How would you characterize yourself?
Find a piece of multimedia that could represent you. You can check out google images, pull something from your myspace page, find a song, sketch etc. Describe the piece of media in your blog post and answer the following:
1. What about this piece of media represents who you are?
2. Does this piece of media help show the way that you see yourself or the way that other people see you?
Be ready to present to the class.
Thursday, July 31, 2008
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
What kinds of violence have you experienced?
What kinds of violence have you experienced?
For example: In Our America two nine and eleven year old boys killed a five-year old boy by throwing him out of a fourteen story window. They had seen a lot of violence and were used to it. The violence didn’t seem to bother them.
1. Are you used to seeing violence in your own environment? If so, what type of affect does it have on you? (Consider anything from fighting, arguing, and media to video games)
2. Do you think that violence can solve problems? What kinds of problems might it solve? In what types of situations do you think violence can be helpful?
3. Choose a violent experience in your book to discuss. How did violence affect the character after it happened?
These questions were written by Rakisha and Mark
For example: In Our America two nine and eleven year old boys killed a five-year old boy by throwing him out of a fourteen story window. They had seen a lot of violence and were used to it. The violence didn’t seem to bother them.
1. Are you used to seeing violence in your own environment? If so, what type of affect does it have on you? (Consider anything from fighting, arguing, and media to video games)
2. Do you think that violence can solve problems? What kinds of problems might it solve? In what types of situations do you think violence can be helpful?
3. Choose a violent experience in your book to discuss. How did violence affect the character after it happened?
These questions were written by Rakisha and Mark
Monday, July 28, 2008
Making Choices
Think of an event in your book where the character had to make a choice. Find a quote that discusses this event.
Make sure to INTRODUCE this quote: What event does the quote discuss? Who is involved? Why is it important?
Explain what the character is choosing between.
1. Would you have made the same choice as your character or done something differently?
2. Why or why not?
3. What influenced the choices that the character made? (consider aspects of environment, personal values, goals, beliefs etc.)
4. What influences your own choices? (What things are important to you?)
This question was written by Carlos
Make sure to INTRODUCE this quote: What event does the quote discuss? Who is involved? Why is it important?
Explain what the character is choosing between.
1. Would you have made the same choice as your character or done something differently?
2. Why or why not?
3. What influenced the choices that the character made? (consider aspects of environment, personal values, goals, beliefs etc.)
4. What influences your own choices? (What things are important to you?)
This question was written by Carlos
Thursday, July 24, 2008
How has the book changed you since you began to read it?
Blog Question for Monday
How has the book changed you since you began to read it?
1. Has it made you go about doing things differently?
2. Has reading this book made you appreciate certain things more than you used to?
3. What aspects of life or things around you do you look at differently?
4. Choose a quote that caught your attention when you read it and record it here. (This will be good to come back to in future essays.)
5. Have you ever wondered how people came to be the way that they are? Now that you’ve read this book do you wonder about the events in their past? How did you come to be who you are today? (think of a specific event)
How has the book changed you since you began to read it?
1. Has it made you go about doing things differently?
2. Has reading this book made you appreciate certain things more than you used to?
3. What aspects of life or things around you do you look at differently?
4. Choose a quote that caught your attention when you read it and record it here. (This will be good to come back to in future essays.)
5. Have you ever wondered how people came to be the way that they are? Now that you’ve read this book do you wonder about the events in their past? How did you come to be who you are today? (think of a specific event)
How do place and space function in your book?
How do place and space function in your book?
Choose a passage that looks at the story’s setting. Consider how characters relate to the space. Please answer all of the following questions.
1. Is it a virtual space (online chat room) or an actual place in the world (house, playground etc.)?
2. What does it look like (give us a brief description)?
3. Why is it a significant space? What happens there that is meaningful?
4. Imagine what you would do if someone dropped you off in this space.
a. Would it change your day-to-day life?
b. Would it affect how you see yourself?
c. Would the space begin to change your philosophy on life and personal beliefs?
5. How does the author use place/space to bring out the characters’ identity? What do we learn about the characters as a result of them being in a particular space? Why did the author choose to write the story within this particular space?
(for those reading STF choose any one of the chapters to discuss)
Choose a passage that looks at the story’s setting. Consider how characters relate to the space. Please answer all of the following questions.
1. Is it a virtual space (online chat room) or an actual place in the world (house, playground etc.)?
2. What does it look like (give us a brief description)?
3. Why is it a significant space? What happens there that is meaningful?
4. Imagine what you would do if someone dropped you off in this space.
a. Would it change your day-to-day life?
b. Would it affect how you see yourself?
c. Would the space begin to change your philosophy on life and personal beliefs?
5. How does the author use place/space to bring out the characters’ identity? What do we learn about the characters as a result of them being in a particular space? Why did the author choose to write the story within this particular space?
(for those reading STF choose any one of the chapters to discuss)
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
What is a parent?
What is a parent?
Look through your book and find a passage (at least 1 sentence) that talks about parenting.
Make sure to include this quote somewhere in your blog (beginning, middle or end).
Consider:
1. Who is a parent in this book? (mothers, fathers, grandparents, teachers etc.)
2. What do characters do or say that helps to define them as parents? (Give specific examples)
3. Complete this sentence: A parent is ______________________.
Look through your book and find a passage (at least 1 sentence) that talks about parenting.
Make sure to include this quote somewhere in your blog (beginning, middle or end).
Consider:
1. Who is a parent in this book? (mothers, fathers, grandparents, teachers etc.)
2. What do characters do or say that helps to define them as parents? (Give specific examples)
3. Complete this sentence: A parent is ______________________.
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Us and Others
As we read our texts, we are analyzing and comparing our lives to the lives of the characters we are reading about. What can you learn about yourself by studying the lives of others?
Monday, July 21, 2008
What do you want to know?
By the time you graduate from Columbia College Chicago what would you like to know? What sort of truth are you seeking out? How do you know when something that you have learned is true or authentic?
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