Blog #12 Flynn

IWA #12

True Story:

Although majority of my life has been sitting in a classroom; I still have learned much more outside of the classroom. In school they teach you material that will help you graduate high school and college but life is way beyond that. I think I learned who I was outside of the class by the life experiences I have been through so far. Although learning who I was is a very broad learning experience it is something very essential. I still will learn more about myself as life goes on but the ones below are a few that I really am proud of in the last four years.

Starting my freshmen year I really became interested into the groups at my school such as student council and the Zanta Club. I really like the idea of making a difference in the school and to become a leader. Although I was new to the programs when I was a freshmen but became very involved throughout the four years I was in high school. By my senior year I was president of Student Council and a group leader of Z-Club. Those groups became more than just group they have taught me that I wanted to be a leader and help others in a positive way through my leadership skills. With the leadership skills I gained I realized that nursing would be a perfect career for me because I can use my leaderships every day in my job. Also with leadership comes independency and I was able trust myself in situations without the help of others.

Being a girl means having a lot of friends right? Well wrong, I probably have been ditched by so many girls people would think I am a bully or something. In high school I was left by my best friend, she was literally like a sister to me. She found a guy and left me in the dirt on the side of the road. Even though I lost a friend I gained a lesson and a piece of myself. I have learned that friends do not define me and friend will come in and out of my life but I will always be there for myself and so will my family. High school was a bumpy journey for me I have had the best of times and the worst of times but I would not trade the experience for anything. Life can suck sometimes and make you wonder, “why me?” But in the end you find yourself and that is what matter most. No teacher can teach you to be you, YOU have to! J

Blog #11 Delpit

IWA #11:

Summary:

Delpit really brings an argument to the discourse, “talk” we have had going on in class. For the first time in our readings we actually have an actually article that is about contradicting another author. Gee in his article about discourse communities struck something in Delpit that she did not agree with. Gee in his article says that we cannot understand the lingo or rules of a community if you are not in them. Delpit goes against that by giving great examples of how you can. Also Gee thinks that you cannot be taught a primary discourse which is also something that Delpit proves wrong in her article. She gives a prime example proving that you can be taught literature with the story about, “Margie” a student who was taught more and made a statement about it at an institution. Delpit took the idea of learning literacy to a new question asking if some should actually attempt to learn? She explains more that some people do not want to learn so trying to would take away from you. Delpit goes deeper into her mind on how she feels about the idea of teaching literacy in discourse community terms.

Connections:

After reading this article the first thing I thought of was Deborah Brandt. Brandt has that article about literacy sponsors that is who you can give credit to teaching you or others literacy in your life, or anything you have gained knowledge on. Brandt idea goes hand in hand with Delpit because she agrees that you can teach literacy to anyone and they would obviously be the sponsors if they were teaching the literacy. Going by the example that Delpit gives about Margie the student, her sponsor was Susan who helped her get to her achievement.

Questions:

Delpit going against the ideas of Gee were very persuading and they worked for me. Although I did have the same opinions before reading her article, after I was done I was very much persuaded by her ways. She gives great example that back up her ideas and back them so much more urging. I think we use her, “techniques” on persuading on a persuasive essay because of the backup information that we put into our work to really justify why we feel the way we do.

Opinions:

Delpit’s article was a perfect way to describe how I actually felt about Gee’s article. Although I though he made some very valid facts about discourse communities, I had the same opinions that Delpit had in the article and I think she did a great job backing up her opinions that made them very believable to almost be facts. Great read for a good debate!!