In humanities & global issues class, we have been recently discussing the life of early humans. For this assignment, we were instructed to complete a multi paragraph essay on the website, oerproject.com with the prompt, "To what extent was Farming an improvement over foraging?"
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In order to form our essay's we were given these seven passages :
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Each passages explains the advantages and disadvantages of farmers and foragers.
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My completed essay & scoring :
Reflection
This project has definitely expanded my knowledge of early humans who foraged and farmed. This essay has also showed me where my writing stands, with my scores of 3/4 in each category. Despite not getting all full signals, I am proud of my score and now I am aware of what I need to improve upon in the future. While completing this, I enjoyed researching the way of how early humans lived, It was interesting to see how different they are to modern day humans! I chose to display this project because of how it sparked my interest.
21st Century Skills
When working on this essay, I made to sure use my skill of thinking and problem solving, I demonstrated this skill when I argued to why farming is better than foraging. Backing up my statements with evidence from the text and research. This project definitely allowed me to improve on this specific skill. I practiced lots of extra researching, backing up my statements with text evidence and writing an essay with correct punctuation and grammar. In the future, I plan to incorporate this into all of my written assignments. However, there is always room for improvement!
I also used my global awareness skills, when writing about early humans, It was important for me to demonstrate this skill to understand the thinking, motivations, and actions of humans of different times. I made sure to have a clear understanding of them in order to write an appropriate and accurate essay. I expanded upon my global awareness skills throughout this project. I really made sure that I understood the way of early human life before writing about it, to ensure my statements would be true and informative. In the future I will use this skill and continue to improve upon it.
A third skill I used were communication skills. In order to develop a well written argumentative essay, I made sure to communicate effectively in my writing. Making sure my claim was clear, my paragraphs were organized, and my essay was well-explained as a whole. In the past, I have used this skill and since then, I have definitely improved and grown. I have done this by comparing past essays with this one and visually seeing the differences in lengths of paragraphs, organization, and even grammar.
A fourth skill I used when writing this essay was self-directional skills. I did this by monitoring my time in a wise manner, distraction free. When writing this essay I spent great amounts of time carefully writing out each paragraph to explain my thoughts and opinions. I improved greatly on this specific skill since the past few years!
I also used my global awareness skills, when writing about early humans, It was important for me to demonstrate this skill to understand the thinking, motivations, and actions of humans of different times. I made sure to have a clear understanding of them in order to write an appropriate and accurate essay. I expanded upon my global awareness skills throughout this project. I really made sure that I understood the way of early human life before writing about it, to ensure my statements would be true and informative. In the future I will use this skill and continue to improve upon it.
A third skill I used were communication skills. In order to develop a well written argumentative essay, I made sure to communicate effectively in my writing. Making sure my claim was clear, my paragraphs were organized, and my essay was well-explained as a whole. In the past, I have used this skill and since then, I have definitely improved and grown. I have done this by comparing past essays with this one and visually seeing the differences in lengths of paragraphs, organization, and even grammar.
A fourth skill I used when writing this essay was self-directional skills. I did this by monitoring my time in a wise manner, distraction free. When writing this essay I spent great amounts of time carefully writing out each paragraph to explain my thoughts and opinions. I improved greatly on this specific skill since the past few years!