This week we were fully introduced to our next project which is a pecha kucha presentation about our subject; shared leadership and the power of the electorate. The presentation is supposed to be a slideshow that contains ten slides that are all displayed for 20 seconds. Within our slides we are supposed to address 5 given questions and use them as topics to talk about in our presentation. I've slowly gained in an interest in this project and I'm kinda getting excited to attempt it. One thing I'm worried about is finding good outside sources that help communicate the message I will be trying to get across. I would also want to find sources that are unique and I don't think anyone else will use. I think this project will be really nice to see how my classmates and I feel about this subject. It'll also be a good way to view everyone's creativity and passion about something like shared leadership and power of the electorate. It can be such a variety of viewpoints for such a subject, it really makes this project exciting.
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This week has been a week of skills. I have learned to develop new skills to help me with my work in class. I have developed such skills as how to read for information, how to comprehend what I'm reading, how to make connections to what I'm reading and how to take better notes on what I'm reading. Reading for information has been important because I need to find certain things that help clue towards the main message and story behind my book. It's also important in helping out with my other skills, reading and finding certain information helps me make better connections and take better notes which helps with my comprehension of the book. It's really a whole new interdependent system of skills that help me with my work. Comprehension is very important. This is because if I don't understand what I'm reading how could I make connections or take notes? It wouldn't be easy without comprehension. To help me comprehend I use my notes to look back at certain moments of the book and link them with what I am reading at the very moment. That's also a part of the interdependence of the skills. Making connections is something I've also learned to do recently. To make connections is to help myself get immersed into the story. The interdependence of the skills that has to do with connection would mainly be comprehension. If I understand what the story is saying then I can easily connect to it. This is also made easier with notes. Taking notes has been very important as well. It'll not only help me in the long-run with my presentation but it helps with the comprehension of the whole story as well as keeping track of the information I have found useful and important within my book. Like I said, they're really all interdependent on one another. This week a big topic in class has been shared leadership. To me, shared leadership is important because it's vital to share the responsibilities of being a leader. It can be stressful and very difficult to be the leader of a group or anything by yourself because you as a one owns up to all the responsibilities and if something goes wrong it's only on you even if the problem has nothing to do with you. An example of that is in business class we watch The Apprentice with Donald Trump and a contestant named Kwame was in the finals and he had to manage a Britney Spears concert and he hired a past contestant named Omarosa and he delegated the job of Britney's travels with her and Omarosa ended up losing her luggage and didn't get a limo driver to the airport in time. That mistake was made by Omarosa but with Kwame being the leader he didn't win the challenge mainly because of that mistake. This week we also picked new books to read and there are some interesting options. Personally, I'm not a fan of being forced to read books and it makes it even more difficult for me to get fully immersed into the book and the story it's telling. The last books we had to read and do the BQ paper on was very hard for me to get into but I forced myself to read through the book and work hard to get my grade up in this class. I finished with a C in the first marking period and all A's in my other classes so this class is definitely my hardest personally. I think that's mainly because I don't see myself as an english student. |
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