"The Lady or The Tiger"

The curriculum for "The Lady or The Tiger" would include 1.a (RED) where you basically "think about thinking" or at least are aware of your thoughts. This is known as metacognition and it also involves knowing where, when, and why you should use strategies like: making a connection, asking questions, clarifying, visualizing, inferring, summarizing, finding the importance in text, and synthesising.

1.b (YELLOW) in this section you find and use context clues to gain a better understanding of what it is you are reading.

2.1 (YELLOW) it mentioned how it is best to discuss, investigate, and take notes on different pieces of writing to help not only understand it better but enhance your on writing skills.

2.g (YELLOW) was to demonstrate different uses in vocabulary. Throughout the entire reading of "The Lady of The Tiger", there were dozens of words that to me personally were completely foreign. However, based on the time of the story it fit with the tone and voice that the writer let out. It also gave us the opportunity to use our brains to solve the different meanings of different words.

With 3.a (RED), it basically summed up how a writer can use formal and informal writing in their pieces. With whatever they choose though, grammar is very important because that is how an audience interprets their words. Punctuation is what controls the flow, pattern, and portion of sentences. What I get from this, is to use organization with your writing at all times. It is okay to branch out, however do so in a manner where people are going to comprehend what you are saying.

In 4.b (RED) it said it is sometimes best to build connections off of the text so you can draw a better conclusion of what the piece is about.

With 4.c (RED) it mentioned that being able to summarize is very important. When you can read a story, gain all the key points of it, and give that information to someone else allows you to explore your comprehension of the text.

On 6.a (BLUE) you are taking what you already know about literature terms and applying it to the author's work. By doing so you are demonstrating your knowledge and gaining a better idea of what the piece is about.

Then, last but not least we have 6.c (blue) which gives you the opportunity to compare and contrast different stories from any sort of genre, time, and place. There are many themes and structures that are used among writings across the world and as we encounter this, we learn more from it.

This I Believe

After reviewing the Pacing Guide for a type of curriculum that would apply to the "This I Believe" essay, I found that 6.a (yellow) sounds the most accurate. It deals with exploring personal issues and interests through a selection of texts. That is what "This I Believe" is all about, voicing your beliefs and expanding on why it is what you believe.

4.c (red) goes hand in hand with 6.a by being a summary of your ideas through a variety of texts. While writing the essay, you have dozens of different ideas floating in your head, it is just a matter of picking the right one and forming it into words. When you write a essay, it is best to avoid babbling, but many people tend to fall into this trap. You have to pick one idea, a belief, and elaborate on that6 single belief through many examples.

Along with this 4.1 (yellow) critiquing styles, organization, and the content of writing is applied to this essay. We are going to be editing and taking what we have already made and making it better. This as well as 2.e (red) to utilize peer feedback, style manuals, electronic tools used for revision and editing, and an evaluation of your own texts, applies to this essay.

We should also display our knowledge of vocabulary and branch out using different words to make writing more interesting, exciting, and eye catching. We do not want to sound like robots, but we also need to choose words that resemble ourselves. Writing should come off like you are having a conversation with someone, rather than a recitation.

Introduction

What I expect to gain from this course is a new understanding of how to express yourself through what is known as a blog. Personally, I have never taken part in such activites but I am open to learning more about it. It's fresh, different, and I think that by doing the following lessons, it will benefit us for the future.

Skills I would like take from this course is the ability to learn from others, what they think, enjoy, desire, despise, and so on. It will give us a chance to explore different writing techniques and possibly enhance our own.

My biggest strength in English I think would be that I have a great understanding of it. This subject has always been my strong point. When writing comes into play, I can generally blow you away with what my mind produces. I feel that I can take a good sentence, and make it spectacular. Although I am not the best speller, I have amazing ideas and thoughts that are waiting to be given a voice.

My weaknesses in English would probably be my lack of siting sources. I for the life of me, cannot site a source. I try to, and sometimes succeed in this. However, I can get pretty lazy and kind of just "skip" it. I am also a terrible speller. Sometimes my mind is going too fast for my fingers to produce the correct words. I also have troubles giving class presentations. When twenty different retinas are peering at you, I honestly loose my voice. I would like to overtcome this though.