Week 15, Class 1

Today, we are practicing how to write the answers on a describe question, and it was a lot of fun. This practice isn't just for fun, it is for a test net week, and FYI, it is a semester exam. Only for History, because we have 2 parts for history exams, 1 that is written down which is way harder than the one that is made in schoology, it is computer based.

1. Today was awesome, Mr. Rick didn't came late, instead some students come late, isn't that weird? So, if the teacher came late, the students don't but if the student came late, the teacher don't. That is super weird, but anyways, let's get back on track.

Today, we are going to practice how to answer describe questions, and this is Mr. Rick showing us the pdf, slide or whatever you call it.

There are tips on how to answer the describe questions. 

2. The first thing that you need to do before answering the questions is that you need to know the time that needs to be taken for us to answer the question. Let's say the marks would be "m"

So, this is the formula: (m x 2) - 2 = time needed for you to answer the question. We are going to answer a describe question that gives you about 4 marks, so the time taken for us to answer this question is 4 x 2 = 8,  8 - 2 = 6. So, you've got 6 minutes to do this question.

Read the question carefully, and then after that, make a mind map in the paper that takes you about 30 seconds. Write down the ideas that could answer the question, and make sure you state as many as possible. Then, sadly, you must only choose 2. Make 2 lines in your mind map, and this means that you won't choose those answers. 

After that, we write the descriptor, and we need to write the opening for it, and to write the opening, we write: One of ..... . Repeat the question, and answer with one of your points. Then make an argument that supports your answer. And finally, write your sources to prove your argument, it can be done by research and could be taken from a book, someone's saying or even the movie. We write the sources in Quotation marks " " to say exactly what the person is saying, but if you don't remember it exactly, you may write the word "that". Then, you write the 2nd point, and it is exactly the same as the 1st paragraph, but the opening uses the word: "Another".

After you made all of these, make the conclusion for it, this must be the writer's work of understanding, not the stating of sources, or anything like that. Then, after you are done writing those 3 parts, you are done, and may move to the next question.

You must also manage your time, and in a describe question, you only have 6 minutes to do it, so hurry!

3. Then, Mr. Rick asked the whole class to answer his describe question and it was hard work, this time, he gave us 10 minutes to do the thing, which is like 2x the normal time that you will have. It was still too little amount of time. But anyways, we did it. This is what Mr. Rick looks like when he was telling the class:

There was only 1 person in the class who got it all right, and that person was from the Spring team. Isn't that amazing, there was also 1 more person from the Spring team who got it all right, but when Mr. Rick checked it, that person only got some of them correct. 

4. On what we can do better next time is to try to listen to Mr. Rick's lecture, so that we won't ask 1 person from the group who is listening, and this happened a lot of times in the school, so let's try not to do so.

I hope you guys would enjoy this blog update. Thanks!