Weekly Blog

The Academy is different type of environment for me to work in. It makes me pretty upset to hear that it will not be offered next year because in the academy we use computers all the time, I'm the computer geek so this class works well with me. There are many reason to why the academy works well for me, some of those reasons are that when we have a project we get like a week too a couple weeks to work on and that takes a bunch of stress away, also that each project has a little something to do each subject which makes three to four different projects one. The freedom and free time we get in the academy is awesome and it gives you a bit of time to relax and do other homework or work time to do homework from the academy. Sense I have joined the academy, I have gotten much more confidence in presenting in front of peers. The academy makes you present in front of some very important people that most classes don't get the opportunity to do. That's what the academy is for though, making you deal and figure out answers to real life problems. Another reason why I like the academy is because we get so much more teacher time than other students in regular classes. What I mean by teacher time is like one to one time, we get our questions answered right away, they help us on stuff that we truly don't get, and they actually care about us. In other classes the teacher doesn't really get time to answer your questions because they have 30 other people to teach, they don't care because it's not their grade it's yours so it's your responsibility not theirs, and they don't get to sit down with you because they only have 40 minuets to teach something. The last thing that I enjoy about the academy is that it's the last four hours of the day so if we learn something in class and we don't understand it we get extra time to go over it and practice it.

Personal Blog#14 1/10/12-1/14/12

This week in the ILA, we had so much time to work on our final project or missing work. I feel pretty confident in my project and hope I will get a pretty good grade. For English this week we took a mock/pre test for grammar, also, she taught us how to write with commas, were to place them, when to place them, and a short lesson on titles. For Social Studies we also had a small meeting that went over how Wisconsin wants to try and reserve/save the plants, animals, and the like old parks. When we went to Art this week we had all three class's to work on our water color picture's of Wisconsin landscape. If we finished with that early, then he gave us a little square piece of paper that had different colors on them and we had to use oil pastels to recreate it on another sheet of paper. This week in Science class, we did an experiment were we burned different chemicals to see the reaction. It was a really cool lab and I could do it all day! After he taught us how to bond different equations to make it one.