Scrapbook Reflection Paper
The project was very interesting. It helped me to find out much more information about my culture that I did not know, and was very surprising to learn. However it was very time consuming, which is not such a bad thing considering it was a very important project that was thirty percent of our grade. I do wish that I had spent more time on it for little details; however I believe that mine turned out quite well, and I was satisfied with my grade and my scrapbook.
After surveying many of my peer’s scrapbooks, I found that some seemed much better looking than mine and or contained more information. I thought that Jerra Ewing’s scrapbook looked like he had put a very large amount of time and effort into it. I did however find some scrapbooks that did not look like the person put much time or effort into their project, and it looked like they put in a couple of minutes and wrote some words on the page and called it a caption. Said student and peer, made the excuse that they could not find decent pictures of their culture, and challenged the teacher and was told otherwise in front of the entire class as the teacher pulled up several more than decent photos of the student’s civilization. Thus proving two things, one: put more time and effort into looking for things and not waiting last minute to do a project that is worth thirty percent of your grade, and two, don’t challenge an honors teacher until you've put forth the effort and are one hundred percent sure that you are right, and they are wrong.
I was very impressed and disappointed with the scrapbooks. I amazingly found out that the students with the smaller and less “known” cultures were the ones with some of the nicest looking projects, and that some of the students with larger and much more “known” civilizations had a very disappointing and almost sad look to their projects. It appeared that the student did not even try at all and slapped it together in the last minute without even spending a good hour on it. I am namely speaking of the scrapbook done on Rome, which was so surprising that someone could do that poorly on a scrapbook of Rome. Rome is one of the biggest civilizations that we have studied. A student could have read the chapter on Rome in our textbook and used the pictures and information from it to make a better looking project. I was very disappointed in it, and was hoping to see a better looking project for Rome. I look forward to the future and hope that the next project done on it is much better.
To say the least, I found that the scrapbook projects were very good, and some were very interesting. I believe that the overall assignment was just and a worthy pick for an assignment, also that any student who followed the criteria that was laid out to them is sure to receive and A.
After surveying many of my peer’s scrapbooks, I found that some seemed much better looking than mine and or contained more information. I thought that Jerra Ewing’s scrapbook looked like he had put a very large amount of time and effort into it. I did however find some scrapbooks that did not look like the person put much time or effort into their project, and it looked like they put in a couple of minutes and wrote some words on the page and called it a caption. Said student and peer, made the excuse that they could not find decent pictures of their culture, and challenged the teacher and was told otherwise in front of the entire class as the teacher pulled up several more than decent photos of the student’s civilization. Thus proving two things, one: put more time and effort into looking for things and not waiting last minute to do a project that is worth thirty percent of your grade, and two, don’t challenge an honors teacher until you've put forth the effort and are one hundred percent sure that you are right, and they are wrong.
I was very impressed and disappointed with the scrapbooks. I amazingly found out that the students with the smaller and less “known” cultures were the ones with some of the nicest looking projects, and that some of the students with larger and much more “known” civilizations had a very disappointing and almost sad look to their projects. It appeared that the student did not even try at all and slapped it together in the last minute without even spending a good hour on it. I am namely speaking of the scrapbook done on Rome, which was so surprising that someone could do that poorly on a scrapbook of Rome. Rome is one of the biggest civilizations that we have studied. A student could have read the chapter on Rome in our textbook and used the pictures and information from it to make a better looking project. I was very disappointed in it, and was hoping to see a better looking project for Rome. I look forward to the future and hope that the next project done on it is much better.
To say the least, I found that the scrapbook projects were very good, and some were very interesting. I believe that the overall assignment was just and a worthy pick for an assignment, also that any student who followed the criteria that was laid out to them is sure to receive and A.