Q1 Reflection

This quarter I have learned many different things about American History that I was not aware of at first and I have also had many of the facts that I already knew confirmed. The most recent topic we discussed about the mid west has been my favorite topic yet. I have always enjoyed learning about the mid west, which is why I enjoyed learning about the immigrants, cowboys, and industrial innovations of the time.  During this topic I also learned a lot about how to properly take notes on reading assignments.

Before this year I was the worst at paraphrasing and being able to Identifying a high-quality source. The assignment that we did in the middle of the quarter on how to paraphrase helped me understand it a lot better. Before I had a problem with just quoting a large portion of text to use, but now I have a better understanding on how to properly paraphrase. Also I had never thought of the use of empathy to understand historical events. Before I just accepted what the teacher told us, but now I have a different perspective on it all.

I have always been pretty good on figuring out tech problems, but honestly I never really paid much attention to the simple things such as hyper linking, creating a blog , and how to caption images. As the year goes on, I hope to learn about more recent events such as the Vietnam war and what it was really about.