We had a meeting with all the class assistants last night, and I was not nervous at all about anything that we would have to do, because I had taught many lessons in high school for my family and consumer science classes. After we left the meeting I started to realize that I was a little more anxious for the class than I thought because English is not my major and I was going to have to help other kids with it. After a while I realized that I was going to have to teach different subjects when I substitute teach anyways. I am really excited to help the students in class because I think that it helped me last semester especially with the autoethnography.
Dear Allyssa, November 7, 2008
I think that in this class there were somethings that you had trouble with, but you did try to make sure that you could re-do it to be better, even for the couple points in your first paper. I think that as a writer you could have taken things farther and could have been more creative with some of the papers. I can see that you do try to help others because when you graded others papers you wrote all over them, giving them advice or trying to help them out with small things. This is not an easy course load and you slacked some in the blogs, but you always participated in class and tried to give your input or opinions.
We still have to meet up for sushi with Megan!
Marlen
Dear Marlen November 7, 2008
I honestly don’t think that there was anything else that you could have done for me in this class. I think that if this letter were to some of my other professors, then I would list off a lot of things that could have helped me. You gave us ways to write different papers, if I wasn’t in this class now I would not know what the hell an Autoethnography is. Also I would still be stuck in that five paragraph essay, narrative or research structure that I was in when I entered this class. I think that this class helped me to think more about me than just basic this is how you write a paper. I think that yeah I learned a lot in here about different papers and sure that stuff will help me, but this class gave me the chance to get to know me and at this time in my life that is what i most needed. I think that everything that you have taught us in this class will help all of us in some form or another. I think that everyone should be required to take your class (sorry you would have a lot of papers to grade then, but oh well). Thanks a lot!!!
Allyssa
FINAL paper oUtLiNe! November 7, 2008
1. Talking about my first time answering what is I and have a quote from my first blog.
a. talk about how i grew through my writing about my senses.
2. Individual senses or common themes.
a. my autoethnography will most like be a narrative, but there will be some comparison of what I wrote on my papers for each sense and then how it relates back to what is i
3. Talk about my definition now of what is I with small examples from the senses i seperated the paper by and from my papers
FINAL paper free write! November 7, 2008
I realized that when i first wrote about What is I, I tried to give a philospophical answer to it. thinking only about how the professor probably wanted me to write it. I wrote something that i learned about in my philosphy class and not what i really thought the I was. If i had not taken philosphy class i probably would have just written that I is me, an outgoing, talkative person that tries to do her best and gives to others as much as possible. I think that i would have just written about myself and WHO i thought i was at that time. ANd at that time i would have written about a girl that had just left home for the first time to go to college and was scared to be on her own. A girl that left her boyfirend of over 3 years behind to pursue her career. Now if i wrote who I am i think that it would be more along the lines of a woman that went off to college and has some struggles, but is still ready to keep going, and realizes that she still wants to do that same career. A woman that knows that she can make it on her own for sure away from mommy and daddy. A woman that didn’t leave her boyfriend but kept him right beside her during this whole new experience and as a result has become an even better relationship even though their is 15 hours of driving in between them. THough she misses him can still go on with daily life and be happy without feeling bad about it. Writing these papers even though at first glance the papers look completely different
Hearing Workshop 2 October 23, 2008
From listening to the two songs that i listened to on Shauna’s ipod, i could tell that she is really calm and laid. I could tell because the two songs that she chose were slower and they were more like ballods. She is relatively quiet so it just made sense that she chose those two songs. And actually my boyfriend listens to the music she chose and he is really laid back
Hearing Workshop #1 October 23, 2008
I could see that from the first song that Emily has a calm side because the first song was a lot slower and it was more of a ballad song, and I know that my mom listens to One Republic and they seem a little bit more like a laid back band there songs are slower and not really as upbeat. This song just made me see that she has a calmer side because she probably wouldnt listen to that kind of music if she was constantly hyper. From the second song she played i could tell that she liked to have a really good time because once i heard the beginning of the song i could almost picture in my mind her belting the song out while she was with a group of her friends and just dancing a long with the music. I think i actually thought that because it almost seemed like a song that i would do that same thing to, because songs that are upbeat like that make me wanna sing and dance right a long with it. It really showed how much fun she can have and how fun she can be!
–Free Writing Hearing– October 23, 2008
Hearing, it is more important than many may think there are many people that can’t hear and maybe that is why we think that it is not so important, because we see that we can actually live without it with more ease than it seems we could if we couldnt see or talk. We just think of it as a sense that is not as important, when really it is. If we lost our hearing we wouldnt be able to hear the sounds of our loved one, families, friends none of those voices would be hear again, and even if there was a hearing aid to help hear a little bit, those voices wouldnt sound the same as they did before. We wouldnt be able to listen to music of any kind we would have to watch tv and READ which means that we might as well be reading a book, which would probably be easier because we can flip back if we missed something, but on tv (unless you have DVR) then we can’t rewind the news. We can’t read it at our own pace so we may miss major junks of the tv show you love or of a news event that is going on in the world we would miss all of that. We would also miss the fact that we cant hear emergency things
