This first week of school we've done some of the normal first week things. For example a name game or team building. One theme that I think we had this year was making mistakes and keeping track of them. We didn't play a traditional name game but what we did was have a seating chart then had to name who was sitting in each seat. For me that wasn't difficult because I'm pretty good at remembering peoples name. The first time around I knew 25 of 27 peoples names in my class. After we went over it as a class we did the same "test" at the end of the class. I got 27 out of 27. That wasn't a struggle for me. One struggle I did have though was trying to write my name in Arabic. I was a little surprised and confused on why we were writing our names in Arabic but it was pretty fun to try learn how to write my name. This task was hard for me because I didn't know anything about Arabic. The first time I tried writing my name was a mess. I tried connecting the sounds to the letter that was on the sheet. Apparently there were two sides to the sheet and I did't know that until we wrote our names a second time. So for the first time I wrote it the sounds were all over the place and it didn't really sound like my name. After that Adam told us a few things about the language. One being that it gets read right to left. That's a mark up on the mistake board. Later when we broke back into work time a classmate pointed out that there was a back page. On that back page I found the sounds that I needed to fully complete my name with the right sounds. That's more mark ups for mistakes. I found those sounds and from the help of what Adam said I was able to write my name in Arabic. I learned how to write my name in Arabic and that was possible because I made the mistakes and I had a will to push harder to understand what I'm learning so that I can understand it. Looking back at it making the mistakes helped me learn more about Arabic. I was able to grow in the sense that in the beginning I wasn't able to write my name and now I can easily do it.
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AuthorI'm a 9th grade math student at HTH. Archives
December 2015
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