For our final week before we solely work on our Senior Projects, we presented our one slide presentations in our groups and then looked at the differences between volunteering and leadership. For our one slide presentation, I paired up with Jewel and Kyle. I had them work on the slide itself some while I wrote most of what we were going to say. While working on the slide, Kyle looked for a good quote to use from the short story of "What You Pawn I Will Redeem". As Jewel worked on the slide, she also created a summery of that story and how it related to our big question; "Does Strength create image?". Overall I felt our presentation went good and conveyed the different forms of strength people can have. Wither that be physical, metal, or emotional. I thought it was very useful for the class to compare and contrast volunteering and leadership. The two words get used together a lot, and occasionally confused with one another. I thought that it helped clarify the parameters for our senior project topics and ideas. As well as strengthening the requirement of creating opportunity, instead of participating in them.
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We started of with finishing our Cornell Notes over personal identity. Then we dived into a story known as "Indian Education" and used it to reflect over the big question and how it relates to personal identity. I found the story interesting and useful how we looked back over it for keywords and phrases that stuck out to us as a group. Another activity we did that interested me was our creative writing topic for the week. It was a very good question to think and write about. I enjoyed voicing my opinion of the matter of pain in our writing journal. Because i'm a firm believer in the notion that we need pain sometimes. We need it to feel and be human. Just like we need challenges, yes it is difficult at the time. But it betters us, and makes us who we are. As we got to the end of the week we had to read one of four short stories from a book called " 10 Little Indians". Me and my group choice the story of a homeless man trying to get his grandmother's regalia back. This story was called " What You Pawn I Will Redeem". We choice this because it speaks of strength to be homeless and yet work to get things for others before yourself.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_American_identity_in_the_United_States For our second week in class, it seemed that we focused on two main ideas. The first being identity and second being lists. On the topic of Identity we read either Wikipedia pages or a Stanford encyclopaedia article of personality. Through those websites we had to take notes of what we read on the information. These articles talked about the complexity of the meaning behind the word "Identity". They bring up the issues people ask surrounding the philosophy of the word. Examples like " What makes up my identity?" or "Who am I". Though these are very basic questions, they also are very deep and complicated ones. Our next main idea was about list and poetry. We were shown a video where a women talks about how lists can make us become better poets. More specifically a list about " 10 things we know to be true". I thought that this was a difficult list to make for our creative writing. I decided to start with the most basic things that I know most definitely to be true, and worked from there. Such things as the magnitude of the universe around in comparison to our little blue planet. Next I decided on the uniqueness of people, and the stories they think define them. After, I thought about how humans manage to be the most intelligent beings on earth, and also yet, the dumbest. About how we deny the heating of our planet and then topped it off with how we underestimate the animals around us. Both these topics had us use critical thinking and our own thoughts and ideas to define them.
http://www.phil.vt.edu/JKlagge/Perry2Spring.pdf In this past week started of by completing a article of us as readers and writers. Then we read and discussed Ten Rules for Being Human, talking about what rules stuck out to us the most. Personally I found that rule six was the most interesting of them. It revolved around the concept of not wishing you were somewhere else, but rather live in the moment. We also selected our SSR books. I chose H.G. Wells The Invisible Man; it is a book that i found in the library and have been meaning to read. Then on thursday we wrote our " Where I'm From" poems. I based my poem on my closest family, the ones located in Michigan as opposed to my family in Minnesota. I felt like this first week was just a good introduction to the classrooms teaching style and gave us a chance to reflect on how we are when it comes to the english class by reflecting upon ourselves.
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