semester endgame:

** i forgot to post this at the beggining of break, sorry **


1. Do you read your colleagues’ work online? How often? What is it like to read their work? How does being able to see everyone’s work online at any given time change the way you do your work?
 - yes, i do sometimes read my colleagues' work. If i ever happen to have a time where im struggling with any work or understanding what i am supposed to do i go and see what everyone elses ideas are and it helps me understand more about what the assignment is.

 

 

2. How has the publicly and always visible course blog made this course different from one without a blog? How would the course change if the course blog disappeared tomorrow?

- well it definately was a huge change with having this class but it was an experience im glad i had a chance to take. i think if the course blog dissapeared most of the class would be very dissapointed. we all have worked very hard to get it to where it is and i would be very dissapointed if it were to disapear.

 

 

3. Has publishing your work for the public to see changed your approach to completing an assignment? How so? How would your feelings about the course change if you couldn’t publish your work that way?

- it has definately changed my approach to completing an assignment because i make sure that i am doing it right and i am making sure i give 100% of my effort into it, not that i dont when its an assignment that everyone doesnt see, but it just makes me think more, if its right or not.

 

 

4. Has your experience of the physical classroom changed because of the open & online aspects? Where does your learning actually happen? 

- my learning is both happening in class and on the blog. theres tons of different things i have learned on the internet by what classmates are saying and what dr. preston has said or has told us to research. in class i have learned so much, and this english class is probably the class i have learned the most in, from literature to the internet.

 

 

5. You were described in the Macarthur Foundation/DML interview as “a pioneer”-- how do you describe the experience on the edge to people who haven’t been there (friends and family)?

 

 

6. How do they respond when you describe the brave new world in which you’re working?

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7. What do their responses mean to you? What effect(s) (if any) do they have on you?

SPRING SEMESTER PLAN:


my goals for this semester:
- to be able to write an essay without repeating myself.
- finding out what job career I would like to pursue.
- focus on school and my hobbies.
- get another part time job
- start saving money and be ready to move out on my own at 18 and graduated from high school.

My plans:
- get 4 or 5 classmates as a study group for tests and quizzes.
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SPRING POST 1: MUSIC AS LITERATURE:



can we consider music to be literature? Yes, I think that music can be considered as literature. I see music as a type of poetry. A lot of times, Most music reflects back on stories or any type of literature.

How do we define literature? Its the art of written work. Literature is based on genres and themes.

What is the difference between a novel, a poem, a rap, a song, an opera, and a symphony? The difference is the way they are told or said. Some are told with different emotions and moods and tones. They all have different meanings but in someway they can all relate back to eachother.

Vocabulary fall list #10:


Pedagogue: a strict teacher
Cavernous: vast in shape or atmosphere, cave
Coquettish: flirtatious women
Tete-a-tete: confidential
Suffice: sufficient
Amorous: in love

Vocab words from sleepy hallow:

Sequestered : take away, put somewhere else
Gambol: play or frolic
Specter: ghost, spirit
Inveterate: settled or confirmed in a habbit
Tarried: to remain or stay, as in one place
Famine: extreme and general scarcity of food, as in a country or a large geographical area
Onerous : burdensome, oppressive or troublesome causing hardship
Hessian: soldier
Bosom: close to the heart

Legend of sleepy hollow:

I wasn't able to get my blog to work but thankfully its now a lot easier to post things. I wasn't able to post what my opinions were on the book or vocab that I didn't understand. Im excited to be reading this. At first I wasn't really interested in it but now I am liking it more and more. It is confusing at times and some of the vocab words are confusing but well worth it !

Vocabulary fall list #9:

Bosom: close to the heart
Prudently: careful in providing for the future
Inveterate: firmly established by long continuance
Propensity: a natural inclination or tendency
Repose: to assume or hold a physical attitude
Stripling : youth, someone who's young/ young man
Sequester : isolate
Apparition: a vision of something natural
Purport: intend
Imbibed: drink in
Incessant: on going. Not stopping
Cognomen: name
Reverie: trans, dream like state
Gambol: play, frolic
Tarry: to lingure
Hessian: soldier