Medicine Wheel Teachings

Reflection Paper: Medicine Wheel Teachings Reflect on the Medicine Wheel teachings and write a reflection paper on the teaching(s) that were most significant to you. A reflection paper allows you to take a personal approach and express thoughts on topic instead of just providing bare facts. For Example: Read/listen to the PowerPoint and related articles carefully and take notes. Highlight, underline, or make notes about important passages as you go. Look up any words, concepts, and other information that you do not understand. You may need to read/listen to the PowerPoint and related articles more than once, especially if it is dense or complicated. What about the information shared is important, worthwhile, useful, relevant, controversial, or valid? As you read/listen to the PowerPoint and related articles what are they arguing for or against. Identify one or more of the main themes. What are some the topic sentences and other passages that seem significant to you. Summarize the work in your own words. As a final way to cement the ideas you have learned about write a summary of it. For PowerPoint and related articles, write a brief 1 to 2 paragraph synopses. Think about your response to the PowerPoint and related articles. Take a moment to reflect on how they made you feel or think. How do they affect you emotionally? Write down your initial responses good and bad. Try to explain in writing why you responded the way that you did. Pinpoint the aspects within the PowerPoint and related articles that evoked that response in you. For example, did the information make you sad, happy, or angry? What was it about it that made you feel that way? Did you find yourself connecting to the information – how so? Step 1. SWEETGRASS – Read above and title. Step 2. Start brainstorming. Take notes about everything that can be related to the topic. Decide what your attitude to this issue is. Choose a point of view or an approach. Step 3. Make an outline – at least a single sentence for each paragraph. Step 4. Fill an outline. Write the main point in the introductory and concluding parts. Add supportive ideas for every part. Do not be afraid to change your mind on the concept in the process. Step 5. Question everything. If you feel that you are not making any progress, use reflective questions. Start from simple “How does it make me feel?” and “How is it related to my everyday life?” Step 6. Write an introduction. You can do it at the end, as often you cannot predict how this idea is going to develop. Step 7. Do not make it long: the reflective essay is not more than 750 words. Remember about proofreading.