nov 9th

This week i spent 30 minutes in class monday working on my paragraph. I thought that it was due monday so i had it written already. It needed a lot of work though. Then i took it home and edited for wednesday. We then worked on it a little bit on wednesday in class. I had some personal things happen this week so i really didnt spent much time outside of class working on things. I dont think i did very well on it. It might possibly be my worst work. This paragraph was probably the hardest one i have had to write. I dont know if it was because i didnt really have the mindset to sit down and take the time to do it, or if i didnt understand how to do it. Over the weekend i spent about two hours working on my new paragraphs for the paper. I think the introduction and conclusion will need the most work, i am going to do them last.

nov 2nd

This week I read dumas to discuss it in class. I also worked on revising my papers for my portfolio. I read over my ARN's for silver, and chose ideas that i was going to write about for my paper. Then i thought about how to make those ideas better. I read staples to discuss it in class.
Each story was very unique. I had to reread some of them to get a good idea of what they were about and where the people were comming from. I have been very stressed out with my bio and chem classes so i have been slacking a little in this class. :/
Today i have been working on my rough draft paragraph.

10-25-08

this week i spent 45 minutes reading through all three of the stories for class. I spent one hour working on the ARN for the silver story. I spent 40 minutes in class working on my papers for my portfolio. It was interesting to read each story. They all were about different people and cirumstances.. It was hard choosing one for the story. It took me a long time to do my ARN. I had to think really hard about what to say and not repeat myself. I think im going to use the silver story because I have a lot ideas that fit in with stereotypes of men.

weekly reflection 10-19-08

This week i spent 20 minutes brain storming what i could write my paper about. Once i figured out what i was going to write about, i spent the whole class period monday working on my first paragraph. Then i went home and edited it for the next class period.. On wednesday i worked on the rest of the paragraphs in class, and then went home and spent and hour editing my paper. I spent class time on friday working on my introduction and conclusion. I didnt finish in class so i spent about 30 minutes outside of class wrapping my paper up.
It was hard to think about what to write my paper about. I had to pick ideas that i could completely describe using information that one person would only see from my room. I had to sit down and think about what people would think if they saw the items i chose to use. The initial ideas i chose worked out well. I had enough information to talk about each idea and discuss it. The first paragraph of this paper seemed really easy, but as I continued on with the paper it seemed to get harder. I'm going to work on editing it a little bit more before i turn it in.

weekly reflection 10-11-08

This week I spent about an hour revising my paragraph, for the first paragraph due on our paper. We didnt have class monday, and i was at the doctor on wednesday, so i didnt really spent much time on this class.
Revising my paper went well. It was hard to come up with discussion that proved my points, without talking about my past with Cody. But then again the subject i chose was relatively easy, because i had a lot of points to choose between, being that we have been in a relationship for two years and there is evidence all over my room.
I've been searching my room thinking of what evidence im going to bring in next..
I need to contact another student so they can tell me the list you were talking about.

Weekly reflection 10-3-08

This week I spent 15 minutes in class doing an exercise to think about what objects I should bring in for my paragraph. Then I came home and looked around my room for 20 minutes trying to figure out what in my room describes me. Once I found one item I had to choose another item that wasn’t exactly the same as the other. After the class wrote about my stuff I went through the list and decided what I wanted to write about. Then I went home and looked for more things that described me. This was an interesting task. I debated on bringing in my yearbook because I didn’t want people to read what my friends wrote and laugh, but I went for it anyways. I spent 30 minutes in class brain storming and writing my rough draft. I then spent 15 minutes trying to add detail to my paragraph. Today in class i spent 20 minutes editing and revising my paper
While I was looking for objects I tended to get sidetracked. I picked up a photo album and started looking through the pictures and thinking about them. Then once I got out all of my yearbooks and went through each one, and looked at everything people wrote. It was sort of hard to look in my room and see what would stand out when people saw it.
Getting side tracked actually helped me with this paragraph. While I was looking through my pictures I was thinking about myself and being in a relationship. It made me think about what people would be thinking, and assuming if they looked at my albums. When I looked at my yearbook I thought the same thing. I tried to read each thing someone left, and think what on earth were they talking about and interpreted each message differently than its original meaning. It was an interesting brain storming process

weekly reflection -9/26/08

This week I spent about 40 minutes in class attempting to fix my paper.
Then at the next class i spent about 20 revising my elizabeth paragraph in class. I spent 10 minutes rereading through my prologue and the revision notes you wrote on my proglogue.
I spent 20 minutes in class today brainstorming what items i was going to bring in for my paper, and what i could use to say about them.
I had trouble this week revising my Elizabeth paragraph. I felt like it was just complete crap, and no matter how i revised it i felt like it was crap.. There for, i lost interest on trying to fix it. Not a good sign. Also, to be honest. This week i had the biggest test so far in my life in biology. 8 chapters. I was VERY stressed out about that, and i spent most of my focus time on that.
Honestly, I should have put more effort into my Elizabeth paragraph. Now i know that i'm just going to have to work extra hard when i revise it. I have good evidence, just the description sucks. Maybe working on my own will make it easier to think about how to link my examples together. Any now that my test is over, i wont be so stressed out every free second i have.
I understand T. E. D. method.. i just have trouble linking D's to the E's.