So now that week 9 has rolled around, it is finally time for me to start planning the final presentation. I spent about an hour earlier this week working on picking out a template for my google slides document. I am planning on using my favorite act of kindness from week 1 and 2, 3 and 4, and so on. Ill end up having 6 acts in the end to show as the top acts of kindness that amazed me the most. All of that I think will be able to create a powerful message to show that even though war, terrorism, and mass shootings are basically commonplace nowadays, there are still good things done by average people everyday.
With the research paper reaching an end soon, and with me being slightly behind, more time is being devoted to that instead of all genius hour. Article of the week is an assignment that we complete every week by writing a one page response. I usually try to complete those in Smart Lunch on Tuesdays and the use the rest of the week for genius hour and the paper, as well as homework and projects from other classes. American History as well as Physical Science has began to give more homework and assignments recently and that causes more of my time to be stuck completing those. I also end up spending a great deal of time working and thus, I must be effective in the time I have for homework in order to complete everything. Simply put, my time for everything has decreased so I must be most proficient that I can in the time that I have. I really need to work on my time management skills and try really hard to avoid procrastination. I end up often putting off work even though I know I need to complete it. I feel that if I can really work of reducing how much I procrastinate, I can help to stay on top of schedule and complete all my assignments on time. But other than that, everything is good. See you guys next week!
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Now that we are finally in week 8 of genius hour and I am back on top of my project, everything is going much more smoothly. With the addition of our junior research paper on top of article of the week and genius hour, the week is pretty loaded. None of those assignments are particularly hard, just simply time consuming. Now the real issue of time management comes into play. I must set time aside for all these projects, as well as any time required for other classes, which for me isn't much.
Most of my homework stems from English, so therefore I have plenty of set aside time to make my assignment look good. I can make these blogs good enough to please readers with some good interesting information. Hopefully my blogs are compelling enough to make people want to click on the real juicy section of my page. The "Acts" section contains all the awesome acts of kindness with updates of 3 every week. If my blogs can peak the interest of people enough to check out the other section of my page, then my task is complete. After all, the blogs are about the process, and the process is relatively simple. But it is not without its moments. There are a few struggles I faced this week. The main being forcing myself to type this blog. I was initially having a lazy spell, but I am glad I pushed through it and was able to get this blog out on time. This year i have definitely been trying harder to get everything done on time and with better quality, and so far I am pretty proud of myself for accomplishing that. But so far everything is good and I hope you guys enjoy your week! I am finally caught up. That's a huge relief to me as I was not very fond of doing 2 blogs in one week. But everything is good now. To be completely honest, I am not really sure what to write about in these blogs. The blog updates are meant to document the process of your project, but really, on a weekly basis, my process in basically the same. I don't have much variety in how I do these updates, besides from the different stories each week.
This issue is not concerning me at the moment, but I definitely feel as time goes on that I will have less and less to type into my blogs. I want them to at least be interesting to people and not to be the same thing over and over. I want people to at least have a little breath of fresh air every time they see an update. I want them to at least be like, "Wow, at least this is interesting and not the same as last weeks blog." After all, when people have to read the same thing over and over they tend to get bored and will possibly not click on the next update. Turning people away at the title is the worst thing a blog update can do. Blogs are supposed to keep people waiting in anticipation for the next one. You always want people to be excited about your blogs. You don't want them to click off before they see your awesome update. Or they might see who has written it and click off before they even bother to look at it. You want to keep your reputation good, and I need to work on that for future updates. Now that my little rant is over, I will say my project is moving ever swiftly on. I am making great progress and I make full use of my time in class on Wednesdays to work on my blogs and my "Acts" section of my page. Anyways, have a great week guys and I'll see you in the next one! Finally, we are halfway done with genius hour. This blog is going up a little late though. We did not have genius hour last week which caused me to be behind in the project. I have to now do two genius hour updates this week to make up for missing last week. But other than that, I am in a good spot for being halfway through the project time. Other than this week, I have kept on top on my work and my project is moving along very well. I should easily be able to finish by the time we are ready to present our projects.
Normally I always do all parts of my genius hour updates in class, as I have other things to do throughout the week, whether it be for English or not. Losing that time last week hurt me in a way, even though I had the day off. I must admit, I was lazy on my day off. I did not do much of anything so this blog being late is mostly my fault. I just chose not to complete it on my day away from school. So hopefully I am able to get the blog for both week 6 and 7 updated before Sunday, as well as my stories on my other section of page. The stories section is coming along very well and I am happy with my progress on that part. I think my final presentation will be full of some very kind things that will hopefully give everyone a few good thoughts to dwell on for a while. Thanks for reading guys! |
AuthorMy name is Max Sellers and I am a student at Davie County High School. I want to spread a positive message to the world about the kindness of humans. Archives
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