Mutigenre project

Keep calm and sign on

Why I Write

Why I Write

            Why do I write? I write because I am told to. I write for a grade. I write to get an A. Outside of class or outside of school I don’t write. I’ve tried writingoutside of school but I don’t enjoy it. Having to write papers for every class at somepoint has totally taken the joy that wrting was had away.

            When I do write for this class or any other class I find it easier to write aout myself rather than about a topic I was assigned. Howeer it usually takes a couple of times before a satifactory amount of information in the paper or the poem. Our first piece was anabout me poem, and I had to edit that like three different times in order to get the stuff you wanted to know. I have to be guided when I write but not restrained.

            When I do write,I write to express who I am.I write to open up to others. I write to say what I cannot say outloud. I write to tell my story.  I prefer writing about myself because I know an infinate amount of knowledge about who I am. I don’t have to research or ask other people about myself in order to write a paper. I know what I wnt to say. It might take a couple of drafts for me to open up with enough information for a full paper or poem, but I get there. I hate researching. I like to know new information but I don’t like having to look for it. I put off any paper that involves research until the very last minute. Until I barely have enough time to write it, let alone get any sleep before the class to turn it in.

            When I write, I write to come to terms with things that have happened recently or in the past. I wrote a lullaby weave about my grandma’s death and how I took at at the tender age of eight. I wrote a “I should have told you” poem about the death of my great grandma, which happened six days after Christmas, and five days before my other great grandma died and seven days before my uncle died. When I write, I write with emotion. I try to write ina way that pulls at your heart, makes you think.

            When I write, I write to be a better me. My poem to my great grandma was a way of saying love and cherish the time you have with your family because you don’t know how much time you have left with them. I write to apologize for the way I handle some things or didn’t handle them. I write with a certain audience in mind but in a way that will still make sense to others who read it. I don’t write outside of class but when I do write in class, I write on a personal level. I write who I am. I write to be memorable. I tried to write in a way that you wouldn’t forget me. When I write, I write because I fear being forgotten.

College...:(

This article made me laugh, it was seriously funny. The breakdown of the hours, 2 hours of useful information and 1998 hours of things you'll forget, was so funny and kind of awful how true it will actually be. The description of wha field to go into (English if you can make stuff up, Philosophy if you plan on doing a lot of drugs, Psychology if you like rats and dreams, and Sociology if you can make simple things drawn out and confusing) was hilarious! This article seriously just cracked me up.
I am SUPER scared to go to college next year, like you have no idea. College scares the crap out of me, the idea of being closer to being on your own, having debts, choices, etc. just freaks me out. I know what I want to do with my life, Speech Pathology (Communication Science and Disorders), but it terrifies me. I am also afraid of failing out of college or dropping out because it is too hard. Mainly just afraid of failing. The article though was a nice little laugh and calmed me down a bit. Ms. Wood's comment made me laugh too, actually seemed like some good advice.

grammar IS bogus

I actually did not know that some of these now "bogus rules" were rules in the first place. Some of them are just things I avoid doing o do all the time without knowing that I am making a grammar Nazi mad. I didn't know you weren't supposed to split infinitives, I honestly didn't even know what on was until I started taking French. I end sentences in English with prepositions all the time, and again the only  reason I know that it is wrong is beccause of my French class. Ms. West gets super annoyed when you end a sentence with one and since you cannot do it in French she WILL correct you. I didn't even know there was a rule for which. I don't start a sentence with And or But because it just seems weird, so even though it is now okay to do so I will continue to avoid it. I also didn't know not using a passive voice was a grammar law, sucks to suck I do that a lot. The singular verb one is super confusing, pretty positive I use that one wrong a lot too, but oh well I could care less. The word rule is a weird one and I can't say I completely understand it. From the article I learned that I am very ignorant when it comes to grammar, but I don't care enough to change it. Sorry.

Grammar rules response

I suck at grammar. I seem to always use it the wrong way. The only grammar rule I make a point to using correctly is the me, myself and I pronoun. My sister uses it wrong a lot and it makes me want to punch her in the throat, but I resist. Any other grammar rule I can almost garuntee that I will use it the wrong way. If it seems like someone is using incorrect grammar I probably not going to correct it because I am afraid I will do it wrong, then I'll look super stupid.
I did think the article was pretty funny and imformative, but I will still be using the rules he talked about incorrectly. Bad grammar is now a habit.

Oh there is one other grammar thing that makes me mad when it is used wrong, an vs. a. If the word starts with a vowel just use an, and if not use a. It is defintely not that hard. 

Michelle Trantham is a grammar Nazi.

Multicultural Project

Just kidding I am doing ASL (American Sign Language)

Multicultural Project

My topic will be centered around myself, obviously it won't be how I like my eyes and what not, it will branch out to what makes me who I am. I will be the cener and there will be a portion about my family, who they are and how that makes me, me. There will be a portion about what I am involved in at school and how that shapes me. There will be a portion about how my friends see me, how they helped me find out the person that I am. Basically I am my inspiration. I will interview club sponsors, family members, and my friends. It will include stories about our epirences together and how my life has changed or I have changed since I have known them. Not sure what I would do as an alternate project if this one falls through. I had a hard enought time coming up with this topic so I don't know what I would do instead maybe something about Speech Pathology.
Question Categories:
1. Family
2. Friends
3. Involvment
4. Work
5. Social Networking use
6. Attitude
7. Treatment of others
8. "Adventures"
9. Likes
10. Dislikes
Interview
1. Give them things
2. Don't be mean
3. Smile
4. Don't disagree
5. Not fighting
Information Flow
1. Change questions
2. Broaden topic
3. Give own examples
Want to know
1. First impressions
2. Stories
3. How things contributed to who I am
Acedemic Topics
1. ?

Is Google Making Us Stupid?

I rely on Google for basically everything. If I have a question and no one can answer it I turn to Google. My phone is powered by Google so if I need to know something I just use the search button on  my phone and there is m answer. Google has become my source for basically everything that I need to know.
"For me, as for others, the Net is becoming a universal medium, the conduit for most of the information that flows through my eyes and ears and ino my mind." This quote is so accurate. I don't watch the news on TV anymore and I don't hear new songs on the radio, I Google them. If someone says something about something interesting, I'll Google it. If I hear someone talking about a new song, I will Google it. Google is kind of taking over my life, but I can't say that I am mad about it.
If Google wasn't around then I would have to look for things in books or actually watch the news and that does not interest me. Google is a way to get information quick and in our fast paced society today Google is like a godsend. I know that Google is probably ruining me but I can't say that I mind because the information is easy to get to.

Reflection

My topic was pretty easy to pick because I picked something is not only prevalent on TV but in our school, teen pregnancy. I love that you gave us so much time to work on it; however, I wasted my time every class period and got on Pintrest, which is an evil, evil website. I ended up writing my paper on Saturday and peer conferencing on Sunday.

After I picked my topic I got discouraged because there was like no evidence for the side that I chose. I sat by Marissa and she kept finding great evidence for her side and I was finding sites that would say that the rates were increasing but when you actually went to the site, the chart showed them decreasing. At that point I was like I am not going to do this now, I will just do it later; I even took a day off work to write it and still didn’t do it. Instead of writing my paper I watched TV, got on Pintrest, chewed a whole role of bubble tape, and tried blue and red eyeliner.

After I actually started working on my paper it was pretty easy to write, well after I found evidence to support my side that is.

Project Proposal

I will write an essay on the TV show Teen Mom. Teen Mom is a spin off of the show 16 and Pregnant and follows the lives of girls who got pregnant in high school.

In this essay, I will argue that the TV show Teen Mom in a way encourages pregnancy by giving them a TV show to showcase their lives. This show in a way glorifies teen pregnancy. All the teens on the show are well provided for which for some teens is falsely represented.

I will begin my essay with a statistic about the effect pregnancy shows has on teen pregnancy and also in the introduction I will include my thesis statement (Even though Teen Mom demonstrates the joys as well as hardships of pregnacy it also glorifies teen pregnancy ). I will then give a summary about the show in a paragraph or two, pointing out how many seasons it has aired as well as how many teens have participated. Then I will include a counterargument followed by my conclusion--where I will restate my thesis.

1. Do you think the show Teen Mom glorifies teen pregnancy? Why or why not?
2. What does Teen Mom  say about American culture and those who watch the show?

Reading Response 1

 My book is technically two books in one.

I finished the one on the left, and I thought it was great. I already knew what was going on in the season that the book was set in and reading the things that were happening from a side characters point of view was pretty great. The book is basically about Joe, the bartender, and his ease dropping and need to talk gossip with people. The book on the right is going to be about the same except it is told from a nurses point of view, so she is also a side character but she is in the middle of the action. I have just started the second on and am not far enough to say anything about it so I will stick to the first one. There are a lot of funny parts in the book, some of which I highlighted, but they have bad words in them so I don't know if I should include a passage, but I will anyway, I will just slightly edit it. "Quints?! That's five babies in one woman! Now, that's just crazy talk." This one I find funny because five babies is a lot in one person yeah, but Joe seems so distrubed by it, makes me laugh. "I was serving the human form of pure satanic evil." Joe says this about Addison and it is also funny to me because he doesn't even honestly know her, he only knows stories but he decides she is awful just from what he hears. I actually didn't think Addison was that bad but hey I'm not Joe the bartender. I saw a meme that said, "Oh you're obsessed with Grey's Anatomy, who is Bokey?" and I freaked out because I know who that is! So there is a part in the book that mentions her and I highlighted it because I know who she is, which excites me. I'm excited to hear things from the nurses point.

Books and the future

Right before last semester ended I had ordered a couple of books and I was super excited to read them. I started reading the first one, which is like two books in one, and it is Notes Overheard at the Emerald City Bar. To a non-Grey's Anatomy fan the book sounds stupid because you have no idea what the Emerald City Bar is, but to a Grey's Anatomy fan this book probably sounds interesting, and let me tell you it is! I am super enjoying reading all the things that Joe has overheard at the bar, granted I know most of it anyway because I have seen every season, but still super interesting to hear things from the bar tenders point of view.
After high school I am going to MSU, even though I would be super okay with not going to college, I am going to continue that way I can have an awesome life. I want to get my Speech Pathology degree. I most definitely want to get married after that and have kids. I would perfer two girls, mainly because I have their names picked out already. I want to name one Ireland Mercedes and Calliope Elaine. I won't be a stay at home mom, I will have a career, but I will not be an un-involved mom either. I mainly just want to have a family and a successful career and I'll be happy.