VANESSA

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During this week I have been reflecting of my actions and how can I improve my ideas to have a better and creative way to pressent and show things making them better each time we get together our opinions. || On the 3 week I have denmostrate been Open-Minded, because we have been listening to people´s opinion about our topic and having Open questions to improve what we have bad and make a positive change in the topic we are working on (Fashion Pressure). || This week I have been inquiring allot, search for information, make questions for the 3 interviews we had, keep working on the weeky (etc.) I think I have been demostrating Communication with all my group members because when I founf information we tell the page, what I am going to write and reflect about this week of inquiry. We named good pages that can help us through our Exhibition process and I tell to my group members what I think of what direction we are going to and in what we need to foccus on. || In this week I have been more tolerance with my group members, having pacient and helpful towards the work we make. || I think that in this week of inquiry I have been demostrating the attribute of being a Principled person because in my opinion I feel in the group, I research, give ideas to improve, cooperate with other´s and sometimes being a lider when my frinds need help in any time throughout this process. || I have been knowledgeable because we have been investigating and searching for new ideas, information and tasks to keep instructions in mind. || I think I was a inquirer because we have been very attentive to the instructions to put my best effort on the wiki. || I have been balancing our tasks each other between the time teachers give us in school, as the same we work in o home, we balance || In this week I have been taking risk of the actions we want to do. We talked in the "RADIO SONORA" (Action) about how Fashion Pressure is affecting teenagers by influencing each other. || I think I shown the attribute of Thinker allot, because we were thinking of all we can made and all the possible things can we do in our Exhibition. ||
 * Attribute ||  Description of when and where I showed this Attribute  ||
 * Reflective
 * Week 5: Date: 25/05/12 ** || (Week 5)
 * Open-minded
 * Week 3: Date: 11/05/12 ** || (Week 3)
 * Communicator
 * Week 2: Date: 4/05/12 ** || Week 2)
 * Caring
 * Week 5: Date: 25/05/12 ** || (Week 5)
 * Principled
 * Week 2: Date: 4/05/12 ** || (Week 2)
 * Knowledgeable
 * Week 1: Date: 4/05/12 ** || ((Week 1)
 * Inquirer
 * Week 3: Date: 11/04/12 ** || (Week 3)
 * Balanced
 * Week 4: Date: 18/05/12 ** || (Week 4)
 * Risk-taker
 * Week 4: Date: 18/05/12 ** || (Week 4)
 * Thinker
 * Week 1: Date: 3/05/12 ** || (Week 1)

showed this Attitude || I have shown Appreciation towards my work in my inquiry process. When Mr.Otero is checking the wiki I try to highlight the good parts we have done and what we need to improve. || This week I have been showing allot of Commitment with my work, by bringing and giving away task on time. || This first week of Exhibition process I have been very confidence with our ideas for the Exhibition inquiry so we have a non traditional way of presenting our point of view between our tasks. || In this almost last week I have been tolerant with my peers, explaining things some members don´t understand even if I have explain 2 times ago. || I have been demostrating curiosity in my process because I try to open my mind to ask more questions through our topic and how we can get an action to solve this conflict (Fahion Pressure). || This week I have been cooperating with my peers, checking each one work and helping each other of how can I be helpful to each member giving ideas and opinions. || This week I have been very creative towards the stand we have been designing on. || This week I have been demostrating my individuality towarrds my roles of each week. || Being honest and demonstrating a considered sense of fairness. I demostrate honesty and I considerate my other friends job to improve what we are not clear in. || I respect my member groups and all around their lifes trying to show tolerance to appreciate and help them when they need a hand. || I have been demostrating Empathy during this inquiry process, having a global picture of people that are living with pressure in the world...By that way I give new ideas and understanding of my topic Fashion Pressure. || I enjoy my Exhibition time using the time my tutor give us wisley. I put excitment towards learning in this 3 period in 6 grade. || SKILLS:   ** Skills I have shown during the Exhibition ** Skill: LISTENING
 * Attitude ||  Description of when and where I
 * Appreciation
 * Week 2: Date: 4/05/12 ** || (Week 2)
 * Commitment
 * Week 2: Date: 4/05/12 ** || (Week 2)
 * Confidence
 * Week 1: Date: 4/05/12 ** || (Week 1)
 * Tolerance
 * Week 5: Date: 25/05/12 ** || (Week 5)
 * Curiosity
 * Week 3: Date: 11/05/12 ** || (Week 3)
 * Cooperation
 * Week 1: Date: ****<span style="font-family: Castellar,serif; font-size: 10pt;">4/05/12 ** || (Week 1)
 * Creativity
 * <span style="font-family: Castellar,serif; font-size: 10pt;">Week: 6 Date: **
 * <span style="font-family: Castellar,serif; font-size: 10pt;">01/05/12 ** || (Week 6)
 * Independence
 * <span style="font-family: Castellar,serif; font-size: 10pt;">Week: 6 Date: **
 * <span style="font-family: Castellar,serif; font-size: 10pt;">30/05/12 ** || (Week 6)
 * Integrity
 * <span style="font-family: Castellar,serif; font-size: 10pt;">Week 4: Date: 18/05/12 ** || (Week 4)
 * Respect
 * <span style="font-family: Castellar,serif; font-size: 10pt;">Week 3: Date: 11/05/12 ** || (Week 3)
 * Empathy
 * <span style="font-family: Castellar,serif; font-size: 10pt;">Week 4: Date: 18/05/12 ** || (Week 4)
 * Enthusiasm
 * <span style="font-family: Castellar,serif; font-size: 10pt;">Week 5: Date: 25/05/12 ** || (Week 5)
 * =Name of specific skill & show WHEN you used it= || =HOW& WHERE I used it- Write in detail explaining how you used this skill and where.= ||
 * =Communication Skills= ||  ||
 * Week:1

Skill: READING

Skill: SPEAKING || -I have been putting a lot of atention to the instructions that my teacher´s and mentor give to us and recomendations to improve in what we are not doing until now. I also listen to my frinds ideas to keep them in my mind to make our work more creative and friendly.

-This first week of inquiry process I have been reading information for our topic but the one that is valid and reliable.

-This week I have been having a strong communication with my other group members telling them about the information I found during the first week, giving opinions for the information they brought to class and giving ideas to make a creative, unique and a non traditional Exhibition performance.(etc.) || Skill: WRITING
 * Week:2

Skill: LISTENING

Skill: SPEAKING || -This week I have been writing in the wiki, putting the "Key Concepts" I needed to do with their own "Previous Knowledge" and I was making questions to put in the wiki about our inquiry Exhibition process.

-I have been listening to the instructions my tutor, mentor and other teachers gave me to have in mind all the requirments we need to have and follow for getting a good grade even with our own page "wiki".

-I have been talking a lot during this second week, giving new ideas, expressing opinions, telling my point of view of each piece of work we do, and helping each one of my friends with the tasks they don´t understand or they don´t know what to put. || Skill: WRITING
 * Week:3

Skill: VIEWING

Skill: LISTENING

Week: 4 Skill: WRITING

Skill: PRESENTING

Skill: LISTENING

Week: 5 Skill: VIEWING

Skill:LISTENING

Skill: SPEAKING

Week: 6 Skill: LISTENING

Skill: SPEAKING

Skill: VIEWING || -My writing skills I have been demostrating by the notes I have in my Exhibiton notebook and interviews we have done to keep an analysis of different specialists on our topic (Fashion and Peer Pressure)-(Addictions,obsetions.pressure).

-My group and I have been in 3 interviews, I notice that this 3 persons have different thoughts to think about this problem, (phychiatrist, psychologist and the director of a model school), I have seen that this 3 persons I were with have different ways of olving the problem we are working in (Fahion Pressure).

-I listen each 3 interviews putting a lot of atention because I new that does interviews would make me understand and complete my ideas for my Exhibition topic, also it convert my questions into answers having a complete answer with details about what we are trying to resolve making an action.

-I have been taking lot´s of notes in my Exhibition notebook to prove I have been listening, searching and folllowing the inquiry process we need to follow and in one direction to keep organization in mind.

-This week I have been trying to organize our wiki to present it good because my tutor told us that he was going to grade the WIKI this week discovering how we are doing on the instructions.

-Because is the week that teachers are knwoing how is our process during this project when my tutor check he told us we needed to imrpove some things so I put atention to present the wiki better the next time.

-I have been seeing some videos about Fahion and Peer Pressure to have a better conclution of how can we present this Performance Assessment.

-I have been listening to this videos about our topic in a attentive way to have an example of Fashion Pressure can be also in a normal and popular show.

-I told my frineds about my point of view about this popular shows that demostrate in some cases jelousy, drama and pressure.

-This week I have been putting a lot of atention in the things I need to do and the instructions I need to follow...I listen my friends opinions, feelings, thoughts and points of view. Also I have been listening to my tutor about his opinion of our inquiry processs and the wiki, and, the perspective of my mentor towards the work she have been checking.

-Because of the decisions we need to make towards the plan, turns, tasks (etc.) I have been telling each of my friends what I think of each one role and some recomendations for improving what each one of us need to do. Also I have been explainning them some instructions they don´t understand and I have been telling my opinion about the stand and the plan-requirments we need to have.

-This week I have been seeing how can we organize the stand in a creative and awersome way. || Skill: ACQUISTING OF KNOWLEDGE
 * =Thinking Skills= ||  ||
 * Week:1

Skill:COMPRENHENSION

Skill: ANALYSIS OF RELATIONSHIP || -This first week I have been putting all the pieces (information) I found together to have a complete and detailed conclusion of what I am working with to solve Fashion Pressure.

-Because I have been reading a lot my conclusionsmideas,questions are almost complete because I think I am missing a lit of bit of data in my investigation.

-I have been detailing what is happening in school with Fahion Pressure, how people is getting influenced because they follow the "popular guys". || Skill:APPLICATION
 * Week:2

Skill:METACOGNITION

-DIALECTICAL THOUGHT || -I this 3 week of our Exhibition inquiry process I have been reflecting and writing a summary in each new type of information I put in the wiki to catch more atention.

-My ways of learning have been helping me to remember what we want to focuss in... Ways of learning: -Studying at home what teacchers teach us in school -Investigating more about the theme we have been learning in my house -Reviewing 2 weeks ago what I learned to know if I remember what was the theme I was doing in school or if I need to practice more...(etc.)

-I have been expressing opinions,thoughts,perspectives,how can we improve, what are we failing in, what we need to complete and what we need to become experts in is my way of thinking of our Exhibition process "Fashion Pressure". || Skill: SYNTHESIZING
 * Week:3

Skill:AQUISTING OF KNOWLEDGE

Skill:APPLICATION

Week: 4 Skill:EVALUATION

Skill:COMPRENHENSION

Skill:DIALECTICAL THOUGHT

Week:5 Skill: APPLICATION

Skill:COMPRENHENSION

Skill:DIALECTICAL THOUGHT

Week: 6 Skill: DIALECTICAL THOUGHT

Skill: APPLICATION

Skil: EVALUATION || -I have been writing some summarys "reflections" in the wiki for each page I did to have a resume but complete idea of each article I needed to do.

-I have been interested in the way I learning new things, I have been learning from my friends attitudes, I know I can learn new things learning from other´s and my mistakes from years ago to have a better presentation having an impact in people´s life in school specificlly in Bach.

-In my opinion I have been very applicate between and during the Exhibition, I have been studying, learning, reading to complete my investigation "questions" and make clear my ideas to have a non traditional way of presenting this big project in a creative and unique way.

-This week Mr.Otero (Our tutor) did a revision of our wiki, before he call us we did the last evaluation of our Wiki process, were we correct spelling mistakes, organization (etc.), he told us that we need to organize one page from the wiki because wqwe have it were it doesn´t need to be and also check sepelling.

-I understand what my teacher told me we got a "B+", but we want the "A" so we start managing time between each one responsabilities, we help each other and we correct each one mistakes because wwe are a team and a team need to work as a group respecting and being honest each other.

-I reflect about our work, I understand my tutor point of view and opinion, but I think he can also notice the good parts we had in our wiki not only the bad ones because we ´put a lot of effort to have one of the most awsome Exhibtion this year.

-This week I have been watching some popular videos that most of the girls of the sicth grade year is watching, it is connected with Fashion Pressure letting influence each one by vampires......

-This novel is about girl named Elena Gilbert that has a boyfriend named Stefan Salvatore which is a vampire with his brother Damon Salvatore were they live in Mystic Falls, the serie is call "The Vampire Diaries" it is a beautiful and romantic and scary.

-In my opinion this novel is very interesting, it have a little bit of all, romance, comic, scray parts (etc.) but the most imporant of all of this is that this popular show is connected to our topic in a good and bad way... Good: People watch it because it is fantastic, I love it and let people understand diffrerent perspectives. Bad: People get pressure so easily that makes the person that is watching change of opinion of each character.

-I have been giving my opinion in all the things we need to plan in this week: Stand, Plan, Requirments, Wiki (etc.).

-This last week of preparation process of the Exhibition I have been very applicate because the way of learning, reviewingand giving the almost last check of our wiki, spelling, organization and grammar.

-This is the week teachers have been evaluating us, evaluating the wiki and stand... || Skill: GROUP DECISION MAKING
 * =Social Skills= ||  ||
 * Week:1

Skill:ADOPTING A VARIETY OF GROUP ROLES

Skill:ACCEPTING RESPONSABILITIES || -This first week we totally decided what topic we are going to work with "Fahion Pressure" it is about how people get influenced very easily with the people that wear original and not economic brand of close.

-This week we also decided how we are going to organize the tasks balancing that each one do the same work.

-After we decided how we were going to divide responsabilities and tasks, each one of us say their opinion of their own responsabilities, each one of us accept them roles. || Skill:COOPERATING
 * Week:2

Skill:RESPECTING OTHERS

Skill:GROUP DECISION MAKING || -This week we started to investigate about our topic, I had in mind that the information I found need to be valid and reliable, we cooperate each other calling alll the day sor communicating by messages so each one of us make together and compare de research each one was doing.

-I respect each one of my friends verbal,psysiclly and also I kept in mind each one responsabilities so I wasn´t going to do by mistake what they have to do.

-My group and I decided how we were going to organize ourselves by a timetable to work all the time in the Exhibition, I also ask if we can make a interview, my group say "YES"....We also talk about the action but we decided that when the time comes we were working on that || Skill: COOPERATING
 * Week:3

Skill: GROUP DECISIONS MAKING

Skill:ADOPTING A VARIETY OF GROUP ROLES

Week: 4 Skill:GROUP DECISION MAKING

Skill: RESOLVING CONFLICT

Skill:COOPERATING

Week: 5 Skill: RESOLVING CONFLICT

Skill:COOPERATING

Skill:ACCEPTING RESPONSABILITIES

Week: 6 Skill: GROUP DECISION MAKING

Skill:ACCEPTING RESPONSABILITIES

Skill:COOPERATING || -This week are the two interviews we plan to do to a phychiatrsit and a psychiologist, each one of us was cooperating to do the questions to this experts.

-I have been talking about the interviews I want to do all the time this week on MONDAY TO "Sonia Beersh" and on WEDNESDAY TO "Maria Clara Chammat"....a psychologist and a psychiatrist. We decided does days because we had already organize the time for that.

-After being in some interviews I have been talking with my group and we discuss about group roles, we divide the group in two parts, tqo girls writing about the interviews in the wiki, and the other two doing something else.

-This week we decided to divide very good the responsabilities because this week we need to beggin de action. I was doing the letter for the permission if the action, Ana Lucia was helping me, Mariamaria was doing the letter for the permission of the action, and Daniela was correvcting the article of the newspaper.

-We started taking action, we were doing the article for the newspaper, we were planning what we were going to say in the "Radio" after planning what day we were going to talk, and, we were trying that our director of section "Ms.Patricia and Ms.Diane" give us permission for doing the "NO BRAND DAY".

-I was trying to help each one of my friends in what they don´t undertsnad or need someone hand´s.

-This week on Friday we went to the "RADIO SONORA" (our first action) to talk about this problem, and on Friday we sent the article to the girl that was putting it in the magazine.

-This week I tried to cooperta e a lot with my friends, each one was doing something different, I told them my opinion of each thing they were doing and how we can improve it, also spelling mistakes I corrected, but obvously after I finish to do my responsability.

-I accept what AI needed to do, tat was planning all what I was going to say in the "RADIO", also I did one part of the article.

-This week my group and me have been taking a lot of decisions toward the Exhibition: Were we want the stand to be, how we are going to do the plan, what requirments we need, and, how we are going to do the stand in two days.

-The Exhibition presemtation is coming soon, myfriends and I have been dividing our information so we have a balance in the Performance Assesment.

-I have been cooperating to my friends in what they need help with their tasks of the wiki and what they need to bring and do in the Exhibiton stand. || Skill: OBSERVING
 * =Research Skills= ||  ||
 * Week:1

Skill:INTERPRETING DATA

Skill:PLANNING || -This first week of Exhibtion inquiry process I have bee observing different problems in the world, but specificlly in school so we can have a better impact in the persons we see constantly. We found out that Fahion was a problem and letting influence each person is not a really good part of the life because people need to learn to take decisions themselves. In this case we combine Fahion with the influences "Pressure, we put this together...Fashion Pressure.

-We have been looking at every place in the school which is most part this problem is taking place. We discovereed that between fifth and twelve grade....We interpretate this facts in our life which in cotidian life it can happend to anny person and unpurpose or purpose.

-I have been thinking about how we are planning to resolve this conflict, present the Exhibition in a creative way, and demostrate this problem is very often, sometimes in school, maybe university´s or maybe it come from the genetic, family. || Skill:COLLECTING DATA
 * Week:2

Skill:ORGANIZING DATA

Skill: PRESENTING RESEARCH FIDINGS || -This second week we needed to start beggining our investigation, I started since the third period beggins, I found valid and reliable information because if not it wouldn´t doesn´t surve the resear I did because I wanted to go out of my teacher expectations.

-I organized what I found in the wiki.

-I presented what I found in page I did in the wiki. || Skill: FORMULATING QUESTIONS
 * Week:3

Skill: RECORDING DATA

Skill: ORGANIZING DATA

Week: 4 Skill: OBSERVING

Skill: PLANNING

Skill: PRESENTING RESEARCH FINDINGS

Week: 5 Skill: PLANNING

Skill: ORGANIZING DATA

Skill: PRESENTING RESEARC FINDINGS

Week: 6 Skill: PLANNING

Skill: ORGANIZING DATA

Skill:PRESENTING RESEARCH FINDINGS || -This week the instructions were to do some questions that a pge named "STUDENTS QUESTIONS" was going to have in it, I did some questions about my topic that somehow I needed to discover the answer by doing an investigation.

-Because of the information I have been collecting untill now, I created a page named "BIBLIOGRAPHY" in the wiki so we put the links of the pages we found good information we can use in the final presentation.

-I organize my information in the wiki.

-At the beggining of this week I was searching, reading and observing some cases that I would like to say like example in the radio so people understand that what I am going to say it´s true...(Also the example is true, and is happening).

-I have been planning what I was going to do for the action and how we were going to present the wiki to out tutor and mentor.

-We presented the wiki to out tutor (Mr.Otero) with all trhe research and effort my friends and I have been doing.

-I have been planning what I would say in the "Radio".

-I organize in a list the turn my friends and me will talk when we are doing one of our actions (Radio).

-I presented all my investigation throughout the article and what we say in the radio.

-This last week of preparation of the Exhibition I have been planning the things I am going to say in the final presentation, the requirments we need to have and the stand.

-I have been organizing the information that is valid and reliable nand that is useful to tell in the presentation the next week, also I have been organizing data from the wiki.

-Because is the last week we have for our research I have been presenting what I found in my investigation...also I have been presenting new ideas for the way we organize the stand and the way we are going to present our topic. || Skill: INFORMED CHOICES
 * ** Self Management ** ||  ||
 * Week:1

Skill: FINE MOTOR SKILLS

Skill: SPATIAL AWARENESS || -This first week of Exhibition I have been taking a lot of decisions, my group and I have decided what topic we are going to work with for the Exhibition, "Fahion Pressure". My group and me informed to the teachers what conflict we want to resolve.

-This is the first week of our inquiry process and I have been writing a lot of things about the topic we are going to do...Fashion Pressure.

-This week teachers have been discussing how they are going to organize the groups of the Exhibiton...I mean...the class we are going to be...We are going to be with my original tutor "Mr.Otero", I have been thinking how we are going to organize the space so how can we fit and keep organization with our materials. || Skill: FINE MOTOR SKILLS
 * Week:2

Skill. GROSS MOTOR SKILLS

Skill: INFORMED CHOICES || -I feel this week I am making more effort that in the first one because know we need to start collecting data, I brought some information and I wrote it in my own words so my peers can understand what I want to present them about the topic we start working on.

-This week I thoght about bringing my computer to school so I don´t need to start borrowing laptops from the school, (hard responsability).

-This week I have been informing to my tutor and mentor the interview we are going to do this friday to a director of a supermodel school. || Skill: INFORMED CHOICES
 * Week:3

Skill:TIME MANAGEMENT

Skill: ORGNIZATION

Week: 4 Skill: CODES OF BEHAVIOUR

Skill: TIME MANAGEMENGT

Skill: SAFETY

Week: 5 Skill:INFORMED CHOICES

Skill: TIME MANAGEMENT

Skill: FINE MOTOR SKILLS

Week: 6 Skill: INFORMED CHOICES

Skill: GROSS MOTOR SKILLS

Skill: FINE MOTOR SKILLS

Skill: ORGANIZATION || -I informed to my teacher and my mentor the other 2 interviews we are going to do this week.

- I organize the time to do the questions of rthe interviews, keeping in mind my tasks, and writing about the 3 interviews we had in the wiki.

-I organzie all the interviews we did in the wiki,and I organize the wiki in tags and pages.

-I have been finishing all my tasks on time so I have more time for helping my friends in what they don´t understand, in what we are missing, and correcting spelling.

-I manage the time for this week to write the questions and answers of the interviews, that was an extra tasks so I needed to manage-divide my time in different hours again so i can´t loose the things I need to do apart from the school.

-Because we needed to go to 3 interviews I was one of the incharge persons to search for one adult we know so he/she can take us to the place we needed to go because we didn´t want to go out with a person we don´t know good, because it can be dangerous.

-This week we informed the teachers and our mentor we were going to talk in the radio, do an article for the newspaper and beggin with our campaign.

-I manage the time for the newspaper article, correcting spelling, planning what I was going to say in the radio and all my tasks.

-I wrote my lines to talk about in the radio, and I wrote one part of the article.

-This week we informed to Ms.Cosh our sicth grade coordinator thay we want our stand in the library...we have reasons.

-We couldn´t have the library section for our stand, but we got the art room, we brought some mirrors, clothe, things for covering the desorder, cardboard etc..

-My friends and I paint some big cardboards, write the tittle, we wrote the things we were going to tell, we hang the clothe we were trying to put as an example for "FASHION", we blowed some balloons for the game..etc.

-My friends and I organize the stand to have a creative plce to present our research. ||