Last Presentation + Group Project

Today, Tamao presented her book review on the book, "The Lightening Thief" by Rick Riordan, which helped me reflect back on my presentation. From the presentation, I was able to easily understand how each part of the author's life affected the story and the way she interpreted it. For example, because both Rick Riordan and his son has ADHD and dyslexia, this story line was meant to tell readers that you can overcome anything and turn it into a strength. Her content was well thought out, as I could tell lots of research was done to make it. Although she looked up a couple times as if she was trying to remember something, I think her hand gestures made up for that. In future presentations, I'd like to make sure to use hands naturally like she did, and make it easy to understand for audience.

With the time left, Mr.Paterson explained to us more about the group project that will be due soon, and about what peer reviewing is. A peer generally means someone the same level as you, and because you are the blind to your own mistakes, peer reviewing is vital. This doesn't only apply to school projects, but also to real life situations. For example, publishing companies always sends copies of their books before actually publishing it to get feedback and revisions from others. In my project, I want to be able to find as many flaws in other people's writing as possible so that I will get lots of feedback as well. Not only that, this group project of creating a book review video series requires teamwork, so I'd like to make sure to think about what I did well on and what I didn't do so well on last term in order to make it ten thousand times better!