English - Banner In The Sky
In this quarter, we were reading the book Banner in The Sky by James Ramsey Ullman. Before reading the book, we watched the movie The Dark Side of Everest, about how hard it is to fight against the condition while climbing the mountains. The book itself tells about the determination of a boy whose name is Rudi to achieve his goal, to be the first standing on the Citadel Mountain, or known as the Killer Mountain. From this book, I learn so many things such as try to reach our dreams that we think is impossible, and also to choose a wise decision. In this unit, we did what is called the Literature Circle one every 8 weeks. I think that I did well on the Literature Circle, as I got good grades from it. Other than Lit. Circle, there is also a Visual Representation. I think that my best work is the Visual Representation, as we asked to produce a visual representation and do the oral presentation. I made a 3d miniature of The Citadel. We are also asked to choose one character from the book, and do a reflective essay about him/her. I chose Rudi Matt. Other than that, we also asked to make a short story based on one of the theme in Banner In the Sky.
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This is the sample of my best work. It is my Visual Representation where I made a miniature of the Citadel Mountain with a pole with Red Flannel on top. I did best on this because I got a 7 out of 8. It was actually 6, but Mr. Josh give me extra point because of my oral presentation. The message that I want to to deliver is how Rudi's courage can lead him up and he is able to achieve what he had been dreaming of, which is to put the red flannel and a pole in the duty of his father's who died there. The shadow in the curves of the mountain itself pictures how mysterious the mountain is, and it is the way Rudi had to face. This topic relates to Human and Ingenuity as I made this visual representation to give people information, and encourage other to be like Rudi, as his courage on putting effort to something he is passionate about makes him fulfilled all the things he wanted to happen. The consequences is that even though Rudi choose the decision now, it actually affect what he will be in the future. For example if Rudi did not follow his strong determination and scared to climb the mountain who killed his father, he will end up being doing the thing his mother wants him to be, a General Manager who first have to be a dishwasher, for the rest of himself. Our decision affects what we will end up in the future.
The ATL from this unit is I think are organization, communication, reflection, thinking, and transfer. I organize my time and all of my work, as there are lots of them and they are all different. I think that I organize well as I submit all of my work in time. I also think that I include my individual goal in this quart we as I got good scores for almost all of my work. I also use communication as I communicate and give my opinions toward something and try to dig it deeper. Reflection, as what I have learned I need to give reflection about what I think toward it. The last one is transfer, as I did in reflection where I transfer the information into what I have learned. My goal for next quarter is to keep up all of my works to make it better.