Author: portfoliostudent

In Literacy class, we focus on four areas: writing, speaking, listening, and reading. For the first block, we focused specifically on writing. Every day, when we came to class, we have a Word Of the Day, where we learned a new vocabulary to improve our word choice in writing. Once in awhile, our facilitator would give us about 10 minutes to write about a specific topic in our Literacy Journal; I usually wrote about a paragraph or two. A big part of the first block of literacy is writing our narrative essay, Coming of Age. We went through so many processes of brainstorming, drafting,  writing, editing, peer editing, and conferencing with the facilitator. Along the way of writing the narrative essay, we learned about rules in writing such as parallelism and comma usage to improve our Coming of Age paper.

For this school year, we have Khmer Essential four days a week likes other Essentials, instead of two. In the first round of Khmer class, we learned how to make a formal speech and practiced it in front of our teacher. From my experience doing that, I have to say that in Khmer speech we have to acknowledge all of the audiences that participate in the event including monks, prime minister (if available), village chiefs, foreigners, ambassadors, government officers, children, and regular people. We also listened to several interviews by TV channels and took notes throughout the video. After that, we worked as a team to come up with a presentation to the whole class. This way, we can practice our Khmer skills in listening, writing and speaking. For reading, we have a lot of Khmer books for us to take home and read it. Once we’re done we turn it back into the classroom so the others have a chance of reading it.

This year, just like Khmer class, physic will also be happening four times a week. Physic has allowed me to understand how the world around me work; it illuminates my wonders. In the first round of physic, we focused on motions, both in one and two dimension/s. We had to work closely with trigonometry (SOH CAH TOA) and deal with gravity and the four kinematic equations. I have to say that I have a head start in physic class because of my last year AP Physic 1. Nevertheless, I learned new things and improved my ability to solve complex problems.

I love and enjoy learning math. This year, I get exposed to a completely new area of math, statistics. I find statistics to be very different from other math subjects such as algebra and geometry. Most of the time, in stats, there’s no such a thing as one correct answer, it really depends on your explanation and evidence using the graph and/or data. Students that learn statistic will take the 2018 AP Statistic Exam. In the first block of statistics, I learned about different ways to display and describe data using graphs, charts, and numbers. I also learned about density curve. The area under the density curve is always equal to one, and it represents the probability of a given condition.