inquiry day, 16th of june

Today we interviewed 2 people, before today Florence interviewed 3, and i interviewed 1. Today, I worked on making the PowerPoint nice because most of the text is already in it. We added the interviews onto the PowerPoint and we added information about how different cultures have different styles of friendship that we worked on last lesson. And we also worked on 'how do they affect our lives' talking about how we could change the attitude and the personality of a person, because of who he’s friends are. we also started making the PowerPoint prettier. We added pictured backgrounds and glittery text. We are planning to finish the other slides in period 3. We might also add more videos, we already added one. The video is about what is the meaning of friendship and some friendship quotes.

Each entry in your journal should include the following:

1. Description of what happened at the mentor meeting (if you had one that day)2. Record goals/objectives for the upcoming week

3. Any idea/action carried out

4. Reflection on what you have done this weekUse the following as a guide for writing your reflections:

- What did you do?

- What did you think?

- What didn't you do?... and what could or should you have done?

- What decisions did you make as a group?

- What did yo decide to change and what are the reasons for making the change?

- Were there any problems? How did you deal with them? What did you learn about yourself? Which skills did you use well? (communication, social, thinking, research, self management?)

- What made you happy, annoyed, frustrated, angry, nervous disappointed, proud...?

- Where are you going next?

this is a Assessment criteria developed by Y8 students.

1. Knowledge

I can recognise what culture means.

I can recognise the effect of culture on myself/people.

I can describe what cultures are.I can recall facts/experiences about my culture.

2. Understanding

I can look at facts and paraphrase or summarise them.

I can give examples to back up my points.

I can explain what I mean.

Application

I can apply a theory to something practical.

I can plan my inquiry.

I can collect data and do research.

I can make predictions about the outcome.

4. Analysis

I can separate contents to work out what things mean.

I can compare data to form a conclusion

.I can combine/organize information to form a conclusion.

I can select relevant information.

I can distinguish between facts and opinions.

I can analyze how my understanding has changed.

5. Synthesis

I can decide on the best and most interesting way to present my findings to show understanding, analysis,etc.

I can make predictions.

I can be original and creative in my presentation.

6. Evaluation

What have I learned from this experience?

What did I/we do well?

What could be improved on?

What are my targets for next time?

What data was most reliable/valuable?

How effective are my conclusions?