Quarter 2: Reflection

In this quarter 2, I have enjoyed many things in class, especially doing the Lit Circle
because it helped me to improve my speaking skill and improve my leadership to guide
people or finding something to argue with the group, so the time for our group can reach the
minimum that Ms.Laurin’s requirement. I also have enjoyed Things Fall Apart that Ms.
Laurin assigns us to read as a class because it helps me to improve my reading skill and I like
the conflict between white men and Nigerian tribes in the book. ​Things Fall Apart is focused
on the battle between the white men whose invade the tribe’s area. The main character is
Okonkwo. He is the protagonist of the book which he is anti-feminist. He is always rage to
his wife. This book seems very challenging because it’s very confusing at the beginning of
the story and the words that they use are complicated to follow along with the story and hard
to follow along with the story. Furthermore, speaking English in class is still challenging for
most of the students in class because students in our school are not the first language in
English which in the class for me, I sometimes forget to speak English and speak Thai which
deduct class participation. In this quarter, Ms. Laurin changes the style of giving out student
participation. She will set a period for one week for each method. The first one is paying 10
baht to Ms. Laurin each time that students speak in Thai which Ms. Laurin is not happy with
this solution. She changes to group participation which in my opinion is the most successful
method to convince students to speak English, but Ms. Laurin is not happy with this method.
The last solution is class participation which I think it’s a disaster for my grade because many
students in the class usually forget to speak English and accidentally talk Thai. It decreases
my grade lots. Last week of the first semester, I was at 90%, but on the last day of school,
many people speak Thai which came down to 5 out of 10 for the class participation. My
grade dropped from 90% (A) to 89% (B+). I was sad to the score and beg Ms. Laurin to
increase one percent of my grade to an A, but Ms. Laurin can’t give any extra points to
improve my grade. So, I need to accept the truth that I got B+ for this quarter. Secondly, an
area that I believe I made big progress in Lit Circle, I am not pretty good at convincing
people to speak and maintain people’s conversation to meet the time limit that Ms.Laurin has
set. In the first quarter, I got a low mark on a lit circle because, in my group, we didn’t have a
conversation or discussion in the group. We answer the question and give out the information
that we have found from research which causes us to get a low mark as we have less
discussion. In the second quarter, we have improved our lit circle to make it longer and add
several questions to make sure that we discuss in the group. Our teamwork has been
enhanced which in each particular roles, they have helped each other to make our lit circle
have a discussion and be the most efficient lit circle. We also tried to find the benefit and
moral of reading ​Things Fall Apart​. One last thing about my Unit 2: Project, I was not
appreciated after doing this work because the score was not high enough. I got 80/100 which
I was a little bit disappointed. One of the specific areas that I need to improve is I need to be
more concerned with my essay because I got deducted by 5% as I made the wrong style of
the book’s title. But, I have improved in using good evidence to support my idea in the
project. I improve in the analysis part that I explain how does gender inequality affect the
character in ​Things Fall Apart.​ The last thing that I do well is I improve in giving a lot of
details in my essay which it relates to the purpose of writing each essay. In the next quarter, I
hope I will try to be more precise, so I will not lose my grade too easy.