Michaels+Reflections+Aye

====**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 **====

**Reflections **
====**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 **====

‍ If I saw a friend cheating on a maths test etc. I would probably report it because cheating isn't going to get you very far in life because one day you're going to get caught out, and your life will collapse. Even though my friend would get very angry at me, I still believe that it would be the right thing to do, because cheating is a horrible thing to do. I believe courage is going for something you believe in, you should always speak up and do what you believe what is right, if you think someone is doing something wrong confront them. If you always sit back, don't try for what you believe then you aren’t very courageous at all. I think a good friend is somebody that never does something bad by their friend, somebody who always there to help them in their time of need, if you talk about your friends behind their back to someone and say bad things then your truly not a good friend. ‍ I think it’s really silly that people continually keep polluting the environment, why people continue driving cars that use fuel which always lets out gas into the air, why do we continue taking oil out of the ground to research when it causes so many disasters, we can easily learn how to recycle things that need recycling like paper, cardboard and aluminium, why do we continually throw our rubbish on the ground and into our oceans and why do we keep cutting down trees in our forests to make things like paper. There are so many alternatives which can counter those things to help the environment run the way it is supposed to, we can switch from using all fuel cars and switch to the electronic versions / hybrids which are better for our environment, we can easily stop throwing our rubbish on the ground and in the ocean, by simply once you have finished with walk to a bin and throw it away and it doesn’t take much to recycle your paper, cardboard and aluminium so it can be reused instead of making new copies and harming our environment. It’s not that hard to stop polluting the environment so why do people continually do it? ‍ I usually feel very guilty when I do something wrong because I know that I shouldn’t have done it. Im usually very angry at myself for doing things that I knew I shouldn’t have like stealing, cheating and things so forth, usually being angry im such a mean person and im very mean to everybody around me even friends, teachers and family. When I do something really good im usually proud of myself because it makes me very happy. Things like winning awards at school, achieving good results on my schooling or even winning sporting awards in football or basketball make me feel very proud of myself. When I do something really im usually really excited and can’t wait to tell everybody about what I've done or succeeded in the past few days. I also feel really good when I see the look on my parents faces when I achieve something like high results on my maths test or anything like that, which are good achievements. ‍ I wish there was a law against swearing, if nobody was swearing it would make the earth be so clean and friendly, it would cause so much less drama for sports stars who swear and things like that. It would clean up violence in our streets because swearing is just thing to do because it accomplishes nothing. It would be so much easier to stop swearing because it crosses of another violent thing in the world. ‍ When im angry im usually bright red, look like I am about to kill someone and it looks really bad because I feel really angry! I am usually happiest when im outside of school with my best friends just chilling doing whatever we are doing on that day. I always love hanging around my friends because they make me feel so comfortable which makes me very happy. I have felt lonely on days when some of my friends aren’t at school, or when my parents go away for the weekend and I have nothing to do because im home alone, it makes me feel really sad because I get really, really, really, bored without them. I feel proud of myself when I succeed something that I'd been trying to do for a while, for example last year I won the club best and fairest and I was really, really proud of myself because that was a very good accomplishment for me, it made my family and friends really happy and they were all proud of me. Seeing all them really happy for me, makes me very proud. I was also really proud when my footy team won the preliminary final by 2 points against a team that usually always beats us. ‍ The quality I dislike about myself the most is the fact that im very lazy at times and seem to forget about school work. I always am lazy when it comes to things like homework, because im always so caught up in watching TV, playing Xbox, playing sport and watching movies and so forth whatever I felt like doing that night. I dislike this because if I keep forgetting things in my life im going to end up getting detentions, getting in trouble and other things. If I didn’t have this quality I believe that I could achieve so much more in my schooling and other things I wish to achieve. It’s because of being lazy which can ruin my life and I want to get rid of this quality to help me achieve higher in my life. Not being lazy would help with my organisation on school assessments and tests. ‍ I believe that there are prejudices in the world because it’s just the way the human brain works. Being a prejudice is just another form of jealous and is just a really silly thing to be. Why do these people judge people, when they don’t even really know anything about the, person one of the main examples is people who judge the other person when they have a disability and not even really knowing facts about the person. In my opinion these people are usually educated and still just listen to these rumours that people say, and spread them, all by them self making these things worse. Everybody is different in their own way like they can vary from having a different skin colour, different race, maybe speak a different language it doesn’t mean that they can judge them on what’s on the outside its what’s inside that counts.
 * ‍ **** Week 1 **
 * ‍ **** What is the best piece of advice you have ever received? **
 * ‍ ** I have received many great pieces of advice in my life but the best piece of advice I have received was probably when I was 11 playing in my under 12's Preliminary Final in footy. My dad said to me in the change rooms before the game "Even though you have lost too this team twice in the season by over 100 point, that I should never stop believing, don’t give up and give it my all out there, because as long as you try your best you are a winner in my books." This was such an inspirational piece of advice to me because it helped me believe in myself and my team mates, if he didn't say this to me before the game I probably wouldn't have went out and played the way I did that day. This advice not only helped me out on the day but I take it into consideration before every big game I play. Luckily on that day we got lucky and we did win by 3 points, which was a great day and I probably couldn't have done it without my dad’s advice.
 * ‍ **** 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 only have a minor affect to the world, unless I did it regularly not every day, that could possibly cause a problem. But if other people saw that I was doing it they might copy my actions and believe it is the right way to live. If everybody threw trash on the ground everybody would see it as the right thing to do which is very bad for our environment, if everybody litters every day, every week, every hour, the world will become so badly polluted that the world we know and love will become impossible to live in. If plastic gets into the sea it can kill the animals swimming around there like, turtles, fish and even birds. If everybody litters/throw a piece of trash then the nice healthy environment will be destroyed in years. Everyone should learn that it doesn’t take much too just walk over to the bin and chuck it in there, instead of just dropping it on the floor, which causes major problems to animals and our own lives.
 * Week 3 **
 * ‍ **** 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? **
 * Week 4 **
 * ‍ **** What is your most indispensable possession and why? **
 * ‍ ** My most indispensable possessing that I probably couldn't live without is most likely my Iphone/Ipod. When im at home or out, I always have my phone on me, I have everything on my phone I chat with my pals, play a large variety of games, I can call my friends and family, I can watch movies on it and I can even listen to some of my favourite tunes whenever I want from the comfort of my phone. It also helps because whenever I am in danger I can call or text my family, friends and even the police, fire men and the ambulance. It is a really cool accessory and I suggest that everybody if they can, to buy an Iphone because I don't know how I could live without my phone because of the things it contains that I can do on it.
 * ‍ **** Week 5 **
 * ‍ **** What do you think about people polluting the environment? **
 * ‍ **** Week 6 **
 * ‍ **** How do you feel when you do something wrong? How do you feel when you do something that is very good? **
 * ‍ **** Week 7 **
 * ‍ **** I wish there was a law that said... This would be a good law because... **
 * ‍ **** Week 8 **
 * ‍ **** When you are angry, how do you look? When are you happiest? When have you felt lonely? When do you feel proud? **
 * ‍ **** Week 9 **
 * ‍ **** Which quality do you dislike most about yourself - laziness, selfishness, childishness - and why? **
 * ‍ **** Week 10 **
 * ‍ **** Why do you think prejudice exists in the world? **