Casey McLaughlin 2016-2017 Digital Notebook

Questions to ask Yourself: • Are you satisfied with your learning? Are you satisfied that you demonstrated your knowledge and skill? • How does your work compare to the expectations on the rubric?  • With which parts of the assignment (project, performance, etc.) were you most satisfied? • How closely does your work on this assignment (project, performance, etc.) reflect your learning?  • Why do you think this assignment worked for you? • Were there any parts that didn’t work?  • How did you do the assignment/project? Be specific.  • Were the strategies that you used effective in helping you reach your goals?        o What learning strategies were helpful? Explain.        o What would you have to add to learn more, do better, etc.? • On a scale of 1 to 10, how would you rate your effort?  • Did the amount of time, effort and strategies used help you reach your goal?  • If you were to do this over, how could it be improved?  • As a teacher, what can I do to help you?  •

According to the National Institute of Mental Health “ approximately 1 in 25 adults in the U.S. experiences a serious mental illness...that substantially interferes with... major life activities”. These illnesses can affect not only the patient, but those who are close to them as well. This number is also rising, so my class decided to understand more about mental health in our last unit by integrating our class subject into projects dealing with the brain, DNA, the play “Romeo and Juliet” by William Shakespeare, and personal websites like this one. Throughout our mental health unit, I learned science in a DNA Lab, English min a psychoanalysis of characters essay, and technology in my mental health unit project.         To understand the how the brain takes commands for its moods we needed to understand DNA, so our most recent science lab was DNA focussed. This lab’s purpose was to be able to find out which DNA sample matched the “murder suspect” in a theoretical outcome of Shake