Blog 18

BRAINSTORM How art is important to keep in curriculum because it is a basic tool to help teach students how to cope with stress, show their creativeness, and deal with life Talk about the STEM vs. STEAM and how YoYo Ma believes that art is a big part of learning and being a person Talk … [Read more…]

Blog 17

I chose two articles to help backup my essay. One is to explain mental health and how it is being affected on a younger generation, the other is to explain why this might be. Anxiety and other mental illnesses have reached a high throughout the American school districts. Students have reached their breaking points through … [Read more…]

Blog 16

Art is very important to many people, not only because it’s a part of history but also because it teaches us how to be human. Art shows expression and how to feel and understand one another. There is so much you can do with art and I believe that It needs to be included in … [Read more…]

Blog 14

I feel like I am achieving my annotation goals by picking out the things I can relate to, the things I find important, and the things that stick out the most. I also have been good with my commentary and my text to world/text/personal connections. Surrounding Context: The surrounding context is Yo-Yo Ma relating back … [Read more…]

Blog 13

I use a lot of pointing words throughout my essay, I believe it helps with the structure of what I am saying. I do repeat myself a few times to get certain important points across. The two paragraphs that I use my example and someone else’s narrative I use “She” “Her” “His” and “Him” a … [Read more…]

Peer Review #2 and Blog 12

For my next paper, paper 2, I am going to start by working on my thesis and making it a bit longer. Something I can branch off a bit more. Doing this will give me a bit more structure for my paper. I’m also going to work on introducing the authors of the article’s I … [Read more…]

Blog 11

A narrative can simply be someone’s life story. It can reflect on how one chose their identity and who they are today. Each life story has an important part in who we are, and that is clearly stated in Julie Beck’s “Life Stories”. Beck Quotes Dan McAdams to get her point across that “Life stories … [Read more…]