Dead Poet Society Notes

·        Very invested in his students

·         The students are equally invested into learning

·         Doesn’t feel welcome with all the partyers

·         Gets beat up by a dumb jock

·         Enters an article in the newspaper in the name of the Dead Poets Society demanding women be admitted

·         Gets spanked with a wooden paddle as punishment

·         Neil’s father shows up

·         Tells him to quit the play no matter what

·         Tells Neil that he needs to talk to his father, tell him of his passion for acting

·         Reads a poem he wrote to Chris

·         Neil tells him that he told his father, but seems like he’s lying

·         Kris shows up

·         He convinces her to go to the play with him

·         She holds his hand during the play

·         Neil gets a standing ovation as his father watches

·         Neil’s father tells him that he is sending him to military school

·         Neil kills himself

·         School board is pinning Neil’s death on him

·         As he leaves, most of the students stand on their desks

Final Draft

Casey Price

English 101

How I Learned to Love Food

Growing up, I had always eaten food, and I always knew it was pretty darn good. But as I aged, I learned at being a picky eater is a flaw. I first learned this when I traveled to Japan when I was 13. I went without my parents, or anyone close for that matter, to a strange country. I had been traveling with a group of students all about my age, and a few of us decided we were pretty hungry. I, of course, assumed we were going to go to what I thought was McDonald's across the street, or maybe even the coffee shop that resembled Starbucks (as I couldn't read the signs). However, this was not the case. We went very far down the street, into a deep alley that you couldn't fit a Mini Cooper into. As soon as we exited the alley, we were in what seemed like the projects. The city was Osaka, a very urban area. Where we were at that moment was a huge food market. Sushi and rice were all over, of course, but there were also dishes that I have never heard of! One that we came up to was an octopus ball. No, not an octopus testicle, instead octopus meat that had been rolled into a ball, covered in a smaller octopus, stuffed with mayonnaise thrown onto a skewer with a few others and deep fried.

Now, up to that moment in my life, I had been a picky eater. I wanted to experience Japan, but this just seemed like too much for me. At that moment, I realized that if I ever wanted to enjoy retelling this experience later, I would need to eat the balls. So as quick as I could I shoved it into my mouth and took a bite, and it was amazing!

36% of adults in the United States are obese. Over one-third of the entire adult population in America alone are facing serious health risks due to poor exercise, and the number one cause, food. In a lot of cases the blame can be directed towards the fast food industry and some people may say it all comes down to labeling food and so on and so forth. What do I think? I think that people just love to eat.

Now, there is nothing wrong at all with loving to eat. In fact, I think its a good thing. Growing up, I didn't really enjoy to eat. I mean, of course I liked to snack on cookies and when I got hungry I tended to whine until I got what I wanted, but I assume that most of us were like that in our early childhood. It wasn't until I hit my teenage years that I really discovered how to love food.

I don't mean that I discovered how to love TO EAT food, no, I mean to love food in all ways. I personally don't believe that most of that 36% of adults in America really love food, they just love to eat it. Food is more than, well, food. Its art, its presentation, its color, smell, texture, taste, and so much more. I didn't know this, but once I opened that door I knew that I was never coming back.

You see, up until I was about 12 all I knew when it came to food was cheerios and chocolate, and of course my personal favorite at the time, PB&J with the crusts cut off. So when I took a trip to Japan by myself, I knew that it would be a learning experience for me, but I never expected it to change my opinion on anything.

I can't give credit to only Japan, of course. A lot of credit goes to my father, too. My father has been a food lover for as long as I can remember. There hasn’t been a single night where my father hasn’t watched at least one hour of the Food Network channel and cooked some crazy meal that I’ve never heard of.  The constant requests for me to taste his new sauce or help him dice up some onions and tomatoes have been engraved in my brain for the rest of my life, but if it wasn’t for all of that, I wouldn’t enjoy food as much as I do today.

There’s a different level of experience for certain things, and food is one of them. Most people, especially in America, don’t necessarily care about anything but the taste, but its so much more! Food is an art, from the processes used to prepare it and the presentation that it has when it hits your table, even the noises that it sometimes makes. The taste is just the final part, because after experiencing all of the preliminary works, the taste is what sums it all up and makes the whole thing worthwhile. Learning that lesson was one of the most important things that I have ever learned.

This lesson that I’ve learned has rippled through more than just my choice of food. I’ve also become much more open-minded and optimistic throughout all aspects of my life. I am now always willing to try any opportunity that is given to me, provided there’s a level of safety of course. I realize now that if it wasn’t for the lesson to not be afraid to try new things than I would be a completely different person. By and large, that attitude is part of who I am as a person.

I encourage everyone to try and be more optimistic, to see every opportunity as a chance to really live. I am glad that I learned to seize the day early in my life, because there are many people on this planet who haven’t learned that yet. Its really sad, actually, because I just wish that everyone could be able to understand how to really enjoy everything, not just food. So next time you’re eating at Mickey D’s, just try to imagine how much better it could get.

Stand and Deliver Notes; Day 2

Stand and Deliver

Day 1:

·         He speaks multiple languages

·         Class does not respect him

·         Can’t seem to get a hold of the class

·         Radio was stolen

·         He is obviously not meant for this area

·         Knows how to get the attention of the class

·         Slowly gaining respect

·         Two “thugs” show up late

·         Doesn’t tolerate disrespect

·         Very brutal

·         Very brave

·         Can get the class interested

·         Very in-your-face

·         Can get the whole class involved

·         Believes in the students

·         No one else believes in the students

·         Very passionate about his work

·         Just wants the students to succeed

Day 2:

·         Offends one of the students

·         Shows that he cares

·         Starts offending all of his students

·         He is starting to get obsessed with teaching

·         He is getting in pain

·         Leaving the classroom and falling down the stairs

·         Classmates are getting into fights

·         Blaming themselves

·         He had a heart attack

·         He has been receiving too much stress

·         Doctor says he can’t do any job related activity

·         Students are taking the AP test

·         All of the students passed the AP test

·         The AP service states that they all cheated

·         All of the students are falling apart

·         Angel has really grown, walking away instead of fighting

·         He’s starting to believe that it is all his fault

Your Education.

Good teaching is not about taking information and shoving down the child's throat. If a child has a talent or a passion, it is not good teaching to try and remove that from the child and replace it with required information. Good teaching takes the child's talent, and instead of squashing it, helps to guide it down the right path for success. Good teaching should never be giving a student information, telling them to study, and expecting them to regurgitate it back out on a test later. We are educated out of creativity. A good teacher doesn't blab on about a subject and expect the student to listen, a good teacher listens to what the student has to say. The true problem about our education system isn't that the teachers only ever tell, they never listen.

The Main Point of my Paper

While writing my paper, I had the idea that the reader's would understand my point of view, and rethink their own. I wanted the reader to fully experience the story as I told it and to bring some of the lessons that I had learned into their own life. The reader should walk away from my paper thinking about how they look at life and opportunities, and hopefully it will make an impact on their choices. my paper is about seizing opportunities and being open-minded, we have so many chances to take but we too often neglect them, and my paper will shed some light on the idea that they should take a moment to really enjoy every opportunity that their life throws their way.

The Process by Which I Learned to Love Food.

    Growing up, I had always eaten food, and I always knew it was pretty darn good. But as I aged, I learned at being a picky eater is a flaw. I first learned this when I traveled to Japan when I was 13. I went without my parents, or anyone close for that matter, to a strange country. I had been traveling with a group of students all about my age, and a few of us decided we were pretty hungry. I, of course, assumed we were going to go to what I thought was McDonald's across the street, or maybe even the coffee shop that resembled Starbucks (as I couldn't read the signs). However, this was not the case. We went very far down the street, into a deep alley that you couldn't fit a Mini Cooper into. As soon as we exited the alley, we were in what seemed like the projects. The city was Osaka, a very urban area. Where we were at that moment was a huge food market. Sushi and rice were all over, of course, but there were also dishes that I have never heard of! One that we came up to was an octopus ball. No, not an octopus testicle, instead octopus meat that had been rolled into a ball, covered in a smaller octopus, stuffed with mayonnaise thrown onto a skewer with a few others and deep fried. Now, up to that moment in my life, I had been a picky eater. I wanted to experience Japan, but this just seemed like too much for me. At that moment, I realized that if I ever wanted to enjoy retelling this experience later, I would need to eat the balls. So as quick as I could I shoved it into my mouth and took a bite. And it. Was. AMAZING.

5 Songs that Relate to my Essay

Don't Panic - Coldplay
Kids - MGMT
Time to Pretend - MGMT
Just Breathe - Pearl Jam
Another Brick in the Wall - Pink Floyd

Hierarchy of Needs

Writing my Ed Narr.

     When writing my Educational narrative, I will be sure to focus on certain key topics such as my first few learning experiences, conflicting learning styles with others, and trying to teach others who don't learn the same way I do. In telling this story, I am really going to enjoy writing about my early learning experiences and the clashing of learning styles with my peers and parents. For instance, since my narrative is how I learned how to learn, many time throughout my story I will be explaining the issues that I have had with teachers, other students, and most importantly, my parents. While I was growing up, my learning style developed in to something completely different than that of my father and mother. My parents have always been strict pushers, especially when it came to school, so as you may assume, there were many arguments with my father and mother about anything school related as I was growing up.
     Although I've clashed ideals with my teachers, I've also clashed ideals while teaching. A lot of times when I try to teach something I know to others, whether it be school-related or not, I've run into issues. For instance, when tutoring my friend for his math class, a lot of the time we'd get very frustrated with each other. It was no one's fault, we just had very different learning styles.
     When I write this essay, I'm going to take much joy in telling how I grew to be the way I am today. I will make sure that I discuss personal accounts to let the reader's perceptive to match my own.

How I learned how to learn.

     The most important thing that i have ever learned, is how to learn. In the early years of formal education, they try to teach you how to share and operate with your peers, but they never really teach you how to learn in the way that works best for you. The way that I learned how to learn, was by experience, much like it is for most people. You have to find what works best for you.
     The reason that this is the most important thing that i have ever learned, is because now I have a more complex, analytical view at everything I'm told. To learn isn't to listen, it isn't to jot down on your notes and regurgitate later on a test or essay, to learn is to take an idea and mold it to fit your own life and to use it to your advantage. Much like a mason as he builds a house, each brick can not simply be thrown onto a spot on the ground, they each have to be coated with the proper amount of adhesive and applied to the correct spots so that the house will not just topple over. They never teach you that in school, ever, its a personal lesson, to learn how to learn.

Models for my Educational Narrative

           
          I would like to apologize in advance to my readers, as this is my first blog that I have ever written.  While it may turn out terrible, I am sure that this will be a good learning experience for me. Which is a perfect segway into the topic of my first post, learning.
         I have recently been assigned to write an educational narrative for my English class at Olympic College, and to be honest, I have no idea where to start. So, to help people like myself prepare, my professor has asked us to read two articles, each similar in style and format to the type of essay that I am supposed to compose. After reading those articles, I must say I definitely have a clearer view of how I am supposed to go about completing this essay, by using those two articles as Models for my Educational Narrative.
        The first article is titled "How I Learned To Program Computers" by Feross Aboukhadiejeh, and, obviously, the article is about how this web designer first learned to program computers. A method that I noticed from this article is that he started from the very first time he was exposed to computer programming and told the entire story to present day. This idea is definitely one that I will take advantage of when I write my essay to let the reader know why I learned what I learned, and hopefully it will also give me a story to fill the pages.
       The second article is titled "How I Learned to Live Google Free" by Joshua Romero. The method that Romero used is very interesting and extremely effective. He started the article by talking about his readers. This instantly connects his readers, including myself, with the story and hooked me in immediately. Of course, I will make sure to do the same when I write my own essay.