VCU

I like VCU a lot, it is a good school and I feel that I can get a great education. My classes are hard and allow me to learn a lot. I also enjoy the layout of the campus. I feel that I will do very well going to school here and I look forward to learning a lot more here.

Exam

Tomorrow I have an exam in crime and science. I think that I will get a good grade on it because I have studied a lot and plan to study more today. If i get an A on this exam then I will have an A in the course.

Games

Due to the large amount of rain recently many of our baseball games have been cancled. We have had two or three games rescheduled due to rain. Every year we get a lot of rain and are forced to push back baseball games. It is now part of the season having games rescheduled and played at the end of other games.

Baseball

Our baseball team played a very good game yesterday. We went up early 5 to 0, but in the second to last inning we were down 6 to 5. In the last inning my little brother had a hard shot in the gap and started a ralley where we scored 6 runs and ended up winning 11 to 5.

Class

This semester was very fast and hard. I took many hard and demanding classes and I feel that I will still do very well. My classes required me to work hard to try and remember a lot of information. I think that due to the difficulty of my classes I learned a lot about my courses.

Exam

I am getting ready to prepare for my finals. My finals are going to be hard, but I think that if I study a lot then I can get good grades. The hardest final is going to be international relations, because there is a lot of information.

Paper

The last essay I wrote was a very good essay. I had it reviewed by many peers and took alot of time to compose it. I feel that I presented my argument very well and that I can pursuade many readers.

Alarms

I was very mad that once a week someone would pull the fire alarm in the building and we would have to go outside and wait for it to be clear. Personally, I am not sure why someone wanted to pull the alarm so much, and I feel that it is childish. Having to wait outside so much made class difficult to complete like we needed.

Outside

The weather lately has been extremely weird. It normally goes from being very cold to very hot, in fact, last week I was wearing a heavy jacket at school, but now I am sweating in shorts and a short sleeve shirt. It is weird how the weather changes so much and so drastically.

Grades

I am doing well in all of my college classes. I am hopeing to get good grades this semester and I feel that I will. My hardest class is American Identity, because we have to do so much reading and it is very time consuming. I think I will be able to get a good grade in the class though.

Baseball

I coach my little brothers baseball team and I think that we are very good. We have a lot of depth in the pitching position and we really dont drop off much in the batting lineup, because most of our players can hit the ball. On defense we are very sound and dont make many mistakes. The team is very good.

Class

Focused inquiry was a weird class but it helped me to meet people at college and learn how to look at things from many perspectives. The class was very challenging and made me think a lot. In the long run I liked this class and I improved a lot.

Grade

I think that I should get an A in focused inquiry this semester. All of my papers were very well written and deserve and A. My participation also was very good in this class and I didnt miss much class at all.

Grade

When I got my grade on my presentation I was very mad. I got a C and I feel that I deserve way better than a C. My presentation was very clear and I think that I talked clear and got my point across very well.

Work

Doing the presentations on someone else annotated bibliography was very challenging. I had to take someone else work and present it to the class, so their work had to be very detailed. This also means that I had to write my paper very well so someone who didnt know much about the topic could present it to the class.

Expo

I think our poster for the expo will be very good and will allow others to see what we did in class. The poster shows how we did the theater of the oppressed and tries to show others what oppression is about and how we can fix it.

Dissicussion board

Getting to post my paper on the discussion board helped me to get feedback about what I need to do to improve my grade. After I put my paper on blackboard my classmates commented on it and told me what I needed to work on this allowed me to write the best paper possible.

Presentations

I really like hearing all the presentations, because it allowed me to see what topics others were writing about and see how they organized their paper. This helped me write my paper, because I was able to compare my writing to my classmates. Also none of my classmates picked the same topic so I got to see a good spread of arguments.

Presentation

My oral presentation went very well. I was very nervous however, when I had to stand in front of the class and talk about my topic. Normally when I have to stand in front of people in a class I get nervous, but this time I feel that I will still get a good grade because despite my nervousness still got my point across.

Paper

I feel that my argumentative paper is very well written and deserves an A. Personally, I spent alot of time on this paper and tried to do my best to convince my audience to participate in volunteer activites. My paper was very well organized and had many sound sources to back up my opinions. If people read my paper I think that they will want to volunteer more.

Expo

I plan to attend the Focused Inquiry expo tomorrow in order to reflect on my year in this class. The expo will be a great way to meed others that took focused inquiry and see how and what they learned this semester. It will also be a great way to end the year with my friends.

Thesis

My thesis for my argumentative paper is that if we as a society can increase volunteering then we can make the world a better place to live in. I have many sources supporting this claim and I plan to have a strong paper concerning this topic.

Annotated bibliography

When I was first assigned to write an annotated bibliography I was not sure what it actually was. I first thought that it was just a big works cited that showed all the sources that I planed on useing to write my argumentitiave paper. However, as I began to work on it I realized that it was a indepth analysis of each source I was going to use for my argumentitave paper. The annotated bibilography really helped me to write my paper.

Class

Looking back on my year in focused inquiry I really feel that it helped me be a better scholar.This class allowed my writing to grow and improve as the semesters went on. I was very glad I was able to take this class and improve my writing. If not for this class I might still be writeing on a high school level, but now I feel that I write on a high college level.