Welcome to blog # 15! This is my final blog assignment of the semester and I want to take this blog post and use it as a fourth formal assignment. In this blog post I will be focusing on a final reflection on what I have learned in the past 15 weeks in English Composition I.
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In this blog post I am using an "X-ray" process so I can see the "bones" of my research project argument. At this point, my research project is still a work in progress, so this will serve as part of my revision process.
1. My thesis statement is: This is why Early Childhood Education is so important today and will be in the Future. 2. My first supporting point that argues how or why of my of my zeitgeist. 3. My second supporting point that argues how or why of my zeitgeist. 4. My third supporting point that argues how or why of my zeitgeist. 5. My counter argument and rebuttal is ( insert the sentence )
7. My conclusion Revisits the thesis statement and makes (insert the options that apply)
X-Ray summary: As I come the end of my research project and taking an X-ray of my work, I have realized that it has helped me understand more on what I, the author need to work on. My main focus of my paper is Early Childhood Education and why its so important to have. I have come to the conclusion that this idea of going to school at a young age may change in a way. Welcome to blog post # 12 !
This is an update on the process of my research project. Last week I was in the process of writing my opening paragraph and the body of my project. While working on my first draft, I realized that one of my resources I could use is my Early Childhood Textbook. Writing about this topic is interesting but hard because their always new research that is done to help improve the early childhood education programs / curriculum. While writing the body my project I realized that I should change my project up just a little bit and talk about the past as well as the present and future of education for young children. WhenI decided to do this, I started to add some quotes from theorists that have helped the education improve over the years. I realized that when I add the quotes into my paper, it will make my research paper more interesting for my audience to read. the Welcome to blog assignment 11! This blog post will allow me to talk to you, my audience about the research project that I am currently working on and where my paper will take you.
The first time I sat down to work on my project was was stuck on where to start my paper. This week in class my classmates guided me in the right direction on how and where to start writing. The way they helped me was posting blog comments on my previous blog post about my topic. Looking at the comments they left me, I came to the conclusion on where to start my paper. Thinking about where I wanted to start, I started to talk about Early Childhood Education today and how it has impacted young children and their families. This was a tough place to start because this could go into the topic of money as well as the education point of view. This is where I started: "The most important years of a child’s life is birth up through the age of five. This is very important because kids are starting to develop physically, mentally and socially. Their physical development starts when they are a baby and will stop when they turn about 14 - 15 for a female and for a male they stop growing at the age of about 16 years of age. You start to notice the child is developing the moment they start to roll as a baby. A child is starting to mentally develop when they are out of the womb. The brain is the first thing that is created after conception. The brain is most important part of the development process of the Child. If something happens to the brain during development, it will slow down the growth of a child in the early stages of their development." When I am working on this research project, it has impacted my life in a few ways; I am currently studying to be a professional in the Early childhood education field and this project has given me to strength to learn more and go deeper into my own research on what I am going to be doing in the near future. My goal by the end of this research project is to be able to continue my own research on my topic and be able to share it with others so they know about the impact education has on young children and here it all begins. Welcome to blog post # 10. This past week in class was big. This past week we started talking about our next formal assignment which is our research project. For this blog I was asked to answer a series of questions that allows my audience to find out what my research topic is going to be. One of the focuses we were looking at that was helping us with this post was doing research to find out what a zeitgeist was. This helped because it gave a better understanding on what the focus of the research project was.
This weeks blog assignment focuses on our discourse community and how we explore different types of writing.
We were asked to look at for different readings and compose a poem for each. The readings we looked at were; To you I Belong, Our Discourse Community Values, What is Literacy ? , and We are Many. This week in class we looked at all four readings and made poems with lines from the readings. These type of poems are known as found poems. The first found poem I created was from the text To you I Belong by Becky Thomson. This story talks all about how everyone is the same but different. We all face happy times as well as bad times in our lives all the time. Becky Thomson talks about how its okay to face difficult times. Lives are connected through history,experience,love and hardship Memories can be imprinted on the body,on stones,trees,in taste,scend and sounds transmitted in dreams,rituals,and visions Explore our own memories so we can welcome awareness Making room for difficult feeling attached to memory is not easy Including grief that often masquerades as anger That past is within us in the present A place of connection and joy Belonging The second poem was made from the text, Our Discourse ommunity which gave us the inspiration on what our class is truly about. IT also gives us the idea of what a discourse community is and how we can make our class stronger in that way. We are connected through a community writing as a traveling journey composing throughout multiple journeys clarifying meaning for oneself connecting our past, present and future in history and in writing communicating to an audience we have created a discourse community My third poem poem is created from the text, What is Literacy? This is a challenging piece to read but it gave me the opportunity tolearn about literacy at a different level. it is a piece of folk wisdom that is part of what linguistics do is define words let me begin by giving technical meaning to an older term which already has multiple meanings discourse is an identity kit this has multiple values and view points within sometimes we don't speak ingroups but we will talk to individuals Welcome to blog number 5, this week we were asked to refer back to the Wizard of Oz and think about a moment in my life that allowed me to travel into my heart. Each Wizard of Oz videos, If I only had a brain, heart or Nerve, Meeting the Wizard, and You've always had the Power gave me the inspiration to give a little bit of a lead way to where my narrative will be heading. Enjoy ! How does your narrative allow you to travel into your brain (mind) then and now?
My narrative allowed me to travel into my mind because when I was starting to write I thought about the loss that really hit me and it also allowed to really think about how I was feeling that very when I found out that I lost someone that was very close to me. It also allowed me to really dig into my mind and think about where my mind was before this all happened. What shapes our sense of identity: Life events or the stories we tell ourselves about life events? Life events we tell ourselves can change over and over again because after it happens, the life event is a memory that lasts forever in a way that no one else would understand unless it was written down in a journal. Our identity is shaped from the life event. Thinking about self identity, watching the Wizard of Oz videos it made me thing about what Dorthy's identity truly was. How does your narrative enable you to re-examine the power (agency) you have in authoring your life-story? My narrative enabled me to re - examine the power for me to authorize my life story because it allowed me to open up my feelings and express how this event in my life truly changed my life in a way. It changed my life in a way that is hard to explain but my life story is still going on and this event did change my life forever. How does your narrative meet the nerve (high-stakes) element of meaningful storytelling? I believe that my narrative meets the nerve element of meaningful story telling because when wring this piece it allowed me to go into my heart and mind to find a meaningful life event that impacted my life. IT wasn't easy to realize that meaningful storytelling will allow you to write about the meaningful relationship you had with someone in you life that is now gone because of a decision that they have made. How does your narrative allow you to travel into your heart (emotions) then and now? My narrative has allowed me to travel back into my heart then and now because when the life event of a death of my best friend happened i was emotionally drained the day I found out. Now that its been 7 years after I still remember that very day but not as much detail as I did before because after thinking about it after a certain amount of time you just want to think about the happy times that you had with the person and not the day of them being gone. In class this past week, we looked at a piece of writing known as Hills Like White Elephants (Ernest Hemingway). This story helped us explore how to show emotion and how to add dialog in our writing. Showing emotion and showing dialog in a story will help your audience feel what you were feeling.
It was a lovely weekend when I was having a rough time in school. I had no idea why until I realized it had something to do with the loss of a very special person in my life. Last year was the hardest year for me because in my English class we were reading Macbeth and it had a lot of killings involved which made me uncomfortable. I went home one day after school and was upset. My parents were concerned because I refused to talk to them about what was going on. I wanted nothing to do with anything involving my family. This is where the story began… One day in school last year, I went to my first period class and I was starting to tear up. I asked to go to the office because I just knew it was going to be hard for me. I knew we were reading Macbeth as a class and we were at the part of the story where the murders started to happen. When I went to the office they asked me what happened. I said “ Something is triggering my tears. Also, I can’t figure out what is going on. I need support to figure out what is bothering me.” My guidance counselor took me into her office and sat down with me and said “ Please tell me what’s going on, people are worried , are you okay ?” I said in reply “ No, I think it has something to do with a death in my family and its triggering tears in my English class.” I was an emotional wreck and people thought I faked it. I would never fake my emotions, I show my emotions all the time because that is the person I am. The office took what I said into consideration and they called my parents. I didn’t think I needed that kind of attention. Yes, things were bothering me but that didn’t and won’t stop me from doing the things I love. I haven’t had a perfect day in my life ever since I lost my uncle through a horrible thing called suicide. I had a conversation with my parents about everything that happened. It was really difficult for me. I took the time to talk to people, but they just didn’t really understand what was going on in my head. My emotions were shown all the time and this is something that will never go away. Losing someone that you love is the hardest pain ever. When my parents heard about this, they reached out to me and asked my questions to verify what the guidance office had told them about me and why I was upset. That night when I went home, I was drained and all I wanted to do was just have time alone and write down my thoughts because I thought it would help me in the long run. When I went up to my room, I grabbed my copybook and a pen , then I began to write down how I was feeling. I felt a little bit better after but not 100%. A few days later , I was working on homework in my room and my dad said to me “Hey Lyss, come down stairs for a second.” I walked down the steps and I saw my aunt in the living room and I started to cry. I had no idea what was going on. I walked down the steps completely and I looked at everyone that was there. My dad and my aunt were standing in the living room and it looked like they were about to say something to me. I stopped at the bottom of the steps and my dad said “come sit down next to me. Your aunt has a gift for you.” I thought it was something bad but it turned out to be a bear. This wasn’t just a bear, this was a bear that was made from my uncle’s favorite flannel shirts. This was something they wanted me to have so that I had him with me everywhere I went. At this point, yes, it does help in some ways but it is not something that will ever be the same. I was very emotional when he was handed to me. This bear goes everywhere I go. I don’t care if it’s with me at school. It helps me get through a heck of a lot and I am so happy that my family has stepped in to help me. When I fondle my diploma, I feel excited because I know I finished the second chapter of my life which was high school. Nothing will ever make me more happy than knowing I made it through high school without any damage. High school was the moment of my life where I didn’t know where i was going to end up after four years of unknown mystery, the mystery was found at the end when I was handed this amazing thing called my diploma. The feeling of happiness and completeness was running through my blood. Finishing up something I thought was going to fail at but I passed with great grades.
When I first held my diploma I felt like I hit a life goal that I never thought would of happened. Graduation day was one of the best days of my life. Seeing the ones that helped me through my high school career for one last time was sad but I always remember that they are always around no matter what happens. My diploma represents all the hard work I put into my education so that I could be where I am today. When I look back on the day of Graduation, I start to feel all the emotions in the world. I was feeling nervous because I was sitting in a large gym at Neumann University with everyone’s family looking down at all of us and I thought something was going to go wrong. I was also feeling happy because it was an exciting day being with my family and my classmates for one last time before heading off to college. When the ceremony began,I started to feel my blood rushing rapidly through my body when I was walking up the side of the gym to the back to begin walking with my classmates one last time. My high school graduation was a day to remember. Everything in my life was where I wanted it to be. Feeling happy to complete four years of fun times but also finishing high school ahead in my path of my next chapter. It was a hot summer day and I was getting ready to head out west for the week. I was so excited to bring my journal with me so I can write about my journey out west. Planning this for awhile and I can’t wait to see where my writing will take me. I arrived in Arizona late and I started to head to the Grand Canyon to spend the week. Getting off the plane was a very hot one, there was no humidity but it was over 100 degrees when I arrived.
The next day I started walking around the canyon trying to find a spot to look out at the Canyon and just start writing. When I started walking the path towards the Canyon and I came across three authors on the path; Mary Karr, Don Murray , and Ann Lamott. I had no idea I was going to run into these three awesome people at the Grand Canyon. The four of us continued to walk up the path and just started introducing one another and got to know one another. I found a rock and I sat down, I started asking about their writing process and what they did to begin writing. Mary Karr said “Just picking up a pen makes you part of a tradition of writers that dates thousands of years back.” I was in all when she said that. I didn’t know picking up a pen would have history behind it. Mary was speaking about what writing means to her and what her writing process was. The other thing Mary said was “writing is painful.” When she said this she was stating that writing is a difficult task. It is hard to find a topic to write about, the best thing to do is to just start writing and see where it takes you. The last thing Mary said to me was “ Rewriting on the page is safer than revision in, say, painting, where you can paint past a good place and wreck a canvas.” I do believe in what she means by this because nothing is easy just like painting and writing. While I was writing my notes from my talk with Mary Karr. I began to talk to Don Murray. Don was asking me about my writing process and what I did to start my writing pieces. I told him my process and he asked me about prewriting. He said that “Prewriting is everything that takes place before the first draft. Prewriting usually takes about 85 percent of the writer’s time.” To me, prewriting is the most important part of my process. Don was sitting next to me and was looking over my shoulder at my journal. He looked at what I was doing then he looked up at me for a moment. His face was shocked on what I was able to do. I was writing about the scene that was in front of me and the one thing he said to me was to remember the stages of writing in which he said “ The writing process itself can be divided into three stages: prewriting, writing, and rewriting.” I have noticed that Don is focused on making sure I know the three stages and was asking me if I do follow these steps. We have had a great talk while looking out at the beautiful Grand Canyon. After finishing up my conversation with Don , I started talking to Ann Lamott. Ann was very happy to talk to me about my writing. She had a cold water in her hand and was very happy. Ann and I first talked about what she calls shitty first drafts. She told me something that I think was very meaningful, this is what she said to me “Now, practically even better news than that of short assignments is the idea of shitty first drafts. All good writers write them.” I believe that I should always have a bad draft because when I write , I write what is going on in my head. Ann then was asking me what I did to get started on my writing and I told her I just turn to a clean page and just start writing. After talking to these three wonderful authors, I now feel like I know more about my writing process and what I can do better make my writing stronger. Don , Mary and Ann all had something unique to say about the writing process which is cool because I got to hear their point of view on how they go about their process. |
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