Questions for Task Two

     1) Dates that you attended school, from grade school to high school?
     2) Average amount of people in your grade?
     3) Education history, schools attended and describe them?
     4) What were some of your memerable experiences from school?
     5) Was school easy or hard? and why?
     6) What was your favorite subject or subjects? and why?
     7) How has your views of education been modified since you graduated?
     8) How has your education connect to your life now? and why?
     9) Do you think school and education has changed since you were there? and how or why?
    10) Did you attend college? if so, what did you major in? why?
    11) Didnt attend college? why not?

        I would start out getting a view of  her school and the surroundings. Then find out about her education, favorite subjects. Then go into her education experience, and how it affected her life then and now. And how does she think education has changed over the years since she has graduated, good or bad. Why didnt she attend college? I think by doing this and asking these question I should be able to get enough to write a essay about my mothers education experiences.

Casa...Reflection and writing

          Answer to question 3.
         Cuento's is a spanish word meaning literally '' story '' or  '' tale ''. Cuento's may specifically refer to folk tales, a catagory of folklore that includes stories passed down thru oral tradition. The word cuento may also be used as a verb to say ''tell'' as if you are telling a story. A couple of examples that come to mind are from my younger days. The one that sticks out would be Robin Hood the Prince of Thieves. Another example would be the stories about the Three Musketeers, Athos, Porthos, and Aramis. Another example would be Jack and the Bean Stalk. One cautionary tale that was always told to me when I was young by my parent. Was if you played with fire you were going to pee the bed. Growing up my family used to go camping a lot, we always sat arond the fire at night , and my mother would always warn us.

Sister Flowers...writing topics

            6. I chose number six to answer. Tell the story of a memorable childhood experience. Well I dont remember to much from my childhood since its been so long ago. I do remember the first time my dad took me deer hunting in Pennslyvania. My mother is from PA. and my father is from N.Y, about 5 miles over the border of PA. During my childhood we would go back and forth from Ohio to PA. quite often to visit my grandparents. My dad growing up on a farm was a big deer hunter, so he would go back to PA. for deer season every year. Being the youngest out of 4 brothers, at that time I was the only one interested in deer hunting. So my father made plans for me to go hunting with him, he took me to the store bought me the right clothes and got me all ready for the big day. The season opened up on a monday, so I would miss some school. That was always a bad thing because I loved going to school, especially english class. The day before season opener my father and I went scouting in the woods where we were going to hunt. We seen a lot of deer tracks and signs of deer, but one place stood out. I told my dad that I thought that this was a good place. So we found a tree which I could climb up and get a better view of my surroundings. It was a good tree to be in, especially on opening day with a lot of hunters in the woods. Morning came and I was tired, was to excited to sleep the night before. We packed up are stuff and started walking down the road which led us to the woods where I was going to hunt. My father dropped me off close to where I was going to climbup in the tree. It was really dark out still and i was a little bit uneasy about walking in the dark woods by myself, but I did it. I found the tree thet I was looking for, and hurried and climbed into it.Daylight came and I couldnt keep my eyes open, I kept knodding off. And then I heard a noise, which sounded like someone walking thru the woods. When all of the sudden 4 doe ( a doe is a female deer), came running thru the woods right under the tree that I was in. I was in a state of shock, I never had deer come that close to me before. Well they were all doe, and I was hunting for a buck ( a buck is a male deer with antlers) so I watched them go up and over a hill off to my left. Then out of no where the 4 doe appeared again running down the hill in front of me. I watched them for a second, and then I found out why they were running away. The doe were being chased by a buck. This was it, my chance, I waited until the buck made his way in front of me. I picked up me rifle and aimed it at the deer, at this time the deer was about 75 yards away, running. I had to get him to stop, so I yelled '' STOP ''. Sure enough that deer stopped in his tracks. I shot, hitting the deer in the right side. But it wasnt a good shot, the deer went down but got right up and started running. I believe the words " oh shit " came out of my mouth or atleast I was thinking about saying them. I levered another round into the barrel of my 30-30, and took aim and shot again. This time the shot hit its mark, the deer went down and stayed down. I climbed out of the tree and slowly walked down the hill,keeping my rifle pointed at the deer the entire time.I reached the deer and it was still alive, kicking and tearing up the ground. And I believe those words came out of my mouth again. What do I do now? I dont want him to suffer anymore, so I shot him again. Finally after what seemed to be minutes, the deer died. Now what do I do? I reached in my pocket and took out the rope my dad gave me, I tied it around the deers neck and tried pulling the deer up the hill. It wasnt moving, so I told myself that I have to pull this deer up this hill, I gave it everything inside of me. And as my luck was going, the rope broke. Now what do I do? So I buried the deer in some leaves, and went and got my dad , and we pulled the deer out of the woods. Went into town checked the deer in, dropped it of to get processed. I went back to my grandma's house and went to sleep on the couch and sleep the day away.

Self Evaluation

Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Self Evaluation

Self-Evaluation

What is the thesis for your paper?

List the main points you make in your paper.

What was the most helpful advice you received from your peer evaluation?

What was the most helpful information you received in class for your paper?

How many drafts of this paper do you think you wrote and how/when did you write them? For example, did you compose at the keyboard, did you write lots of notes to yourself, did you pre-write or outline, did you write in small chunks of time or sit down and produce an entire draft at one sitting?

What would you do differently with this paper to make it more effectively, or what did you try to do that you just don’t think you got a good handle on?

What are most pleased with about this paper?    

1. It was then when I thought to myself, I might be in the wrong business, That only lasted a minute.

2. Main points to me were, that offenders where getting tought trades that I would like to receive. But I would have to pay a lot of money for the schooling. The offenders gt all the schooling for free. I think that is very unfair. Also I wanted to get the point across that tax payers pay the bill for these offenders to get educated.

3. Nothing really.

4. How to choose a thesis, and use that thesis to base your essay on. Also learned how to formate the essay, intro, body and ect.

5. I had 4 drafts, I would write bits and peices as they came to me, and put them all together and go from there.

6. Wanted to point out more cases were the offenders were getting different education tought to them. but I think this would of made the essay to long.

7. That I wrote it, I have never wrote an essay before in my life. Maybe I should interview myself for Task 2.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   

Questions for TaskTwo 9/22/2010

            1. Views regaring education and how it has changed over several years.
            2. The person I plan on interviewing would be my mother, it will be interesting to hear about the education that she received several years ago. Also the difference over time with the teachings and education from back then to now.
           3. Ask questions about the books they had to read back then, what their dictionary consisted of and basically, what english class was like 50 years ago.
           4.Being able to find the right font size for my paper.

'' On Becoming a Chicano''

     1) I am American. There are alot of  Spanish speaking people in the U.S. today. I think that speaking Spanish would be an advantage for me for at work and everyday life.
         When I was in the military, I spent two years in Asia ( Korea ). Here it was very hard to travel or do anything outside of the post, because of the language barrier that was there. Most of the older generation do not speak any English. To make things a little easier for me, I tried to learn the language. By the time I left there, I could speak a little Korean, enough to get me around.

Ideas for Task One

             1)
    How being the youngest brother out of four, was not fun.
       I do not anticipate any problems writing about this topic, is is easy for alot of people to relay to. I do not have any questions at this time.
             2)
     Being in prison has its benefits, at taxpayers cost.
        I anticipate a problem or two with being to long and giving to much information. It seems like it is a topic that will get alot of peoples attention, and information that they know nothing about.
    

''How It Feels to Be Colored Me''

          I would best compare myself to a robot. I am always on the go, needing little maintenance to keep me running. Being able to show little or no emotions to certain situations. I am able to let things bounce off of me like a rubber ball, and nothing inside of me would be damaged.
         In the job field that I am currently in, I must be able to get over things real quick, without showing any emotions, for they will be taken as a sign of weakness and taken advantage of.
         It seems like Hurston puts masks on to pretend that she is someone else. She also feels like she is being discriminated against too, but she lets those things bounce off of her, and does not get mad.
        

'' Rite of Passage''

     I remember my grandfather on my mothers side the most. He was a tall man with broad shoulders and cotton white hair. He seemed to be a gaint to me. Visiting my grandparents was always fun because my grandfather would give us boys a roll of quarters, and take us to the store so we could buy candy and play video games. My grandfather loved going to the horse tracks and betting on horses. If you asked him about a certain horse he was always be able to give you the background about the horse, and tell if the horse was worth  a placing a bet on.
    I also remember that my grandmother would not ride in a car that he was driving. Grandmother would say that he had a lead foot and that he was going to kill himself one day. I am sure that this is the reason why my parents would not let us ride alone with him. .