✍️ Delos Reyes, Katrina C.
Reading and writing is one of the best subjects that I have this semester. I learned and had a lot of fun.
There are a lot of things that I’ve learned in Reading and Writing. It is not just academically but also things that I can use in real life situations. Learning and knowing how to improve my writing skill and avoiding plagiarism is two of the best things I’ve learned. I always thought that my writing skill is already good enough but what I learned in this subject helped me to determine the missing pieces of my works and improve the formulation of my essays. I always keep in mind to not use other people’s work. With that, I continue being more mindful with my works and trying my best to improve every time.
I also love the Book Critique that we had. Me, who loves reading really enjoyed the activity that was given. The fact that I was able to read a new book made me feel really excited. Doing the activity was really fun and I was able to share what I read and the lessons that I’ve learned.
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We had several lessons that helped me most during this pandemic and the two lessons that helped me the most are Literature Review, and Resume and Cover Letter. We all know that in the coming years, in Grade 12 and especially in college, we will be having a lot of researches and part of it is a Literature Review. With our lesson, I’m able to understand more and know more how to construct a literature review properly. On the other hand, Resume and Cover Letter is also very helpful because in this time of pandemic, many people and even students are looking for a job to earn money and because it was already taught in Reading and Writing subject, students can now easily work on their resume and cover letter, and apply for a job. Also, for future purposes we can use what we learned after we graduated to apply to the company we dreamed of.
The mode of learning that we have this semester is online and it is not that easy especially to those who are less privileged and have a lot of responsibilities at home. Internet is one of the essentials needed in online mode of learning and not all of the students are capable of having one, so they tend to choose modular and unfortunately, some choose to drop out. We can’t also easily distinguish if it’s actually effective as everything can be searched online. For me, I still prefer the face to face classes because there is an actual interaction between the teacher and the students which made the learning more effective.
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There are a lot of challenges that I’ve encountered this semester having an online mode of learning. First, is the internet connection. There are times that we are having our synchronous class and the connection is unstable which makes me disconnected from google meet and not being able to understand the discussion well because its lagging. Next is the overlapping of responsibilities, in academic and in our house. There are a lot of times wherein we have a class but I’m also doing chores such as cooking breakfast which made me distracted and not understanding the lesson.
Then, the anxiety during classes wherein I feel very doubtful about myself when there are recitations and such. Last one is, my mental health. To be honest even before the class started my mental health is already unstable because of some things that happened during this pandemic that gave a huge changes and impact in my life. And it’s really not helpful when I’m doing my school works and having a class. But in the end, despite of the challenges, I was still be able to reach the end of this semester, surviving and I hope that this will last until the next semester having an online class.

















