Gabby driessnack
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
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Gabby DriessnackSenior at MPHS. Archives
March 2017
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