Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Project Make-up

Write three paragraphs what you could have done better on the project. BE VERY SPECIFIC! Ask yourself, "What could I have done to make my group better?"

30 comments:

clarkk said...

Some things that me and my group could of did better on the project was tell how our place was better than others.Spoke up a little louder.Then I could of added color to the brochure.

JJ Jones said...

I would've have study more about Maryland.I could have research more about Maryland.I would have done more work,but my group forgot Im the copywriter.I could have be more reasonable about my work.Xavier and Sean wanted to handle my work for me.I've done a small amount,thanks to the other groups wasting our time on dumb question.I've always been a hard worker,but in this 8-parted project, my group took my hard work and turned it into a small work.

gaitherashl said...

on the project i could have wrote the jingle better and longer and i could have directed the project better and i could have took my time while working on the project

Tamiah f. said...

What I could of done better on the project by working more adding more details on why should have moved there.And we could of put more effort in the presentation.

Dreydan H said...

we could have not been mess in around. 1 person in are group was not at school.


Dreydan H.

harperJ said...

I think i could have talked more and walked around more.Overall i think are group did a very good job on our project.Our group got a 92% on the project.I even got a 94 out of 100.We basically got an A plus on the whole project.This means we don't really need to do the extra credit at all .I do think that i could have focused more on the whole thing It was fun working on it.

KAYLE!!!!! (; said...

Well to make my groups project better we could have done more. What I mean by do more is add certain things into the project. So that is really it. That's one thing we could have done to make my groups project so much better. The second reason we could have made it better. This reason is our group could have participated. Yeah,it was good but no one was doing any thing. Breonna was the only one actually doing any thing at all. That is the second reason I think my groups project could have been alot better. The third reason the project could have been better. Third reason is we could have said more. I mean we really didn't say a lot in our actual induivual paragraphs. This is why our group didn't get a great grade but it's good. There is a bright side to this the grade isn't great but it's better than nothing. That is the third reason why we could have done better and how we could have done better. Those are all three reasons why we didn't do great on this class project.

Alexis, G said...

The New England region.
1. I would like this because there is some lumber too build ships.
2. There is alot of ships because there are sloop much water. There is alsonalot of fish
3. My last reason is because there is alot of blacksmiths so there is alot of metal and gold.

anaiahw said...

to make my group better i think i could have made a video instead of a recording because it was obviously not that good.
also i think we should have done it live and could have had more enthusiasm while doing it because when you dont use that kind of stuff it kinda ruins our grade and the audience doesnt feel entertained.
and also it wouldnt be fun for us either.
i also think that we should have not been so shy while we had people listening to our recording because that also made us look very stupid and lost.......

Bre'Asia,Smith said...

One Thing I Could Of Did On The Project To Make It Better Was Choose Better People I Worked With Because I Was Talking To Much And Not Focus.
The Next Thing I Could Of Did Was Be More Harder On My Partners And Tell Them To Get To Work But I Did Not Because I Did Not Want Them To Get Mad At Me Then I Was Thinking It Is My Grade.
Then The Last Thing I Could Of Done Was Just Plan Worked By Myself But Then That Would Have Been More Work For Me.
Something I Could Done Better For The Group Was Help More On The Jingle

berlona k said...

one of the things i could have done better on this project was to pick diffrent partners.Because two of my partners did nothing but talk.And the one of my partners and i had to do there jobs.all the other girls did was talk.And we even asked them to help all they did was ignore the fact of helping.
Another thing i could have done was,as the sales person i should have made all of are lines, in are presentation way longer than what they were.Because i don't even think are presentation lasted one minute.And some of the things did not make a lot of sense to me really. i guess i should had just took more time and consideration in making the lines.
one last thing i think i should had done better was kinda edit the jingle.Because i really could not hear the music.And people were in the background.Plus it was started at the wrong time of the song so it played and then started over.

malikb said...

WhAT I could have done to get a better grade on my test is i could have did alot more work. Another thing i could have done is that i could have done is made my presantation alot longer.

what i should have done is participate a little more work in the group.

The last thing i shoud have done is make the jingle and the slogan a little better and i coud have filmed it.These are some of the reasons why i should get a better grade and some of the things i could have done to get a better grade on the project next time i'amworking by myself.

Adam Jennings said...

One thing i could have done better was our song. Our song was only 4 sentences. This made it to short and we couldn't include all of the things that we wanted. We could of took out the verse about the spoiling food and replaced it with something about our farming. Also we could add more details to provide more information and make our song longer.
Also our paragraphs were a little on the short side and once again didn't include all of the information we had gathered. We had talked about the summers and winters and about fertile soil but we didn't include things about our good job oppurtunities such as our farming due to our fertile soil and we didn't talk about cash crops and important things like that.
Also our set-up of our whole presentation was not good at all. We could have made that way better by not laughing during our presentation. Also we did a lot of things out of place and we had added things and forgot things so we could of been more organized. Also once again our song could of been longer and we had forgot the beat to the song so we could have made that much better. Those are 3 things we could have done better with our presentation.

Marisa F said...

One thing I could have done better on the project is to have gotten my paragraphs written faster. If I would have gotten them written faster thn we could have had more time to work on and rehearse our project to make it look better. Instead, I was forgetting to do it.

Another thing that I could have done better on the project was to research more on Connecticut then just rely on what was mostly on the paper. If I had helped research more, our jingle and presentation wpuld have looked a lot better. Since I didn't, we didn't do as good as we could have done.

One more thing that I could've done to help make our project look better was to make sure that our script had everything in that we needed to have n it from the instructions list. Our group didn't do as well because none of us really didn't make sure that we had everything we needed. I didn't make sure because I thought that person who was mainly making up the script had it all, but apperently, we didn't have everything. So those are the reasons why I could have gottem a better score, but didn't.

Trey S. said...

I was the salesperson and advertising director in my group. With saying that, I take full resposibillity in my groups grade. Even though we got a B,I feel like that we could have done better. I feel like we had more potential then what we were graded for. I think that if we had more days just to practice we would have done a somewhat better job.


I think that I should have tried to keep me and my team more on task. I think that we could have done better on our presentation. I think we did well on our jingle. I say that because i had a lot of positive feedback. I think that we did well on our brochure.


I think that because it was well put together and I am proud of my team.I think that we would have done better if we had put a little more effort into our presentation. I think that was our biggest problem. If only we had a little more time to prepare i think we would have aced it. I think if we had to do another project like that, I think I would do really well.

Devin W. said...

1 of the main things that went wrong in our group was we messed around too much. Me and Nathan were on task 90% of the time. Louis and Josh were messing around about half the time we were working. So I should have stepped up and been the leader of the group and made them stop. We got the brochure done after school and still they were making random marks and pictures on the brochure and I couldn't exactly make them stop so that was one of the reasons.

Another thing that went wrong was that we didn't plan our presentation the best we could have. Im not trying to be a jerk but Josh was having some serious problems reciting his lines. If he couldn't do it in front of 3 of his friends then he couldn't do it in front of the whole class. So we keep trying and we got it all down but it was like 2 minutes long. So we tried slowing down but that didn't help. I should have at least tried to re-do the set up so it lasted longer.

The last problem was our presentation itself. During our presentation we were loud and confident (except Josh). Then we got up there and, not trying to take brag, I was the only one who talked loud. Everyone else stood up there like statues. Then we all said our lines super fast so we were only like a minute long. So overall our project was good but our presentation sucked. I should have done more after school and got our presentation set up so it was more understandable and longer. WE FAIL.

robbie breeden said...

I could have not played around as much as I did with my group.Another thing i could have done is tried a lot harder than i did. I could of stepped up and been a leader and not follow every body around me talking and playing around a lot.

Theres a lot I could have done better on my project. For example I could have got more information about my colony. That way I could have had a lot more to say during the presentation. I didn’t have barely had anything to say during it and I needed more to say and I would of got a better grade.

Also if I could have had a little bit more time to go over my project before we presented I would have had a lot more things to say. Also would have had more info to put down for info our brochure.

brown kyler said...

I think how i could make the my project better because if we had longer time 2 go over. Another one is we is we should get more stuff about my colonial.I think my group should stop playing.I think now i no that i should work harder on my project

I think i should think i should pick better people. I think we should had longer time to record. I think that no people should not been work by when we was record that was in our class.I that we should do it again. I think that we should do diff. colonial with diff. people.I think i should stop talk when i did my project. I should pick another colonial. I think we should get another chase.

Carly D. said...

To do better on the project, I think I could have wrote down more information. In my group, we all wrote down information about the New York colony. But, I think that there was way more information that i could have included. I probably wouldn't have lost to much points if I included more information. And the other kids watching our presentation could have learned more about our colony.


Another way I could have done better on the project, was that I should have been included in the song more. I only sung the chorus, but I think I should have done more because I felt that Trey sung the whole song when i was supposed to sing the chorus. I just think that I should have sung it with him because I didn't want him to sing the whole thing. He did a good job, but I think I would have gotten a better grade if i sung the whole song.


The last reason why i think my group would have gotten a better grade on the project is because we forgot to say the slogan. I think when we got up in front of the class, we were too worried and nervous that we just totally forgot about the slogan. The slogan was part of the project and it was on the rubric and we could have gotten a better grade if we said it. We should have remembered to say it.

Nora, W said...

1:I could have said more about how my colonie was better than all the others.
2:I could have ask my group members to talk during the preastation.
3: I could have said more about the colonie for 2 reasons. One to make it longer. Two to make the people belive my colonie was the better choice than the others.

Khanh Phuong T. said...

Some reasons or things that I could have done better on the project would be rehearsing with the other group members more. For example, we could have came in for lunch a few days to perfect our jingle so that we won't be scared to do it, since that happen, all the audience could heard was a bunch of jumbled words.

Another thing I could have done, would be more included in the presentation. Like instead of Nora saying the whole presentation, it should have been split up into parts, so that all of us could talk about our colony.

Lastly would have been that I should have reread our presentation script. If I did that then we wouldn't have missed the part where we were suppose to give some reasons why Connecticut was better. Plus we totally forgot to put our slogan into the speech.

Those were some reasons or things that I could have done to make the project better.

Braylin L said...

One thing that I could've done to help improve our project was work more on our jingle. I actually forgot to do the jingle and so we had to come up with it last minute.So maybe we would've gotten full points for thaat because that was part of the assignment.
Another thing I could've done was work a little harder because sometimes I slacked off and didn't do my best. I wasn't as involved as i know I should've been because at first I wasn't in the video and was only recording it. But in the end I ended up being in the video.Even though I didn't want to, it was for the group.
And the last thing that I could've done was use more communication because everything wasn't always as planed and organized as it should've been. Because we would say one thing and then someone else would say another and we would get confused and just do whatever we felt was best.

kyra e said...

One thing we could of did better was not have so many people in our group because we could not think through any thing all the time. and people got of subject a lot and people sometimes would not be there were not there and they had catch up and that took tim so that means we had even, less time that is one thing we could of did better.

Another thing we could of did better was if we did it live and we did not do it live because we did not have enough time to make it longer because we had a 2 people out at different times and it was hard trying to make all the stuff come together . it took so much just together .

the Last thing we could of did better was plan out more and worked on it off of school because we were trying to cram all the end work the day when it was due and we had to much things to do thats what we did wrong.

Philip S said...

My group could have made the song longer.Our song was only 4 lines and we could've made it longer.We could've did the project step by step but instead we didn't.We took too long on the notes and we didn't have enough time to write a longer script.

We didn't practice for the presentation so we weren't really prepared for it.If we practiced we would have a better grade.

The script and presentation could have been longer.I also could have kept our group on task and worked harder.

Hiep L. said...

Things that I could have done that make my group better is practice more. I am and I know that me and my group play too much. Another things is my group didn't write specificly WHAT TO SAY when stand in front of the class. I should also research about the colony so we have more information, which going to make the presentation way too better. I also think that my group should pratice more than play around because obviously you could see that we are not prepair.

One things that make myself and may be some other is that I thinks there is alot of times that I can work on so I waste some of my time at the begining when the project started. I think me and my group should come up with some other stuff to do rather than reading that can extends the presentation times like drawing, poster that can help demonstration economic, maps, ect...

As you can see, my gruop's presentation is not well plan, because we think that it will be easy, not hard. But the hard things is stand in front of the class and talking, it make me and others nervous. And that why we need to pratice more and more. I think it's a lesson for me and my group that will change the way we work. And the next time, will be GOOD.

William Q said...

One thing i could of done to make it better is i could of practiced it more.this would of help so i would of been less nervous.Also i would of knew my words better.

Another thing i could of done was make a jingle. I would of got more points on the project.Also my presentation would of been longer

Finally i could of got more information. I would of knew more about my colony. I would have had more stuff to say then i could of had more time on the project.

HarperJ said...

I would have prepared more for the project.I don't think i did enough work.Our group walked around enough or talked enough.We could have also had a presentation that was maybe five minutes.Our project was three minutes and thirty seven seconds.I think that if we went over the project and our roles more we could have gotten a one hundred out of one hundred.I am proud because my rating was ninety four out of one hundred.that's what i think of our project.

johnathan n said...

first i should have worked on it longer with my group so we would have a better preformance.second i could have limited our talking and put my group in check so we can get more done.third i probably should have had us talk louder so you could here us in the video.that's what i should have did.

Mr. Warner said...

Overall the projects were meant to introduce you to some of the expectations in my class. My intent was for everyone to learn how to work well with groups as well as what would be expected when you complete a project. I would encourage everyone to remember what you wrote in these "Make up assignments" the next time you do a project in Social Studies and learn from your mistakes.

Bell 1
Carly D. – Well done. +40
Trey S. – Good work +40
Adam J. – Well done, remember these things the next time you work on a group project. +40
JJ J. – You need a little more detail about what you could have done better. + 30
Khalil C. – You need more information than this. +10

Bell 2
Josh H. – These aren’t paragraphs, they are sentences. You need more detail to get the full credit. + 20
Kyler B. – Try to make your ideas more coherent and flow better. I think you needed to add a bit more detail to your ways of improvement. +30
Robbie B. – You said all the things that are already in the directions for the project. I think the big thing is that your group needed to read and follow the project directions a little closer. +40
Devin W. – Well done Devin, try to tell your group members what you wrote so they know how to do better next time. +40
Kayle G. – Good work +40
Dreydan H. – You need more information than that. +10
Tamiah F. – You need more information than that. +10
Ashland G. – You need more information than that. +10

Bell 4
Johnathan N. – These aren’t paragraphs, they are sentences. +20
Will Q. – You need more detail in your paragraphs to show you understand EXACTLY what you needed to do to improve. +20
Kyra E. – Good job. I hope you remember this the next time you work in a group. +40
Malik B. – You need to add more detail about how to improve to get full credit. I do like your idea about working by yourself next time. +30
Berlona K. – Well written. Sometimes friends don’t always make the best project partners. +40
Bre’ Asia S. – You need to include more detail about how you would improve your project. At least you realize that friends don’t always make the best project partners. +30
Anaiah W. – You are missing another thing you could have done to improve your project but the things you wrote are pretty good. +30

Bell 5
Heip L. – Well done. +40
Braylin L. – Good job, please remember the things you wrote when working on the next group project +40
Khanh Phuong T. – Well done. Make your next project better by referring to this advice you gave yourself. +40
Nora W. – You need more information and detail to get the full credit. +20
Marisa F. – Good job, I think you see that you have to be pretty organized to have a successful group project. +40

Tristons said...

Well I should'nt had but More things on my project and add more detail on my religoin and talk about bowed they lived and tell why would people come to my colony why is so good to stay there we should'nt have put more things on our song.