An important part of growing as a reader and writer is understanding who you are as a learner, but also learning from the models provided to you by readers and writers who came before you
I agree with this comment I remember my AP teacher said that great writers tend to kind copy other writers, writing style or their structure. It is true because most of us base our essay by either the essay our teacher show us or essay that tend to get a good grade.
active reading” strategies to help you with the readings
Annotating helps a lot it makes the reader more engaged to the reading and it doesn't make someone lose track.
Research has repeatedly found that financial aid tends to lift graduation rates, said Ben Castleman, an education professor at the University of Virginia
If students worry less on money students they will able to focus on their education.
Living on campus puts you so much closer to all of the resources that are accessible to you,
Living in campus can make everything more accessible as well through these times I am living in the dorms and I believed that it is helping me because there are somethings that are not accessible back home that are in SFSU.
he next fall, some of Ramirez’s high school classmates struggled with the transition to college, she said, but she felt connected to her campus from the start.
Once a student starts having a connection with their university I believe that they will be able to learn be able to build a community and be able to learn better.
Students tend to do better when they are following defined academic paths, rather than “aimlessly signing up for classes,”
I do agree that once a student know what is it what they certainly want they will affiliate themselves with those things. I just believe that students would not be "wasting" their time in other classes that they will not use in the future.
College matters so much because it isn’t just about book learning or the development of tangible skills. It’s one of the first obstacle courses of adult life.
I do believe that going through college we as students are learning how to become adults we chose our classes at what time with what professors.
Many lower-income and middle-class students excel in high school only to falter in college.
I have heard from other peers that even thought they where doing great in high school some where not able to handle the college level. Since some schools in low income community there is a lower standard of education if you compare it other school in a much more wealthier area. The class I received did not fully prepared for college.
A short list of verbs to use in signal phrases
This is going to be really helpful I usually have troublewhen it comes in presenting evidence. I appreciate this chart.
If we borrow another person’s ideas, language, sentence structures without properly acknowledging them, this is plagiarism and undermines our credibility
It is really important to keep this mind, sometimes I forget to cite the evidence and I would get points deducted.
30% evidence and 70% analysis.
This is helpful for how much my paragraph should be. Analysis as well should be more because it is you the writing who is connecting the topic sentence and your opinion.
Some say they understand none of it,as if she were speaking pure Chinese,But to me, my mother's English isperfectly clear, perfectly natural. It'smy mother tongue. Her langua
I am able to relate to this, I believe that when my mother speaks English it perfectly fine however, if she speaks English with someone else they do not really understand what she is saying.
I again found myself conscious of theEnglish I was using, the English 1
I tend to do the same with my family I tired to simply my English too so they can be able to understand me better.
I spend a great deal of my time thinkingabout the power of language—the way it canevoke an emotion, a visual image, a complexidea, or a simple truth.
I agree, language is a powerful thing that most people do not consider however, those who know how powerful language are the ones who usually start movements.
. When I was a teenager, sheused to have me call people on the phone andpretend I was she.
I able to relate to this I would do the same things fro my parents answer phone calls for them , translate medical bills, and become their personal translator.
1 was ashamed of herEnglish. I believed that her Englishreflected the quality of what she hadto say
When I was smaller I was ashamed of my mother English too but, currently I have noticed that it is hard to speak a complete new language at a older age. Knowing that she is trying her best and working hard to learn English I feel that if I discourage her she would eventually stop learning the language.
Don't judge a book by its coveror someone's intelligence by her English
I really agree with this statement just because someone is not able to speak English that should not mean they are someone who is less.
"If you want to be American, speak 'American.' If you don't like it, go back to Mexico where you belong."
It is so unfortunate that there are still people like this who are so close minded, in believing that by being American you have to speak "American".
My tongue keeps pushing out the wads of cotton, pushing back the drills, the long thin needles
This shows how people want to change and hide her identity however she was fighting back.
I am my lan-guage. Until I can take pride in my language, I cannot take pride in myself.
I really agree with this statement because language is something that is part of us and no one should be ashamed of who you are.
Wild tongues can't be tamed, they can only be cut out.
Foreign languages can not be control and the only way to stop it is be cutting someone's tongue.
(pg 258) "Finally, just to start some kind of action, I began copying. I believed it took me a day. Then, aloud, I read back , to myself, everything I'd written on the tablet. Over and over, aloud, to myself, I read my own handwriting."
I really admire the determination that he had to learn to read and writer by only using a dictionary.
Make connections between their own ideas and those of other
I believe that hearing other people's ideas is a good was to learn. It teaches students to become more open-minded and have great comprehension skills.
knowing your own learning styles and strategies is important from you.
Before knowing what my learning style was I was lost in all my classes and I was really unorganized with my notes. But once I got to my senior year of high school I learned that I was a visual learner,then I started writing my notes that where adequate with my learning style.
The reason is simple: because a single test cannot test everybody’s abilities,
That is true everyone learns differently and standard testing only test the ability of memorizing. It dose not show if the student was able to understand the topic.
why do you think your experience has been like that? What were pros and cons? What ideas from this chapter might have improved your experience?
My experience has been like that because some of my classes in the past did not engage as much. And one of my teachers had the same tone throughout the whole class which was really hard to pay attention. I believe that active learning would have improved my experience.
active learning and what makes learning engaging, fun, and ultimately the most rewarding for both you, the students, and us, the teachers.
I agree that active learning can be both rewarding for the student and the teacher. Because we are able to be more engage in class and can sometimes help us understand the lesson.
I guess you learn from me-- although you're older--and white-- and somewhat more free.This is my page for English B
This demonstrates how they learn from each other his professor learns from the student and the student is able to learn from the professor.However, one has more freedom then the other because of the color of his skin.
you will have the chance to negotiate your own grade
This demonstrates how we have to advocate for ourselves . As well it gives us a chance to explain our point of view if we where able to learn the lesson since, everyone learns differently.
by honoring the labor involved and allowing writers to take risks and try new ways of writing, fornew and different audiences, perhaps -- without fear of getting a bad grade.
Based on the grading system as an educator you also value creativity having students finding new ways to write for a different audience and as well you want students to be able to try new things without fear.
to help you connect your reading and writing to whatever you think is important in the world,starting with your personal experience and who you are as a person
This quote demonstrates how you as a teacher value identity since through this course we will start by understanding who we are and by knowing what is important to us in this world.