College Journey

        In class we looked at a picture online of how the college journey is portrayed. The picture was a straight line that was basically an academic check list of what you should complete before you go to college. What we talked about as a group after we looked at the picture were some things like: not everyone goes to college, what about sports and clubs and extracurricular activities, jobs, and all the other things the picture didn't take into account. After that Lacy wanted us to draw our own college journey. As you can tell my journey was more like a tree that kept branching out because college isn't a straight path. There are so many different bumps in the road when we go on our journey to college and not everyone even goes to college. Some people wait to go, or join the army, or go into their own business. This was a good activity to do because I don't think about this a lot but I'm glad I got too.

Picture Activity

In class we did this activity where we got into groups of two and we each had a piece of construction paper where there was a picture on it with an image. Autumn and I got this image from the show Are you Smarter than a Fifth Grader. We were suppose to observe the picture and write about what we thought was going on and what we got from looking at the picture. Then, after a couple minutes, we passed the picture on to the next group in line and they added something else on to what we said or just something they observed about the picture. I liked this activity because if you didn't know what the picture was about or what was happening in it then you could assume anything about it and it could be totally wrong. I think this activity sort of portrays life. If someone were to freeze or lives at any given moment what would they see? What would we see? Would we like the way our life was seen or would we be ashamed? 

I learned something from this activity and I think it was a good activity to tie into what we are talking about this semester in English. 

MOVIES!

         We watched this video to write into the day; it was about the message that kid movies send kids these days and in my opinion it was pretty accurate. I agreed with the guy, I think that most of the Disney movies portray girls in a way that makes them seem like were all princesses who are stupid and don't know how to do anything without the help of a man. The video also talked about how the guys in movies are rude and treat girls poorly. The video basically said that it is hurting the way our kids are growing up because they see these movies and then start to act that way. Some movies aren't like this though and he mentioned some of those. I thought what he said about the girls was true though, a lot of time in Disney or kid movies the girl seems like she needs a guy to do everything for her. And the guy seems like he is her only hero and in some of the movies the guys take advantage of that. 

Improv Games

      

     In class we did Improv games which I thought was going to be really stupid and embarrassing. It actually wasn't too bad though. I haven't really done a lot of Improv games but these ones were interesting; it was definitely a lot harder to multitask with these games and have two people starting the games. One of the games that I thought was going to be really easy but was actually harder than I expected was the game where you had to look at something and say what it wan't. Then that got harder when Lacy added different rules to the game. Overall, I thought the games were really fun and Lacy connected it to the lesson well. After we played the games we did a group activity where some people got in a circle and talked about what Lacy asked and then the other people were around the group listening and recording what everyone was saying. I was the recorder and I liked doing that because I like listening to what people have to say.