I'm really schocked this is my last Honors chemistry blog post. Has it really been a whole year? I really did like having Honors Chemistry in the "middle" of the day, The Class, while at times was a bit unfocused, was really quite interesing and insightful, i felt that i really LEARNED this year, not just " learned". I strugged at times to comprehend the material but ifelt by the end i had somewhat of a handle on everthing we have larned this year, though i will say this is a creddited to my aweseome group mates Margo, Chris, and John, i would be nowhere without them. I liek that we actually spent time in the lab instead of just sitting in class, having Mr. Abud lecture us while the lab was so tantilizingly close yet so far, i also liekd how we all took part in activities like the cookie lab which we all got to do something ,i wasn't jsut one person, it was the whole class. I'd rate the calss, on a 1-4 scale, a 3.5 because while i feel i did learn as a whole and took away valuable knowledge in the year i feel that some class periods were utilized in the ways they could have been. I feel the stard-style aprrach to learning was sucessful nad more pinpointed then other science classes i've been in. If i went back to talk to myself in December i'd say " You Will Survive." because i was convinced for a while that all the different stuff with active grade and blogger and google drive a nd twitter would make me tear my hair out in fustartion. But my hair is dstill intact and ive made it through the year sucessfully. Having a phone that was allowed in chemistry was lovely, but distracting. The fact that we can get so much done with devices does outweigh the fact that we can check social media with the same devices, i cannot say i never checked my tumblr in class but it was a smal lammount of time in comarison to whewn i was using my phone for science. These blogs, whiel fun to create, did not really improve my learnign experience. Did i make connections and conclusions using blogger? Yes but I don't really prefer to use apps like bloger, but then agian i'm not toally comfortable with posting things and such, as i have only a tumblr and i dont publish anything on there. Reassesment is the best concept I've had a teacher ever come up with or incorperate into their teaching. There were times when i get fpur 2.5's on my assesments and iwas devastated. But i felt a bit better knowing that i could study and fix my mistakes, which were often little stupid thigns that i overlooked. I could fix things for the better, rather looking at the bad grade and cringing at it. and i liked ActiveGrade, ya know once i knew how to work it after the first quarter or so. for next year, I think i would recommend stricter policies on devices, liek if you're caught on a social site its a warning then, and after school session with Mr. Abud, and then lastly you have to use one of his devices that doesn't have the ap pyou wnat in it or whater. Another thing i wish Mr. Abud would incorpate would be more review right before assesments and such but it wasn't bad this year, i felt throughly prepared for most of my assesments.
I'm actually a bit sad about the end of the year, Maddie, i hope were in a class next year, because you too were one of the reasons i enjoyed chemistry
Here's me in my chemistry shirt!!
