good leaders

The quality of a good leader is a person who can work well with everyone. It’s also someone that everyone else can accept to work with. Qualities include simply being able to lead, take over, and make decisions. They have to set the rules and make sure everyone else can follow them. I think that the most important quality is apart of your personality. It’s how you are to the rest of the group and how well you can lead and make the right choices. I think that the student leaders of grade 8 would probably be Lucas, Asim, Joel, or Jake. They demonstrate the qualities of a leader because they speak up in most of our class discussions and in Socratic seminars, they’re usually who gets the point across. I think participation is a lot about being student leaders.

Parent Teacher Confrence.

Something from first quarter that I’m proud of was probably my Industrial Revolution Museum. I got a good grade and lost only two points. The only thing that kept our grade from 50/50 was because we hadn’t put the citations in alphabetical order. We didn’t loose any points for the visual because we had put everything so that it followed the rubric. We had all the points that the rubric stated. Our overall grade was a 96% which was a good A.

Something that I found challenging in my first quarter was some of the writing pieces for the Industrial Revolution Project. For example my news article piece. That piece of writing is the one I got worst on compared to all my other writing pieces. I’ve learnt that there are many ways writing. News articles, I found challenging. I hadn’t written a lot of pieces like that but for my next news article like pieces, I’ve learnt some points on how to write them better.

Feedback WOW 2007

Week without Walls is definitely something we want to take time to enjoy from our normal education. If we weren’t to have a week away from school and visit out, it would give us as students nothing to look forward to in school. We wouldn’t have something that we want to remember about the grade. Also we wouldn’t have things to write about when we get back. We wouldn’t have anything school related and special to write for humanities memoirs. Wow helped me get closer to some of my friends, and get to know some of their talents. And soon you find to appreciate people you once didn’t. This helps your normal days at school because you’ll know these kids better and you learn to work with them. You know their talents and you can learn to accept them into your groups. Another one of my points that was useful about wow was just education itself. We want a highlight about 8^th grade, and for a lot of us, normal classes like science math and humanities are not it. Wow is usually the highlight for many people. Most people want to get out of 8^th grade wanting to have a memory from it and river rafting with their friends is probably it. In humanities or other classes you have something that’s a memory and that you want to write about. Another point is that you find out more about yourself. And this effects school a lot because you know what type of person you are. Adventurous or maybe not so adventurous. I’ve found to like hiking and river rafting a lot because of these five days. So taking just five days out of a year is really worth it when you make new friends, find out your own and others qualities and leave school with having a highlight that you want to remember forever.

Feed back, Oct 3rd.

My goals for were to improve my discussion skills and descriptive writing. If not all the way, i have definalty improved in making my writing much better. My skill, becuase of all the writing pieces we had to do for the IR, my writing skills improved. Especially my editing skills. I took the time to read over what my friends had to say and most it their feedback was very helpful. My first draft and my final draft usually showed alot of change. I need all my writings to be gone over or be editied by, becuase after that, it's so much easier for me to edit it myself.

Another one of my skills was DISCUSSION. Recently, we didnt have any more socratic seminars but we did have class disscussion. I didn't think i participated that much, but i did share my ideas. When we were told to talk with out neighbors and discuss about a topic, it was much easier for me to do that.

Some goals that i want to set is to keep on improving my disccussion skills. There is always room for improvement. And for both the discussion and writing skills -- i can do that.

IR Museaum Expoisitory piece

Steel Mills.

Steel mills in general are industrial mills where pig iron is converted into high quality steel. Pig iron is raw iron. Pig iron has very high carbon content. Pig iron was converted in to high quality steel by blowing out the impurities. Steel mills were made for that process. A very well known man by the name of Henry Bessemer had gone public with this idea, after William Kelly. William Kelly actually introduced the idea. However, due to his financial problems, he was bankrupt. Therefore, he was forced into selling his patent. This is the part when Henry Bessemer comes in, to continue with what William Kelly left behind. Every steel product we use today is produced using what the British inventor, Henry Bessemer, had left us. The converter called the Bessemer converter is used for blowing air into molten rock. This process itself is naturally called, the Bessemer’s process.

Child labor was used a lot in the days of industrial revolution. Many of the steel mills had used child labor. Child labor is when children of six or above are forced to work for owners who pay them little and feed them little. There are many people who grew up crippled because of these dangerous machines.

In conclusion, Steel mills are very useful because they turn molten steel into ingots through hot rolling. An ingot is a piece of metal heated into a bar or block. Later on, they would be melted into other forms in industries. Steel mills help us today, and will help the future. Again, thanks to Sir Henry Bessemer and William Kelly.