Midterm Assignment

Dear Sean,

You asked me what classes was I taking this semester and I told you about them, but when you asked me which was the most interesting I really did not know at the time. However, among them I can say that my English class is one of the very interesting ones. I know it sounds unbelievable to think that an English class would be one of the most interesting classes because of how boring we thought it was in both Middle and High School. Furthermore, when you get to college, it’s on another level. The English class that I am taking right now is English 1102, which is the second level of English. In this class we kind of back off from the standard way of writing as we were taught in grade school. You know the regular way that teachers always structured our papers and stuff “introductory paragraph, three body paragraphs, and concluding paragraph”. It seems as though in this class, as well as another English class that you’ll take in college, instead of focusing broadly on the paragraphs as a whole we focus in on the individual component of the paragraphs and the paper as a whole. I know you probably like “What do you mean individual components? It’s just writing. But, nope man its way more to it than that. There are even different terms for the things that we focused on the most when we used to write papers back then. In this course man I’ve learned how to pick a topic to write about, which is called an inquiry, more thoroughly. I’ve also developed the habit of creating a concept map for my writing. A concept map is basically an outline of your whole writing process. It includes things such as your inquiry, inquiry question (the question that you’re answering about your topic), the drafting stage of your writing and the self, peer and teacher revisions done on it, and last but not least, your actual product which is the final draft of your paper. I know it probably sounds crazy that we have to do all this just to write a paper, but man in the end it really is helpful. Of course you know you could give or take a few steps but all of them are essential I the process towards having a successful and valid paper to present to your target audience (the audience to whom you  are writing your paper. Another thing I’ve learned about is this special type of bibliography called an Annotated bibliography. You should already know what the word Annotated means since we both had to annotate a reading our sophomore year in High School, which we both know we did not like doing at all. Also, I know you already remember what a bibliography is because we’ve been hearing that word since we were in the sixth grade. Basically, it’s putting both of those terms together and writing about the sources in your bibliography. I thought it was going to be a hassle at first because of all the different ways you have to site things, which is kind of  a lot but not really. But most recently I learned what a claim was in literary terms. A claim is connected to the inquiry question, but it’s like the second half to it because you’re answering the question. I also learned the different types of claims and everything but I’ll have to tell you about them in person because I know you’re going to have a lot of questions to ask and I have to get the rest of this work done. But alright man, I just wanted to keep you informed on my studies since you always ask me what school is like and how is it going. Talk to you later.

Sincerely,

Ty’kei

Primarily, I wrote the “What’s Like to Be You” assignment because it was for class and I also thought that it was very interesting since that’s a question that people usually don’t care to as. I actually that question was a very good and insightful one. I got most of my ideas for the assignment from my life experiences, relationships I have or have had in life, and the memories of things that are significant to me and my life. I would have to say that the audience of the assignment could be anyone. I say this because when I was doing the assignment I wrote my response as if I was talking to a stranger. I thought that would be significant way to respond to the question because you never the people who you may come across in life and because you never know who may ask you any question, especially, one of that stature. I try to make any and every response to any question as specific and understandable as possible and I’m always open to questions of interpretation. I say this because different people take different responses to questions many different ways. I learned several skills while doing this assignment but two mains skills that stand out to me while doing it and in the paper are complete honesty and self – value of your writing. I say complete honesty because we all know that we are not 100% percent honest in most of the things we write unless it’s a personal entry. This assignment was a personal entry, but, it was also one to be read and heard by other individuals at any given time. I say self-value because I fell that most of the time when we write we just care about what we write for the moment that we are writing and after we’ve finished with it and/or turned it in for a grade, we don’t care about receiving it back or keeping because we just want to know whether we got a good grade or not or we have other things on our minds that we want to keep instead. Personally, I could say that this entry is one that I put myself out there with and that I would value to have back and keep. The piece was fairly easy to write since I liked the question and writing a response, rather than saying it aloud was something new. I took the risk of letting other’s know who I am outside the classroom or school area in this assignment. I would have to say the reasons why I did the assignment were the things that influenced me. I learned even more in depth that writing is a very analytical and mind training process. I would have to say that I’ve learned who I was a little better through this assignment. The reader of this piece will learn who I am and how my responses to interpersonal questions are reflected through writing. When revising the piece, I may restructure the order of the things I say in my response to the question.

I think that the Peace, Butter, and Jelly book is a good one and an aid to the start of the semester. I say this because in this class we learn to express ourselves and our thought processes more through our writing and that is what’s done in the book. I also think that using the book at the beginning of the semester is good because it takes a different approach to an English class with providing a prototype of the writing over the semester and providing room for building relationships within the class and a little bit of fun activities to create memories in the class.

We learn by each class

To be one with what we write

Time to state your claim

Blog Post #4

I've learned a few things from this blog. Primarily i learned how to blog. I've never done a blog before so this is a great learning experience as well as, life experience also. I've always wondered what was the purpose of blogging or what was it like to have a blog. Now I can say I have my own. I like the fact that a blog is more like an open discussion. It's basically an email sent to a group but instead of sending it you just compose it and let others view it whenever they want. This blog has done a couple of things for me. It has added to my use of technology, lol, and it has also helped me improve my typing speed. However,it has also helped me to further express myself verbally about the work that I do, no matter the subject. I feel like an actual writer or scientist whenever I get on here and express to whoever may see my blogs the progression of my work and research. It puts me in the shoes of other actual writers or people's blogs that I may have read over the years and to know actually why they actually took the time to write blogs in the first place. This has helped aid to my writing process and topic of my paper as a whole. Expressing myself and my work on this blog has helped me realize things about my thought process and how it can be best fit for my work. For example, when telling about interesting things I've learned through the books that I have gotten about my topic and the feedback from Ms. Ingram about the posts that I have put up, they help me further explore different areas and fields about the topic. IT helped me to further realize that research just isn't about the things that you find from books or even interpersonal experiences or findings, but about valid information that you encounter while searching for your own. Basically, I'm saying that things told and experienced by other people that you can connect with may also be a form of research. Many people think that just because that have looked in a book and found facts and information bout something that their research is done. I have came to the conclusion that research is like a painting, it's never really done you just stop continuing with it whenever you want. I know for a fact that my research for my topic is nowhere near complete but it's adequate for the type and amount of work that I'm doing for it. I'm a very thoughtful and optimistic person. So blogging has also served as a personal journal for me during this research process. It almost kind of feels like I'm doing my logs for my senior project again.

continuation of post #3

I think she should just keep addressing the issue and lead furthermore into how fat food creates other problems. I also like how she shows the reality of her research by tell her moods and changes during the process.

Blog post #3

Primarily, my target audience will be obeast children. However, they are my target audience simply because they are the part of the issue that I'm discussing. My overall audience will include the children, the parents, and those of interest about the matter. These three groups will all be apart of my audience because they all part of the problem and solution. For example, without the parents to teach nutritional habits the children would not know what or how to eat. Without the children's wondering minds give an opinion on what  they should and shouldn't eat. Finally, the people interested in the problem will either begin to experiment with he problem in two ways: 1. test the results of certain foods and how they affect children or 2. begin to develop hypothesis about why the problem has emerged and be and be proactive about it. My understanding of the timeliness of my topic is very plain and clear. I say this because i have chosen a topic that still has top priority among other epidemics that are happening everyday across the world. I care about my topic because I like kids, this topic affects the future, and because in a way i can relate to it. At one point of time in my childhood years I was considered fat or overweight. Although, never reaching the obesity mark I still somewhat have a sense of what the issue of children and weight happens to be like firsthand. High school teachers, you could say, are there to stick the habit of developing and assessing ideas in our minds. College is the place where we take affirmative with the ideas that we create and try to make a difference with them. Yes, there are multiple viewpoints regarding the topic. Most of the view points  pertain to the question of who to blame for the problem and why. Many say that it's the parents faults because they are the primary caretakers of children and they provide most of their nutrition, while many others may say that it's the school systems fault because they're slowly taking away things that are essential to children such as physical fitness and play. For the most part, the things that I have learned about my topic just add on to or elaborate the thoughts and things i have heard prior to researching. However, the thought that obesity is heavily dependent on the community of the child is a matter that sticks out to me. This matter sticks out to me because it's kind of an inevitable. That means that they're always going to be more healthy than unhealthy communities do to the status quo, poverty rate, and lack of resources. So, this could drive many to believe that that epidemic an never be stopped. Furthermore, it could further aid to the movement of making the world a better place. I personally like Aarika's topic. I like it first and foremost because she has made it known that she is passionate about it. There it a lot of good quality and efficient work put into something when your passionate about it

Blog post #2

My most interesting source is a book source. It's called "Obesity ion Childhood and Adolescence" and it's by H.Dele Davies. I say this would be my most interesting source because of the material it hold. It doesn't just consist of facts and opinions. It has theories developed by other medical research and theories developed from research on society. I say I like this one the most as of right now because I haven't really gotten into any of my other sources due to the deep interest in this particular source. Some  of the information that it has comes from not just one point of view. It has information that leads to situation in actual life today. Some of this information may include subjectivity levels in different classifications of people in the world, the different social, mental and educational, patterns that follow us and we pass down to our children throughout our lives and and how it affects their mental, physical, and emotional states, especially, when it comes to the topic of obesity and physical activity.It's fairly old since it was published in 1984 but the information in it can be considered very valid and essential to any form of research on this particular topic.

Eng blog #1

For my research paper I have chosen to follow up on childhood obesity, particularly around elementary school children. For my paper my inquiry question would be: should physical education be taken out of schools completely?. I’ve settled on this question because the diversity of it and the many different reasons behind why people would answer yes or no. Personally, I don’t think it should. It interests me because the thoughts about physical activity and children seem to contradict themselves. For instance, we are constantly reminded everyday of how important physical activity and play is important for children. These reasons may be physical, mental, emotional, or biological. So, for the one of the things that we are reminded about when it comes to children be taken out of one the places they spend the most time at just brings questioning as well as, interest. My topic is timely because it’s still a concern in society and schools today and affects the future of children now and the children to come. I expect to find a lot of things that are hidden about the topic. These things may include the secrets behind what’s in the food to cause the problem and some of the hidden reasons to take such an important and fun part of school and children’s lives out of their school day. Things that push me more in the direction that I’m going to find out such things are the book and article titles that some of my sources have and the information that I have found in the readings, and there is still more to find out. Currently, I have not personally come across any scholars whose opinions differentiate with mine because I haven’t yet indulged in conversation with others about the topic. However, I’ve heard in the news or in other anonymous conversation thoughts and opinions that differentiate with mine. I have to further follow up on those thoughts and opinions on a personal basis. I know how I feel about the subject as of right now, however, I do know that through time and more research my thought may be subject to change, but I don’t think they will due to my personal experiences with physical education and activity in schools and how essential it was to me. I would like to get to the bottom or as close as I can to the cause of the issue of what sparked change in something that is basically traditional in the school system and a disease that’s sweeping the nation rapidly.