Literacy Narrative Project.

So this week, we had to write out first "Paper" for English class. There wasn't much to it, mostly we were supposed to just stay on topic and answer the question from the prompt. This was all for our literacy narrative project. I wrote mine using the "Memory Story prompt". I wrote about my 11th grade English teacher and if i recall, I wrote one of my blogs about her as well. She was a very hard teacher that inspired me. She changes the way i look at school and taught me to set higher expectations about myself. That is basically the summary for my paper. I have not had to really write that much this year from any of my classes which is weird because i was told that this was all i was going to be doing in college. I have a feeling it is because all of my classes are freshman classes. But anyways I hope you all enjoy reading my paper and hopefully it will get better. My first draft was a little rough i found out after looking over on it.

A Web Cam and a Paper.

Alright, so it is time for another blog and I am starting to realize that this isn't as hard as I originally thought it was going to be. I might even go as far as to say that I am having fun doing this. The only thing that really bugs me about this is that I have noticed that I take Microsoft Word for granted. This website does not change the I to a capital I like word.... Just something to work around I guess.

But anyways, this blog is going to be about the assignment that Lacey assigned to us for homework after class on Tuesday the 18th, where we were supposed to go back and record ourselves writing a paper of some kind. Lucky for me Unlucky for me, I had a paper due Thursday that has received a lot of attention yet. So I got onto my computer and started to type with my webcam recording myself. As time moved on, i forgot that I was being recorded and at the end I walked away. When I came back after eating a bowl of soup, I remembered that it was recording still. So, I stopped the recording and watched it. It was very interesting because it made me thing about what I do when nobody is watching. I thought that it was a very cool and interesting assignment.

I wish I could put the video on the website but its pretty long and it wont upload.

Another Day Another Blog

This week in class was very interesting. We were given five index cards and on the first index card we were told to write about a bunch on significant events in our life that relate to writing. I came up with a lost of about five events that I felt were significant.

On the Second card, we were to pick one of the events and elaborate on it and describe it in detail. I talked about how when I was younger, my mom and I always read together. It started with her reading to me when i couldn't. Then as I got a little older and was learning how to read, I started to read back to her. Now that I can read we dont read to each other; however, we still do read in the same room. This was very interesting to me because i never really thought about how much my mom helped me learn to read. The next two card I continued to elaborate on that. This is all building up to a project that we are supposed to do where we have to write a literacy narrative project.

Writing Timeline

So for homework this week, we had to create a writing time line. This assignment was pretty open to what we were allowed to put on it, but we were required to have five significant writing events on it. As we shared are time lines in class, I noticed that a lot of students used events from school because they do not have many writing evens outside of school. Will this class change that?

Like the other students, mine were all based off of school events and for the most part, they were based around the writing tests that we had to take in 4th, 7th, and 10th grade. A few things that were different were the teachers and my teacher in tenth grade was Mrs. Blackburn. She was a teacher that taught both honors and AP; however, she treated each class as if it was an AP Class. I absolutely regretted getting her as as a teacher because she created impossibly hard and long assignments. To make a long story short, when i look back at that class, i realize that I have learned so much and that she was probable one of the best teachers i have ever had. She changed my ideas and views on writing and has been a person to motive me.

Themes for English B

I feel like this article by Langston Hughes is sort of what we are required to do on this first post. The essence of this article is that an instructor would like us to go home and write about whatever we think about. The author used the article to describe a little about himself. So this is a little about me.

From my daybook

My name is Michael Shaw. I am from a small town north of Greensboro named Summerfield. I have always lived here and have never moved. I have two pets. A cat that is named Prime Time and a dog named Marcello. I love both of my pets and miss them as I start my first few weeks of college. I am very new to the idea of blogging and for the most part, I have never thought that I would like to do this; however, I am keeping an open mind and see where the next few weeks takes me.