Gabby driessnack
Earlier in the week, we watched a TED talk that related tragedy to failure. Something that stuck with me from the TED talk was that "we live in a snobby society". People are constantly judging and ridiculing each other for their failures, and it makes people not want to try from fear of failure. This causes societal tragedy, since we are so judgmental and make others not want to try. We also learned a new note taking strategy, which is Cornell notes. This leaves a column for note taking during the lesson, a column to get the big idea from those notes, and a row to summarize what you got from it. This is better than just writing a few things down and looking back at them when you need them. Cornell note taking gives you the opportunity to better remember the lesson and put it in your own words so that you understand it better. This helped a lot while reading "Oedipus Rex" because personally, I thought the book was a little bit hard to interpret. After pausing a few times to summarize and explain what we just read, it became easier to write notes in my own words. My goal when taking notes is that I can know the material well enough to explain it to someone else after. If I can do that, I know that I completely understand the material and can remember it. This site will give a better explanation of Cornell notes: http://coe.jmu.edu/learningtoolbox/cornellnotes.html xoxo, Gabby
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This week, we focused on tragedy. Researching it in articles and finding our own definitions. I think that tragedy is really cool because it makes stories dramatic and emotional. Tragedy mainly focuses on the suffering of humans or humanity. One of the types of tragedy was Tragedy of the Commons, which I thought was a really cool topic. This is like economic tragedy, where you go against the common good for selfish reasons. I thought that it was interesting that harming the environment could be considered tragedy. As humans, we are constantly destroying our world to try and expand roads or buildings. If we continue down this path, the world will be completely destroyed. Another thing we learned this week was how to find authorizing, illustrating, and extending in an essay. We walked through an essay and highlighted the different elements in the piece. Authorizing is using quotes from the piece. Illustrating is when the author using compelling ideas. Extending is answering the "So what?" question and describing the importance. It is important to include all three of these in a good essay, and have a good amount of extending. This is where the author provides their insight, not what it says in the piece. this site talks a little bit more about tragedy of the commons http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/TragedyoftheCommons.html xoxo, Gabby |
Gabby DriessnackSenior at MPHS. Archives
March 2017
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