MY day book

In class on Monday we got to decorate our day books. I thought about why we did this and realized, "Inquiry". Inquiry is one of the biggest things we learn about in English 1102. The definition of inquiry is a seeking or request for truth, information, or knowledge. It could also mean an investigation. While we were decorating our books we all interacted and asked each other questions. We asked each other to borrow scissors, or tape, and also asked how to do something if we didn't know how. 
     On my day book, I decided to put pictures of my sorority because it is a huge part of my life. I have made so many close friendships because of my sorority. I also put a picture of a pit bull, because I own a pit bull, and he is the love of my life. He is basically my child, and I get offended when people speak bad about them. He is the sweetest, most well tempered dog I have ever met. I put a turtle just to show another animal, because I love animals. This project was so much fun. Now people get to learn a little bit about me just by looking at my day book. I thought it was a good idea to put the clear tape over the pictures. At first I wasn't sure how to do it, but I asked the girl next to me, and she helped me. I couldn't make the tape smooth over the pictures. It kept getting bubbles in it. But I ended up figuring it out, and I think it looks great. I love when Lacy gives us projects like this, we learn things we didn't even realize we were learning.

Wobble

I had a really good experience with English 1101. Lacy was such a good teacher and she made us do assignments in such a creative way. There were a few times in the class that I had some trouble though..  Most weeks we had to read something and write about it for homework. I know it sounds bad, but it is really hard for me to read something I am not interested in. I was always wondering if I should read the whole thing, answer all the questions, in the end I always did. But I struggled every time I had to read a new one week by week. Another thing that I had uncertainty about was the library project. "What floor do I go on?" "How do I find a book I want?" "What book is good for this project?" I had so many unanswered questions. I was happy Lacy put us in groups so my group members could help me with all my questions. They were unsure about a lot of things too, but we just rolled with the flow. There were things we weren't sure of, but did anyway. Lacy is really good with grading, so we weren't to worried about doing things wrong. As long as all the criteria was met, we would be okay. I also had some uncertainty with the literacy narrative. "What should I write about?" "Does it have to be about writing?" "Does it have to be in MLA format?" We wrote down things on note cards that we would want to write about. I was so back and forth on my ideas and just decided to go with my debate class because I did a lot of writing in that class. My ethnography project was tough too! I had no idea what I was doing. My group members also helped me with this project! "What topic do I choose?' "How should we show the class our project? We decided to do a scrap book and I think it came out really well!  I'm happy I went through all my "wobble" moments, they made me a better student. The class was fun, and had the right amount of work involved!

Literacy Narrative

The literacy narrative paper was a fun paper to write because it was all about me. I didn't have to search through the internet for information. All the information came from my brain. It was tough at first, trying to figure out what I wanted to write about. I had a lot of different ideas. But, I figured I would write about something that had to go with writing. I thought long and hard about something significant in my life that had to do with writing. I decided to write about my debate class because it has influenced my writing, and my writing ability so much. The revision was the fun part. At first I just had ideas on a notecard. I then wrote a few things about my debate class in my daybook. In my first draft I mentioned things that were important about the class. I liked what I wrote, but I knew my second draft needed to be different. 
     Instead of started from the beginning I started from the end of my story. I then incorporated things I didn't incorporate in the first draft. When revised my second draft I used dome strategies from the homework on october 4th. I chose a point in my narrative that seemed to lack something. I thought of the moment over and over in my head and rewrote the part to sound like the person was there. I also worked with a partner and told them the story without looking at my paper, my partner (roommate) wrote down notes of what I was saying. We then switched and I did the same for her. By looking at her notes, I got to ad things to my paper, I almost completely forgot even happened. I also did a rapid read, where I read through my paper pretty fast, and anything that seemed uninteresting I took out. There were so many unnecessary things I took out, and the paper sounded so much better. When I wrote my final draft I just meshed both my first and second draft together to make the final product.
    Editing my work was the hard part. I sat there for a while thinking about how I should go about editing my paper. I sat there and highlighted everything that didn't sound right, or where I thought there was something wrong. I went back after I highlighted the whole paper and chose whether to leave it or change it. Most of the editing was silly stuff like commas or wrong punctuation. I did find some mistakes where I spelled things wrong or the sentence just didn't make sense.
    I enjoyed writing this paper. I don't think I've ever had to write a whole paper about whatever I wanted to write about. It gave me a chance to tell my story and be creative about it. I was never one to really like writing, but I had fun with this paper. It brought back memories, and I really liked walking myself through  that whole semester again.

Ethnography

 The pictures above, were all a part of my groups scrapbook, but these were the pages I was in charge of doing. It was difficult to figure out what we wanted to write about. Because we had expression, we really could've wrote about anything. We thought that writing about Organizations, Music and Tattoos would be different and interesting.  It was hard revising our work because we chose to do the scrapbook. We had to write a lot of ideas down before we could actually put them in the book. We talked with Lacy a few times about what should we incorporated in the book and what was important and what wasn't. We all had interviews, but thought pictures were a better way to show our work because were doing a SCRAP BOOK. There is always good and bad when working in a collaborative group. It was really hard to discuss how far we were, or what needed to be done when a group member wasn't present. In most cases the bulk of the work gets stuck with one person in the group, and thats why I normally don't like doing group work. In this case, we had a little trouble, but everything came together nicely. I absolutely loved doing non traditional work. It makes the project SOOO much more fun and interesting. I really had a good time picking out the pictures and scrapbook paper to use in our book. Overall I really enjoyed the assignment. I thought it was a really good assignment to give the class, and it really made us all think. Sometimes were so busy with our own lives to realize the underlife, and underlying meaning of things. I have Lacy next semester, and I can't wait to see what other projects she has in store for us!

Wallace's bone

In class Lacy showed us a few Gertrud Stein poems. They made absolutely no sense to me, and Lacy told us that was why she writes her poems. They are very abstract and hard to get anything out of. They are the closest thing to original you can get. Lacy had us write our own abstract poem, and this one is mine>>>
I tried to write about my dogs bone, but not make it make much sense. It is basically about how he takes his bone outside and chews it, and sometimes leaves it out in the yard. It is really hard to write something, that doesn't make sense. I give Gertrude Stein props for her poetry. Usually when you write something, you write it how you remember it. You write what happened firs second third, ect. But in her poetry, she just writes whatever. Or I guess were not sure how she writes. It would be interesting to know her process of writing. I tried to read a few more of her poems, but they really didn't make much sense to me. When I wrote my poem I thought of words that could describe the bone, and what my dog was doing, without actually saying what was going on. It was really tough.

The Frog who and the Princess?

For our Writing Into The Day, Lacy gave us this poem by Kathryn Machan. I really wanted to do a blog post on this poem because I thought it was so hilarious. We all know the story about the magic frog, and if he is kissed he will turn that lucky girl into a princess. This poem kind of shows how hard the frog worked to get the kiss. When you think about the story you never think the frog went from girl to girl asking to be kissed. Who would kiss a frog? I would hope not that many people. If this story were real, we would all think "Who would kiss a frog?" or "How many girls did he asked before one kissed him?". This is almost like an excerpt from his experience. I also like the way she wrote the poem. She wrote it like the girl was saying it, and it makes reading it that much more fun. She says she could never be a princess, and it is ironic because she easily could be if she kissed the frog she calls "perverted". I really like it and it is an enjoyable read.

BIbliography

Glaubman, Emily. Personal Interview.
31 October. 2012.

I was suppose to find ways that people express themselves, and I thought interviews would be the best. The interview with Emily helped with the project because it showed how a student expresses herself by being involved in a club. My other partners for this project did music and tattoos, as other ideas for how people express themselves. We chose these things because they are different from what a person would normally think of how they express themselves. I like interviews the most because you really get to know someone by talking to them.

Lauren Bukowski in her Alpha Delta Pi shirt, Charlotte. 30 Oct. 2012. Personal photography by Autumn Lumley. JPEG file.

Like a person says, a picture says a thousand words. Lauren in her Alpha Delta Pi letters show her commitment and how much she loves her sorority. She wears them around campus to show people what she is a part of, and this helps her express herself. This picture helps my project by giving people something to look at, so they know how people express themselves. This picture also helps my project because she isn't just wearing a shirt. She is wearing a shirt that shows who she is and what she stands for.


Person, Random. Personal Interview.
30 October. 2012.

This interview was very interesting. I completely forgot to get the girls name, but I liked what she said a lot. She isn't in a club or organization yet, but she is starting her own so she can express herself. This helps my project because it is different. She is making up her own organization, and you don't find may people that do that. She wants to express herself by showing her love for animals, so she is doing everything she can to do just that. You have to be a very independent and brave person to do something like that on your own, and I give her props.