Ignite Talk Reflection

This ignite was a presentation about extreme weather and answering a question about it. For example, if you were doing it about earthquakes, the question could be “how do earthquakes happen.” I was doing my ignite about floods, and my research question was how can people protect themselves from floods. I first did some learning on floods. I looked at websites, but it soon came to me that epic was the better thing to get information from.

Next, I organized my facts to say for each slide. Some of the facts I scrapped because I needed 15 seconds to say stuff about floods. Then once we were ready, we practiced. I think the biggest challenge was saying everything in 15 seconds when my slides changed. Another challenge was finding good pictures because it was hard to find one that described what I was saying.

Overall, It was hard and I felt huge weight off me when I finished doing it. I wouldn’t want to do another ignite because it was stressful and it gave me many sleepless nights stressing about it.

 

 

Partner Club Reflection

The most challenging part about being in a book club partnership was when I had to catch up on the pages I didn’t read. It would usually be a lot of pages and chapters I wasn’t comfortable reading.
I think my favorite book I had to read in the book club partnership was Superfudge. Superfudge was interesting for me. But my least favorite book I had to read was The Landry News. I didn’t really understand the story and I thought it was confusing.
The most important part of working in a partnership is to agree on an amount of chapters to read because you could be a really fast reader, and you want to read 3 chapters (29 pages), but your partner is a slow reader and wants to read 1 chapter (12 pages).
Although working with a partner is hard and can be challenging, it can be fun, too!