Being sick this whole weekend and sleeping 15 hours a day, reading was not what I wanted to do. So as I grabbed my book all groggy and angry I started reading. The first thing that ran through my mind was “Why am I reading about ethos, pathos, and logos again? I already read about this last semester.” but I still read since I wanted the grade. As I started reading the first article “Native education boosted by presence of elders” I thought that it was just going to be about how important it is to include elders in education. I had no idea it was going to talk about Hawaii and the programs that they had started down there. The article showed how important it was to include elders in education how it was not always necessary to have a college degree to teach somebody something new. As I read the article I started thinking about Hawaii and how they have there own culture that is very different than ours. This made me want to go to Hawaii and learn about the culture first hand.
The other article that really got my attention was “Walking the Line”. This article got my attention because it was not a conventional way to write an editorial. To me this seemed more like a story about somewhere he had enjoyed going as a child. I would have never known that the article was about the aftermath of September 11 by the first couple of paragraphs. This articles opinion isn’t as straight forward as all the other ones but I think that is what made me like it more. I liked the idea of having to think about the point that the author was trying to make. The description of the cold mountains and snow as well as the pictures made me think of Lake Tahoe. The reason it made me think of Tahoe is because it’s really the only mountain area I’ve been to and because my family is out there and I got stuck at home sick doing homework.
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Haha i love you liz haha. This must have sucked but i am glad your parents are home now and you feel better. I liked the Hawaii one as well makes you think about how we treat our elders huh?
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ReplyDeletefirst i want to say good job doing your homework and sorry you had to be sick. It was a long chapter and i didnt even want to do it not being sick. You did a great job proving the fact that you read, but i think we all did cuhz Cathy was PISSED ha. I enjoyed the story about Hawaii too. I think you make a lot of great points in your blog and it really makes me think about the stories that a read on a deeper level. Good job:)
Hey liz! I hope you are felling much better now.. and im sorry you were feeling sick this past weekend. I just enjoyed the way you started your paragraph, as something you did not want to do ..ha ha. I find it interesting what the stories made you think about...Hawaii, and lake tahoe.... 2 of the great places i love going to. Im happy you did the assignment! hope your feeling much better!
ReplyDeleteLiz, While you did the homework and walked us through your process as reader, the blog post would have looked much more interesting if you had embedded the pictures right into your post. Work on doing more with visual rhetoric in your next few posts/
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