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Harry, the main character of this story died when he was children. It's because a lorry hit his bicycle. This story's stage is the "other side". It's a word which we go after we die. This word is very difficult to explain. One thing that Harry could tell us is that the "other side" is absolutely odd. When someone dies that person gets into a line. At the end of the line, there is a man who checks why the person is dead and who is the person. When the check finish, finally the person enters the "other side". On this island (Harry says that the "other side" is an island) although there is a sun, like our world it doesn't move at all. times don't go too. It's very interesting because, because of the time people don't grow anymore (it means that people in the "other sides" are the same figure as the moment they die) but their memory becomes fuzzy. It's very odd. Also because the figures don't grow or cha...

 This year I could learn a lot skills and I could absorb some of the skills. By getting these skills I could become to make a better presentation.  Firstly, by learning in Mr.paterson's class I think my presentation creating skills grew. Before learning in this class almost all of my slides were created with an explanation or boring word, but because of these words on the slide audience don't listen to our explanation. They don't have to listen to our words, instead, they only have to watch the slides. These types of presentations don't give a big impression to the audience so, now I don't make those slides.  secondly, I don't become to watch slides during the presentation. During the presentation, the presenter should make gestures and eye contact with the audience. Gestures and eye contacts show how confident the presenters are.  I could improve computers skills too. I could know the usefulness of google applications and other applications such as Zotero. I...

finally, we had the last presentation.we had to do the perfect presentation because it was our last. I tried to do my best but, I could not change a lot from the previous presentation. There were some good points I could alter. One is that I could tell more information about magnets and markers. By telling more details I think listeners could agree to our opinions better than the last time. I could say some jokes too. I think by saying jokes listeners can relax so it was a good judgment among the presentation. Points that I could not alter are about conclusion, summary and limitation part. Firstly the conclusion part was too short. By the conclusion part listener's concentration are very low and some of them are forgetting our opinions, so I should have told more information about Mayako and Joel's part.

Mr.paterson gave me feedback on my individual essay. There were some small mistakes which are about writing essays so I need to change those mistakes. some mistakes are about the thesis statement. there were three reasons for the statement but all reasons were from the same perspective so I have to alter them and write two more reasons which are about projectors and tools to use whiteboard useful. Also, one paragraph didn't have references so I need to search for some information talking about projectors. Searching references for this paragraph is difficult because in the paragraph I said that It's necessary to change the projector to the transparent color one but, Its a very new one so that there are no essays about the projector. To make the essay better I have to search for it so I want to make more time for doing the essay.

Mr.Paterson showed us some of the essays which we made. One of the essays was mine. I was very lucky that I could hear the points which I have to improve. Naturally one was references. I have to write 4 more references to make my essay persuasive. My thesis sentence was not perfect. I only wrote 1 reason to support a thesis sentence so I have to add 2 reasons. I will be about an environmental problem. Probably references to these problems are necessary. Mr.paterson told me that subtitle has to be the same size as the title, but mine was smaller than the title so I altered subtitle too. I could alter some bad points thanks to Mr.paterson I think my essay is near to finish points so I think I have to start to think about presentation.

we downloaded Zotero. As I predicted it was a convenient application, but it will take time to use the application skillfully. There are still no references in my essay so I tried to search some articles about altering the educational environment, but I could not find a good one so tomorrow I will be going to research a website or college essay which makes my essay more powerful and reliable.  I added titles to my essay too. I removed some information that has no connection with my issue which was in conclusion. It seems it's neer to the goal of the essay but still, there are many steps I have to passage to make a great essay so I want to search more about my topic.

Mr.paterson told us how to use Zotero. My impressions are that It's a very useful application. I don't have the experience to write a very long essay with a lot of references so it's not quite exact but writing a lot of references would be difficult and long work so I don't want to do that but using Zotero those works will be easy jobs. since Zotero is a very useful application, I think to master this application is difficult. Hearing to the explanation of the Zotero I thought that if L could master the application it will help me a lot when I write academic essays, but if I could not master writing references will be hard work.  Mr.paterson told us about the number of references to make a good presentation. It was 10. I was surprised at this big number and I could notice that writing good essays are hard work. I didn't write references at all now so I have to search some references about improving learning environment.