BLOG #13 - Do you think public schools should teach students ethics and personal values? Which values should schools teach in order to produce “good citizens”? What kinds of values (or even subjects) should not be taught in schools? Classify these values using some guiding principle or standard, and explain the characteristics of each category
I do not believe schools should teach ethics or personal values. Values are meant to be a passage of a parent to a child. In todays world, many religions hold their own values or ethics and therefore if schools cross that line tehy could possibly cross religious boundaries and upset societal beliefs. If schools did teach values they should teach the values of raising a family in heathly ways and the impact parents can have on children. They should not ever cross teh line into religious values or values that pertain to innapropriate topics, like telling kids to not have premaritual sex. Values can be broken down into: Religion, family, school, sports and many other types. They are classified by the type of subjsect covered and how importantly society views certain values.
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Blog 12
BLOG 12 - Consider the topic of movies. Put films into carefully thought-out categories. Discuss what constitutes a great film, and discuss examples. Try to be as explicit as possible regarding WHAT criteria or guiding principle you use to categorize them.
Comedy
Horror
Drama
Musical
Foreign
Animated
Great films must captivate an audience. They must impact generations, and the generations to come along with having themes that span full circle. Covering many aspects of human life, struggle, or the human need for love.
examples:
It's A Wonderful Life
Casa Blanca
The Godfather
The Graduate
Gone With The Wind
All of these films have captures audiences and impacted generations to come. Every film covers life changing, interesting, and topics that cover many aspects of the "American Dream".
Comedy
Horror
Drama
Musical
Foreign
Animated
Great films must captivate an audience. They must impact generations, and the generations to come along with having themes that span full circle. Covering many aspects of human life, struggle, or the human need for love.
examples:
It's A Wonderful Life
Casa Blanca
The Godfather
The Graduate
Gone With The Wind
All of these films have captures audiences and impacted generations to come. Every film covers life changing, interesting, and topics that cover many aspects of the "American Dream".
Blog 11
AP Language and Composition Wight
Metacognition Questions on Definition Essay
Meta-Cognitive Reflection Directions: Respond to the following questions in your reflection journal. Your answers must be in complete sentences. All questions must be labeled by section and number. Keep organized for easy evaluation by instructor.
Culminating Writers Profile
Discuss how your expectations about your writing style and needs have both changed and remained the same since this class has started.
- I didn't expect to have grown so much in my writing in such a short time, but I already feel like I am improving immensely.
What do you see as your strengths as a writer and how have you reinforced them?
- I feel like I have a unique style and sentence structure, and i try to reinforce them whenever I can in my writing.
What do you still see as your writing weaknesses and what have you done to strengthen those areas?
- I defiantly need to improve my word choice and rhetorical devices. I try to listen to what Mr. Wight has to say and imput them into my writing.
Evaluating your writing process
If you had the time to write one more draft of this essay, how would you improve it?
- I would add in better language, and more imagery, but overall I enjoyed my essay structure.
As you received peer feedback and revised your essay, what did you find the easiest element to improve in your essay?
- I found it very easy to add more "oomph" to it. It was easy to improve the parts lacking interest or pizazz.
Discuss the biggest problem you had in writing and revising this essay.
- I had a really hard time connecting my introduction to my whole essay.
Evaluating Your Successes
Discuss your most successful large scale revision in this essay.
- I changed a lot of the intro and conclusion to make them work together.
Discuss your success in combining descriptive, narrative, and illustrative elements into this Definition Essay.
- I used a lot of personal narrative using description hoping to "show", rather than "tell".
Discuss your best success when considering your audience.
- I think my examples, which are personal stories, are very relatable, and add a lot of interest to the paper.
Being Honest with Self
What most intimidated you about this writing process and how did you combat this intimidation?
- It intimidated me to even write the essay, but once I started writing the ideas came to me and the paper started to flow.
What idea from our text influenced you to try a new strategy within your writing process?
- The box man paper influenced me to reveal my point in the end of my paper and to stay far away from shaffer format.
What idea did you pick up on from reading student essay examples that you tried in your own writing process?
-I always try to use student examples to help me with structure.
What idea for improving your essay did you learn from a peer?
- Peers told me to add more detail, and bulk. They also helped me connect the intro to the conclusion.
Where do you see yourself as a writer now, in both strengths and weaknesses, after completing this writing course?
-I see myself as a pretty good writer in my method,and imagery or details, but i suffer when it comes to using "mature" wording. After this course i really hope to have improved a lot in all aspects of writing.
Blog 10
Blog 10:write 1-2 paragraphs defining “Nobodiness.” Analyze and explain 1-2 particular causes of feeling like a “nobody.” You will use this writing tomorrow to analyze/revise your own sentence variety
As the two minute bell rings, I walk slowly, stretching out my neck to spot friends, or even acquaintances. No one is around so i continue to walk alone. I feel vulnerable, open, and easily judged as my tan flip flops thump..thump...thump...on my way to my next class. This is simple nobodiness, or alone-ness, a feeling that comes when walking, driving, or all around being alone. It is a feeling of emptiness, and a small amount of fear. Fear of being alone.
Another type of nobodiness involves most people personally, this is a feeling inside, not just being alone, but truly feeling unrelatable, unwanted, and a bitter feeling of being misunderstood. A feeling that, for me, came hand in hand with my father's death. After he passed away, I felt like none of my friends or teachers could relate, or truly understand how i felt inside. I felt very alone, and had a true sense of nobodiness.
As the two minute bell rings, I walk slowly, stretching out my neck to spot friends, or even acquaintances. No one is around so i continue to walk alone. I feel vulnerable, open, and easily judged as my tan flip flops thump..thump...thump...on my way to my next class. This is simple nobodiness, or alone-ness, a feeling that comes when walking, driving, or all around being alone. It is a feeling of emptiness, and a small amount of fear. Fear of being alone.
Another type of nobodiness involves most people personally, this is a feeling inside, not just being alone, but truly feeling unrelatable, unwanted, and a bitter feeling of being misunderstood. A feeling that, for me, came hand in hand with my father's death. After he passed away, I felt like none of my friends or teachers could relate, or truly understand how i felt inside. I felt very alone, and had a true sense of nobodiness.
Blog 9
BLOG 9: In Tuesdays with Morrie Mitch Albom addresses the materialistic nature of our lives – and what Morrie has to teach him about how to live. What did you take away from reading Tuesdays with Morrie? Has it changed any outlook or previously held beliefs?
I took away from Tuesdays with Morrie the importance of acceptance and love. I honestly did not realize how much I took for granted until reading this novel. People are not around forever therefore you must give them respect and let them know how you feel while they are around. Our society is very materialistic and this novel opened my eyes to being original, not to be how society wants us to be. I honestly took away a better perspective of life, and a better acceptance of death. I believe Tuesdays with Morrie is most likely the most influencial book I have ever read.
I took away from Tuesdays with Morrie the importance of acceptance and love. I honestly did not realize how much I took for granted until reading this novel. People are not around forever therefore you must give them respect and let them know how you feel while they are around. Our society is very materialistic and this novel opened my eyes to being original, not to be how society wants us to be. I honestly took away a better perspective of life, and a better acceptance of death. I believe Tuesdays with Morrie is most likely the most influencial book I have ever read.
Friday, September 3, 2010
Blog 8
BLOG 8 – choose a word from today’s discussion and compose an essay in which you fully analyze the connotations of the word. Make sure you provide personal readings, observations or experiences as concrete details.
A house, by definition, is a building in which something is sheltered or located. Built upon cement foundations, wood makes up their bones, and drywall creates skin. Other than that, houses have no emotional appeal. They are viewed as a place to live. Places to add things to, and create a magical place, that is all your own. Houses begin their lives barren, empty, lonely, and end their lives as homes.
A home is defined as a residence of a person, family, or household. A place most people describe as where their heart it. When imagining a home, think of families sitting around a large, oak table sharing stories and food, or friends gathered around the TV, chowing down on messy hot wings for Superbowl Sunday. A home is a house that is loved.
A house becomes a home after many generations of family have passed through its doors, after dogs have peed on it's carpet, and after love has pulsed through its beams. There really is no difference between a house or a home, a home is just a lived in, and respected house. A house becomes a home when anyone person can walk through the front door, travel down its hallways and feel absolutey and incandesantly at home.
A house, by definition, is a building in which something is sheltered or located. Built upon cement foundations, wood makes up their bones, and drywall creates skin. Other than that, houses have no emotional appeal. They are viewed as a place to live. Places to add things to, and create a magical place, that is all your own. Houses begin their lives barren, empty, lonely, and end their lives as homes.
A home is defined as a residence of a person, family, or household. A place most people describe as where their heart it. When imagining a home, think of families sitting around a large, oak table sharing stories and food, or friends gathered around the TV, chowing down on messy hot wings for Superbowl Sunday. A home is a house that is loved.
A house becomes a home after many generations of family have passed through its doors, after dogs have peed on it's carpet, and after love has pulsed through its beams. There really is no difference between a house or a home, a home is just a lived in, and respected house. A house becomes a home when anyone person can walk through the front door, travel down its hallways and feel absolutey and incandesantly at home.
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