Wellllll that's it
Peace and keep it real. Holla atchaa girl HOLLLLAAAAA!
This year in English I have had such a great experience. I have never had an English class where we had the freedom to write whatever we want and do things the way we would like to. I have learned many things in the two courses that I was in and learned how to come up with ideas for papers which was my biggest problem in the beginning of the year. I am really going to miss everybody in the class though especially my girls Alana and Alexis :( they were the first friends that I made in my first year of Delaware County and it will be sad not seeing them everyday. Also I'm a little angry with them because they are leaving me to go to different schools and I'm stuck here. So that's cool. But I'm going to miss getting iced Chais with Alexis and gossiping with Alana. They are both such amazing people who are definitely going places. I had such a great year and I am very thankful for my friends I have made and also Sabatino for everything he has taught me this year and making me actually enjoy English.
Wellllll that's it Peace and keep it real. Holla atchaa girl HOLLLLAAAAA!
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The person who is in my group is Alana
I wrote all three blogs which were Flipping the Classroom: Student-Constructed Assignment Sheet, Information Literacy Assignment, Annotated Bibliography I wrote my blog assingments on Monday night I wote my blog at home on my couch I did write the blog assignments because it said that the whole class needed to do it or the rest of the class will suffer and I wouldn't want to do that to them. Alana was a very good motivator and texted me and told me what we should be doing and gave me motivation. She's a great person. 1. Go to Sabatinomangini.com
2. Go to my class course page 3. Scroll down to DCCC library services 4. On the left side click the tab that says "Find books, articles and more" 5. Then type in the keyword of the article you would like to research. American History X 1998 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120586/?ref_=nv_sr_3
The movie American History X was about a boy named Danny who was starting to take after his brother Derek who was in a gang and then eventually in prison for the murder of three men. His teacher was starting to see this happen and suggested that he wrote a paper on his brother and the journey of prison and what happened when he was finally released. While writing this paper he saw Derek was trying to make a change for himself and get a job and stay away from the gang life he was once involved in . Danny observed this and decided he was going to make the same change. One day when Derek was going on job interviews, Danny was shot and killed in his school bathroom This source is relevant to my paper because my paper is about Derek starting a new life after the loss of his brother Danny. I am writing this because I think that he is going to turn things around use his brother's death as a motivator. He was working very hard to turn things around and I think he is going to stick with that and not give up because of this tragedy,. The next source is Bureau of Labor Statistics http://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes211021.htm This website is useful for information on jobs. It gives you everything you need to know about the job like the salary, the job averages, and the availability in each state. This was useful to me because I see Derek doing something like social work in 10 years. I needed to know the salary of this job in other states because I also see him moving far away maybe to like New Mexico. I needed to add some facts in my paper to show he was doing better than he would've if he was still in the same neighborhood. The third one was http://www.urban.org/research/publication/employment-after-prison-longitudinal-study-releasees-three-states This website showed the statistics on what happens to them once they leave prison. I haven't put this information in my paper yet but I am going to do more research on this website and add the statistics on how many people get jobs after prison. Research Question:What is Derek Vinyards life like in 10 years?
Purpose: Analyze and Predict using information Audiences: primary audience: Sabatino, Students, viewers of my blog Style: MLA Tone: formal Thesis statement: I think that he was doing so good that this is only going to motivate him to be a better person. He is going to realize that he wants nothing to do with this lifestyle and make a change for himself and for his brother. Product requirements: 5-7 pages, three sources, typed, double-space. Derek Vinyard's major conflict was man vs self. It was his fault that he was in jail and then once he was in there he wanted to find a way to change so he wouldn't have to be in his gang anymore. He is also mad at himself that his brother is turning into him and going down the same path that he was.
The main factors leading up to Danny's death were him defending the guy in the beginning of the movie, Derek leaving the gang and telling Danny he can't be in it either. The major themes of this movie is the struggle to change because Derek really wants to change and wants his brother to also change so he doesn't get killed which he ended up did. Violence would be another theme because he did murder the three guys and then in jail there was violence with Derek and the other inmates and then at the end of the movie when Danny was killed. The prison mirrored Derek's home society because he saw all of the gangs and the people following each other's lead and doing people for the leader like raping Derek. He wasn't treated fair at all and Ik think that made him feel bad for making other people feel that way. In ten years after Danny's death I think that Derek is married with a family and nice job. He seemed like he was really willing to change and even though his brother died I think that might motivate him in a way. He might see how people act in that neighborhood and want to move as far away as possible and start a new life. This movie is about a boy named Danny who has a brother that is in prison for murder. One night three black men were stealing Derek's truck and he went outside and shot and killed them.; Throughout the movie it is showing how Derek's time in prison changed Danny's life and also how it changed Derek's life. Danny's life was changed by his brother because he is now in the same gang his brother was in and is doing bad in school and just not the same person he was before. Derek was changed by prison in a very positive way. He is now trying to find a job and is staying away from his old friends and is trying to get his brother's life on track. Just as he thinks he is getting through to his brother and everything seems to be going great, Danny gets shot and killed in his school. This is definitely going to change Derek's life for either a positive way or very negatively.
So far in this movie it is about a boy named Danny who is getting himself into a lot of trouble at school. He is hanging out with the wrong crowd and seems to be following the same path as his older brother, Derek. Derek killed a group of guys one night and was sent to jail because of it. Once he returned home from prison he noticed his brother is acting the same way he used to and is trying to put a stop to it. The one social institute that shaped Derek's view was the neighborhood he grew up in. and the group of people he associated himself with. Derek, his friends and his girlfriend were all apart of some racist group that worshiped Hitler and I'm pretty sure were called skinheads. They all committed crimes of some type and then one night a group of guys were breaking into Derek's truck and he killed them. The second social institute was when he returned home from jail and saw how different everything was now. He had no interest in committing any kind of crimes or being in any trouble. Then once he saw what his brother had turned into because of him he had to put a stop to it.
I think one movie that we could watch for a research topic is Freedom Writers. This is a movie about a new teacher teaching kids in a school with low class students and a lot of diversity. They all come from different backgrounds and at first they want nothing to do with this new, energetic teacher but then they end up learning a lot from it. I think that the research topic could be diversity and the different backgrounds that everybody comes from. And also how diversity is still going on and what are the effects of it. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0463998/?ref_=nv_sr_2 The second movie would be If I Stay I saw this movie in movie theaters and thought it was so interesting, It was a movie about a girl who gets in a really bad car accident. Her family was killed and she was going to be left with nobody. The only people that were left were her grandparents, friend and a boyfriend, She is in a coma and one nurse whispers to her that she can stay alive if she really wants to. The whole movie she is going through her life in the past month or so questioning if she wants to stay on earth or die with the rest of her family. I think the research question could be "what would your decision be"? It is a little sad and depressing to think about but it is a very interesting thing to think about http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1355630/?ref_=nv_sr_1 The process of writing my paper was taking some time to think about what had happened that made me feel out of place. Then I would sit down and just write about how I felt back then and what I used to go through with my anxiety. I wasn’t off to a great start as far as writing but now I am starting to write more and more and also doing research on multi genre and what I can put in my paper. I write at night after work which is a bad idea because I usually end up falling asleep during it and I don’t usually finish what I was going to write. I need to start working more in the day so that I remember what I want to write and I can focus more.
I really think that my paper is coming together. I thought that I was going to have a hard time with the multi genre, but after doing some research I think that what I have is pretty good. The one thing I really need to fix is my repetend. I am going to add some journal entries and dates to my story so that it looks like I have been writing in a journal. Also I need to add some more showing scenes to my story. I have a hard time with this because I am so used to writing and only telling what happened. I am going to have to work on these things but as long as I don’t get off track and I stay focused I should be good. |
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