Dead poet's society notes part 2

Dead poet’s society part 2:

·         Gets drunk for the first time

·         Boy gets beaten has to turn everyone in

·         John gets in trouble for trying to teach them conformity, should treat them all the same, same tradition there has always been

·         Father comes to Neal, about the acting. Dad wants him to quit the play- its tomorrow night. Thinks he’s going to let him down.

·         John (teacher) loves teaching. Neal has to quit play, talks to john. Neal has to prove it to his father that acting is his passion. Neal has to make a decision to either be a puppet for his father or follow his heart in acting.

·         Neal can stay in the play! Dad is going to let him stay in the play!!!!! If he can keep up the school work he can stay in the play!

·         Neal’s dad comes to the play! Doesn’t look very approving

·         Neal’s dad is pissed tells off john

·         Neal stands up to father, wants to have his own life not everything already set out for him

·         Neal killed himself. Everyone is depressed

·         Nowanda is expelled

·         Captain john is dismissed

·         Anderson stands on desks. Others follows

I feel like this movie had to many loose ends for my liking. just because it ended so depressing and like what happened to that girl? etc. good movie but overall I don't like the twist put on at the end. Twas quite depressing, should have ended better!!

Dead poest society movie notes part 1

Video 2

Part 1:

·         Christen all boy boarding school, proper, high standards, small school

·         Controlling protective father

·         Loud routy boys

·         Strict rules and policies high standards for the boys, lots of homework

·         The new teacher is different then they’re use to, takes class outside the classroom. New teacher graduated from hells school.

·         New teacher uses humor and threats- kids are wearied out by the new teacher

·         Live in beautiful country side

·         Boy feel in love at dinner

·         Makes students rip out introduction of the poetry so the class will learn to think for themselves.

·         Has a very interactive class room setting

·         Writes poetry because of passion

·         Teacher wants to create interest and art,

·         Dead poets dedicated to sucking life

·         Boys are creating a dead poets group and are going to visit the cave

·         Grouchy old advisers

·         Boys (7) sneak out with poetry book, flashlights and hooded ropes/capes spooky outside!

·         Tells spooky stories cause poetry get boring, chants, raps

·         Got back in SAFELY

·         Wants students to constantly look at things in different ways

·         “boys must strive to find their own voice”

 

·         Takes his bike out and explores some of the normal high school life

 

·         Has students go outside and kick balls with music to recite poetry

 

·         Neil gets the part in the play forges a letter from his father

 

·         Turns orderly/ ½ ass work into a learning experience

 

·         Embarrass student who doesn’t do work

 

·         Soccer team game is fun, students love their teacher

 

·         Very interactive class

 

·         Beliefs are their own

 

·         Parents gave him the same thing as last year for his birthday\

 

Interesting learning and teaching styles going on, the teacher is interactive within the class. Might be frowned by the other teaching staff. Isn’t strict involving harsh punishment or discipline for not turning in work. Wants the students to be their own person and explore the world, learn by doing. Also to never underestimate yourself.

Lorde's encounters with teaching

Lorde encountered many different styles of teaching within her first six years of life. She started out with her mother hurting her into silence or screaming. She was mute for most of her early childhood just from the fear of speaking wrong. Her mother would discipline her by a box to the ear and pinches on her nose or arms. This was her first teacher.

            The second teacher she met was in the library when she and her mother were waiting for her sisters. Lorde was having a meltdown which called attention to her by a librarian. She expected the librarian to hurt her like her mother does but instead the librarian introduced a new kind of teaching; being soft spoken. The librarian read her some picture book stories and from then on she loved the art of reading. Lorde for the first time spoke out and said I want to learn to do this. Her mother was so proud of her saying something intelligible she took on the role of the teacher.

            Seeing her mother in a new teaching light changed the perspective for Lorde. Her mother was supportive and taught her the alphabet and how to read. Yet she neglected to teach her numbers.

            The first school she attended didn’t work out because she was considered an overachiever and didn’t follow the direction correctly. When she was moved up a grade and to a different school things got a bit better. Her not being able to read numbers was a huge disadvantage to her schooling.

What makes a good teacher

In my opinion a good teacher is someone who can keep the class interesting, explain thoughts and concepts completely, and keep up a good pace in the classroom.

                Personally I love to learn. Learning something new opens up an entire world sometimes and a teacher is the gateway to achieving this. The power of knowledge is understated. One person can never know everything or know enough. There is always more room to grow and expand knowledge. Teachers need to remember this; a good teacher has high expectations for the class. One of my favorite mottos and something I live by is “there are no smart or dumb people in the world; anyone can accomplish anything if they set their mind to it”. I believe that every teacher should understand this to some extent because if someone is willing to learn; they WILL learn.

                Also teachers have to be able to explain their thoughts and the material they’re teaching to the extent that students will be able to understand. There is nothing more frustrating to a student then a teacher explaining something the same way again and again and for the student needing more clarification on the topic but the teacher can’t help.

                Lastly, there is nothing worse than a slow classroom environment. A teacher needs to keep up the ace so the students don’t get bored. There is nothing worse than sitting in a classroom that’s moving slow as molasses.

                These are a few qualities I think a quality teacher needs to possess.

Movie notes part 2

Movie notes:

• uses personal life of Claudia to entertain the class.
• claduia leaves
• kemo helps her
• has kids work on the board
• family conflicts because of his dedication to school/ night class
• teaches night English school for adults
• falls down stairs
• principal breaks up fight
• sub teachers cause kemo had mild heart attack
• kids excited to see kemo back
• AP test is here!
• goes tot beach and celebrates
• there high school has more passing kids, everyone passed!
• board of AP thinks kids cheated because all of the same answers were wrong and right
• angle makes jokes to inspectors
• VP  thinks they're guilty cause he put them under a lot of pressure also want him to resign
• Keno lost his car :(
• thinks he made a mistake to teach them calculus
• students fixed up his car
• he's fighting for his students; kemo threatens the board because he is proud of his kids
• inspirational speech to students
• late night study group test the next day
• the school finally got computers!!
• all the 18 students passed the AP exam 1983

Final Essay draft- Patience

On latter reflection I think the most important lessons are learned by experiences; this experience of mine taught me the importance of Patience. On Saturday the 28 of September I bought my first horse. Most young horse lovers are spoon fed and get whatever they desire; a new horse, saddle, lessons, etc. unlike them, my parents decided to teach me the lesson that you have to work hard to get what you want. I guess it’s a good thing I had to work to pursue my passion; it sure hasn’t made thing easy but I have learned alot. Finally, after working for eight months at an Italian restaurant I had enough money to buy my own horse.

 Don’t get me wrong, I have been riding other people’s horses for 10 years so I have a bit of experience. I found my dream horse online: Bolder is 7 years old Quarter horse, AQHA registered, with perfect conformation, fantastic build, and filled out nicely. I fell in love with this palomino. After a couple weeks of discussing this with my family; I found a barn to board him at and someone to trailer him over here. So now here’s where the story really begins. 

When we met up with Bolder’s previous owner and got the paperwork signed, we unloaded him from his old owner’s trailer and were now ready to load up and head home. I popped him in the trailer and tied him up. As I was moving to close the divider he decided to try and back out, being tied up real tight he couldn’t move. He started freaking out because he couldn’t move, I not wanting to be trapped in a small enclosed metal area with flailing horse limbs jumped out. When I turned around he had fallen and his legs were strait up in the air. I don’t know how he twisted himself enough to fall down, but he did. When he got back up, we were able to secure him in the trailer. After the fact I learned he has never been loaded like a regular horse: they had loaded him with plenty of food and grain so he wouldn’t mind being in-closed in a small metal area. I hope he only needed one flip-in-the-trailer event because I don’t want to deal with it again.

After he settled in for a couple of days at the new barn and was doing well under the saddle, I decided to set up a lesson with my WAHSET drill coach, Dawn. After going through the whole ordeal of setting up the time I would be able to borrow my boyfriend’s truck and my aunt’s trailer to be able to haul my horse to Dawn’s house. I had an uneventful drive to the barn; it was my first time driving a truck and trailer.

I was ready to load so I walked straight towards the trailer to bring him in and about five feet away he balked. He had too many bad memories from the previous experience. It took about twenty minutes to get him close enough to smell the trailer. At that point we decided to cancel the lesson and use the trsiler as the lesson for the day. Eventually, I was able to get his front feet in and with a bit of grain and whip encouragement he eventually got all the way in. We went in and out quite a few times and decided to call that enough for the day.

This was worrying me because all of the events I do with my horse, they involve trailering a lot to different places. I knew with time and trust he would eventually be able to trailer again. I talked to the neighbors, who I have known for a while because of 4-H, they were kind enough to let me use their trailer to keep walking him in and out and to get him use to the idea. So for the next five days I would go over there before or after I rode to practice with that skill.

I found out that Bolder’s favorite food motivator to get into the trailer is an apple. I think it was the third session I was able to stand with him in the trailer for about five minutes. This is with me talking and calming him the entire time. This was a huge leap because he was trusting me enough to do that. On the fifth time, with the help of my boyfriend, we were able to lock him inside the divider with me by his head. I was also in the tiny space with him so that could have ended up really bad if he decided to freak out. To me that was worth the risk because I trusted that he would not freak-out and injure me and he trusted me to not leave or hurt him.

A couple days after that I decided to try loading him in my aunt’s trailer again because every trailer is different and I’ll probably be trailering him in her trailer frequently. At first I just allowed him to sniff the trailer and get use to the different smell. Once again with my boyfriend’s help I was able to get him in. My boyfriend was standing behind Bolder with a whip, he didn’t necessarily use it, but when Bolder would back up he would remember there was a whip back there and decide to go forward to get away from it. After a couple minutes we were able to lock Bolder and I in the trailer slant. I tied him off and snuck under the divider so he would be in there alone. After a couple minutes of petting him and keeping him calm, we got out of the trailer and closed the back doors. There was no freaking out and that was defiantly an accomplishment.

The next Sunday was drill tryouts for WAHSET; now this was the big test. I had the coach stop by and pick me up on the way because she was already trailering two other horses and had room for one more. Bolder sniffed the trailer and with a little encouragement from behind, he got in and we closed the back door to the trailer with me in there too. After I had tied him off, Dawn opened the back door enough for me to slip out. We closed it and he was locked in there and not having a fit. I breathed a sigh of relief and we headed to the tryouts. When we got there I slipped back in and untied him and everything when smoothly from there. We did the same process loading him back in and made it home safe and sound. I am so glad this experience was a good one because now he knows that trailing to new places is not a scary thing and I will be there every step of the way. I also think having two other calm horses in the trailer with him made a huge difference.

It was hard work getting him down here, but the biggest challenge was getting him comfortable with loading in and out of a trailer. I wouldn’t change a thing about how I retaught him to load. I was patience and took little steps at a time with him; getting him used to the progressive stages. Now, I know it will still take a couple minutes to load him, but that will get better with time; I just have to remember patience is the key.

Movie Notes 10/22/13

Movie notes:

• They have some interesting hair styles. He has a TERRIBLE come over.
• He finally gets the class settled, then the bell rings
• Not an organized school, he's suppose to teach computer sciences not math
• Kids want to talk about sex, have it for homework
• Speaks Spanish to the non English speaking kids: including them
• Chops apple and dresses up to start the class, learning about %
• Interacts with students, kind of oddly- out side of class
• Hard times bad kinds/ gang
• Interacts with kids during the class
• Makes the class repeat important stuff
• Start off with quiz- get kids involved
• Gives kid books- kid doesn't want to be seen with them
• Disciplines girl who doesn't do her work by making her sit in a midget chair in the front of the room, embarrassing her. 
• Students come from hard lives
• encourages higher education- collage
• Kids hate principal
• encourages a calculus summer class
• Makes students commit by signing a contract for Saturday school
• Kids are dedicated to learning because the teacher cares

He makes the environment an interesting, interactive learning experiences making the kids WANT to learn and show up. The teacher relates math to the real world and threatens them with what might/will happen if they don't have a good education.

Snowboarding:

 The process in which I learned to snowboard started about eight years ago. Since then I’ve gotten either season passes or advantage pass to the mountain for the season and get up there ever chance possible to maintain my skills. The most I remember from the learning experience is falling on my ass a million times and also blacking out a couple times. The way I learned was just to keep getting up from every fall I took and to just keep trying. I eventually mastered all the basic skills and was able to stop, turn, and weave successfully.  Now I get the most pleasure from weaving through trees in the woods, going out of bounds, and hitting up the terrain park. I love the feeling of the icy air on my cheeks and the snow matted in my hair. I also really enjoy racing my friends and trying new jumps. I wouldn’t have been able to teach myself to board if I didn’t have the perseverance to get back up and try it again after I ate it. Snowboarding one of my many favorite activities to do in the winter and it has been rewarding to learn this skill. I can’t wait for this season!

Insperation

Drill:



Gaming:

Type 1 Diabetes:

 

Running:

 



Snowboarding:

 

Class exersize

So I have no idea the most important thing I've learned is, I actually think that is a stupid question because there is no one thing a person can pinpoint. like honestly, it was pretty important that I was potty trained- I can successfully use a toilet. it's not like I can write a five page essay one that. I was never told what I should or shouldn't eat; I still find horse food very tasty. I learned how to curl my hair using a straightener and also how to light my hair on fire.

horse are important to me, I really hate these questions.. I don't have a topic!... horse have taught me a lot and bah bah bah... they're my passion... why are we doing this?... I wear my beat up boots everywhere... I don't have a topic... I like trying different things- trails, dressage, jumping, drill etc... this is extremely stupid... it's interesting how much a horse can teach a person when usually the main objective is a person to teach the horse. I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT MY TOPIC IS.

Pre-writting

Throughout my education I have had a love hate relationship with the English components; reading and writing. Towards the end of last year it became harder for me to focus on comprehending reading pages and assignments, whenever I read I would become fatigued and get a headache. So finally it occurred to be that I should get my eyes checked, yes indeed I did need glasses; so that solved that problem.

Now my relationship with writing tends to vary. I have produced some amazing pieces of art, but I’ve also produced essays I’m embarrassed to call my own.

The foundation of starts with the topic and from there some organization is needed. I like to have everything planed out and committed before I start writing. If I don’t have an outline I get new ideas for a topic or layout half way through the essay and end up restarting it four times and that certainly isn’t a time saver. I don’t necessarily think there is a particular name for the format I use because it’s mostly lists with lines and mini categories with connecting and supporting ideas or evidence. I used to use a “web” or mainstream pre-writing skills but I ended up using twice the amount of time just trying to keep my ideas in format. I’m weird with stuff like that but it’s what works for me.

Malcolm X "Learning to Read"

The narrative “Learning to Read” by Malcolm X is a humbling story and well worth a read. The first time I was introduced to it was sophomore year in high school, then again during the summer, and now in my English 101 class. I was astonished the first time I read it.  It was amazing how he set him mind to something and was able to achieve it; he taught himself to read by copying words from the dictionary and improve his penmanship by reputation. He did this all in jail.

After learning the words of the dictionary, he started borrowing books from the library. He read any type of book he could get his hands on. So many of us take for granted the education we are provided, K-12, but when I  read this narrative it made me stop and think. I thought about how lucky we are to be literate and how not everyone has the same opportunities.  The excitement that Malcolm expressed when he learned he could acquire knowledge from reading books. The books opened up new horizons that Malcolm was excited to explore.  He knew one thing for sure, people can take everything from you but they can’t take his education.