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