Ofelia Marin
Dr. Preston
English
May 31, 2017
Masterpiece Academy Final
This course was so different from all of my classes that I have had so far but it was really good. I learned a lot in this course I never thought that by having a blog and writing in my journal everyday I would learn something new. I feel like we all deserve it because it a different and new way of teaching some people in the class didn’t take advantage or didn’t even care but I personally did take advantage of this course. I feel like some people did honor this course and they would take is somewhere and talk to other teachers about this course because the way that this course was with the blogs is not a common in public school even though we have all of the technology. The people that actually posted on their blog were people that honored and took advantage of this course also the people who would take the time to actually write on their journals about the journal topics everyday.
During this course the journals helped we out a lot with my writing some days I would write half a page but then there would be some days that I wouldn't understand the journal topic that i wouldn't even write half a page but only a few sentences. The days that I wouldn't know what to write I would just choose my own topic or what would just be on my mind. I felt like that helped me a lot because I could just let everything out in my journal and just write what would be on my mind. My favorite types of topic to write on my journal would be “Choose your own topic.” I would just write about what I did the day before of in the morning or even sometimes what was on my mind and I just wanted to let it all out on my journal. In the beginning of the year I was actually reading everyday and then I just stopped I had to much homework that I wouldn’t have time to read. Throughout the year the only books that I actually read were the ones from the course because they were really interesting and I learned something from each of them.
I feel like this course has helped me understand so many things and I feel like somethings I will use in the future. My goal is to become a teacher and I am gonna use some things that we used in this course. One thing that I will actually use are the journals because you could just write what is on your mind. I Will continue my learning with the blog. I will post in my blog once in awhile about what I am or will be doing in the future or just some other things that would help out some people that would look at my blog in the future. My passion is helping other people and I will help your future students by posting on my blog so they can see an example of a blog and so they won't think that this course is impossible to complete because this course is different but in a good way because I feel like young people learn better this way.
This course was serious but sometimes it was really funny. Sometimes some journals would be so funny that I would just laugh and people in my group would think that I was crazy but it was funny. Some masterpiece academy presentations were funny. Some riddles that we had to solve for some of them were so funny that it made the whole class laugh including me. There would also be sometimes when you would say a joke. I think that it was in April when you were telling a story and everyone believed it when it was actually all fake and it was all a joke. It made the whole class laugh including me.
In all of the masterpiece presentations I only found one that was very similar to mine and I found it really interesting. The one who presented the presentation was Jose Luis and his Masterpiece Question was “Why can’t everyone get along?” In his presentation he said that it is just a habit and some people just don’t get along with each other. He said that it is also depending on their perspective and they way they were raised by their parents or treated in their family. There is always going to be conflict it is a part of human nature. My Question was “Why do people fight and why can’t they control their anger?” Both of the topics were very similar.
For my masterpiece question I did not have a mentor. I just asked my family and friends for their opinion and why they thought people fought. Most of them had a really good answer and I added that to my presentation which I presented during the Masterpiece Academy. This is not where I am gonna end my research I am actually going to continue researching and just find a complete answer to my question because I really want to know why people fight.
