Model Senate:
Legislation:
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Description:For our model senate project we were all assigned a senator, a political party, and an issue to write a bill for. Some of us were faced with being on the opposite side of where we actually stand but it was required to speak, write bills/amendments and vote the same as our senator would. We had three issues that we were spilt up on and we had to partner up to write a bill for the issue. You could either partner up with someone on the same party side as you or you could write a bipartisan bill with someone of the other party. For exhibition we spent 3 days giving speeches about why we should vote or not vote for the bills that got chosen and giving amendments to them and then final voting on them all.
Speech:
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Reflection:
- What was hardest for you about this project? Where do you think you could have improved your performance?
2. What was your favorite moment or memory from model senate?
I thought it was fun when we would do our starters to practice parli pro and when we did a mock model senat to practice. It was really fun to learn that way. I had vaguely remembered how to speak following parli pro because in the model UN project I was a chair member and I personally didn’t use it I just enforced the use of it.
Writing Goals:
Goal 1: Quoting
I will work on talking about quotes in my writing instead of just placing them in the paragraph and leaving them. In my “Cynical Seminar Reflection” paper I used a quote that said “..But also because the openness of hope is dangerous…” and followed that with a sentence that said “You can think it as harmful if cynoc people vote based off their confusion and laziness to inform themselves about politics and candidates policies.” My following sentence is supposed to analyze the quote and this one didn’t have anything to do with it. I need to choose quotes that I know I have something to say about it. I tend to not reread my work and that lets me get away with not analyzing my evidence.
Goal 2: Proof-reading
After I write an essay or a story I just leave it and don’t look at it or have others look at it and I end up with simple grammatical errors. Again in my “Cynical Seminar Reflection” paper, I had a sentence that said “When they see that something has failed, thy give up there.” Clearly the word ‘thy’ doesn’t go here but I didn’t go back over it and no one else had either so it stayed incorrect. I need to give myself more time to proofread and also ask a peer or family member to help me find those little errors that don’t need to be in my writing. I am going to make sure I have someone read over my work before I turn it in.
Goal 3: Organization
Previously in my writing I have struggled with TEA paragraphs and organizing my sentences. In my “Cynical Seminar Reflection” paper I wrote two paragraphs, the first which was organized partially and the second that had no evidence so I had no analysis either, I was just saying random things I thought about the topic. My ending sentence in the first paragraph was a quote that had no explanation after it I had just ended it there. The quote didn’t even go with the previous sentence either. It was very unstructured and made it a poor paragraph for my writing piece. I need to take time to make sure my writing is organized and makes sense. It will also help if I ask my peers to critique my work and they might notice something that is out of place that I wouldn't have noticed.
College Scholarship Essay:
I wrote a couple drafts for my scholarship essay to San Juan Community College that were all a little different. My first draft was more just me getting down my thought for m prompt...it wasn’t very good but we have to start somewhere. I couldn't think of how to properly answer the prompt. I worked on my skills of word choice. My first sentence on my first draft was “In the next 5 to 7 years I see myself graduating high school and graduating with my masters degree in biochemistry.” I changed it to “In the imaginable future I see myself graduating college with a degree in biochemistry.” The first sentence had unnecessary points like me graduation high school, that is an obvious. I also didn’t need a timeline of when I thought things were going to happen because you can never be sure. When writing I need to go slow and adjust my wording so everything makes sense and flows nicely. In my scholarship essay I worked really hard to do this and that is why I had more than two drafts. I read the sentences out loud that I thought needed to be changed and had others read them too so I would know what flowed to other people. This will continue in my further writing to insure beautiful work.
I will work on talking about quotes in my writing instead of just placing them in the paragraph and leaving them. In my “Cynical Seminar Reflection” paper I used a quote that said “..But also because the openness of hope is dangerous…” and followed that with a sentence that said “You can think it as harmful if cynoc people vote based off their confusion and laziness to inform themselves about politics and candidates policies.” My following sentence is supposed to analyze the quote and this one didn’t have anything to do with it. I need to choose quotes that I know I have something to say about it. I tend to not reread my work and that lets me get away with not analyzing my evidence.
Goal 2: Proof-reading
After I write an essay or a story I just leave it and don’t look at it or have others look at it and I end up with simple grammatical errors. Again in my “Cynical Seminar Reflection” paper, I had a sentence that said “When they see that something has failed, thy give up there.” Clearly the word ‘thy’ doesn’t go here but I didn’t go back over it and no one else had either so it stayed incorrect. I need to give myself more time to proofread and also ask a peer or family member to help me find those little errors that don’t need to be in my writing. I am going to make sure I have someone read over my work before I turn it in.
Goal 3: Organization
Previously in my writing I have struggled with TEA paragraphs and organizing my sentences. In my “Cynical Seminar Reflection” paper I wrote two paragraphs, the first which was organized partially and the second that had no evidence so I had no analysis either, I was just saying random things I thought about the topic. My ending sentence in the first paragraph was a quote that had no explanation after it I had just ended it there. The quote didn’t even go with the previous sentence either. It was very unstructured and made it a poor paragraph for my writing piece. I need to take time to make sure my writing is organized and makes sense. It will also help if I ask my peers to critique my work and they might notice something that is out of place that I wouldn't have noticed.
College Scholarship Essay:
I wrote a couple drafts for my scholarship essay to San Juan Community College that were all a little different. My first draft was more just me getting down my thought for m prompt...it wasn’t very good but we have to start somewhere. I couldn't think of how to properly answer the prompt. I worked on my skills of word choice. My first sentence on my first draft was “In the next 5 to 7 years I see myself graduating high school and graduating with my masters degree in biochemistry.” I changed it to “In the imaginable future I see myself graduating college with a degree in biochemistry.” The first sentence had unnecessary points like me graduation high school, that is an obvious. I also didn’t need a timeline of when I thought things were going to happen because you can never be sure. When writing I need to go slow and adjust my wording so everything makes sense and flows nicely. In my scholarship essay I worked really hard to do this and that is why I had more than two drafts. I read the sentences out loud that I thought needed to be changed and had others read them too so I would know what flowed to other people. This will continue in my further writing to insure beautiful work.