The first two weeks

The first two weeks in APEX was shaky I though college was going to be harder than what it actually was. I prepared myself for the worst so I can be great. I only had one friend and that was my roommate because I did not talk to everyone because when I was in high school that happened and I lost almost every friend but one or two. This experience in the first two weeks was stressful. I had homework out of every class every night and papers and projects were due on the same exact date so I did not know how to manage then I got the hang of it. Now the program is done and I am done with everything as well.

Wrapping up Writing/APEX for summer, looking toward fall (answer however you want to)

Wrapping up and finishing the APEX summer bridge program I have learned a lot of new information and meet new friends. This experience has had a big impact on my life it is a start to a new beginning for me. This APEX program gave me a second chance to become a Wayne State Warrior. The APEX courses have prepared me for college, and this is good because I have a head start on some of the incoming freshman that was unable to be a part of this summer bridge program like I was. I am grateful to be chosen for this program and it helped me as well as I have helped this program.

Describe what you want from education going forward

In my education I want to be successful and helpful I want to learn all about the body as much as I can. I want to be able to educate youth as well as I was educated. Education can make you successful and fortunate in life. I see myself getting the highest degree in Nursing, because I want to be a nurse. A work as one of the highest paid nurses in whatever hospital I will work in. Working with a higher level education can determine if you will keep your job or be laid off. Education is important and I believe every person should finish high school and college with a diploma from high school and a bachelor's degree from college.

Brainstroming: On the Learning objectives and connections to the class

The learning objectives that connect to the class learning is reading, writing, revision, and reflection they connect because we learned how to write as well as read over our drafts and our peer drafts so that they can have a better paper and my opinion on what they are writing on. This is important because rough drafts can get you very far. Revising your own paper and having your peers and professor revise it is different because they see mistakes that you don't, because it is not their writing and they are able to see mistakes better. The reflection papers are good because you are able to correct your own mistakes look over your work your feedback on your work and work on things that need to be improved.

Reflective argument blog

Jameelah Robinson, since I have been in the APEX program I have meet multiple people mainly in my group. On orientation day I saw a few students from my school here but in school I did not really associate with them like that. I then met my room mate on the first day on campus we collaborated very well. Then I found out that we were not in the same group so I had to make a new friends instead. I later had to do a group assignment in English 1010 class and that is the day that I meet Cash'mere, Jasmine, and Adore'Ray. We meet doing the response assignment and became very good friends and had lots of laughter's. We then had another group assignment in Ms. Pinder's class that was different and that is when I met Aliah, Brianna and learned more about Taylor we also became good friends had a lot in common and was always looking at funny instagram post on my iPod and we laughed and finish our group work. Then we meet in almost every night to practice our group speech and we helped one another. Then that one time in class we were all working together for Luke class then I understood the article better so I helped my group get a better understanding as well.

What is the differences between the sample reflections. Which do you feel is better? Why?

Sample one portfolio was about how the writers was given feedback and used it to help them write their paper as well as what they learned out of English 1010 their weakest and strongest of their own writing. The writer had a strong thesis for the reflective argument they stated what they were going to talk about but they did not go in order but everything in the thesis was covered. Sample three talks about how the writer improved in their writing they did not doubt themselves but writing was their weakest subject. They did plenty of research and was going off topic but also coming back as well. I feel that sample one is better and my reason why is because the writer is more detailed and explainable because of her thesis statement the writer had everything in the thesis but was not in order but still talked about it all. In sample three the writer only put a few things in their thesis but was talking about way more then what was in their.

The Scoring of Writing Portfolios: Phase 2 Eward M. White: Reading notes

The Scoring of writing portfolios is about holistic scoring, and how it affects portfolios. Holistic scoring is a standard base test for scoring papers. This affects portfolios because you are not allowed to grade how you want you grade on a specific grading base. Holistic scoring gives teachers a lazy way of grading so that they do not have to work as hard and not grade as much. Believe it or not almost all assessments are scored holistically because of time and money issues. Holistic scoring came about by Educational testing services they found a fast and money efficient way to grade essay quizzes.