Day 23

Please respond to the following:

"Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were."
Cherie Carter Scott

Day 22

"The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind."
William James

What do you think of this? How does it relate to you? Any examples?

Day 22

Please feel free to blog on your topic. Try to not be superficial. I do not want to hear a description of your weekend or your plans for this weekend. I want you to blog about something which enables us to perceive who you are as a person.

Day 21

Today, we went over compound sentences, simple sentences and complex sentences. For this evening, I want you to write me a very short story (of at least 10 sentences but more if need be) using at least 2 simple sentences, 4 compound sentences and 4 complex sentences. Label each sentence for the type so that I can see that you are using them correctly.

The topic is up to you so have some fun if you want. If you were absent, this is one of the problems with missing school. I guess, if you want the points for today, you can research these sentence types so you have an understanding and thus write your story.

Week 5, Day 20

Please respond the the following:

"When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow."
Anais Nin

This may take somethinking or talking with parents, friends, etc. If you do not know what dogma means, look it up.

Day 18

Today we shall current event. As always no sports or entertainment unless it some how pertains to real world events. (Josh Fugate no basketball or relating it to basketball). Make sure that you quickly summarize and tell how it has an effect. YOU MUST CITE IN YOUR ACTUAL BLOG THIS TIME. IF NOT, NO POINTS!

Day 17

You should have all been doing research that touches on the depression era. What are you perceptions of the people living in this time period? Knowing yourself, how would you navigate your way to success during this time if you had just lost everything? Then, navigate yourself through this time if you were just some migrant worker?

Week 4, Day 16

We finished the movie which dealt with the ideas of perceptions and social injustices. This idea will continue to unfold as we begin talking about Of Mice and Men in regards to how people view the different characters.

For this evening:

Pick a movie or tv show which depicts a character who may be perceived one way in the beginning but is not really how they seem. Give specific examples of how the perception is wrong and how we, as the viewer, come to understand the character better. Then, give an example of a time when someone may have misperceived you or an action by you.

Day 15

As we conclude watching this movie it is evident that under the appropriate circumstances one can change initial perceptions while others still only see what they want to see. Interesting that upon learning the truth about the accident with Mr. McLean that even Charles may initially rethink his position on his "friend."

Why do you think Charles is able to change his perceptions in regards to McLeod while others did not? What did he see that others refused to see? How does the actions of the town make McLeod have to rethink his own perceptions of the town he is living in? Finally, how does this movie make you think about how you create perceptions or deal with social injustice in your own life?

Day 14

We continue to watch "A Man Without A Face." We see the unravelling of how people can misunderstand what makes people tick, think and behave. We try and understand that when we misperceive people we tend to make mistakes about who they are or what they stand for.

Another issue that comes into play for this movie is social injustice. If you are not sure what this concept means then Google it! Give your own definition of social injustice with an example. Then, give 3 examples of social injustices that are seen in the movie. Then, talk about how we, as people, need to defend social injustice in order to make a better society.

If you are behind on the movie due to absences, then go to hulu.com or another site to view.

Day 13

We began watching "A Man Without a Face." We saw early on how perceptions are created. What is Charles'(main kid) reaction to seeing the Mel Gibson character? What are others' reaction? Why are they reacting this way to him? What is the perception created of Charles by you based on what we have seen so far? How do we, as people create perceptions and why is it important that we do?

Day 12

Emily Dickinson writes a great deal about nature, death, success, loss, and hope in her writings. Using one of these themes, I would like you to write your own poem that helps us understand you. The poem must be at least 10 lines and linked to one of the above themes.

Week 3, Day 11

Please address the following quote:

“We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.”
Virginia Satir

Day 10

So, pretty easy day today. What was wrong with me? Be ready to hit the floor running again on Monday.

For today, pick a current event (not entertainment or sports unless you can tell why it is a current event) to write about. Briefly tell what the event is and then give your reaction, positive or negative, to the event. NO CITE, NO POINTS!

Blanzy, you cannot talk about Michael Phelps again this week. I get the fact that you think he was wrong.

Day 9

I hope you enjoyed todays pick of stories. I think they both clearly created a message about tolerance and understanding. Also, as someone said, the notion of perceptions. If you were not here, you need to call someone from the class to ask which stories we read.

For this evening, discuss the idea of tolerance. How do you define tolerance? Give me 2 examples from each story how there was this idea of tolerance. Then, tell me how the idea of perceptions was discussed in each story. I am going to guess that this will probably take more than 7 sentences.

Do not forget to study for the vocab and grammar quiz tomorrow. This is one of your first non-blog grades for the cardmarking.

Day 8

Reminder that cutting and pasting other people's blogs is not acceptable. I do read these and saw two on yesterdays. The people who do this truly must not have understood the discussion on pride. Cheating or being lazy is far from pride.


Cisneros comments, "I managed to do a lot of things in my life I didn't think I was capable of." What can you gain by attempting to do the seemingly impossible? Explain your answer.

Day 7

As we did grammar today, I figure it is a good day to do a free blog. What is going on with you and what are you thinking? Make it something good, interesting and not superficial.

Week 2, Day 1

Today we talked about the Harlem Renaissance and Langston Hughes. We read his essay "When the Negro was in Vogue" pages 932-937.

In this essay, Hughes mentions some of the African American cultural achievements and celebrities of the Harlem Renaissance. What specific cultural achievements or important celebrities might you include in an essay about African Americans today? Why are these people significant? Are there similarities to the Harlem Renaissance today? If yes how and why and if no why not. What is your take on the idea of having something in vogue? What would you say is the most vogue style of today for your generation and how does it define your generation?