So English is my last final on Friday morning...I can't wait to get it over with! I just finished packing...and am about to go get my car at the stadium and start packing it up. I guess I'm a little anxious. BUT the best part about my day tomorrow is definitely going to pick up my friend Chris at the airport Friday night at 7. He moved to Texas my sophomore year of high school, and I haven't seen him in 2 years! But he is coming to visit everyone over winter break, so i'm really excited to see him! And then we're having an ugly christmas sweater party friday night with everyone! So that'll be fun. also, I get my first christmas on Sunday when I get home, so i'm excited for that too! but i hope everyone has a wonderful break! and that finals haven't been too bad!!
:) happy holidays!
Thursday, December 16, 2010
Finals....
So finals haven't been as stressful as I thought. The one i was most worried about was my history final. We had a study session on Monday night before the test on tuesday morning and the TA for the class ended up giving us 44 out of 50 of the questions for the test!! so that definitely made me happy. I really wanted to get an A on it so that I could keep an A in the class. My professor told us he would have grades up on blackboard by Tuesday night or Wednesday morning..but he has yet to put them up! and I've emailed him and he hasn't emailed me back...so that's definitely annoying. But yeah, I just really want to get home! Like everyone else does I'm sure!
Weekend before Finals
So last weekend was so much fun! I didn't have any finals on Monday so I just hung out with friends all weekend and enjoyed the last time at ball state for awhile. My best friend from back home was supposed to come up, and I haven't seen her in awhile so i was excited, but she ended up not having enough gas to come up so we made plans for winter break. I can't wait to go home and see everyone! :) hope everyone is doing well on their finals!
Thursday, December 9, 2010
Last week of classes!
So this is the last week of classes of our 1st semester in college! I'm so excited to get home and see my friends and boyfriend for 3 weeks. this break was much needed, oh and isn't this week supposed to be called "dead" week. because mine has been far from it! Monday and Tuesday I stayed up til 4 AM working on projects, papers, and speeches. Not to mention I stayed in my dorm room on Saturday and Sunday night working on this portfolio. So last night I got done around 2 working on this portfolio. so that was a nice change. but i hope everyone has an amazing break! and a good luck next semester with all of your classes! Spring Break and Summer couldn't come soon enough! :)
Sunday, December 5, 2010
Stressful Weekend
So this weekend was fun on Friday like I said, but the rest of the weekend was no fun! Saturday I stayed in all day working on these papers for our portfolio. Then I have an 8-10 page paper still to write for my history book report. Also, I have a speech to give on Tuesday in class that I need to write, and lines to memorize for my play in my theater class that I have to present on Wednesday. So basically everything is due by Wednesday, so after that I will be a lot less stressed this week! And tomorrow night I'm going to the Greek Night at the Pacer game with a bunch of my sisters. so that should be a lot of fun!
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Saturday, December 4, 2010
KD Formal!
Last night we had our formal dance for Kappa Delta so my boyfriend came up for that! It was so much fun. Almost everyone went, and it was at the Regency so it was a lot of fun! It was cool to see everyone dressed up. I love having a reason to get dressed up and take pictures. After the dance, me and my boyfriend went to Bdubs with one of my sisters and her boyfriend. It took like 20 minutes to get our food, but it wasn't that bad because they have paper football fields on the tables so we just played that while we were waiting. It was hilarious. So my boyfriend left at like 8AM this morning because he had to drive back home and get his bulldog then take her up to Carmel to this vet that specializes in bulldogs so she can have her surgery. She's having her puppies today! :) But he promised to send pictures. So here's one! :)
There are 9 of them! :) they're so cute!! I can't wait to get home and play with them!
Thursday, December 2, 2010
Syllabus Assessment
Course Goals ~ Introduces and develops understanding of principles of rhetoric; basic research methods; elements, strategies, and conventions of persuasion used in constructing written and multi-modal texts. Upon completion of English 103 students will:
1. I feel confident about this because I have learned how to use written words and spoken words to persuade someone while sounding intelligent.
2. I feel confident about this because I have learned that when you are trying to persuade people, you need to realize who you audience is and what their values/beliefs are so you know how to approach the topic.
3. I feel confident with this because I had a lot of experience with evaluating other student's papers while also receiving their input on my papers and learning how to revise my paper according to the suggestions given.
4. I feel better about this topic because of the rhetorical analysis paper that we were assigned. We had to find a text or advertisement to analyze and give evidence and facts as to why we felt a certain way about it.
5. I don't think I really understand this because of the way it is worded; but I do understand how to research things and give evidence to back up the points being made.
6. I believe I gained more confidence in this aspect. I usually get shy when I am critiquing someone's paper because I don't want to completely butcher their paper, but intensive reviews gave me practice in just giving suggestions rather than telling the person that their way is wrong.
7. I feel confident about format, syntax, punctuation, and spelling because of the different resources on the web that are out there for you to check when you do have a question, especially with citing sources.
8. I feel better about this because this class forced me to make time to evaluate 6 different pages when it needs to be done in 2 days, rather than procrastinating. Also, the portfolio that is due next week has made me realize that I need to be working on these papers all of the time, not just the night before.
9. I feel confident about this because of the peer reviews and intensive reviews that we did in class. It helped me to give suggestions to people and how to handle constructive criticism about my own papers.
Course Content & Format ~ The content and format of English 103 are designed to enable students to achieve the course goals; specifically, students in English 103 will:
1.I feel more confident about this because of the intensive and peer reviews that we did in class every few weeks.
2. This aspect was covered very thoroughly with the multimodal assignment we had, wihch helped a lot. The persuasive logics were expressed in each student's website in different ways.
3. Again, I feel confident in this because this was a huge part of the intensive and peer reviews in class.
4. I feel this was convered greatly because of the different drafts that each student had to submit in order for the peer reviews, intensive reviews, and eventually our portfolios next week. Each time these are done there are more corrections/suggestions that are given for each of the four papers.
5. I feel better about this because of the rhetorical analysis and the public writing paper that we were assigned. It helped us to designate an audience, and discuss our point in an intelligent way by using facts, research, and ethos, pathos, logos to give a strong argument.
6. I feel better about this because of the intensive review assignments that we had to read other student's papers and understand what they were saying so that we could give feedback.
7. I feel this was accomplished greatly by the four different papers that were written. We had to do research for 3 out of the 4 of them, and also some secondary research to make sure that the facts and arguments were portrayed correctly and intelligently.
University Core Curriculum Goals ~ The central purpose of University Core Curriculum is to enable men and women to live rich and satisfying lives and to undertake the broad responsibilities of citizenship in a free society. Although The University Core Curriculum seeks to discover and nurture individual talents, its primary emphasis is preparation for roles people share as human beings and as members of family and community groups. Thus, students will be able to:
1. I believe this was accomplished because of the knowledge we learned about rhetorical analysis and persuasion. This will apply when we try to make arguments and write papers in our future.
2. This was accomplished by the speed and amount of work that we accomplished, and the ways that we had to communicate through our papers that needed to be at a college level.
3. This was accomplished by the intensive and peer reviews that we held during class. We had to provide feedback to other students about their papers throughout the semester.
4. This was accomplished through the research I conducted for my different papers throughout the semester.
5. This was touched on when we did our multimodal assignments and we had to provide feedback/suggestions to other students during the peer and intensive reviews about their websites that were supposed to be arguments/persuasive websites.
1. I feel confident about this because I have learned how to use written words and spoken words to persuade someone while sounding intelligent.
2. I feel confident about this because I have learned that when you are trying to persuade people, you need to realize who you audience is and what their values/beliefs are so you know how to approach the topic.
3. I feel confident with this because I had a lot of experience with evaluating other student's papers while also receiving their input on my papers and learning how to revise my paper according to the suggestions given.
4. I feel better about this topic because of the rhetorical analysis paper that we were assigned. We had to find a text or advertisement to analyze and give evidence and facts as to why we felt a certain way about it.
5. I don't think I really understand this because of the way it is worded; but I do understand how to research things and give evidence to back up the points being made.
6. I believe I gained more confidence in this aspect. I usually get shy when I am critiquing someone's paper because I don't want to completely butcher their paper, but intensive reviews gave me practice in just giving suggestions rather than telling the person that their way is wrong.
7. I feel confident about format, syntax, punctuation, and spelling because of the different resources on the web that are out there for you to check when you do have a question, especially with citing sources.
8. I feel better about this because this class forced me to make time to evaluate 6 different pages when it needs to be done in 2 days, rather than procrastinating. Also, the portfolio that is due next week has made me realize that I need to be working on these papers all of the time, not just the night before.
9. I feel confident about this because of the peer reviews and intensive reviews that we did in class. It helped me to give suggestions to people and how to handle constructive criticism about my own papers.
Course Content & Format ~ The content and format of English 103 are designed to enable students to achieve the course goals; specifically, students in English 103 will:
1.I feel more confident about this because of the intensive and peer reviews that we did in class every few weeks.
2. This aspect was covered very thoroughly with the multimodal assignment we had, wihch helped a lot. The persuasive logics were expressed in each student's website in different ways.
3. Again, I feel confident in this because this was a huge part of the intensive and peer reviews in class.
4. I feel this was convered greatly because of the different drafts that each student had to submit in order for the peer reviews, intensive reviews, and eventually our portfolios next week. Each time these are done there are more corrections/suggestions that are given for each of the four papers.
5. I feel better about this because of the rhetorical analysis and the public writing paper that we were assigned. It helped us to designate an audience, and discuss our point in an intelligent way by using facts, research, and ethos, pathos, logos to give a strong argument.
6. I feel better about this because of the intensive review assignments that we had to read other student's papers and understand what they were saying so that we could give feedback.
7. I feel this was accomplished greatly by the four different papers that were written. We had to do research for 3 out of the 4 of them, and also some secondary research to make sure that the facts and arguments were portrayed correctly and intelligently.
University Core Curriculum Goals ~ The central purpose of University Core Curriculum is to enable men and women to live rich and satisfying lives and to undertake the broad responsibilities of citizenship in a free society. Although The University Core Curriculum seeks to discover and nurture individual talents, its primary emphasis is preparation for roles people share as human beings and as members of family and community groups. Thus, students will be able to:
1. I believe this was accomplished because of the knowledge we learned about rhetorical analysis and persuasion. This will apply when we try to make arguments and write papers in our future.
2. This was accomplished by the speed and amount of work that we accomplished, and the ways that we had to communicate through our papers that needed to be at a college level.
3. This was accomplished by the intensive and peer reviews that we held during class. We had to provide feedback to other students about their papers throughout the semester.
4. This was accomplished through the research I conducted for my different papers throughout the semester.
5. This was touched on when we did our multimodal assignments and we had to provide feedback/suggestions to other students during the peer and intensive reviews about their websites that were supposed to be arguments/persuasive websites.
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