn about Descriptive essays?
9) What did you learn about Exemplification essays?
10) What did you learn about introductions and conclusions?
11) What did you learn about using direct quotations in your essays?
12) What did you learn/gain from the Peer Feedback process?
13) What did you get out of doing NoRedInk/Vocab?
14) What did you learn about advertising/merchandising/media literacy?
15) What did you get out of doing your Biography Book project?
16) What writing/reading skills have you developed this year?
17) What was your biggest struggle/what skills do you need to continue to improve?
18) What did you get out of doing PSA's?
19) What would you do differently if you could do 6th grade ELA again?
20) What were the best parts of the class this year?
21) What would you change for next year’s 6th graders to improve the experience?
22) How does the Essential Question relate to your experiences in class this year?23) What last words would you like to share with Mr. Slater or Mrs. Marshall?
7th Grade
1) Why does Mr. Slater show illusions on the overhead every day?
2) What did you learn from reading Chains?
3) What did you learn from reading Flowers for Algernon?
4) What did you learn from reading Freak the Mighty/Bullying Under Attack?
5) What did you learn from reading The Pearl, The Red Pony and Of Mice and Men?
6) Which do you prefer: Socratic Seminars or Lit Circles? Why?
7) What did you learn from and/or about taking in-class essay tests?
8) What did you learn about Narrative essays?
9) What did you learn/get out of doing the This I Believe Project?
10) What did you learn about Compare/Contrast essays?
11) What did you learn about Problem-Solution essays?
12) What did you learn about introductions and conclusions?
13) What did you learn about using direct quotations in your essays?
14) What did you learn/gain from the Peer Feedback process?
15) What did you get out of doing NoRedInk/Vocab?
16) What did you learn about advertising/merchandising/media literacy?
17) What did you get out of doing your Bullying project?
18) What writing/reading skills have you developed this year?
19) What was your biggest struggle/what skills do you need to continue to improve?
20) What did you get out of doing PSA's?
21) What would you do differently if you could do 7th grade ELA again?
22) What were the best parts of the class this year?
23) What would you change for next year’s 7th graders to improve the experience?
24) How does the the theme of 'Beliefs' relate to your experiences in class this year?25) What last words would you like to share with Mr. Slater or Mrs. Marshall?
8th Grade
1) Why does Mr. Slater show illusions on the overhead every day?
2) What did you learn from reading Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl? and A Raisin in the Sun?
3) What did you learn from reading The Jungle?
4) What did you learn from A Separate Peace & I Have Lived a 1000 Years (and your independent WWII books)?
5) What did you learn from reading Rocket Boys?
6) Which do you prefer: Socratic Seminars or Lit Circles? Why?
7) What did you learn about taking in-class essay tests?
8) What did you learn about Cause & Effect essays?
9) What did you get out of the STAND UP 8 project?
10) What did you learn about Argumentation essays?
11) What did you learn about Classification/Division essays?
12) What did you learn about introductions and conclusions?
13) What did you learn about using direct quotations in your essays?
14) What did you learn/gain from the Peer Feedback process?
15) What did you get out of doing NoRedInk/Vocab?
16) What did you learn about any of the following over the past two years:
advertising; merchandising; persuasion techniques; media & gender. Has the study of media changed you in any way? If so, how?
17) What did you get out of doing your Holocaust project?
18) What writing/reading skills have you developed this year?
19) What was your biggest struggle/what skills do you need to continue to improve?
20) What did you get out of doing PSA's? Was it worthwhile doing them in more than one year?
21) What would you do differently if you could do 8th grade ELA again?
22) What were the best parts of the class this year? These past two years?
23) How does the theme of Resilience relate to your experiences in class this year or in middle school overall?
24) What would you change about the overall ELA program at PGT to improve the experience?
25) What last words would you like to share with Mr. Slater?
(1-2 pages / doubled spaced / Times New Roman x12)
Write a letter to me (Dear Mr. Slater or Mrs. Marshall…)
addressing all or most of the following questions:
Take a moment to review the Writing, Reading, and Media tabs for 1st and 2nd quarters to refresh your memory about all we did, then answer the following questions. You can blend them into paragraphs or answer them separately.
Overall
How did the semester in ELA go?
What went well? What didn’t go so well? What will you do differently next quarter?
Writing
What skills did you gain?
What do you need to work on?
Goal
What is/are your ELA goal/s for 2nd semester?
Theme
*How does the theme (7th - beliefs / 8th - resilience) relate to your experience in the class this semester?
Other
Include any other feedback you’d like to share with me about the class.
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