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Published by hhalfmann1, 2016-12-15 10:20:00

Online Portfolio

My online Portfolio

My Portfolio
Hannah Halfmann
RDG 3336


Table Contents
of
1.Heart Map 2.Topic Triangles 3. Name Essay
4. Small Moment 5.Form Writing
6. 50 Word Narrative 7.Revision Example and Reflection 8.Editorial Writing


Adventures
Pro-Life Movement
Health
Friends
Family
Education


Writing Triangles
Food
It is yummy Mexican Food
My Birthday
Dinner
Pro Life Movement
Pro Life Rams
Defend the speechless
March for Life
My Family
My family is adventurous
Zip Lining Mom crashed
Into the pole
Health Exercise Running the KOA
racing my roomate


My Name Essay – Hannah Halfmann
My name means grace in English. It means happiness and joy. It means rays of sunshine hitting your skin. It is like the clouds; soft yet powerful. It is the chirp of birds early in the morning, waking the world up with a lovely song.
I am named after my father. It makes be proud to carry his name with me wherever I go. It reminds me to be the strong, loving, fun girl he taught me to be. He gave me confidence when I didn’t see my worth. He has given me the gift love, in which I hope to pass down to my children.
I hope to pass down my name to my children so they can live with my father’s legacy as well. I hope they learn to be independent and caring the way my father taught me. I pray they learn the patience of the night waiting on the sun.
I love my name and everything behind it. It is a preview of who I am. Like a small glimpse of my life. If I had to do I all over again I wouldn’t change a thing.
I’d be who I am and that is all.


Small Moment
By Hannah Halfmann My heart is racing, my stomach is turning and I’m looking at a million unfamiliar faces. A woman in a blue official U.I.L shirt walks up to me and eight other girls with a huge smile and ask, “Are ya’ll ready?” I felt my stomach drop to my bottom as I reached down to touch my toe one last time before
walking to the line. As we are headed south towards the end of the field, I hear my parents yelling in the crowd. My mind starts to wonder if this is all a dream. “Halfmann, Garden City!” I
snap back to reality and walk to the line. We get told the rules that we all have heard a million times, and the crowd gets silent. The official yells, “On your mark.” My heart feels like its not beating. I stretch. “Get set.” My right foot goes forward as I pray for God’s help. There is more silence from the crowd. “GO!” My feet start going, but my mind stays behind. Four hundred meters fly by me and then another four hundred meters are in my past. As I cross the finish line, my mind comes back to me, and I realized I just ran my last track meet ever in Austin Texas at the State Meet.


The Story of Cotton
After long enduring months, farmers
harvest their cotton crops. They use large
machines called Cotton Stripers, because
they strip the cotton off of the stalk. The
cotton is then packed into a big block of
cotton called a module. The module is covered and temporarily stored at the edge of the field. It is now ready for the ginning process. A module truck comes out to the farm to pick up the module. The cotton is then transported to the gin of the farmer’s choice. The gin is where the cotton is separated from any debris, like dead leaves and also the seeds. After the ginning process the cotton is stored in warehouses until the farmer see the market is right for selling. He or she sells to clothing manufacture where the cotton is cleaned for a second time and died into many different colors. Then a few months later you see a cool t-shirt and insist on buying it. Little did you know that the material on your back came from a cotton field just like my dads, five miles east of Garden City Texas.


Graduation Day by Hannah Halfmann
Out of the thousands of people in the audience, Nelly saw her parent’s smiles. They were as bright as the sun. Today was the day Nelly the elephant would graduate from The Bronx Zoo Academy and begin her
life as an engineer. She was nervous to be on her own, but in her big heart she had the confidence and courage to move forward. She always dreamed of designing zoos all over the
nation and now she had the chance. She took a deep breath. “Nelly Tuskamier.” The crowd clapped, howled, growled and shouted. S he shook Dr. Zebra’s big, hefty hoof. She then walked over to the Dean,
Rhin Oceros. His skin was coarse and his horn was oily. They looked forward and a flash of light blinded Nelly’s eyes for a split second. She then proceeded off stage. As she walked away with her diploma wrapped up in her coiled up trunk she glanced back and saw her parents’ big
bright smiles.


ORIGINAL
Out of the thousands of people in the audience, Nelly saw her parent’s smiles. They were as bright as the sun. Today was the day Nelly the elephant would graduate from The ZOO Academy and begin her life as an engineer. She was very nervous to be on her own. She was nervous to be on her own, but in her big heart she had the confidence and courage to move forward. She always dreamed of designing zoos all over the nation and now she had the chance. She took a deep breath. “Nelly Tuskamier.” The crowd clapped, howled, growled and shouted. She shook Dr. Zebra’s big, hefty hoof. She then walked over to the dean, Rhin Oceros. His skin was coarse and his horn was oily. They looked forward and a flash of light blinded Nelly’s eyes for a split second. She then proceeded off stage. As she walked away with her diploma wrapped up in her coiled up trunk she glanced back and saw her parents’ big bright smiles.
Reflection
I absolutely love the checklist. It is so helpful to make you focus on every little detail of
your work. I think that the checklist allowed me to add more detail and make my story more appealing to the audience. Not only, did it help me make it more interesting, but forced me to go back and look and grammatical errors. I was able to add and cut sentences and add more to some others. Overall, I think that giving students time to revise and edit their paper and give them some hints on how to improve it, increases the willingness and drive to write. This activity put the fun back in revising.


Hannah Halfmann
December 2, 2016
Gifted and Talented Education
Educators today are big advocates of education meeting the needs of each student. For those who lag behind there are teachers that are experts in curriculum to meet their needs. Somewhere along the way, educators have forgotten about those you are exceptional in academics and deserve to excel in their knowledge. Gifted and talented education has been swept under the rug in many school districts and it is time to pick the rug back up.
Gifted and talented students struggle just like those labeled “special.” These students need specific instruction to help them excel in their education. Most GT students get bored with the repetitive lessons year after year because they already know that information. Educators need to have ways for these students to build upon the base lesson. Students should have access to further research to help them deepen their understanding.
Being gifted isn’t always easy for student. When a child is at school their main priority is making friends. These students think differently from other children and have a very hard time fitting it. Teachers need to have activities in the class that allows these students to interact with others in a structured environment so that they feel comfortable. Allow these students to learn from one each other and grasp an understanding of one another point of views.
Teacher candidates rarely know how to handle GT students and almost automatically jump to conclusion that the child has “something wrong” with them. Teachers should be trained in school with strategies and characteristics of gifted and talented studnets so that every child is able to excel in their education. Universities should offer more classes over gifted


and talented education and even offer a minor in the subject because it is just as important as special education programs.
Some of those see GT students as those who need minimal help and attention because they are already smart enough. However, getting these children to meet their full potential, educators need to give these children the resources and help they need. If every child deserves the help they need to reach their personal education height, teachers should be trained to do so.
Today you rarely see teachers that are ready for being in the field with GT students. These students need to excel in education just like every other student. Just because they are “more intelligent” doesn’t mean they don’t have the right to learn just like any other student. Educators need to become more aware of the characteristics of gifted and talented students and have strategies to help them learn to the best of their ability.


Resources
◦ Prieto, M. D., & Ferrando, M. (2016). New Horizons in the study of High Ability: Gifted
and talented. Anales De Psicología, 32(3), 617-620. doi:10.6018/analesps.32.3.259301
◦ Brown, E. F., & Garland, R. B. (2015). Reflections on Policy in Gifted Education: James J.
Gallagher. Journal For The Education Of The Gifted, 38(1), 90-96.
doi:10.1177/0162353214565558
◦ Baldwin, L., Baum, S., Pereles, D., & Hughes, C. (2015). Twice-Exceptional Learners.
Gifted Child Today, 38(4), 206. doi:10.1177/1076217515597277


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