Day 14

What was the most difficult time of your life, and why? How did your perspective on life change as a result of the difficulty? This difficult change anyone besides you in the positive or negative?

Day 13

Consider your favorite books, movies, songs, works of arts, etc. Have these influenced your life, or how you look at life? Why are they your favorites? Give one specific example of one of these and how it has impacted your life specifically.

Day 12

Who is/has been one of your heroes? Discuss what qualities this hero had that made you admire him/her/it. How would you emulate this person in the future and maybe even have people view you as a hero?

Day 11

Does any attribute, quality, or skill distinguish you from everyone else? How did you develop it? How does this skill make you feel about yourself? If there is the chance that you want to answer no to this then tell me why you feel this way. Doesn't everyone have something that distinguishes them from the rest of the people they are with?

Day 10

Define, again, the idea of discrimination. Give me examples of discrimination in the world. Give me an example of discrimination that has occured in your life and how it made you feel. Give an example of a time you have discriminated against others. Why? How did it make you feel? How do you think it made the other person feel? Did you care? Why or why not? Finally, why do you think we accept discrimination in our society?

Day 9

There is the idea of what do we get out of being nice to others. This often rings true during this holiday season. Listen to the following song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1i9G60wvH7Y then tell me:

1. Would you do what this man did? Why or why not?
2. Are people more likely to react this way during this time of year than other times? Why or why not?
3. If you answered yes to #2, why do you think this is true about people and society?
4. If you answered no to #2, what causes people to do nice things for others even if we do not know them?
5. Lastly, do you see yourself as a generous giving person? Why or why not? Give an example if you say yes.

Have a great weekend.

Day 8

You have discussed the idea of the city-state in history. Based on the idea that people were moving from one to the other, what would be your preference to live in and why? When you have your family, would you rather live in a larger city such as New York or Chicago or a smaller suburb such as the one you live in now. Explain as part of this as to the importance of why the city-state became important to the growth of a society.

Day 7

Today, in history, Mr. Pouliot discussed the idea of love. We all have different types of love in our lives that shape who we are and become as people. We live in a society where relationships are often seen as disposable (hello Tiger Woods) or as something to control (Hey Chris Brown). For this evening:

Tell me what is your view on the concept of love. How do you personally define love? Do you believe that there is one true love for everyone? Why or why not? If you do, do you think you end up in a place to find your true love?

Day 6

Today you can choose between free blog and current event. If you choose free blog, do not just list things you did last weekend but make it about something that tells who you are as a person or something we do not know about you. If you choose current event, then make sure you cite your source and nothing about Tiger Woods as I am bored of this story.

Day 5

Today we finished Oedipus. It is truly sad that a good man fell the way he did because of some circumstances that were out of his control. Yet, the one thing in his control, his anger also caused some of this to occur as well.

For this evening:

By the end of this reading, do you sympathize with Oedipus or do you think he is too blame for his pain and suffering? Connect the theme of darkness or blindness into your answer with at least one specific example from the story.

Day 4

So as we find out, Oedipus' life does now suck but I guess it could be worse as Jocasta is dead. What a horrible thing to find out that your life is all just a lie. The idea of whose fault is this is a constant battle in literature. Another battle is what was true punishment and who should have been punished.

For this evening:

Choose either Oedipus and his murder of Lauis or Jocasta and her trying to kill Oedipus as an infant. Then, take the side of a defense attorney who will defend them of any guilt for this crime. Write an opening statement to the judge and jury explaining why they should not be found guilty using examples from the story to back up your opinion. Use 3 examples. This will clearly end up more than 7 sentences.

Day 3

Here we are at the end of the second cardmarking. Hard to believe that it is happening this fast. I am, overall, pleased with most of the way the class has gone although I would really love to see people put in more of an effort and show what you are truly capable of.

For today, I would like you to discuss your strengths and weaknesses thus far in this class. Also, what are your goals for the next cardmarking both in my class and as a student in general. Give a letter grade goal with ways you plan to make this happen. Lastly, give any constructive feedback as to how the class could be better or my teaching style could help you more. Constructive does not mean take this opportunity to be rude so that people who are reading this will think you are funny or rude. This does not include the comment no more blogging as that will not be happening.

Day 2

Today we shall do a little current eventing. Please do not do sports or entertainment unless it directly relates to a larger event in the world. Make sure you cite your source or NO POINTS.

Cardmarking 3, Day 1

There are 3 major events that are celebrating their anniversary today:

Dec. 1, 1913- The first service station opened (later known as a gas station)
Dec. 1, 1955- Rosa Parks chose not to move to the back of the bus in Montogmery Alabama.
Dec. 1, 1969- The first people were drafted for the Vietnam War.

Choose one of these events and tell why you think they were significant to the time they occurred as well why they are still significant today. Then, tell how your chosen event impacts your life today.

Probably more than 7 sentences.