Listen and Learn

BI9

It was one thing to read the book My Beloved World by Sonia Sotomayor but getting to sit there and listen to her talk was a very interesting thing for me. This is one of the first times I have read a book and got to see the author talk about their life and some of the things they wrote about. Sonia Sotomayor did give us all very important in advice that will help us in our lives. Like when she talked about her family it made me think about how I can take things for granted sometimes. How I should think about what my family has done for me. I do not think that I will get to go and see someone like Sonia Sotomayor again and I am happy that I went and got to have the opportunity to I listen to her talk.

Think More

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What is Critical Thinking? It is when you look at the meaning of something with more thought to it, to see all the different things that it can mean. I use Critical Thinking in all of my classes throughout the week. When we are having a class discussions they do not just want us to think about the surface of obvious stuff they want us to go into more detail about it and to understand it in many ways. The two other world that I was going over this week are perpendicular lines and parallel lines. Perpendicular lines are lines that intersect at the same point to make a right angle. Parallel lines are two lines that run next to each other and will never hit or cross each other at any point.

Half Way there

BB9

When I look at my mid-term grades I was very happy with them. For most of the classes my grades were I would like them to be. In some classes I need to work on getting my grades up just a bit. I make sure that the grades that are where I want them do not go down. I think that I am doing well right now but I see what I need to work on and in what classes. I think that if I keep doing my homework and staying on top of my work and not waiting for the last minute to do it I will keep my grades up. When I look back at what I have got done so far this semester I am happy with my work not to say that I did not hit a couple of hick ups or anything like that.

From the bumps that I hit in the road I now know what not to do. Like when I walk into my math midterm think that I already know everything that I needed to know so I did not look over my notes that well. It did show when I got my test back because I did not do very good at all. I now know that just because you know what you are doing in class does not mean that you should not still study. The biggest goal that I have for the second half of the semester is to end it with all Bs or higher. That means that I need to bring two of my class grades up and my other classes are where I want them to be so I just need to work hard in those classes so they do not go down. If I can end this semester with all Bs I will very happy with that

Go To See

BI8

This week I went to see the play Shakespeare in Hollywood by Ken Ludwig and directed by Sheila Hockey Garvey.  I liked the play because it took Shakespeare’s characters and puts them in a new situation. I really enjoyed this play because in high school I worked in crew so I did not get to see the plays my school put on in the audience. I liked seeing how good of actors that college kids could be. They must have put a lot of hard work into the play and it showed in the performance. The set was also very good and I know how much goes into that. I will most definitely be go to see another play this year.

Mastery of words

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Mastery is to learn how to do something well without making mistakes. I think that this word goes well with being in college because we are all trying to master something in our life. We are trying to master our majors so we can one day get a job and know what we are doing.  Two words that I was trying to master this week were sign and semiotics.  Sign means something that shows the meaning of a different object. Semiotics is knowing way something means that like the reason that something means something.

A Book to Remember

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One of the first homework assignments that we got as a freshman at Southern was that we had to read the book My Beloved World by Sonia Sotomayor over the summer. I think that this was a good book to read because it showed us that everyone has challenges that they will have to face and that you should all ways try to make your dream come true.  As you read this book you got to see some of the challenges that Sonia Sotomayor faced in her life. Like one challenge that she had to deal with was her diabetes and how she had to learn to give herself her insulin shots. Her dream was to live the American dream which I would say that she did. I think what you could learn from this book is that if you are willing to put the work into something in your life you can make it far. Even if it is hard at times or if people think that you cannot do it that you will have to show them that you can and will do it. That no matter what your dream is that you just might be able to live it.

                For my six word memoir I used Live Life As You Want To. I think that this goes with the book My Beloved World because she had to live her life as she wanted to. I think if you do not live your life as you want to then you will one day regret the things that you have not done in your life and you will think all of the time what if. I think that I follow this well because I live life as I want to and I stand up for the things that I believe in. I live my life as I want to and I do not let other make choose for me.

A+ work

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The two blogs that I found to be an a or a+ quality are the blog On the Path to Success by Kelly Robinson  and the other blog is Inside the Owls Best by Jacqueline Reis.  I think that they make their blogs very interesting to read and they give you the information that you needed to know. Their writing style is easy to follow and fun to read. When you go on to their blog page they are very easy to look at they are not like over done with too much stuff going on. They both have a pattern on the border of their blogs that goes with the background color of their blog page. I liked how this looked and thought it was a good way to make your blog page look good. It also made the page interesting to look at without making it distracting.  In the blog Inside the Owls Nest they used a good picture to go with what she was writing about. The pictures made the blog interesting because they were colorful and used lots of fonts but still related to what she was writing about. They were placed well in the blog and got your attention. Their blogs were easy to understand and got still got their points across. I think that is a good thing because people like to be able to look at something and get the information they need from it right away in a blog. It is not like a book where you want to read lots of information with a lot of details and description. A blog should just be bursts of information to get your point across. I think these two blogs did a good job of doing that. These blogs were attractive and had good information and did not go overboard so I think they are a or a+ blogs

http://kellyrobinson19.blogspot.com/

http://scsu17.blogspot.com/

What to Eat

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This week I went down to the health center that was decked out with the space theme that was all around campus for homecoming. When you go past all that I found some information that I thought was really good to know. I was looking at some things about eating healthy.  Now I know when I am up late at night and I want a snack what I should look for. Like if I go to eat some Cheeze Its I should put that down and eat a cheese stick or when I go to eat a candy bar I could eat a granola bar which can be just as good as a candy bar sometimes. That you should keep a healthy snack on you at all time so if you get hungry you can still eat something good that is good for you. That if you are eating right that you will feel full longer and have more energy to do more things in life.

Did you Know

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What does it mean to fail? To me it means that you did not do something to your best of ability that you could have done better. I think that Failure is a good thing in life because that is how you can the best at some thins but no matter what you are going to fail at something in your life.  Two new word that I learned about this week are denotative and connotation. These words go well with each other because if you do not know the difference between these words then you will get them mixed up. Denotative is the real meaning of the work or the literal meaning of the word like it is described in a dictionary. Connotation is the meaning of the word that is given to it by the way it is used in everyday life.

 

Denotative and Connotation

Things to Fix

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I think that one thing that I need to work on this week are my study habits. I feel like that I wait until the last minutes to start to study. I do not think that is the best way to study especially when I have two test on the same day then I feel like I am just not getting the information that I need to know to do good on the test. What I am going to do this week is try to study every day for an hour so I can figure out things I do not get and go over the things that I know. I can keep looking over them so I am not just walking into the test thinking that I know that why should I have studied for it. The thing that made me see that I need to change how I was studying was that I know that I could be getting higher grades on my test and quizzes that I was taking. I just want to do that best that I can so I do good in school. The things that I am learning are very important to my school work. I am also going to try go to a tutor so I can talk to someone about things that I am not understanding that well. I think if I can do this every week then I will do well on my midterms and my tests for the rest of the year. I just need to look at my schedule and see where I can take out the time to just sit in a quiet room and go over my notes. I think that I have to learn that I need to find that right away how to study and the right habits for me so I can do my best. I know once I get into doing this every week I will not even think of it as something I have to do it will just be part of my routine for school.
http://campushealth.unc.edu/healthtopics/academics-success/study-skills.html

Can you Fail

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I know from first hand experiences that kids are not allowed to fail in any way. They cannot fail at school ever even when they are playing a game there will always be a tie because then everyone is a winner. The kids in the generation below mine are very much protected from failure and do not know how to fail or what it failure is. I think that they are very much pressured not to fail in many thing. Now how you have to be the best in your class as a kindergarten, to be the smartest in school or the best at sports. If you are not then you are not good enough. I do not think there is a safe space to fail for kids or they might not feel comfortable with failing in front of others. I think if you do not know how to fail then how will you learn to fail from your mistakes. That no one is perfect and that everyone on is going to fail at something as easy as a test because you did not study. If you think you cannot fail and if you do fail then you will just crumble. How can you do anything if you are the only thinking about failing?  If you cannot fail I do not think that you will get very far in life.  You can learn the most from things you have failed at like in the article The Myth of ‘Practice Makes Perfect’ it says “But what we don’t do is intentionally look for ways that we’re failing and hammer away at those flaws until they’re gone, then search for more ways we’re messing up.” That when you see what you have failed at then you will be able to learn that much more from your failures in life.  

Read more: http://ideas.time.com/2012/01/25/the-myth-of-practice-makes-perfect/#ixzz2hYJFVhrM

The hall

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This week I went to my hall counselor. I thought that it would be boring but I found out a lot of cool things that were going on around school. One thing that I did not know is that we can help make things for homecoming weekend like a banner or the float. I also like that if I had something to say or an idea we could share it and other people would talk about it to see if it was something that we could do for my building. I am happy that I went I am going to back next week.

 

 

word to think about

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If I said you do not give up that you work hard and do not stop till you get done would you think that I am talking about persistence? To me persistence is someone who is not going to give up because you have to work hard to get something done, that you will not quit half way through it. You need to be like that because you cannot walk around giving up on things. Some other words that were important are Synthesizing and Analyze. Synthesizing means to when you combined different thing to get a new mean or a better understanding of it. Analyze is when you look at something closer to get a new understanding of it.

Synthesizing and Analyze

Try And Try again

Blog B6

This week we talked about how it is okay to be wrong. That you should own up to your mistakes that you can actually learn a lot about yourself if you are willing to say yes I made a mistake. Sometimes you need to make mistake to learn new things. This is about taking responsibility for what you have done. It is like the marshmallow test they did on the children where they had to wait and not eat a the marshmallow because it tells you a lot about yourself like "the children who rang the bell quickly, seemed more likely to have behavioral problems, both in school and at home.” They had more problems at home than the one that could wait and control themselves.  It is all about how you act when you are faced with a challenge in life it is all about who you can handle it.  If you can be like yes I did mess up but I know what to do. If you want to do something good with your life do you need to know how to get passed a challenge that might stand in your way? I think that you need to know how to do that if you want to go far in life.

            When you can work hard you are gritty. That is a good thing to be in life but there is different levels of gritty there is scale of 1-5 that you can be on. It just tells you how hard you will work at something in life. When “people might be gritty about some things and not others.” that they might not get all their work done if they are not willing to put in the hard work all of the time. When you are working you need to know that you cannot work hard at one thing and not another because you do not like it.

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/05/18/090518fa_fact_lehrer

 

http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/tomorrows-college/grit/angela-duckworth-grit.html

The right word

Blog A6

I think that the big challenge in my life that I had to overcome was my speech impediment. I had to go to speech form the age of 2 till I was about 15 years old. It took a lot of work for me just to talk so others could know what I was saying. When I was talking and would come to a word that I know that I could not say right I would have to say it many times just so they would know what I was talking about. I would go to a speech class every day at school just to work on my speech. I would also go home with a list of words to say so I could practice to get better at them. If I was not working on the list of worlds I would be practicing making the sounds over and over so I would know how I to get it right when I would talk. The letter that I had the hardest time with is the letter R the sound and words with R in it. When I was younger I would get embarrassed when I could not say a word right and just said never mind and stop talking. I felt different for other people. I did not understand why I could not talk like other people did or I would ask myself why does everyone else talk right but not me. I think that thing that I learned from it was that I would have to work hard at something if I wanted to get better at it and that everyone has something that they would like to change about themselves so life could be easier. That if you do put time and effort into something that does not come easy to you that one day you will get better at it. Then you will not have to work at it and it will come to you without thinking about it and you are going to say that word right.