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    Nora Olivier - DP Update and Reflection

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    Nora reflects on growing as a writer through a humanities project. She learned to introduce myths with personal stories to engage readers. Her writing improved by adding more descriptive details. She was surprised to learn about adolescents' unhappiness and stereotypes against teens. At the exhibition, parents found the stereotype matching game insightful. Overall, Nora grew as a project worker and student this semester by putting more effort into her work, including adding more details. She had difficulty with unhelpful group members for this project and would ask for help from the teacher in the future.

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    Nora reflects on growing as a writer through a humanities project. She learned to introduce myths with personal stories to engage readers. Her writing improved by adding more descriptive details. She was surprised to learn about adolescents' unhappiness and stereotypes against teens. At the exhibition, parents found the stereotype matching game insightful. Overall, Nora grew as a project worker and student this semester by putting more effort into her work, including adding more details. She had difficulty with unhelpful group members for this project and would ask for help from the teacher in the future.

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    Nora reflects on growing as a writer through a humanities project. She learned to introduce myths with personal stories to engage readers. Her writing improved by adding more descriptive details. She was surprised to learn about adolescents' unhappiness and stereotypes against teens. At the exhibition, parents found the stereotype matching game insightful. Overall, Nora grew as a project worker and student this semester by putting more effort into her work, including adding more details. She had difficulty with unhelpful group members for this project and would ask for help from the teacher in the future.

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    Nora Olivier

    Period 4&5
    Humanities
    Project Reflection
    During this project I grew as a writer because I learned how to format my essay in a way
    that helps the reader enjoy it more. Lori gave me a suggestion to have a personal story of mine
    introduce the myth and then go into facts about the myth in the next paragraph. This was very
    helpful to me and made my writing a lot better. I think in my essay this was a really good way to
    grab the reader's attention and make them want to keep reading. In my first draft I had a hard
    time really describing the personal stories and grabbing the reader’s attention in the intro
    paragraph. First draft: “When he looked inside, he saw nothing, put his head back up and gave
    me a shameful rude look.” Final Draft: “When he looked inside, he saw nothing, put his head
    back up and gave me a shameful, rude look. His eyes stared into my soul, and tore out my
    insides.” In the final draft I figured out how to add more detail so the reader could really imagine
    this actually happening. The change in these sentences made it a stronger piece of writing
    because if someone was reading this to you and you closed your eyes you could imagine you
    were there with them.
    My biggest take-aways from this project is the fact that I didn’t know how many
    adolescents are unhappy with their home life or depressed. While setting up for the exhibition I
    went around the room looking at masks and quotes and what I read was so sad and surprising.
    Another big take-away is how many stereotypes there are against adolescents or just teens in
    general. I really enjoyed researching the stereotypes, my group made a matching game with a
    debunk of the stereotype on the back. I think during the exhibition this was really helpful to the
    parents because they had no idea how teens were stereotyped. At the exhibition I liked seeing all
    the parents amazed at this, and the fact that my dad actually talked to me about it afterwards.
    Overall this exhibition was very powerful and changed the perspective for a lot of parents.
    I have grown as a project worker and a student through the course of the semester
    because I really tried on this adolescents project and put my best effort into it. On the first project
    we did, the Theories of Development I did a slideshow that took me maybe a day or two. It's not
    just this class that I have improved on either, in math I didn’t try very hard on the tessellation
    project and that brought my grade down a lot. The project we are finishing up in math right now
    is one we didn’t work on for long, but in my opinion it is still better than the tessellation project.
    The semester has just flown by, it feels like we should still have 2 months of school before it's
    over. I have just gotten better at adding detail within my projects and just working harder overall.
    Personally I think I did the most work within my group, I had a really hard time working
    with the people in my group. I had to keep reminding them over and over again to do work and
    get back to work. This was really frustrating to me at the start of the group work. By the week of
    the exhibition I was used to them doing no work, so I did it all by myself. Since we did a
    matching game there was a lot of printing, cutting, and laminating to do. This took me a pretty
    long time and every time I would ask one of the people in my group for help they would
    complain and act like they were five years old. If I were to do this project again I would have
    gotten Lori involved so I would actually get some help from my group members.

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