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Philosophy of Education
Before I started attending Sonoma Mountain I was attending Casa Grande High School. When I was at Casa I had a good attitude so coming into Sonoma Mountain I came in with a good attitude too.I came here to improve my grades and make up missing credits I had since transferring from Casa. When I went to Casa I had a hard time turning in homework and failed all my English classes.
In my opinion we shouldn’t go to school from the age of 5 or 6 until we’re 18, or have to take English, math, science, and history. I know it is important to take these classes but there are some student that don't want to since they want to be mechanics or just go on and get a job. You should be able to take the classes you need for the job you want or the career you want to take.
One skill I need is to be good in math. Luckily, I understand it well since I want to be a contractor and you need to be good at math. I also need to take English since you need to know how to talk to people and how to write properly since I will be doing a lot of paperwork.
I believe leadership, responsibility, and organization are important since in life you should be all of those. You need to be responsible at your job and organized and always be a leader. You need to be on top of everything.
Since I started attending SMHS, I have made many changes. One change is that I started to pay more attention in class and started to do all my classwork. Another change I have made is that I stopped talking back to teachers and students. Before I would always get mad when people told me to do things but since I have been here at SOMO I have stopped and I can control myself better.science
This year of science class I have had a good experience. I have personally always liked and enjoyed science. I enjoyed doing everything in this class I mostly enjoyed doing the solar suit cases and going out to plant the plants. I have also enjoyed working with my classmates in some of the few project we have done. There were some things that I did find challenging but like not like a lot not like something I couldn’t understand. As a teacher you could be you a little more nicer since your a savage. As a student I actually do and finish all my classwork and not talk and mess around during class.
One of my most favorite assignment/project is the one when we went to went out and got to plant some plants and bushed. I enjoyed it first since we got to go out and do outside work and since it was a chance to get out of school and class. I feel like I did what we had to do since we followed all the instruction you gave us. We basically did that activity to try to see if we could win a trip to kenya for our solar suitcases. At the end even though we didn’t win we still went on with the project. I choose this assignment since it was one of many that I enjoyed doing, and since we did it all together as a school and got us to all work together.
Another assignment I decided to write about is the Solar suit case project we build 3 suitcases to try to give a trip down to Kenya to personally deliver them. We all work hard on them since there was a lot of parts and we had to figure them out and each person had a certain part to do. I had to take out the parts out of the boxes and make sure they were all there. The purpose was to make 3 Solar suitcases to send out to schools in Kenya that don’t have lights or electricity. The whole project took a few weeks to complete but I left to Mexico and wasn’t here to see the finish product.
Math
So every morning when we get to class we have to do a warm up on our math notebook it's a few problem on what we're going to learn that day to get an idea on how to do it. After we usually take notes on the lesson to show us and give us an example on how to be able to do those problems. Then after we usually get some type of paper assignment which are usually easy. I liked that one game we did a while ago called Light-bot since it was challenging but it got you thinking. And after we come back after break we usually play 1 or 2 kahoots and winner usually gets candy. We also do projects where we get to work with partners.
On this test we took I feel I did good on it well that and since I also earned a good grade. The test was kind of easy since I did kind of know what I was doing and knew how to solve the problems. The unit was alright it wasn’t that hard since I paid attention during class and knew all the steps to solving the problems. I think the grading system is better here at Sonoma Mountain since if people get a lower grade it wouldn’t affect them as much as it would over at Casa or Petaluma since they want to make credits up faster here.
History
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During my time here at Sonoma Mountain I have had a good experience here in History class with Anderson. I have enjoyed mostly everything we have done in this class i have always liked history. I just didn’t like all those long assignments were we had to do so much writing. One of the things I have found challenging in this class is when we have those long assignment or when we have to read a lot and after have to write about it since I find that difficult for me. Keep the way you are teaching us like when you shows us the powerpoints and explain us everything and how everything happen since you know what your talking about and know how to explain it when i'm having trouble understanding it. Me as a student could really stop using my phone in class since it distracts me doesn’t let me finish my class work during class.
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One of my favorite digital assignment that I enjoyed was the Corruption of Corporations we had to pick out a company and research them up to see that they were basically up too like corruption. We had to create google slides and make a slideshow on the company you are researching. We had a few classes to work on it and it wasn’t as hard the only hardx part was reading about it and writing down what they were up too but I still finished it on time. I choose to write about this assignment since it was one of only assignments I actually liked and enjoyed to do since I was researching up the company Chevron the company I use to put gas in all my vehicles.
English
Paragraph #1: since my first day in here i have had a good experience in this english class. Well back when I went to Casa Grande I hates english I never liked going to class I would never do any work or really pay attention the reason was it was just too hard for me. After I started english here i have really enjoyed it. I have enjoyed that when we do assignments there not as long or as hard like back at Casa and i also enjoy doing the SSR getting to read an article on line on things i like to read about and get to write down what i read. What I find challenging in just when we have to write like an essay or just do a lot of writing since writing is just not my thing. I don’t really know what you can do differently as a teacher maybe have more like group projects. Me as a student i should i should stay off my phone while in class.
Paragraph #2: One assignment that I have enjoyed completing is our childhood map. The assignment wasn't complicated it pretty easy and fun at the same time. I took my time to complete it that assignment really wasn’t as hard it simple just to drawing and remembering. The direction were to create a childhood map like of your homes, neighborhoods, hangouts and just label 10 things there were there or why you decided to draw it and i clored mine since if you colored it you would extra credit. I specifically choose this assignment since it was a simple just fun and easy assignment but got you thinking about what you did during your childhood.
Paragraph #3: Another assignment that I enjoyed completing was forming a future it was another small but pretty fun assignment. It wasn’t challenging at all I did a good job i just wrote like a paragraph about what i want the future to be like. We had to pick what year in the future what it was going to look like, i just followed the direction to write down what i wanted the future to be like. I just didn’t know what other assignment to write about so i choose this one.