Why Do I Want to Go?

I want to go to college because I will be the first to attend college from everyone in my family. I want to be stable with my financial situation because I see that my family struggles with money and that stresses us out. Also, it is about giving back to my parents because they worked very hard to support me and my siblings. I think college is the gateway to success and I believe everyone should attend college to maintain a healthy and stable life. 

Student Success Statement

"It's not about how to achieve your dreams. It's about how to lead your life the right way, the karma (destiny, fortune, good luck) will take care of itself. The dreams will come to you."

Dr. Randy Pausch

Reflection: This statement means that if you lead your life the right way, you can achieve any dream it is you have. Basically, if you really want to achieve whatever it is you want, you have to make sure you lead yourself right, by taking the right paths and doing the right things. Hang out with the right people and spread the teachings of doing right and ultimately you will be where you want to be.

Student Led Conference Reflection

During my student led conference, I sat down with my parent and discussed my grades as well as my assignments that I had in my folder. We talked about how I can better in school and as well as at home. I wasn't told to stop by any teacher so afterwards I was dismissed.

Goal Setting Worksheet

Daniel Ramos                                                                                                                September 2, 2014

First Quarter Goal:
1. Learn how to reach a high C on the trumpet
2. Land my treflip

The PQRST Study Method

The PQRST Method. This five steps process helps you synthesize reading materials and prepare for a test. This is a good to do with a study partner or group, but you could do it on your own. Begin this process several days before the exam.

1) Preview: Look over the course syllabus, your written notes, and the headings and sub-headings of the assigned reading. This provides an overview of the content and concept you will be studying.

2) Question: develop a list of questions, including those:

• Create from the headings and subheadings in the reading
• From your written notes
• Discussed in class
• Provided at the ends of chapters.
• Given on the study guide (if one is provided)
• That you have about the topic
  *For example, if a major heading or subheading is "phrase of the moon" then ask yourself, what are the phrases of the moon?

3) Read: Read the assigned reading and your written notes, and answer to your study questions. Headings and subheadings should help guide your search. Keep an eye out for other information to add to your list of questions. Reflect on what you read, and connect new material to what you already know.

4) State: In your own words, say aloud and/or write down the answers to your study questions. Use mnemonic devices, concept diagrams, analogies, and/or other study strategies to aid your memory and understanding in this process. A list of study strategies is provided on handout 3.10.3, which you will be receiving shortly.

5) Test: Answer your study questions without looking at your notes or reading, and then check to see if your answers were correct and complete. Your brain needs to absorb and apply new information, so test and re-test over several study sessions. 

7 Tips for Taking Tests

Try the following 7 test-taking tips on your next quiz or test:

1. Skim over the test, and estimate the amount of time you will spend on each section.

2. Read the directions carefully. What are you being asked to?

3. For multiple choice questions, read each answer choice before marking you answer.

4. If you are not sure of the answer, read the choices again. If you are still not sure, move on to the next question. After answering the questions you are sure of, go back to any you skipped. 

5. Eliminate the answer choices that you know are wrong. Then choose your answer from the ones that remain.

6. When you asked to fill in the blanks, substitute one of the choices into the blank at a time, and read the resulting sentence(s). Which choice sounds right?

7. For your essay question, first jot down the main points you want to make, and use these as an outline for your essay. Afterwards, read it though. Does your answer make sense, and it is reasonably complete?

My goals list is still the same because I haven't been able to achieve most of what I've written down. I mostly planned ahead and listed a bunch of goals for me to do when I am older. But, if it helps, I have been looking up and doing some research on the things I would like to check off my list and it's getting me more and more motivated to completely finish the list.

Lately, I haven't been completing much of my life goals. Mostly because I'm not of "proper" age to do them yet. But, overall, I will keep trying as hard as I can to complete as many as I can!

So far, I am not coming close to most of them, but I have completed about 3-4 of them. Overall, this list provides me with motivation to keep going and completing the goals I have written down.

1. Get a notebook and label it "Life Planning"
2. Think of some goals you would like to achieve. Write 100 goals inside this notebook and number them
3. Visit 100 Life Goals and read
4. Visit Antwon Davis 100-Life Goals and read
5. Account for your Life Planning notebook when you return to school in January 
6. Read your goals DAILY 
7. Add your Life Planning Goals list as you think of new goals

A

• Study hard.
• Do more studying.
• Study in the morning.
• Study at night.
• Study in the shower.

Using winter break time wisely...

1. Wake up early. Nothing eats away the Winter break like moping around beneath the covers. Decide the previous day when you will get out of bed, then make sure follow through.

During the first few days of vacation, chances are that you will relish the opportunity to sleep in. It's okay to do this and give yourself a break, because your body will natually put itself on a schedule to wake up itself up earlier.

2. Maintain good health and hygiene. Brush your teeth and bathe often. Make sure to use sunblock even in the cold, and remember that the only healthy tan is spray-on! Winter is a great time to get in shape, or stay in shape. Consider joining a sport, or, at the very least, get outside and have fun every day.

3. Study. Particularly if you are a high school student, studying remains essential even though the school year is in short recess. Look over last year's notes, or do some research into what next year's courses have in store. When school resumes, you'll be grateful that your academic knowledge and skills have not deteriorated, you will be ready and not panicking that you don't know something. Most of you already know if you have homework, reading or other reseach, stay on top of it. You will be grateful when you return to school! Keep your brain active. Read for school or pleasure, research your own interests, or even just get into crossword puzzles.

4. Follow a routine. However loose, the stucture will both motivate you and keep hours spent doing nothing to minimum. Don't play to many video games and even if it might be cold go out for a few hours every week.

5. Join a volunteer group of some sort.
6. Start a summer job.
7. Go to a camp and learn something new.
8. Stay active in your society.
9. Read at least one book.

1. What direction do you see the U.S. going? Why is it going this direction?
   I don't know because I'm not taught about the U.S.
2. Why do SAT scores in the U.S. continue to go downward?
   I don't know because I'm not taught about the SAT scores.
3. What are solutions to low SAT scores?
   Again, I don't know because I'm not taught about the SAT scores.
4. Make a bullet list of a few problems with education in California.
   -School feels like prison.
   -They blame us for problems they should be blaming the previous generation for.
   -They force us to learn subjects we would rather not learn.
   -They take no action on serious problems.
5. What are solutions to the California Education problems?
   -Take our opinions into considerations.
   -Don't make us feel like we're going to be failures in life if we don't "do good" in school.
6. "To educate a man in mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society" (Theodore Roosevelt)
   To reflect, Ted meant that without the proper morals being taught to us, we can be the most educated but yet lack the actual education we need to get through life. 

Student Success Statement 

"It's not the will to win, but the will to prepare to win that makes the difference." 

Paul Bear Bryant  

This statement means that you have to be prepared for whatever is going to be thrown at you so you can dodge it and take the prize. You have to be sure you know what it is that you need to do in order to win so you can do it.

Paul 'Bear' Bryant
Paul 'Bear' Bryant was an American college football player and coach. He was best known as the longtime head coach of the University of Alabama football team. As head coach he won six national championship and thirteen conference championships. He also held the record for most wins as a head coach with 323 wins. Before Alabama, Bryant was head coach and other school, including the University of Maryland, the University of Kentucky, and Texas A&M University. Bryant was the 11th of 12 children born in Fordyce, Arkansas. He gained the nickname he holds because he agreed to wrestle a captive bear during a promotion for a theater when he was 13 years old. Bryant began playing football since the 8th grade.

Improvement 

HPIAM Data 

• FACT: 34% of HPIAM students have below a 2.0 GPA
• Why is this a worrying statistic?
  -- Students will not graduate.
  -- Students won't get to go to college.
  -- This shows students don't put in enough effort into their studies.

Writing Prompt

• What are some specific reasons you think is happening? How can we solve this problem (concrete ideas)?
  -- Students are distracted by things other than learning.
  -- Classes are too big for teachers to control.
  -- Students don't put in effort.
  -- The new schedule.

Prompt 4

Thanks to the internet, people have more access to more information than at any other time in history. People can instantly find information on almost any topic in the time it takes to type a couple of words and click a mouse. But we often know so little about the source of this information, including its reliability and the qualifications of the person who wrote it. If we don't know its source, information is not much good to us.

1. Do people need to know the source of any information before they use it?
Yes, because they won't know if the information is the truth or not.
2. Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point of view on this issue. Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from you reading, studies, experience, or observations.

The internet is full of information, whether it is true or not is the main concern. Information written down on the internet must have a source so we can view it as true or false. Without the source, information wouln't be so trust worthy. For all we know, everything we see on the internet can be a lie. The importance of a source is big, and every bit of information should be proven as true before they let you post it on the internet.

Though we can agree with information being right, without it's source, it can be counted as false or just as an opinion.

Many colleges now offer courses in which students study television programs, comic books, magazines, advertising, and other aspects of popular culture. Critics complain that schools should not replace serious literature and history courses with such fluff. They claim that courses in popular culture present material that is trival and inconsequential. But the study of popular culture can be just as important, demanding, and instructive as the study of traditional subjects.

Assignment:

Can the study of popular culture be as valuable as the study of traditional literary and historical subjects?
YES.

The study of either popular culture or traditional literary and historical subjects are all valuable depending on the way you look at it. Though, some may seem unvaluable at the moment, we should look at the positive side of judgment. Personally, I believe, although it is important to know what our ancestors went though and how we came to be, it is more important to focus on what will help us evolve in the future. So, that being, popular culture should be as valuable as the study of traditional literary and historical subjects.

Popular culture, is popular for a reason, right? Whether it's fun, or easy, if people like it, then we shouldn't be the ones to keep it from them. If we gave it a chance and stopped being so closed minded all the time, maybe we would see some improvement. Just because it doesn't seem as serious and other subjects does not mean it is not as important.

As the world keeps spinning, life keeps on going and with that brings new people with new ideas to make subjects that will benefit us for the future instead of filling out heads with out-dated knowledge or about the past that doesn't really matter in the current evolution of the continuing human population. The popular culture is just like the old culture, just modern. We should give it a chance and if we see change, then we should keep it that way. Popular culture is important to listen to as we belive it is important to listen to historical culture.

In conclusion, it's all based on whether it'll work or not. I say, for the benefit of change, we should give it a try. If it doesn't work, we can continue valuing what we value today and keep the same routine going.

1. What does GPA stand for?
   GPA stands for Grade Point Average.
2. What does a GPA show?
   A GPA shows how well you're doing in school.
3. Why is a GPA important?

• It tells you where you're standing.
• It lets you know if you're doing well.
• It'll help you graduate high school.
• It'll help you get into a good college.
• It shows your academic effort.
• It reflects who you are as a person.
• It adds academic motivation.

     4. Link to a website that shows the importance of a high GPA.

         Importance of a high GPA.

Educational Goals
1.Pass the 10th grade with good grades.
2. Graduate high school.
3. Go to college.
4. Do all my homework assignments
5. Pass AP world history with an "A"
6. Improve the classes I'm failing in.
7. Go to university.
8. Join extra-curricular activities.

Reflection:
The importance of these goals will help me out in the future and brighten up my way to a better life. If I follow these goals, everything will be easier for me and I will not run into any problems.