Mariah Cooks
AJ Franklin
Max Kulhman
Issac De La Cruz
Tuesday, June 5, 2012
Thursday, May 31, 2012
My Conversation
I was able to talk to a few of my colleges such as Max Kulhman, Hunter Walker, and Patrick Sims and after discussing with each of them they all suggested that we include a video on our presentation about what we did in the junior class. This to me is a great idea because it will give our audience the best perspective of our work!
Friday, May 25, 2012
Response to Post
1. Digital literacy is the ability to not only use but comprehend the tools that you are using. Understanding and connecting with them.
2) I would say I'm fairly digitally literate, but there are always aspects I can improve on throughout my life.
3) I believe that adults should trust us to create our own educational path. We are in that point of our lives where we should makes decisions on our own and do whatever we want to do as a career. Parents can help guide us to that path but should trust us to create our own.
A) Digital Literacy is the ability to understand and use information in multiple formats from a wide range of sources when it is presented via computers.
B) I would say that I am digitally literate because I am able to use computers to get my information and take the important parts from the huge variety we are presented on the internet. When in need of something specific, I am confident that I will be able to find my information on the computer.
C) Adults should trust us to create our own educational paths, because if we are able to that, we will create a path that is interesting for us. If there are some guidelines that students must follow, they will stay in those guidelines but do whatever they actually want to do. They will be motivated to actually want to learn and will be more likely to stay on top of their work. Times are different from when they were growing up and innovation is a key to what keeps our society moving on. This would be innovation by letting students use technology in a way too help themselves learn.
4) My vision of the digital future is that technology will take over the way students learn. I think that homework will be done online, then eventually classwork will be done online and technology will continue to take over the classroom. My place in this vision, is that I was apart of the first class that did a majority of their homework online. With the blogs, we have done something that no class has really done before and this should be revolutionary for classes to come. I'm glad that I could be apart of it.
2) I would say I'm fairly digitally literate, but there are always aspects I can improve on throughout my life.
3) I believe that adults should trust us to create our own educational path. We are in that point of our lives where we should makes decisions on our own and do whatever we want to do as a career. Parents can help guide us to that path but should trust us to create our own.
A) Digital Literacy is the ability to understand and use information in multiple formats from a wide range of sources when it is presented via computers.
B) I would say that I am digitally literate because I am able to use computers to get my information and take the important parts from the huge variety we are presented on the internet. When in need of something specific, I am confident that I will be able to find my information on the computer.
C) Adults should trust us to create our own educational paths, because if we are able to that, we will create a path that is interesting for us. If there are some guidelines that students must follow, they will stay in those guidelines but do whatever they actually want to do. They will be motivated to actually want to learn and will be more likely to stay on top of their work. Times are different from when they were growing up and innovation is a key to what keeps our society moving on. This would be innovation by letting students use technology in a way too help themselves learn.
4) My vision of the digital future is that technology will take over the way students learn. I think that homework will be done online, then eventually classwork will be done online and technology will continue to take over the classroom. My place in this vision, is that I was apart of the first class that did a majority of their homework online. With the blogs, we have done something that no class has really done before and this should be revolutionary for classes to come. I'm glad that I could be apart of it.
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
Finish Product
My group and I plan to have our group project finished tomorrow. Tomorrow we plan to present all of our hard work to the junior class tomorrow. We will have a power point to present and we asked the documentary crew to film us tomorrow.
Teaching in Progress!!
1) My group and I have pretty much finished our planning. We have already talked to Mrs. Nylander and set up our class take over, for this Thursday and Friday. So the only thing we have to do is put our imagination to work!
2) In the next two weeks we just need to teach the Junior class about the entire senior year.
3) Our work will greatly influence the junior class. Our work will better help them prepare for all of the senior year activities. This will make me feel good about myself because I will be able to give the juniors a big advantage.
2) In the next two weeks we just need to teach the Junior class about the entire senior year.
3) Our work will greatly influence the junior class. Our work will better help them prepare for all of the senior year activities. This will make me feel good about myself because I will be able to give the juniors a big advantage.
Thursday, May 17, 2012
Final Project
1) Our for this project is to Orient the junior class about the whole senior year experience. My group and I plan to explain the Ap Test, College Choices, and everything in between
2) The materials we would need would have to be my laptop and that's probably about it.
3) This week we have been discussing our presentation process and we will be planning to present next week to the junior class.
4) After we present and assess the class we will have taken notes and plan to come to class with a run down of how things went.
2) The materials we would need would have to be my laptop and that's probably about it.
3) This week we have been discussing our presentation process and we will be planning to present next week to the junior class.
4) After we present and assess the class we will have taken notes and plan to come to class with a run down of how things went.
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
Study Update:4
Right now, our back table is trying to hold back our laughter because this is the easiest post you can do for credit. Well anyways back to the Ap test, I plan to study for it today on my way to a baseball game in San Luis. I plan on looking over old essay questions and trying to come up with at least an introduction for them.
Ms Williams Response
1) Ms. Williams has good organization throughout her essay as well as insight. It is also convincing and well supported. Her work may be improved by using more mature diction and syntax.
2) I would say her premises of discrimination in the education system are true even though I am not a witness of it. As far as logical fallacies, I didn’t identify any.
Based on my experience, I am in agreement with her on how teachers brag about the education they have and yet they don’t fully apply themselves to helping their students; that could improve. She does focus on the black race with the discrimination but I think all students of all races can find this applicable.
3) A lesson I can take away from Ms. Williams’ work is to sacrifice time and effort to things that I truly believe in. She learned a lesson from this novel and applied it to her life and portrayed it in a well-written essay to hear her opinions.
2) I would say her premises of discrimination in the education system are true even though I am not a witness of it. As far as logical fallacies, I didn’t identify any.
Based on my experience, I am in agreement with her on how teachers brag about the education they have and yet they don’t fully apply themselves to helping their students; that could improve. She does focus on the black race with the discrimination but I think all students of all races can find this applicable.
3) A lesson I can take away from Ms. Williams’ work is to sacrifice time and effort to things that I truly believe in. She learned a lesson from this novel and applied it to her life and portrayed it in a well-written essay to hear her opinions.
Monday, April 30, 2012
Ap Exam: Study Journal
Today in class our group in the back got a lot accomplished. We were able to discuss how we were going to study for this test. Myself and Aj are going to prepare by doing the read and respond questions while Max and Mariah are going to study vocab.
Sunday, April 29, 2012
A Reflection on Uninstructed Learning
The text from The Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons provides so many different outlooks on how to accomplish the impossible and unimaginable. When the author(s) talked about how "three months of self-doubt and self-ridicule" turned into something so worthwhile, it makes the hardest of obstacles and the worst of trying times seem manageable. The theme being put across in this text is that even when the going gets rough, just stay strong and try and try again. Sometimes, the hardest assignments can kill you but as we all know, what doesn't kill you makes you stronger and makes you a fighter.
Study Update:3
I seriously need to study! I need to sit down and pick up the Ap vocabulary sheet and study so I will
Saturday, April 28, 2012
Study Update:2
I'm sitting here watching Bryce Harper make his MLB debut at 19 years old, while trying to study for the Final. Right now I am working on the read and respond paragraph questions because they are the hardest for me because I can not stay focused for that long. Wish me Luck!
Friday, April 27, 2012
Study Update:1
Well right now I just got home from the PowderPuff game. I am going to attempt to work on the multiple choice section of one of the tests because I feel like I need to start, to recognize the wrong answers immediately. This might not click right away but, in due time it will.
Thursday, April 26, 2012
2004 Ap Section 1
I chose this section because I feel we can all use help in these sections. Most high school students, like myself feel rushed when we get to these sections because we feel like we don't have enough time to read and complete all the questions accurately. So I feel like we can all use a little prep in this section
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
MacBeth Prompt
Prose Essay Prompt
1975: Lagerkvist’s The Marriage Feast: Define and discuss the subject of the story. Direct your remarks to the significance of the events described.
Poem Prompt
1989 Poem: “The Great Scarf of Birds” (John Updike)
Prompt: Write a well-organized essay in which you analyze how the poem's organization, diction, and figurative language prepare the reader for the speaker's concluding response.
Open Essay
1975B Unlike the novelist, the writer of a play does not use his own voice and
only rarely uses a narrator's voice to guide the audience's responses to
character and action. Select a play you have read and write an essay in
which you explain the techniques the playwright uses to guide his
audience's respnses to the central characters and the action. You might
consider the effect on the audience of things like setting, the use of
comparable and contrasting characters, and the characters' responses to
each other. Support your argument with specific references to the play.
Do not give a plot summary.
1975: Lagerkvist’s The Marriage Feast: Define and discuss the subject of the story. Direct your remarks to the significance of the events described.
Poem Prompt
1989 Poem: “The Great Scarf of Birds” (John Updike)
Prompt: Write a well-organized essay in which you analyze how the poem's organization, diction, and figurative language prepare the reader for the speaker's concluding response.
Open Essay
1975B Unlike the novelist, the writer of a play does not use his own voice and
only rarely uses a narrator's voice to guide the audience's responses to
character and action. Select a play you have read and write an essay in
which you explain the techniques the playwright uses to guide his
audience's respnses to the central characters and the action. You might
consider the effect on the audience of things like setting, the use of
comparable and contrasting characters, and the characters' responses to
each other. Support your argument with specific references to the play.
Do not give a plot summary.
Ap Prep(Absent)
I am not taking the Ap Test but, that doesn't mean I don't have to prepare for it. I feel like I really need help on the multiple choice sections, so I need to develop a strategy, that will enable me to become better. I feel confident on the free response questions because I have confidence in my writing style .
Sunday, April 22, 2012
Thursday, April 19, 2012
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
MacBeth Test Answer Key
Part I.
1. Macbeth won the respect of King Duncan by
A. Slaying the traitor Macdonwald.
2. King Duncan rewarded Macbeth by dubbing him
B. The Thane of Cawdor him.
3. In addressing Banquo, the witches called him which of these?
"Lesser than Macbeth, and greater." (I)
"Not so happy as Macbeth, yet much happier." (II)
"A future father of kings." (III)
A. I and II only
4. When Macbeth said, "Two truths are told / As happy prologues" he was referring to
A. His titles of Glamis and Cawdor.
5. "Nothing in his life / Became him like the leaving it" is a reference to
A. The traitorous Thane of Cawdor.
6. Duncan's statement, "I have begun to plant thee and will labour / To make thee full of growing" is an example of
B. A metaphor.
7. Lady Macbeth characterizes her husband as being
B. "too full of the milk of human kindness."
8. When Macbeth agonizes over the possible killing of the king, which of these does he say?
"He is my house guest; I should protect him." (I)
"Duncan's virtues will "plead like angels" " (II)
"I am his kinsman and his subject" (III)
B. II and III
9. Macbeth's statement to his wife, "Bring forth men-children only" signifies that he
C. has accepted the challenge to slay the king.
Part 2
1. "Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible / To feeling as to sight?" is a reference to the
B. dagger.
2. Lady Macbeth confessed that she would have killed King Duncan herself except for the fact that
B. he looked like her father
3. Shakespeare introduced the Porter in order to
B. remind the audience of the Witches' prophecies.
4. Malcolm and Donalbain flee after the murder
A. because they fear the daggers in men's smiles.
5. Macbeth arranges for Banquo's death by telling the hired killers that
C. he will eradicate all records of their previous crimes.
6. Macbeth startles his dinner guests by
A. conversing with the Ghost of Banquo
7. The Witches threw into the cauldron
"Eye of bat and tongue of frog"(I)
"Wool of bat and tongue of dog" (II)
"Fang of snake and eagle's glare" (III)
A. I and II
8. The three apparitions which appeared to Macbeth were
An armed head. (I)
A child with a crown. (II)
A bloody child (III)
C. I, II, and III
9. In Act IV, Malcolm is at first lukewarm toward Macduff because he
B. suspects a trick.
10. Birnam Wood comes to Dunsinane when
B. the camouflaged soldiers make their advance.
1. Macbeth won the respect of King Duncan by
A. Slaying the traitor Macdonwald.
2. King Duncan rewarded Macbeth by dubbing him
B. The Thane of Cawdor him.
3. In addressing Banquo, the witches called him which of these?
"Lesser than Macbeth, and greater." (I)
"Not so happy as Macbeth, yet much happier." (II)
"A future father of kings." (III)
A. I and II only
4. When Macbeth said, "Two truths are told / As happy prologues" he was referring to
A. His titles of Glamis and Cawdor.
5. "Nothing in his life / Became him like the leaving it" is a reference to
A. The traitorous Thane of Cawdor.
6. Duncan's statement, "I have begun to plant thee and will labour / To make thee full of growing" is an example of
B. A metaphor.
7. Lady Macbeth characterizes her husband as being
B. "too full of the milk of human kindness."
8. When Macbeth agonizes over the possible killing of the king, which of these does he say?
"He is my house guest; I should protect him." (I)
"Duncan's virtues will "plead like angels" " (II)
"I am his kinsman and his subject" (III)
B. II and III
9. Macbeth's statement to his wife, "Bring forth men-children only" signifies that he
C. has accepted the challenge to slay the king.
Part 2
1. "Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible / To feeling as to sight?" is a reference to the
B. dagger.
2. Lady Macbeth confessed that she would have killed King Duncan herself except for the fact that
B. he looked like her father
3. Shakespeare introduced the Porter in order to
B. remind the audience of the Witches' prophecies.
4. Malcolm and Donalbain flee after the murder
A. because they fear the daggers in men's smiles.
5. Macbeth arranges for Banquo's death by telling the hired killers that
C. he will eradicate all records of their previous crimes.
6. Macbeth startles his dinner guests by
A. conversing with the Ghost of Banquo
7. The Witches threw into the cauldron
"Eye of bat and tongue of frog"(I)
"Wool of bat and tongue of dog" (II)
"Fang of snake and eagle's glare" (III)
A. I and II
8. The three apparitions which appeared to Macbeth were
An armed head. (I)
A child with a crown. (II)
A bloody child (III)
C. I, II, and III
9. In Act IV, Malcolm is at first lukewarm toward Macduff because he
B. suspects a trick.
10. Birnam Wood comes to Dunsinane when
B. the camouflaged soldiers make their advance.
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