Jarrett Marx - English 12 Reflections Project

Course Recommendations- This English class has been my favorite English class yet. We had a lot of projects but they were easy and quick. There weren’t a lot of long projects and that is what was good about this class. The beginning of the class was pretty slow and boring but when we continued on with the class it became easy and entertaining. I wish we did more of the in class discussions and less of the STTP project. This course can be better by eliminating the STTP project and finding a new project to fill the void. This class can also be improved by using the Socratic seminar more at the end rather than the beginning because we all were more comfortable at the end. My overall experience with the class was good and it showed me a lot about what an English class can do to better your skills in a way that most classes don’t. This class was also good because of the way that we did things, we never just sat there and read books mindlessly for the entire course like some English cla...

Survival- The survival unit was interesting. I liked the unit because we were able to watch survivor man. The unit taught us about the importance of having good survival skills in certain situations. Les Stroud from survivor man has a lot of survival skills. We also read a couple books. I was assigned to the Book Unbroken. The book was about Louis Zamperini from WWII. He was a hero in WWII who survived from a japanese prisoner of war camp. He was a POW for a few years during the war. Louis was a great hero. During his time of being a POW he was really strong. It's good to have strong as a character trait. If there is a time you are not strong in a survival situation then it's harder to survive. Louis had a very good will to survive as a POW even though he was tortured, beaten and starved. He was used as slave labor also in the camps. 

Speak Truth to Power- Now the speak truth to power project i was not there for the whole project. I ended up getting my wisdom teeth out and i was not in school for a couple days. The project was based on choosing somebody who tries fighting for something really important to them. The person Chase and I chose was Elie Wiesel. He was a holocaust survivor from WWII. He was in Auschwitz for some time but he was lucky to be saved by the Americans. He wrote a book called Night. He wanted to make sure what happened in WWII would never happen again. He was tortured back during the Holocaust and he had to go through very harsh punishments that are just not acceptable and cruel. Elie wanted to make sure there would never be any more extermination of large groups of people. We did the project to get more information on what people fight for. It would have been good though to be here for the project because i would have learned a lot more. I wasn't able to learn too much due to the fact I wa...

Veterans History Project- During this project i wasn't there to interview the veteran. I wasn't able to make it there to be there for the interview. But besides that i tried my hardest to do what i can do for the project. I was able to do the powerpoint just fine and i just listened to the whole interview. It would have been a good idea to be there for the interview but i guess it is what it is. The power point consisted of explaining what war our veteran was in, what years he served and other details consisting about his life. It was a good thing to meet the veterans and give them the chance to explain what they did for our country. It's good being able to talk about veterans and know about their lives. They give so much to us just to serve our country. Its also nice to show the veterans how much that we care about them. Personally my dad served in Desert Storm and i respect my dad for what he has done. My one uncle or great grandpa served in World War II and he captured ...

Goals Reflection- Well my goals are quite interesting. I did say I want to graduate and I am very close to getting there. I got through all of my classes I said I wanted too. I may have not done as well as I would have liked to do in all my classes but at least I got through it all. I also wanted to try getting a new job by the end of the year and I actually completed that one too. I started internship at the beginning of this year. I wanted to get into an auto tech job at any shop by the end of the year so I can get some more experience in my career. I then wanted to get all organized and ready to go to ECC. I got all that situated as well too. I start school in September and I graduate at the end of this month. In addition, some of my other goals were to hope fully get a new car. I was not able to get a new car. Besides everything else I was able to accomplish most of my goals I wanted too. I am very glad I stayed persistent this whole year to try accomplishing everything i needed t...

9-12 Reflection- This is the most important time of my life. This is where everything went down. I had a lot of rough spots during this time but I was able to get through it all thankfully. 9 th   grade was a rough spot. I did fail 2 classes which did not end well for me. I had to retake the classes sophomore year which made my life a little more stressful. I should’ve focused a lot more freshman year but too late now. 10 th   grade wasn’t too terrible. Besides the point of having to make up classes that I failed in the past, it really wasn’t that bad. But Junior year is when I started getting better. I focused a tad bit more. I was able to get through school, I got my permit and my license and I was able to meet my girlfriend. Junior year was a very great year for me. Senior year though is the big year. It went by so fast. I can’t believe I am graduating this year. It has been quite an adventure to get through everything. Soon I will be graduated and starting a new chapter o...

6-8 Reflection- This time during school I absolutely hated the most. It was just not a pleasant time for me. I never really seemed to enjoy like I should have. I was always miserable and I just couldn’t stand going to school. I was never doing my work and I was always getting in trouble. I think I had a detention every single week it felt like. I was always almost failing classes and my teachers were always getting annoyed with me that I couldn’t really do anything for them. I wish I would have focused a lot more in middle school. I have no idea why I never really wanted to focus. Maybe I just felt like I could get through the world without trying I have no idea. I came to realize in 8 th   grade I was doing really poorly in some of my classes and I had to turn around before I fail and have to repeat a grade. But thankfully I was able to turn myself around so I didn’t have to repeat any grades. I do remember Mr. Burkhardt though. He was a really good teacher. He was always a very ...

K-5 Reflection- My time in kindergarten through 5 th grade was a breeze. Kindergarten was the easiest. I don’t really remember much of what happened in kindergarten but it was easy. All we had to do was draw and do very tiny things. During kindergarten was when I met my best friend Payton. I have been best friends with him for many years now. But during those years, I always went to day care in the morning and that was honestly the highlight of my day all the time when I was younger. That’s all I ever wanted to do was go to day care. 3 rd grade seemed to be difficult at the time because we started to get homework and I never liked to do homework. I still barely do my homework. Out of all the grades 5 th grade was probably the best. Our teacher was the best teacher there was. Our teacher Mrs. Ciezki was the best. She was a very nice teacher. We were always able to have fun with her and just joke around and have fun. I remember one time when the class actually locked her out of the c...