Quarter 1

My quarter 1 reflection is going to be on our presentation on a biography of a person. We had to create a speech and present it using a PowerPoint presentation. I had done my presentation on Richard Bong, a flying ace during World War 2.

The purpose of this presentation was to start practicing public speaking and giving presentations. This is the DEMS Leadership class and to be a powerful person when you grow up, you must be able to speak publicly and give good speeches and/or presentations.

I learned that you should be comfortable and very relaxed when standing in front of a crowd. This affects the way you give your speech or presentation because your audience won't be able to 'connect' with you and what you're saying. I've learned that everything should be simple. No one will understand the presentation if the main idea isn't simple and easy to know. The audience wants something that they are going to remember about the speech, for example: Martin Luther King's I Have A Dream speech had a very simple and easy point to make. Even slogans have to be simple and easy. If you're going to be the owner of a company someday and become a business man, you don't want to have a slogan that no one will understand. These are only some of the things that I have learned while presenting my speech and I am sure that I have so much more yet to come.

I could definitely have improved on my speech by controlling my voice and movements. While I was up there, I felt very nervous and my voice was shaking a little, I also should have controlled or timed my speech before I actually went up there, because when I started presenting, I didn't give enough pauses for everything to sink in and rushed a little through the speech. I think that my content in my presentation was good but the actual presenting of the speech was okay. With the things that I could change in mind, on my next presentation, I will apply these things and make the next one better from the things that I have learned while making this presentation.

My goal this year in DEMS Leadership is to become better in presenting and giving speeches in front of an audience. I will achieve this goal by practicing and using the things that I could have changed in my recent speech in my upcoming speeches. Hopefully from the next speeches I will make, I will learn new ways to improve my presentations and apply them in the next presentations I have yet to come in life.

Quarter 1

The activity that I'm going to do this reflection on is the test wiki that we did during this first quarter. A wiki is a webpage that the members--or sometimes not even members--can edit and put things of their own.

The test wiki's purpose was to test our skills when using wikis such as Wikipedia or Wiki Answers. In this test we had to put edit the wiki page and put our name, last name then first name, in alphabetical on the page.

I have learned that wikis are editable by anyone or a person that is a member of the webpage. I have also learnt that I shouldn't trust to many wiki sites and webpages because the people editing the webpage, may not have 100% true information and if you are going to use it, you should back it up with another site.

To do something differently, I could have added color to my name or not make it bold and italic and underlined. I also could have experimented a little with the wiki and tried new stuff instead of sticking to what everyone else was doing and be unique.

My goal this year was to type fast and get at least 60 words per minute with no more than 1 mistake. This test wiki relates to this goal because we had to type very fast so that we could finish editing the webpage in time for others to do the same.

Quarter 1

This activity was a typing test where we had to type a paragraph as fast as we can with as little mistakes as possible.


This took this test to test our skills in typing at an8th grade level. I have gotten fifty-two (52) words per minute and I only got one word wrong. The word was a name, Jermiah, and I had accidentally spelt it in the way it sounds, Jeremiah.
I have learnt while typing very fast, you can make a lot of mistakes. So to be excellent, you must type fast and not make any mistakes.

I could have definitely typed faster but for some reason, when I am doing a typing test or someone is timing me, I don't do as well as I could. Also if I am copying words I usually would get names wrong as I had gotten one in this typing test so I could have definitely changed that.

Since I am new, I have not made a goal. Although after this, my goal is now to get at least 60 words per minute with no more than 1 mistake. I have gotten 52 words per minute and 1 mistake now so I am on the right track if I am to achieve this goal.

Quarter 1

The activity I'm going to do my reflection on, in French 8, is a French test on school and greeting that I took.
The purpose of this test was for the class to test their vocabulary on school and greeting. In the school vocabulary, we had words about the class items, courses and other places or things in the school. The greeting words were just things like whats your name, hello and other phrases and words like that.
I have not learnt very much taking the test because I got a full score although I did learn a lot taking the notes for the test and studying for it. I obviously learnt the vocabulary on school and greeting.
To learn more I could have actually put it in sentences or made up sentences about the words with the words in it.
Since I am new, I do not have a goal so I will make one right now: My goal is to improve in spelling, because I was struggling with one of the questions between two spellings I didn't know which one was the right one, luckily I had picked the right one and gotten a full score.