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Welcome to St Mary's Campus, Semester 2 2011.During your time @ St Mary's you will have a range of tasks to complete as part of the Wikispaces assessment task.In order to make things happen!! I ask that each individual 9 BROWN class member create their own page in the 'SMC Reflections page' and put your name to it.When you have created this page can you please copy and paste the following questions on to your page.We will discuss this further in terms of expectations etc during class. I will also issue you a Wiki rubric that will further outline the expectations. Please note the following Reflections and Discussion Posts need to be completed by FRIDAY 23rd SEPTEMBER. We will continue to use the Wiki beyond this date as a communication tool.Regards Ms Kays

Each student will build their own page for the purposes of Reflection. This is because when two students are using the same page at the same time the page will not save properly. Each week for 10 weeks you will need to write a reflection about your experiences and opinions about the topic. Each reflection is expected to at least 200 words in length.The topic or questions you are asked to reflect on are listed below. Copy these questions to your individual reflection page. Thank you
 * Reflections **

**Week 1** What is the best piece of advice you have ever received? The best piece of advice I have ever received was to always stay positive even when things go wrong. This piece of advice was given to me by many of my teachers including recent ones. Every time something goes wrong, I always seem to find something positive out of it. It is good to find positives out of negatives because t helps raise your self esteem and boost your energy to help you get through the day. Even when the worst possible thing happens there is still some way of finding a positive, such as failing a test. When you fail a test you would usually feel devastated, but that sets you up to try harder the next time you have one.

**Week 2** What would happen if you threw a piece of trash on the ground? What if everyone did? If I threw a piece of trash on the ground, it would not be such a big deal because it is only one piece and it would not affect much of the earth. If everybody threw their piece of trash on the floor, then we would have a serious problem. Trash would be everywhere and people would be living in their own rubbish. Everybody needs to clean up after themselves or else there would be a terrible problem in the world. The world already has other problems such as Global Warming, terrorism, wars and famine. Rubbish everywhere would just add to all the world problems. Everybody could easily dispose of their rubbish, but some people do not choose to which causes rubbish problems that we don't need. There are many people who clean up after they and other people's rubbish who only want to keep the environment clean. We need more of those people, people such as teachers, environmentalists and any other people. I do not think that people are very educated about our environment and should really be taught about our very important environment.

What would you do if you saw a friend cheating - report it, confront the friend or nothing - and why?What do you think courage means?What do you think makes a good friend? If I saw a friend cheating, first I would confront them and ask them seriously why they are cheating and also ask them to stop. If they refuse to listen, I would get a couple more of his or her friends and ask them to help me speak to the friend cheating. Then maybe the friend will take it more seriously. If they stop cheating, that is a great job and maybe they learnt a lesson, if they continue, then I would have no choice but to tell a teacher. As much as I don't like telling on my friends, it is a job that has to be done, no matter what. Courage means having the strength to do something that you would not want to do or is scared to do. It usually takes a while for people to build up courage, because it is not something we are born with. A good friend is nice, helping, caring and is always friendly. They always look after their friends and do anything to help out. It is difficult reporting a friend in to a teacher because you want them to do the right thing, but don't want to tell on them. **Week 4** What is your most indispensable possession and why? My most indispensable possession would be my iPod. My iPod provides me with music which helps me keep on track while I'm in class.It block all the noise in the background and helps me concentrate to complete the tasks at hand. Apart from providing me with music it can also provide, videos, photos, games and many other features. I use my iPod almost everyday and is my most indispensable possession.
 * Week 3 **

**Week 5** What do you think about people polluting the environment? I think that it is terrible that people are polluting the environment. People should be fined if they are caught polluting deliberately, they know it's not right and should help instead of destroy. Our environment is precious and should be managed very carefully. People should by now know that we need to keep our world in a good condition for future generations so they can do the same because we only have one world and we need to take the absolute best care of it. **Week 6** How do you feel when you do something wrong? How do you feel when you do something that is very good? When I do something wrong I feel guilty, unhappy or frustrated. I do not like doing things wrong, but most of the time I am ok if I do something wrong, it's just part of life, we all make mistakes. I only feel bad when I do a large thing wrong, such as failing a test or getting in trouble. I feel that way because I know there are ways to stop but maybe I was too lazy or couldn't be bothered. I feel very happy and sometimes proud when I do something that is very good. When I do things very good, there are hardly any things that can stop me from being joyful, even when I've had a bad day. Things such as achieving 100% on a test or helping someone are the things that can make me very happy.

**Week 7** I wish there was a law that said... This would be a good law because... I wish there was a law that school days are to be reduced by at least one day. This would be a good law because then students have more time to be with their friends and reduce the amount of stress from school. It also gives more time for students to complete homework set and students would not have to worrry a lot about the subjects and a lot of the tasks. Also there is no need for five days at school because it is just tiring and at the end of the week most people feel exhausted and cannot wait for the weekend. **Week 8** When you are angry, how do you look? When are you happiest? When have you felt lonely? When do you feel proud? When I am angry I look very unhappy. I also look very frustrated and do not really want to talk to anybody. I am happiest when things go my way or when I am with people who make me happy.

**Week 9** Which quality do you dislike most about yourself - laziness, selfishness, childishness - and why? The quality that I dislike most about myself is my laziness. I hate my laziness but although it doesn't show up as much as others, it can really get me off completing something. An example would be studying for a test; I know that I need to study for a test but I always seem to convince myself that I already know it or I don't need to study. Therefore making me struggle in the test or even fail. I am able to stop my laziness though, through will power. However when I don't, it is hard to get things completed. I absolutely hate my laziness especially at school, because it makes it hard to pay attention or get work completed that really needs to get done.

**Week 10** Why do you think prejudice exists in the world? Unfortunately, I do think that prejudice exists in the world because people do not care about other people sadly. Prejudice is just another problem in the world that we don't need. People do not respect others simply because they are different, but we are all different. It does not make any sense and should be stopped. Unfortunately many people get hurt with prejudice just because of uncaring people. Prejudice should not exist in the world but sadly it does.