My Zeitgeist

Learning Profiles - How do I learn best?

Have you ever pondered if you are in the right position of the classroom to concentrate? Have you ever disliked/ misunderstood because the teacher is not teaching a topic you enjoy?


I beg to differ with these questions, I do ponder if I am in a comfortable position but I enjoy the seat. I don't judge classes because I enjoy a Gestalt learning class, but I do not understand why we can't maybe try a mix of both the gestalt and logic side. I think this makes me a profile J, examples of how I learn best is when I focus on the full picture, The parts of a statement that surrounds a particular word, and Movements tend to be spontaneous and fluid when relaxed under stress may move forward with caution feeling clumsy, and stuck. 






I believe that I will benefit from sitting on the right side a few rows back where I hear easily by turning my left ear to the front. This would also keep me thinking to stay focused because I would know that the teacher is watching me. I also need to learn through the full picture, context and emotional relevance, and I enjoy a bigger picture for I am a Gestalt brained person. I interpret language by its tone, pitch or rhythm. 


I believe that the strategies that can benefit me,  sitting on the right side a few rows back where I hear easily by turning my left ear to the front, I also need to learn through the full picture, context and emotional relevance, and I enjoy a bigger picture for I am a Gestalt brained person, Movements tend to be spontaneous and fluid when relaxed under stress may move forward with caution feeling clumsy, and stuck... Etc. I believe that the above strategies are benefiting me for now I would know what to improve in my choice of seats, learn through the full picture and try not to go under stress. Many times before I had been under stress for I had no partner to work with, and so I would just give up feeling I was stuck and unable to complete my project  This helps me to know that I should never go under stress. 


I would like my teachers to know this about me because, if I make a wrong decision they could stop me from continuing. They could also help me by putting me in the right position of where to sit, to calm me down if I get stressed and Etc. I hope this assignment benefits me and others who have found out about their weaknesses! We should all learn that weaknesses are opportunities to learn about ourselves and to grow become a better person

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Collaborative Literature Circles.

In Humanities we have started Collaborate Literature Circle. We have free choice Literature Circle, which means: the teacher allows us to choose our book, my book is: THE TRUE CONFESSIONS OF CHARLOTTE DOYLE written by Avi. My partners are Radhika and Hime. 


1.The benefits of working with a classmate.


 Working with a classmate benefits us to correct each others assignment's. It allows us to understand what people think and criticize on their work before the due date. I also believe that, working with a partner is more enjoyable for you have more to experience and more to think about (correcting).   


2. Challenges / obstacles which you overcame (tried to overcome).


One of the hardest obstacles I had to conquer was the fact that I was blocked from my email, which means I couldn't communicate with my group. We came up with a solution, although not a good plan I followed the idea and found that it worked. 


3. New understandings that you gained about the novel.



I gained the  understanding of Charlotte, and how she can really stand up for herself, in a dark situation. Mostly in my group we only chose passages which showed how Charlotte can stand up for herself. "While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die." This quote explains Charlotte's dark  and difficult experiences and self torment when she had to learn how to live with the poorer society coming from the wealthy life

The Lit. Circle Blog.

The group discussions that we have in Lit. Circles helped my understanding of the book by explaining other people's perspective about some passages. Sometimes we would not understand a certain passage of the book, this made us brainstorm together in a group. During the lit circles we would also discuss our opinions and from that we understand the book with different point of views. Lit. Circles also gives you an opportunity to express your favorite passage and why you chose it. 

Some connections that my group make is that we discuss similar questions on the same questions. Our group would always come to a chapter or passage when we face draconian questions and always come up with a plenipotentiary answer. Sometimes we would also comment on each other Lit. Circles and would have the same comment/criticism as each other.

I believe that there are many predictions to what may happen in the book THE TRUE CONFESSIONS OF CHARLOTTE DOYLE . First I predict that soon Charlotte may gain more friends on the ship for she has started to already make acquaintance with other crew members on the ship. Second I predict that Mr. Jaggery is evil for he has tortured and plunged into hatred of the crew.   

Guns, Germs and steel. (A hypothesis.......)

I believe that there are 3 reasons why most of the wealth in the world is axiomatic in the areas north of the Tropic of Cancer. A more tropical range looms over the tropic of cancer, this could provide more trading aspects. Above the tropic of cancer, more space allows larger populations growth, this makes southern countries inchoate of trading goods and supplying money. More mountains on the northern side of the  Tropic of Cancer grant more to find, for this paleontologists discover more evidence of the past life. So why is wealth founded more above the tropic of cancer? 

Wealth can be found in a tropical area which has more to trade. Most people live off what we trade. Flour, rice, seaweed, herbs and etc. are what we use to slake ourselves with. From trading in the northern region people have a lot to trade, this allows them to earn money that they eventually spend to disport themselves. Some people are wastrels on the southern region who don't think about the people who toil with labor, transport the goods and eventually get a small amount of money for trading. This is one reason of why most of the wealth is found more on the north side of the tropic of cancer.


Above the tropic of cancer more space creates more larger populations to grow. The northern area combined is larger than the southern area. A larger population has to give a large amount of tax back to the government, which could also be why the northern part has more wealth than the southern part. Larger populations give more money to satisfy themselves, they could travel a museum and pay a large amount to get in. People would also need to buy food to feed their families and themselves. This is my second reason of why I believe that the northern region has more wealth than the southern part. 


Mountains on the northern side provide more to discover. For most hominids lived in caves or more natural places which mostly is found above the northern region. Paleontologists mostly discover new species or different variety's of old hominid tools which can be sold for millions of dollars. Most of fossiliferous strata was founded in the northern region which gained alot of money. The Terracotta army is a good example of what was a great discovery. This is why I believe that most of the wealth in the world is axiomatic in the areas north of the Tropic of Cancer. 


These are my three reasons of why the northern region has more wealth than the southern state. 

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The New Kuala Selangor Mudskipper

"BUMP, BUMP, bump, BUMP, CRASH!!!" I shifted through the ooze, whilst pondering what could make such a 

racket. I drowsily flopped and flapped my way out to the territory to smell once again the fresh scent of mud. " Ie w ant t o goo hume!" I stared at this humongous monkey with curiosity.  What could this creature be? Unfamiliar sounds interrupted my thoughts, "luok a mod skipur!". .A two legged, long black hairy creature shoved her finger in my direction. What species are they I wondered? They all look different! After trying to understand this quickly scurried over three feet underground to find 

myself wedged between 2 other mud skippers. The other two Mud skippers looked frightened and scared as they were in the same situation as me. I asked them a few questions but they seemed not to answer, " so why are you two down here?", "hello?", "can you hear me?", "do you need help!", "ANSWER ME!!!!" 

After 9 desperate more calls I noticed that one Mud skipper did not have an eye, and one without a fin. I hurried out of my hiding spot. These monkeys... What killers can they be! I tried to silently slither back to my den. But as I made a huge bump against a mangrove tree I heard tiny voices... " Augha Roun fur iour lihfs!!!". This sounded like some Mud skipper had scared the beast away, I prayed as I saw a large monkey running towards me. Was this an illusion? Was I just dreaming? But I sensed fear, and the creature looked terrified. However he was holding some type of mangrove tree. Were the monsters trying to save us? I heard a cry behind me. A monster was somehow pulling another monster out of the mud... Were they HELPING each OTHER??? This day! What surprises could it bring? From looking around I saw some type of portable device that these brutal creations wore on their long fins. Inside looked so inviting, with all that fur... Was this an animal too? I hopped in feeling its warmth against the chill of the mud. I walked back and forth, soon falling backwards. Tilted in an awkward position I realized something was carrying me away from my home " HELP! HELP! The creature! I Its taking me away!!! HELP!!!!!!" No one seemed to answer,and my eyes started to droop down.....

I woke up moments later. The creatures still did not seem to notice me... Soon they dropped me and ran towards this speeding water " yhaeee!!" they all shout in happiness when they got there. I tried crawling out, but they seemed to be coming towards me with that water. Was it magic they were controlling? Were they going to..... Water washed my thoughts away, I tried to breath but I couldn't. Suddenly bright lights shone into my eyes, my fins barely reaching a surface. I couldn't breath!

  DARKNESS

Am I Dead?

Bullying??

My experience with bullying was with someone I called a friend. A normal eye wouldn't have spotted any bullying in this relationship... It turns out one of my oldest friend  named Ajay enjoyed playing rough with me. Ajay likes to push and shove me around to make me feel little. As soon as I found out it was more like a warlike friendship I tried to avoid him, but he kept coming to look for me.

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Pushing and shoving in a rough like manner was one of the ways we started a game, or it was either a war type game that always had me isolated in a corner by myself. An example of one of the games we enjoyed was this specific type of war where you have your own territory, you either protect your territory or turn to offence and attack another territory. But my feelings weren't much of a meaning to him and the game would go on until someone would bleed or get bruised. Changing my feelings about Ajay was very hard, for I had injured him in the head when I was little and he had to go to doctor to get stitches. This made me feel pity for him because I was the one who caused the accident. This lasted for at least from third grade to fourth grade. Even though it sounds as if it was one of the worst relationships I had chosen  I would not let it go because he also was a good friend. Sometimes he would stand up for me or he would comment on what I've changed about myself in a positive way. We also enjoyed doing things together like watching a movie and trying to find subjects in a movie we agree with.

 

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If I had a chance to restart this friendship, I would have studied how Ajay reacts to other people, as a bully or not, how nice he is. Later on if I would be his friend I would have tried to stop the accident from happening, but this would be going against the quote "what happens, happens for a reason". His reason might have been wanting to be the best and most popular kid. He believed that to have more strength is the bridge towards popularity and he wanted to be the winner in every game (like Chuck Norris). If I would meet these certain type of people in the future I wouldn't lay the same cards as I did with Ajay, and I would not play such games where we could hurt each other intentionally or un-intentionally.

Two goals for this trimester would be (1) Keeping the friends I have with me, and try to communicate with them when we do something that might hurt each other to avoid breaking up our relationship. (2) To be a good friend and to understand my friends better.