For my midterm update I will be talking about how my author Identity has changed, how my theory of writing has grown and my future knowledge to transfer as w writer. My goal is to be reflective and talk about how this course has shaped me so far.
So far, I would say my author ident has changed a little bit. I have never written a memoir before so that’s new. I have some experience with writing blogs but its nothing new. I can also say that my process of writing hasn’t changed at all. I’m still writing at the last minute and it has really affected me so far. Lastly, I would say my relationship with writing hasn’t changed at all. I still don’t like its still not one of my strong suits so we haven’t changed at all. My theory as a writer has grown a little bit. I can say description action theme have helped me grow and be able to write my memoir paper. I can also say that my process of writing hasn’t changed for me. I still do the same thing which is wait until the last minuet to get my work done. Again, it is not a healthy thing to do. I can say that my growth as a writer as grown a bit. I know I need to be more descriptive in writing and more detailed. And so far, I have been able to accomplish them both. Any time I write now I always have in the back of my mind make sure to be descriptive and be sure to add lots of detail. Its really the on thing that can help me out when writing a paper. Final how I can use this in the future. Well I can use certain things like DAT in future writing for this class. As well my other class that I am taking write now. I will also be able to be more descriptive and add more detail. As I said before every time, I write I always try to add more description or more detail. It is always in the back of my mind. In conclusion, the grow of me as a writer has changed a bit. The fact that I know I Have to be more descriptive shows that I can show improvements. As well as my author identity has changed some as well. Lastly, I can say that I will be able to use certain things in the future like DAT and every time I write I will always try to be more descriptive and more detailed. In conclusion I have grown a bit, but here’s hoping for some more growth.
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For my last blog post I will reflect on the past semester that I spent in this class, our goal is to link back to Blog Post number seven and to engage in reflective writing. I will be talking about Author Identify, my theory of writing, the growth that I had as a writer, and the knowledge I will be able to transfer to future writing situations.
During the course of the year I would say my Author Identity has changed a lot. For one I had never written a memoir in vivid detail, I never really tried t writing in detail before this class. I can also say my relationship with writing has grown a little bit. Before I didn’t care about writing and know I kind of have a soft spot for it. Writing was never one of my strong suits. One thing I can’t say is my process for writing hasn’t changed. I still write last minute and even then, I don’t write in full detail which has hurt me. The other thing that has changed is my theories on writing. Before this class if I had a project, I would just write it out. I didn’t have Description Action Theme “DAT” nor did I ever learn how to format a research paper through Pressure Inform Entertain “PIE” There were a lot of things I also didn’t know what a discourse community is and how it can mean so much. Lastly one thing I didn’t do was write to make meaning. Normally Id just write a rough draft and hand its in. But thanks to this course I was able to write to make meaning, my rough drafts may have been last minuet but they made sense. I have definitely grown as a writer. At the beginning writing wasn’t my strong suit. But through this class I can say that I have become more detailed with my work. And every time I write now, I have in the back of my head be more detailed, it will help in the long run. Another thing I can say I have been more descriptive in my writing. At the start of the year I wasn’t descriptive nor did I put in a lot of detail. But I can say at the end of this semester between my final memoir and my final research paper I have been more descriptive. Lastly how can I transfer this into future writing scenarios? As I said before every time, I write now it’s always in my head add more detail. That’s one thing that has stuck with me throughout this course is to be more detailed and I believe it has shown towards the end of the semester. I can also say that I can transfer DAT, and Pie into other writings that I may be working on. It’s safe to say that this course will be sticking with me for a long time. In conclusion I learned a lot in this class, I have grown as a writer, I have changed my theories of writing and I found some ways to infuse this class with future writing projects. It’s been a fun sixteen weeks and I hope the people who have been reading this blog did as well. My research project has started out poor I’m not going to lie. Wile I have multiple sources about my topic I know I didn’t write enough. I know I didn’t write enough because I did this on short noticed. The writing wasn’t up to par and there were a lot of misspells and gamer errors. It also shows that I shouldn’t be doing things last minuet. As that can hurt my grade which is already bad as it is.
I really don’t know why I chose to start writing my paper last minute, I assume I was too tired over the weekend and thought I’ll do it Sunday. But then Sunday came around and I am stuck doing it at ten o clock at night. It’s a bad way to write a paper that’s for sure. I’m hopeful that I can get the work done after spacing it out over a period of time. I am hopefully that I can learn from this mistake and to start writing papers in chunks. What I mean is get a little bit done one at a time. That’s what I should’ve done with this paper. I should’ve spaced it out and not waited till the last minute. If I had spaced it out I’m sure I wouldn’t be scrambling at the last minuet to get work done. I got my sources but I was just uncertain about what to write down from those sources. And weather to go more in depth on certain things, like if I should have put more info about cyber bullying. What I mean is should I add what is cyber bullying how it could affect you and other things. I know I need to add more to my other two topics, and maybe I should add a third or fourth topic. Another thing I was struggling with was how much is too much information. I wasn’t sure what information to put in the research project, and what would be too much. My goal for now is too add more to my paper and possibly add a few more topics before the end of the semester. Another thing I want to do is get a visual representation of what I need to write. I’ve noticed that if I’m able to visualize something I can type it out and pretty quickly too. My other goal is to create a more detailed work cited and not just have the links at the bottom of the page saying work cited. What I’m actually going to format them correctly and then insert them into my research paper and where they need to go. And have someone look over it before the end of the semester just to make sure everything is OK. In conclusion There’s a lot I need to work on, like adding more detail and possibly adding a few more topics. But I am confident I can get it done. In conclusion I have a lot of work to do. But I know I can get it done. In class this week we talk further about our research projects. The topic for my research project is how does social Media effect teen boys. We also talk about our thesis statements and how to create a thesis statement. In class we talk about a pyramid that helps us create a thesis statement. It starts with a hook, then background information, then a bridge and then the thesis statement. Then we talk about the 4 ways to create a thesis statement those being question, direct quote, opening antidote or a counter argument. My thesis state is, Social media animates toxic behaviors in teenage boys because. I still haven’t done the research; my goal is to start the research tomorrow. From there I will start the process of the research paper. In conclusion is class we talk about creating a thesis statements which there are several ways to do. One is to use a hook, background information then a bridge and a statement. The other being Question, Direct quote, opening antidote or a counter argument. In conclusion this is what we went over in class this week.
In class this week we talked about the films we watched, Miss Representation and The Mask you live in. In class we dissected the dialogue from both films. We created a slug line a six-word memoir and a poem all from the dialogue we went over. The slug line for Miss Representation was “I think it’s really hard for women today. While our other Slug Line for the mask you live in is “Is football players don’t cry.
For Miss representation our slug line shows how the media can miss represent women and how women can be miss treated. While the Slug Line for the Mask You Live in means that boys can’t show emotions and can’t cry. Our group didn’t come up with a memoir or a poem. In conclusion in class we dissected the dialogue from Miss Representation and the mask you live in. We then had to create a slug line a six-word memoir and a poem from the dialogue that we created. And this is what we created. In this blog, I will interpretation two documentaries I watched Miss Representation and the mask you live in. The focus in Miss representation is the miss representation of women in media and in general. While the focus of The Mask you Live in is how men are to be taught to think a certain way. Both these films make me feel annoyed, and it’s because it’s the way I was grown up. Both my sister and I were taught from a young age that you could be anything you want to be.
There are no stereotypes to go after, and there are no trends to follow. It also annoys me how the three most damaging words to a boy are “Be a man.” That’s complete crap, how can that damage a boy’s psyche. When I was little, I played with my sister’s barbies, did my dad tell me to “man up” no. Did it affect my psyche playing with girls’ toys no, did affect me playing sports no, did it affect me being able to do man work outside no? Hell, all my decisions playing sports weren’t because I needed to feel more like a man! I wanted to go out and try to play it. I did that with hockey, and I did that with golf, I did that with soccer. The film makes me think that these kids need therapy. And maybe if girls and men could say screw the media and not care what the Kardashian put out or whatever some famous person did and try to be just like them. This film also made me think that kids these days aren’t going to their parents enough. Nor are the parents being parents and telling them to be yourself. In my opinion, if you’re a teenager and you want to be like Kim Kardashian or some sports star you got some serious problems in your head. There is no reason for you to be thinking you want to be the next Kardashian; instead, you should focus on being yourself. My last thought is there isn’t enough parenting going on in today's world. I see it all the time at work, parents today don’t have the time for their kids, they would rather stick them in front of a screen and go off to work. And you wonder why your child wants to be the next Kardashian or feeling insecure it’s because there craving for attention for their parents. T here is some stuff to change in this world. I agree that the media has created these perfect women and I think the press should dumb it down. I think we should also stop praising celebrities thinking they're the greatest when in reality they're nothing more than a person. In conclusion, my thoughts on these two documentaries and how they made me think are annoyed that some people feel like this, and how some teenagers should go to therapy because they are keeping all these emotions inside of them Reading these texts Our Discourse Community Values, what is Literacy, and We are Many show a theme for writers Identity, and what goes on in our classroom. We are all different writer and have different ways of writing. That’s what makes our classroom unique the ability to have so many different writers and traits in one classroom.
When I read, we are Many I was able to connected the fact that the person who is telling this story is going back in time to reflect on something. This is something we did in class with our Memoirs we were able to go back in time and draw the raw emotions that we felt that day. In the poem Pablo Neruda writes “But when I call upon my dashing beliefs out comes the same old lazy self.” That connects to shitty rough drafts and all of us in our classroom make shitty rough drafts. In calls we talked about Shitty rough drafts. Shitty rough draft is wen we just get ideas out on paper. It doesn’t have to be perfect with amazing edits. It’s just our discourse community getting our thoughts down and then we go back and edited it. When reading our discourse community values, we see a lot of what we have been taught in the classroom and a lot of what we wright as well. Writers identity is something that we’ve been talking about since day one in our class. We have been talking about shaping writer’s identity and how to change your writer’s identity. We also got to clarify ourselves in Blog number one the Proust questionnaire. We got to tell ourselves and our audience who we are, what we do what we like and what are our greatest fears. And through the year with our writing we have shown our audience different emotions, or different ways of writing. It’s a way to connect to the audience and the people who are leaving comments on our blogs. The last piece I read was what is Literacy, one of the points in this writing was “any discourse concerns its self with certain objects and puts forward certain objects viewpoints and values” At the start of the year we brought in our objects to represent something. Those objects that we brought in represent a viewpoint in our life and it showed where we were at certain parts in our life. And making us write about it showed the certain emotions that we felt while holding that objects. We all felt different things from happiness to sadness, making us write about showed us a discourse community and how we came together to write and read aloud our writing. In conclusion these three texts that I read show a discourse community. And show our discourse community in our classroom, from shitty rough drafts, to growing as writers and letting our audience see a side of ourselves, we wouldn’t show. And lastly certain things that make us feel a certain way. A discourse community means these things when you talk about our class. The focus I have is the third video You’ve always had the power to go back. I think that because I know I have the ability to go back into my mind and take memories out. But I don’t want to that’s because I know it will put me in a dangerous place. My narratives allow me to travel into my brain by remembering the night my dog passed away. It was a rough night for my family and I. At the same time, it gives me a reason to cope and talk about my dog and what she means to my family. It also gives me an idea to talk about her and how great she was.
While this story allows me to experiences the emotions I felt on that day, the sadness the angry, the wondering why now. While the grief is still there, it always will be. The rest of the emotions aren’t. I’ve come to accept my dog’s death as a part of life. This story allows me to meet the high stakes because we thought she wasn’t going to die. We knew something had happened, but we all didn’t know she was going to die. It is because of that I can write about the high stakes, or I can talk about the car ride, and how I had to carry her into the car and out of the car into the nurse’s hands. This story re-examines the power in storytelling by being emotional. If you have lost a loved one or a pet, you will understand my story and what it meant to my family and I. Life events shape who we are. What we experience in life helps us develop into what we are. You don’t know how to handle a death without suffering it multiple times. You don’t know how to treat a personal problem unless you have experienced it. In the end, it comes down to experience; that’s what shapes our life. Even the little things in life, like driving. If you haven’t gotten your license, you haven’t felt what its like to be free and realizing hey, I can go where ever I want to. Or if you haven’t broken a bone, you don't know how to deal with that or how to compromise what happened. My last example would be sports if you haven’t played games or experienced what its like to cheer for a sports team. You won’t understand it. You won’t follow the joy after a win or a championship or sadness of losing a big game or losing against a rival. In the end, it comes down to experience and here is why. This is also what my narrative is about and how it shaped me. In Hills like white elephants we see the two characters making an important decision in their life, and just like them we had been facing our own important decisions
Ever since my dog Niity passed away in June, the talk has always been are we getting a dog? “Well we like enjoying our freedom” My mom would say “I don’t want to walk the dog in the cold” My dad would say And in truth we all were enjoying our freedom, we liked the fact that we could come home and not have a dog to take out or a dog to walk. But in all of our hearts we were missing four-legged friend. My mom and I would talk about Niitty all the time and how we missed her. “You know coming home first and not having someone to great you feel so weird” “I know it feels so odd, not coming home to someone” My mom said Talks like that would go on and on, from September to December, and as my mom said “We have to wait for dad, remember he wasn’t here when Niity passed, we need to give him time” Niity passed suddenly when my dad was out of town on a business trip, so it was harder for him than us. It even got to the point in November that my mom and I were talking about dog names “How about Kimo? For Kimo Timomen, former Philadelphia flyer?” “Kimmos a good name,” My mom sad To test the name, I said “Come here Kimmo, Com here!” “That has a great ring to it” “I agree “said my mom “How about pebbles’ said “Pebbles is a good name” My mom responded. After that the conversation died, but something had changed in my mom she said “I really want a dog know, there is something missing in our life, but we have to wait for your father.” “I know mom we have to wait” It wasn’t until a few weeks ago my dad finally said to my mom “I’m ready to get a dog” This was relayed to me when I woke up on Sunday “Chris” My mom said “Dad said he’s ready to get a dog.” “Wait what, where did this come from, I hope I didn’t force you” “No, you didn’t force me to make the decisions, Chris its time.”, So from there we began looking and have found a shelter that we like. And right now, we have to wait for the application and interview process to be completed from there we can pick a new dog. We all miss Niity she was a great dog, but it is time for a new four-legged friend. On September sixteenth twenty sixteen I saw the greatest concert in my life. Bruce Springsteen and the legendry E Street band at Citizens bank park. Bruce came out at eight thirty sharp and started off with NYC Serenade, a song off his second album.From there Bruce and the band kicked it up a third gear playing half of Greeting of Asbury Park and the wild the innocent and the E street Shuffle. After ten songs form those albums, he then pulled a sign out from the crowed called the Fever, which is a song that I just discovered that summer.
From there Bruce played one of my dad’s favorite No surrender. I immediately grabbed my dad and started to hug him and jump on him like a two-year-old. We ended up singing side by side like we were on stage together. Bruce played another fourteen songs ending with Badlands one of his concert staples. At the end of the song even when the band stop playing the crowd kept carrying the tune which was something I will never forget. After that Bruce started the encore, which started with Streets of Philadelphia a tour debut, but I was more excited about what song came next. At the end of Streets of Philadelphia, I saw Soozie Tyrel, Bruce’s violinist pick up her violin and play the opening line to Jungle land. A nine-minute ballad about the Magic Rat, and his night out on the town. If you’ve ever seen a Bruce show or are a fan of his music, this is the song you want to here live. I lost my voice during Junglenad from screaming so loud and hard. After that they played Born to Run, Dancing in the Dark, Tenth Avenue Freeze out, Shout, and Bobby Jean. During Shout Bruce was saying “Did we break the record?” The record being for his longest show in United States history and yes, he did. Bruce Played for four hours and four minutes, and I stood for all of it. The show started at eight thirty and ended at one thirty in the morning, it was the greatest night of my life. I’m glad I was able to experience with my dad, and this is why this event is so special to me. |
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