Week 15
15) Student Choice: 500 words or 5-minute video. You author content that includes a title, category, and a reflection about your experiences in this class. Consider specific assignments, specific readings/films, specific conversations, and/or specific processes that helped you learn and grow. Introduction On the first day of class we played a game, the game was called the Guessing Game. I will be talking about how the Guessing Game helped us learn and grow more than what people gave it credit for. I will talk about how it brought our class together quicker, created bonds between my classmates that helped each other strive, and it really showed how each of us portrays ourselves. Guessing game On the first day of the semester we played the Guessing Game. We all had to write on a piece of paper a secret that no one would know about us. we then wrote all of the secrets on a piece of paper, and had to walk around the room and guess if this was something that they've done. Reflection Being the first time I was back in school for two years, I was quite nervous returning. When I was told I have to write a secret of something I've done I wanted to think of something that no one would really expect me to do. I wrote down the secret that I was the one who stole four bikes on my junior year. When it was time to walk around the room I was very curios to what people may think of me. When I approached the first person all that was running through my head was I wonder if they are going to guess something good or bad about me, When I approached Sean, I looked at him and was able to guess that he rode dirt bikes on my first guess. I was actually really surprised and it showed that you really can sometimes guess what a person is by their cover. This lead me to being more anxious thinking that Sean would reply and guess that I stole 4 bikes on my junior year. I was hoping that I did not portray myself as the kid who is a thief. When Sean finally took his guess he went with I was the person who had a librarian find their fake ID. Now that didn't bother me because I do actually enjoy to have a few drinks every so often, but Sean was not able to guess that I stole four bikes on his 2nd try, or 3rd. I remember he made it almost through the whole list before he guessed that I was the person who did that. This made me feel a lot better about myself, it showed that I do not look like a crappy person. After the Guessing Game was over I've meet over half of the class, and all of the other students did the same. I actually was about to hold conversations that I never would of had with some of my classmates, if we never played this game. This lead to a whole lot less awkward feeling when I had to comment on someones blog for the first time, because I have already meet the individual and already had a full conversation with them. Having these early bonds also helped me message some one when I forgot to write down the homework. I already had multiple people that I felt comfortable with and I was able to message them for the homework with out them going who is this stranger asking me what the homework is.
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Week 14
14) Student Choice: 500 words or 5-minute video. You author content that includes a title, category, and a reflection about your experiences in this class. Consider specific assignments, specific readings/films, specific conversations, and/or specific processes that helped you learn and grow. Introduction The focus of this blog, is to be a informative, and supporting blog. This blog will talk about how the English Composition I class is ran, and the importance of each blog. I will be going through each of my weekly blogs not summarizing them, but saying the importance, and how, each blog has guided, and taught me how to complete the semester, and become a better writer. Reflections Week 1) The Proust Questionnaire Our first blog of semester, we were able to introduce and meet many of our classmates for the first time. Doing our first blog really helped us learn a lot about our class mates. This also allowed each of us to learn the groove of due dates, and how we must manage our time, if we wish to succeed in this class. The Proust Questionnaire also thought me things about my self I remember answering questions and not knowing the answers to them even though they were about myself. It showed how we are going to have to learn more about ourselves, which set all of us on the rest of our life-choice blogs, and our Life-Choice Memoir. Week 2) Writing Process Quote Collage On week two, we were able to get a feel for how the class would be ran, we had to meet another due date, which showed that the due dates are going to have a pattern to them. This week we also learned a lot about the importance of our writing process, by looking at famous writers talk about their writing process. This week also reminded us how to use quotes correctly. Being reminded how to use quotes correctly really helped through the semester especially when I had to do my research paper. Week 3) Life Choice: The Powers That Be? On week three, we learned that we will have the same due will stay the same every week. Week three also provided us with skills on being able to read and annotate a reading which will provide us with skills needed in our research paper, and for many other activities in class. This blog also had us to begin thinking of the life choices that we make which will later become one of the main supporting blogs, in our Life-Choice Memoir. Week 4) Life Choice: To Tell the Truth? On week four our blogs were based off of another life choice question, this blog was a little bit different because we were not annotating a reading, but we annotated an audio clip, What You Don't Know (Lulu Wang). I've never had to do something like this before, but I found it to be very useful because I was able to hear the actual emotions that were suppose to be portrayed. This also helped set me up for my Life-Choice Memoir. Week 5) Life Choice: Should I Stay or Should I Go? on week five, I learned the importance, of having a theme, and how to show a story instead of tell a story. In the story my story Circles, I used Hills Like White Elephants, as a reference on how to show a story and not tell a story. Week 6) Life Choice: Is This My Tradition? Even though week six was another Life Choice blog that should of been more beneficial to my Life-Choice Memoir, I found this blog to be more helpful for my research paper, I decided to write about gun control and actual had to do research to back up my opinions. Blog six was almost like a mini informal research paper. 7) Life-Choice Memoir Reflection wow, week seven. Week seven was a very meaningful week, I finished my first draft of Circles, and I learned the importance of reflection. Blog seven really had me focus on the way I wrote my paper, and made me think if it was beneficial the way I did it. It also for the first time made me think on how I was going to improve my writing through revision. Week seven taught me a lot more than just how to reflect though. Week seven was the week I realized that I had to have better time management on my life, I will have to spend more time on my papers, and If I do not stay on top of my work I will not reach my grade goals. Week 8) Midterm Reflection week eight, I decided to relax for a week, I had to option to do a video blog, but honestly I just didn't feel comfortable doing it so I didn't. I could of learned some things from week eight, but I failed to take an advantage of my opportunity. Week 9) Summary of Where to Invade Next week 9 gave me a lot of experience in summarizing. This was an extremely crucial week because it lead me to try and organize my blogs in a creative way. It also gave me experience in picking out the important information out of a large amount of information. and condensing an entire video (Where to Invade Next) into paragraphs. This was a skill that I had to do for my research paper, not just for this class, but for my other classes as well. Week 10) Where to Invade Next? An Argument. This week I learned to importance of how to create a research question. I learned that I have to have a topic, then with the topic I need to make a research question, and then after the question I must argue my point. Week 10 to me was honestly just a fun blog in my eyes, I was about to argue my point which I enjoy doing to begin with. Week 11) Annotated Bibliography I'll be honest I did not enjoy this week, but I must say this was by far the most helpful week, when I had to work on my research paper I already had six sources summarized, evaluated, and I knew how I would use them in my research paper, These six sources were originally almost all of my sources in the first draft of WORK, Work work. Week 12) Research Paper Reflection The last required blog I had to complete, lucky number 12. This blog was identical to blog 6, I do recommend changing the question up a little bit, because I felt it strange to have to watch the video Reflective Writing, for a second time. Besides that week 12 allowed me to reflect on my research paper, and it's interesting comparing blog 6, and blog 12 to see the differences that people made. Introduction
So this is my first blog that I'm doing on my own will, I always looked at writing as a thing to do for a better grade, but this is not the purpose of my blog. This blog I want to talk about the crazy Thanks-giving weekend that happened, and maybe it will make me feel a little bit better talking about it, and getting it off my chest. Summary So my Thanks giving weekend started off great as I hope everyone else did. I enjoy my Saturday off from school, and work and enjoyed time at my girlfriends family's house considering we spent last Thanks-giving at my family's house. The Thanks-giving weekend started out great, we sat around the TV watching the football games watching beer, waiting for the feast to be finished. Once the feast was finished we did what many families did and ate our turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing, and other holiday foods that the typical American's eat. After thanks giving was my friend Danny's 21st birthday, so we were going to take him out for his 21st birthday, while doing so we pre-gamed at his birthday party that his family through for him. That party ended at about 9:30 after that we took him to my friend Tim's house and we all pre-gamed even more waiting for midnight to take Danny out for his first legal drink. When 12 O-clock happened we walked Danny to a local bar called John Morton's. When we got to the bar I paid for my friends first shot as part of a tradition he had to take a Four-horseman, which is honestly a terrible drink, but it's a tradition. when we were there we happen to stumble across my brother Will, who basically is the king of bars. Bar's are his place of comfort, and control. After about 30 minutes of hanging out with him and my friends Danny, Marc, Tim, and I left and went to Barnaby's and we left my friend James at John Morton's because he was not 21 and could not get into Barnaby's. Once our Uber delivered Danny, Marc, Tim and I to Barnaby's we Treated out friend Danny to more Shots, and drinks. We were all having a great time socializing and have a fun time. 2.00 pm creeped up quicker than we could of imagined and it was time to order another Uber to take us back to Tim's house to debrief our night. Once the Uber took Danny, Tim, Marc, and I back to Tim's house our friend James' called asking if he could come back to Tim's house. We invited James' back to the house. About 20 minutes passed and James was welcomed into the house, and then Will and his friend followed in the house a few minutes later, after there walk from John Mortons. Uninvited but we still welcomed Will and his friend into the house as we were debriefing and getting ready to part ways to get sleep for the next day, My brother will got up and walked out side, I followed him outside thinking we could walk home together as we never really hang out. As I walked out of the door I was unprovokely struck in the face by Will. As what i believe to be only a few seconds of passed I regained Consciousness and was able to put my legs up to prevent him from gaining a mount on me to ground in pound. In the daze of the moment I was kicking him off me for what felt like a minute until my friends opened the door saw what was happening and grabbed him off of me. When this happened knowing that he carries a fire arm I ran dawn the street and called 991, as I hide in someone's back yard. The Aftermath When I got to the ER I was given a few stitches in my lip, received a CAT Scan, and had to have an emergency Dentist appointment first thing Monday morning. The Dentist had to give me a Bridge on my teeth which acts as Braces in a sense to stabilize my teeth in hopes that my teeth can be saved, The dentist reminded me that More than likely I'm going to lose both of my front teeth but This gives me a chance to save at least one of them, or in a miracle both. After this happened I realized that my brother definitely has something mentally wrong with him, for him to unprovoked knock my front two teeth out, and then try to possibly kill me. I had to get a restraining order on him, which also takes away his right to bear arms. I'm going to have to sue my brother for what is already over $5,000 in medical bill and if I do need to get my teeth replaced, will be more towards $20,000. And I also had to get paper's for him to be mentally evaluated. HAPPY THANKSGIVING! Week 7
7) Life-Choice Memoir Reflection [Categories: Life Choice, Memoir, Reflection]: Please complete the following:
Introduction After writing the first draft of my life-choice memoir, I watched the video Reflective Writing, I will be annotating the video Reflective Writing by SkillsTeamHullUni. This blog will also answer the above questions with thoughtful answers. Annotate Reflective Writing After watching the video Reflective Writing by SkillsTeamHullUni I found out that reflective writing is primary about looking at past events and learning from your mistakes, to correct them for your future events. You also need to focus on your thoughts and feelings to reflect on why I am making these decisions in my writings, compared to asking yourself what, when, who, and where. Most importantly you should be learning making your reflections which this segment from the video shows how you should properly use reflection to maximize your learning. Provide thoughtful answers to these questions:
Week 5
5) Life Choice: Should I Stay or Should I Go? [Categories: Life Choice, Making Connections]: Please complete the following:
Introduction After reading along to the short story Hills Like White Elephants (Ernest Hemingway) I had to decipher the meaning of the story, where a women must choose whether she should go along with getting an abortion or if she will not. I will also be writing a argument if i believe the girl stays with the man, and a narrative of a time I had to make an difficult decision to stay in difficult situation. Does the girl in the story stay in her relationship with the man? The women in the story seems to be unsure if she wants to go through with the abortion, but while the man makes it clear to her that he wants her to abort the baby by stating how it's such a simple procedure. The topic of abortion is a very sensitive situation for everyone and if the man and the girl are not on the same page it will cause arguments that may happen to a couple if they are unsure if they want a child. The man does care about the girl because he says it multiple times in the story like when the women says "I don't care about me" the man quickly reply's "Well I care about you". at this time the girl stood up saw the river through the trees and decided that she is keeping the baby. Her responses quickly change to "No, we can't have everything", and "No we can't have the whole world." Indicating that she wants to keep the "white Elephant" the man tries to persuade her on how simple of an operation it is a few more times the women then tells the man to "please please please please please please please stop talking" the man here realizes that she will not have the abortion anymore but I believe the man and women will stay in the relationship because yes the guy clearly didn't want the kid but, he told the girl "I don't want you to feel that way" when the girl says "I'll do it and then everything will be fine". This to me indicates that the man will stay in the relationship even if the women does have the kid. -white el·e·phant noun 1) a possession that is useless or troublesome, especially one that is expensive to maintain or difficult to dispose of. When have you made a important choice to stay in a relationship or leave a relationship -- OR -- stay or leave a difficult situation? Probably the most important and one of the most recent decision's that I have ever made was to return to school. I graduated from Interboro high school in 2015 and I decided to work at Chick-Fil-A during the couple of years off school I would drive to work at noon, and wouldn't leave the store until midnight ,and moved from team member, to a trainer, to a team leader, to currently Assistant Manager. If it wasn't for Chick-Fil-A I never would of been able to pay for my education, obviously I don't want my career to be a worker at a quick service restaurant for the rest of my life, so I decided to return to school and receive a higher education, I'm not entirely sure what I want to do with my life, but what fun would life be if I had it all planed out already? I'm aware that I'm not the only person in this difficult situation of working full time and going to school full time, but in order to achieve higher goals with my life, I must stay in the difficult situation and do my best to better my self. One day I know all of this hard work will pay off. I use the idea of leaving this difficult situation as inspiration. Week 4
4) Life Choice: To Tell the Truth? [Categories: Life Choice, Making Connections]: Please complete the following:
Introduction In the story What You Don't Know Lulu Wang is faced with a devastating choice of telling her Nainai she has stage four lung cancer where she will live her expected last few months of life in a hospital or not to tell her Nainai that she does not have stage 4 lung cancer, So that she can enjoy her last few months. They then are forced to fake a marriage to all say their goodbyes for Nainai. I will also be writing an argument about if I agree with the option of not telling Nainai, and a narrative of when I once lied to make a major impact on someone's else life. Did you agree with the family's choice to deceive Wang's grandmother? I did not agree with the the family's opinion to not tell Nainai what was happening to her. If I was diagnosed with something terminally ill I believe I have the right to know. I would want to be able to say my goodbyes to my family and I would like to do the things that I have never done before, I would not like to spend my last few expected months in a hospital or not knowing. I would like the spend my last few expected months adventuring the world. I would want to do all the things that I never did with my life such as travel, tell a few people off, and say good bye to my loved ones. You can also tell that Uncle Hai Bin did not believe with the idea that not telling her was the right thing to do, I felt as if Uncle Hai Bin spoke for the entire family in how they all want to tell Nainai, knowing that the should tell Nainai but cant work up the courage to tell Nainai. I also believe want my family to be able to tell me so that they wouldn't all have to be guilty feeling I want want to let them know it's okay. Nainai also could feel the grief of her son just by looking at her son's face I would not want to be able to see that in my sons face I would want to be able to talk to him and from him to even be able to tell me anything before I left. When have you made an important choice to tell someone a difficult truth or you made an important choice to tell a lie that had a major impact on you and/or someone else? When I was a about 5 My brother got a new Gameboy and Pokemon game. He wouldn't let me play his game boy, nor would he even let me touch the Gameboy. A few weeks later he left his game boy on the kitchen table and I took it without asking him. I want to my neighbor's house and played the game. I played the game the entire day, I took the game with us to grocery store with us when his mom went shopping. While we were walking around the Acme I was so into the game and I ran into someone's shopping cart and I dropped the Gameboy. I went to pickup the Gameboy and it turned off I remember being so upset because I haven't saved the game in over a few hours. A few minutes passed and I decided to play the game again, but this time the Gameboy wouldn't turn back on. I started to panic I was so nervous. When we got back to my house I tried throwing out the Gameboy but my mom was in the kitchen cooking so, I ran all the way upstairs and hide the Gameboy under my bed. the second I walked back downstairs my brother asked me if I saw his Gameboy I quickly Answered no, but then I saw my brother continue to look for the Gameboy, for what felt like an hour. I then told him I would help him look for the Gameboy I quickly ran up to my room grabbed the Gameboy and then I went down stairs ran tot he couch and acted like i found it in the couch that he searched 50 times. When he went to play the Gameboy it would turn on. He was furious and then I said hey put new batteries in it acting like that could be the issue but when he did the Gameboy turned right back on! I then thought back and was thinking I was just going to throw up the Gameboy and act like nothing happened. 3) Life Choice: The Powers That Be? [Categories: Life Choice, Making Connections]: Please copy and paste the following bullet points into your blog post and complete the following:
Introduction After reading My Name is Margaret (Maya Angelou), I will be writing about whether or not I support Margaret's choice in breaking the casserole dish along with the two green cups, for being oppressed by her racist boss Mrs. Cullinan. I will also write about a time I chose to not be oppressed. Did you agree with Margaret's choice to break the casserole dish and two green glass cups? In the reading My Name is Margaret (Maya Angelou), the main character has to deal with many factors of being oppressed, listening to authority figures who belittle her. Margaret was treated with little to no respect by her authoritative figure, who was her boss. At first Margaret tried to not resist with being oppressed by being called Mary. She tried to laugh it off but, after a week of Mrs. Cullinan’s calling her Mary she was getting to her breaking point. Margaret's breaking point was when Mrs. Cullinan’s SCREAMED MARY! at that point Margaret has had it and dropped the food tray and! let the Casserole dish along with the two green cups fall to the ground and shattered. This was what Margaret had to do to stop working there she did not want to end up being treated with no respect anymore. When have you made an important choice to either resist or not resist oppression, challenge the status quo, or refuse to obey an authority figure? When I was in the fourth grade I moved from Sharon Hill to Prospect Park, in the fourth grade, I quickly made some a few friends that were in my class and in the first week at being at this new school a kid decided to push my friend and tried to bully him during recess. Growing up in Sharon Hill as a fourth grader i knew these actions cannot be tolerated. I asked my friend what that was about and he told me that he danced with his girlfriend at the Fire House Dance. My friend wanted to punch the kid and his friends at recess but I told him he can't do that because he would get into a lot of trouble, so we revised the situation and decided that it would be best to confront him the next time we weren't in school, sure enough his friends went to the same playground we decided to go to. we decided to play them in basket ball 2 vs 2 after about the first 5 minutes the other kids decided to push us and play rough we didn't stop yet though. About 10 minutes into the game the kid punched my friend! so I decided to help my friend and we ended up having a 2 vs 2 fight on the basketball court until some dad walking his dog ran over and stopped us. |
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