Reflection 7:
Overall I feel that this was a successful and productive week in regards to this class. I found the publisher’s website exercises to be easily understood this week. I sometimes find myself wondering why one week I completely understand the subject at hand like the tone, point of view and allusions from this week and then other weeks I am completely lost or struggle through the specific topic we are learning. I think that understanding the tone and point of view of what you are reading is of utmost importance. Without understanding where the reader is coming from in their writing you may never understand where they are going or what the purpose of the writing is. The tone in which something is written can completely change the meaning.
One part of this particular class I continue to struggle with is cartoons. I am not good at determining what the cartoonist is trying to say and/or if they are making fun of something it particular. I found myself struggling this week in particular with the cartoon on page 271. I really wasn’t sure what the cartoons was stating by revisiting the fairytale Princess and The Pea, even after rereading the fairytale twice, I was unable to get a better understanding of the cartoonist point.
One thing I really enjoyed this week was reading the essay from the book “Making the Grade”. I thought the essay was well written and every interesting. I have seen behavior much like the behavior written about in the essay and I have always found it disturbing especially when you see people getting away with it. Life is not easy nor do I believe that the good things in life come easily, I feel that if you really want something you have to work for it and like I stated in my essay it is a scary thought to believe a doctor, scientist, lawyer, etc. that is involved in my life might have actually been a failure but was passed for whatever reason.
Reflection 8:
As this week winds down and we are about half way through the semester I am feeling overwhelmed and beating myself up over why this class/semester has been so hard on me. I negative quality I possess is that I am very hard on myself; I am definitely my biggest critic. I feel that school is normally very easy for me, it comes natural to do well but this semester has thrown me through a loop. I have found a new respect for people whom successful complete school though it is difficult or that may even have a learning disability, I have taken for granted the first few years of college being fairly easy for me even after waiting 8 years after graduating from high school to come back .
As for the assignment this week I feel I did fairly well except for on the editorial assignment which I am still trying to figure out how to complete, I am sure it is probably easy and I am sure I am making it more difficult by over thinking it but the fact is I am simply confused on what to do with that particular assignment. Simply put I am going to continue to do my best and strive to full understand this class and get a descent grade. I am taking it one day, one assignment, one week at a time.
Reflection 9:
As I wrap up week nine of critical reading I am glad to know I am half way done. While that my not sound great and it definitely is not positive I am glad because of how overwhelming I have found this class. I must say I am very thankful for the professor I have though. This class has been as enjoyable as it has because of her, I am not sure I would have made it this far had I had another professor.
I found myself very frustrated this week with the publisher’s website assignment, while the assignments themselves were not that difficult answering them the way the website would accept was very irritating. A few times the assignment did not say that there might be more then one answer therefore I selected the most appropriate answer only to find out when I was finished there were actually two answers wanted. Plus a few times I would answer correctly other then the fact that I would use the word and (like the example answers should) but in the end the answer was looking for the word or. Grrr, was all I could think.
As for our project I started out the week confused but I believe I have finally figured out the assignment and I feel great about the progress I have made regarding the project thus far. I look forward to finishing the project and seeing the final product. Due to the fact that my project is so personal I am having an amazing time with it and I hope that it is what was expected and that everyone enjoys it as much as I do.
Overall, I would say things are definitely moving along and I am learning so much from this class. Learning to reading and thinking critically is so important and I am finding that the things I am learning is this class are coming handy in the English 102 class that I started last week.
Reflection 10:
This week has been a very interesting and stressful week. It is safe to say that I am much closer to being bald then I was at the end of last week, but I survived. I had some trouble this week with the famous speech assignment. I was not able to find famous speeches regarding my issue. In fact, I have had difficult times finding information such as requested per assignments for this entire class based on my issue. I have spent many hours thinking that I should have reconsidered my issue weeks ago, but the issue is so near to my heart that I was unable to change it.
I hope that though I have had some difficultly because of the issue I have chose therefore some assignments I have submitted may have varied a little from the specific directions that you can see that I have been very dedicated to this class, my work and most of all the issue that I chose to research throughout the class. I have really fought with myself thus far in this class because I am unsure of the work I am submitting, I am not sure if it is because we are not graded regularly or if it is simply because I am very good at over worrying and stressing myself out.
As for my project I had a great time putting it together and I feel that it came together really well though like many of my assignments I am not sure if I did what was really being asked of me. I hope I was able to meet your expectations as I put a lot of thought time and effort into the project.
Overall, I look forward to the future assignments and continuing to learn new things that I did not know prior to this class. I have learned a lot so far this semester, and as we get closer to wrapping up the semester I can stay that this class has been two things: one the most difficult class I have taken during my colleges years and two probably based on the first reason the class in which I have learned the most about the subject that was being taught.
Overall I feel that this was a successful and productive week in regards to this class. I found the publisher’s website exercises to be easily understood this week. I sometimes find myself wondering why one week I completely understand the subject at hand like the tone, point of view and allusions from this week and then other weeks I am completely lost or struggle through the specific topic we are learning. I think that understanding the tone and point of view of what you are reading is of utmost importance. Without understanding where the reader is coming from in their writing you may never understand where they are going or what the purpose of the writing is. The tone in which something is written can completely change the meaning.
One part of this particular class I continue to struggle with is cartoons. I am not good at determining what the cartoonist is trying to say and/or if they are making fun of something it particular. I found myself struggling this week in particular with the cartoon on page 271. I really wasn’t sure what the cartoons was stating by revisiting the fairytale Princess and The Pea, even after rereading the fairytale twice, I was unable to get a better understanding of the cartoonist point.
One thing I really enjoyed this week was reading the essay from the book “Making the Grade”. I thought the essay was well written and every interesting. I have seen behavior much like the behavior written about in the essay and I have always found it disturbing especially when you see people getting away with it. Life is not easy nor do I believe that the good things in life come easily, I feel that if you really want something you have to work for it and like I stated in my essay it is a scary thought to believe a doctor, scientist, lawyer, etc. that is involved in my life might have actually been a failure but was passed for whatever reason.
Reflection 8:
As this week winds down and we are about half way through the semester I am feeling overwhelmed and beating myself up over why this class/semester has been so hard on me. I negative quality I possess is that I am very hard on myself; I am definitely my biggest critic. I feel that school is normally very easy for me, it comes natural to do well but this semester has thrown me through a loop. I have found a new respect for people whom successful complete school though it is difficult or that may even have a learning disability, I have taken for granted the first few years of college being fairly easy for me even after waiting 8 years after graduating from high school to come back .
As for the assignment this week I feel I did fairly well except for on the editorial assignment which I am still trying to figure out how to complete, I am sure it is probably easy and I am sure I am making it more difficult by over thinking it but the fact is I am simply confused on what to do with that particular assignment. Simply put I am going to continue to do my best and strive to full understand this class and get a descent grade. I am taking it one day, one assignment, one week at a time.
Reflection 9:
As I wrap up week nine of critical reading I am glad to know I am half way done. While that my not sound great and it definitely is not positive I am glad because of how overwhelming I have found this class. I must say I am very thankful for the professor I have though. This class has been as enjoyable as it has because of her, I am not sure I would have made it this far had I had another professor.
I found myself very frustrated this week with the publisher’s website assignment, while the assignments themselves were not that difficult answering them the way the website would accept was very irritating. A few times the assignment did not say that there might be more then one answer therefore I selected the most appropriate answer only to find out when I was finished there were actually two answers wanted. Plus a few times I would answer correctly other then the fact that I would use the word and (like the example answers should) but in the end the answer was looking for the word or. Grrr, was all I could think.
As for our project I started out the week confused but I believe I have finally figured out the assignment and I feel great about the progress I have made regarding the project thus far. I look forward to finishing the project and seeing the final product. Due to the fact that my project is so personal I am having an amazing time with it and I hope that it is what was expected and that everyone enjoys it as much as I do.
Overall, I would say things are definitely moving along and I am learning so much from this class. Learning to reading and thinking critically is so important and I am finding that the things I am learning is this class are coming handy in the English 102 class that I started last week.
Reflection 10:
This week has been a very interesting and stressful week. It is safe to say that I am much closer to being bald then I was at the end of last week, but I survived. I had some trouble this week with the famous speech assignment. I was not able to find famous speeches regarding my issue. In fact, I have had difficult times finding information such as requested per assignments for this entire class based on my issue. I have spent many hours thinking that I should have reconsidered my issue weeks ago, but the issue is so near to my heart that I was unable to change it.
I hope that though I have had some difficultly because of the issue I have chose therefore some assignments I have submitted may have varied a little from the specific directions that you can see that I have been very dedicated to this class, my work and most of all the issue that I chose to research throughout the class. I have really fought with myself thus far in this class because I am unsure of the work I am submitting, I am not sure if it is because we are not graded regularly or if it is simply because I am very good at over worrying and stressing myself out.
As for my project I had a great time putting it together and I feel that it came together really well though like many of my assignments I am not sure if I did what was really being asked of me. I hope I was able to meet your expectations as I put a lot of thought time and effort into the project.
Overall, I look forward to the future assignments and continuing to learn new things that I did not know prior to this class. I have learned a lot so far this semester, and as we get closer to wrapping up the semester I can stay that this class has been two things: one the most difficult class I have taken during my colleges years and two probably based on the first reason the class in which I have learned the most about the subject that was being taught.