Group work

        We were asked to work together for a common goal and work as a group. Many times teachers were like to put students into group to perform various projects and tasks. I think group work is sometimes a lot better than working just by myself. With group work, depends on what type of people you are working with, you can learn more from each other and enhance cooperation and social skills. In most of my group project, my group basically is pretty fair that we have peaceful discussion and each of us has equal amount of work and contribution to the project. Although sometimes I may contribute less or more depend on what type of people I’m working with, I found group work pretty interesting and cool. Sometime through group work, I can meet new people and get to know people better. In life, everything is group work. It is impossible for one to complete an incredible task just by oneself. Only through discussion and sharing of information can people achieve something great. Group work allows me to learn and take responsibility that in order for a job to be done, you have to finish things on time and cooperate with each other to arrange meeting time and other things. 

Language Use

How are new words created? Well most words are created through combination of words such as the common slang in junior PAS community “Bromance” which is the combination of brother and romance. It basically means friendship between brothers, nothing homosexual is involved in this (I hope). Anyway, when new words that are creative and happen to fit into a culture well, the word will stay and become popular which eventually become real words in the future. I guess this is how new languages are created. In the old days, people have no fixed grammar or syntax usage due to the lack of written record. As technology and communication improved, people started to put down their speech with alphabets or character that enable speeches to pass down from generation to generation. When people have slightly different accent for the same word, the way people spell it will become different and eventually theses words become separate and contain different meaning that is suitable for each different culture. Words are also created when people tried to simplify words, in now days due to text messages. We created words such as LOL, ROFL and other words that is basically an acronym for a phrase. However, as time move on with more people recognizing and acknowledging the meaning of these so call symbols, soon they will also become words and be put in a dictionary. 

Independent Reading Project Reflection

From the independent reading project, I learned a new book called the catcher in the rye. At first, I wasn’t really motivated to read the book because I thought I could have more than a month to read it. However, as the deadline for the project approached, I got very motivated to finish reading the whole book on time within less than 6 hours and manage to get my project on time. In this project, I did a 3D model of a scene in the book, or I will say it’s a diorama. Originally I was planning to do three scenes, but I was kind of procrastinating for the project, so in the end I only get 1 scene done. But I will say I did a pretty good job with the scene that it includes lots of details and it’s large enough for people to appreciate a scene in the book. I found this type of project to be fun and creative. It allows me to make connection of the book to other text, self or the world. It allows me to further explore the detail of the book to further understand the theme and the personality of a character.