Semster Reflection

My absolute favorite thing I learned this year in Mr. Fielder’s class was how to make sense out Of short stories. When I use to read things once I would not understand them especially if the Ending was never told. But I learned you have to read things more than once, margin note any
Ideas, questions, or reasons of why you believe things happened. By margin noting it helped me
Ask questions, so than I could go back read it over and over until I understood it then answer my
Own question. Margin Notes pushed me to ask the question why or how? I also learned how to tell
A well developed story. I realized every story has characters, details, and a beginning and an end.
By imphizing those ideas and putting in my characters reactions and their appearance you can visualize
Or imagine how you can possible feel if you were in those characters shoes. Listening to “Man in the Well”
Gave me ideas on how I can leave my audience guessing making them want to know more.


The weekly articles made me learn you should always know your current events because if you don’t
And you read an article you will get lost and confused. The China article made me truly and honestly sits
Down and think like in ten years could the United States possibly not be viewed as number one we don’t
Even make majority of our own products. Thinking about how lazy the U.S has gotten made me want to
Move out of America before gets into its own depression weather than recession.

The Rwandan Genocide
Debate made me disgusted with our own country and I was the U.S. They basically left them to fend for
They they said it themselves it was dangerous so they didn’t just jump in without a plan.
Our country didn’t jump in to save the lives of so many people. By watching the movie Hotel Rwanda I was
Able to get a better understanding on what actually happen. But, these two things helped us voice Our oppions and play makes believe if we were them what would we do? Q.C.V.I s was also a major part of Reading that I learned it was a must to ask questions make connection or comments understand the Vocabulary and point out interesting facts. Without doing so I might have written a horrible response. I even Wouldn’t understand what it was that I was reading what really was going on or how things were happening.

When I’m in college I will defiantly come back to thank Mr. Fielder for showing me how to find credible sources
Because a lot of sources I thought were always right like Google can be changed. Most sources like the
New York Times and the BBC things that are always updated. I use to use Wikipedia until I realized it is not credible.

This will always help me because when I was researching articles on South Africa and Rwandan genocide I had to read
An article that I knew was the real deal and had the story covered not something that someone said r changed.
Overall, I have learned so much about basically becoming a better writer and researcher with all these things in mind when I write I will always have a lot to say.