The bagels were delicious!!

This was a fun class……………

Portfolio Week!

As promised, here is the portfolio assignment sheet posted up for everybody!

When you speak, what do you say?

Now that we are coming to the end of the semester, we must gather our work and reflect on our accomplishments. In order to grow as writers, it is necessary to constantly look back at where we have come from and look forward to where we are going. You will face many other challenges in writing (core seminar, to be immediate) and your work this semester would be less valuable if you did not consider it as part of the process of your growth as writers. In the final week of the class, we will be editing and revising our work in order to develop comprehensive portfolios to be handed in to the department. Based on close peer-editing and individual time with me, our writing should develop even more within this week of intensive composition assessment.

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Your Final Portfolio must include:

2 formal essays with drafts
1 in-class essay
1 self-assessment

*Choose your best work to go in the portfolios! Your work will be reviewed by multiple English professors to assure that you have passed the course. Even if your grades and effort were superb all semester, a failing portfolio will not allow you to pass the course!!!

Self-Assessment

Use this 2-3 page paper as a chance to show how you’ve grown in the course. Consider your writing skills and critical thinking skills before the semester began and compare them to your writing level now. How has what you have read and written helped mold you into a critical thinker and writer? Have you questioned anything new that you had never thought about before? How has your vision of the world around you changed, or has your vision been reinforced more heavily? Do you feel like your voice can contribute to a community of people who voice their opinions, whether it is through writing essays, giving speeches, creating art or protesting for a belief? Everyone has a different voice; the question is how one uses it. Where do you see your voice fitting into society?

Hold not your manhood so cheap upon this St. Crispin's day.

I can remember when I first heard this speech.....my skin tingled. I would never hold myself cheap but would stand amongst those who are willing to stand and be counted. I was a soldier once... and young. Those that stand ready to fight protect those that enjoy the luxury of civil disobedience. To have the freedom to walk the wilds of America is a freedom happily enjoyed by even the most lowly of men. It is a freedom that was paid by those willing to fight by blood and bone. Those that fight by word and deed are as well to be admired but the less are those that have not shed blood.
Shakespeare's " Henry 5th" Act 4
That he which hath no stomach to this fight, Let him depart; his passport shall be made, And crowns for convoy put into his purse; We would not die in that man's company that fears his fellowship to die with us. This day is call'd the feast of Crispian. He that outlives this day, and comes safe home, will stand a tip-toe when this day is nam'd, and rouse him at the name of Crispian. He that shall live this day, and see old age, will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbours, and say 'To-morrow is Saint Crispian.' Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars, and say 'These wounds I had on Crispian's day.' Old men forget; yet all shall be forgot but he'll remember, with advantages, what feats he did that day. Then shall our names, familiar in his mouth as household words- Harry the King, Bedford and Exeter, Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloucester- Be in their flowing cups freshly rememb'red. This story shall the good man teach his son; and Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by, From this day to the ending of the world, but we in it shall be remembered- We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; for he to-day that sheds his blood with me shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile, This day shall gentle his condition; and gentlemen in England now-a-bed shall think themselves accurs'd they were not here, And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day

Honesty

Edwin Rodriguez

English 16

Professor McCormick

Journal Entry

In this reading of Henry David Thoreau's, "Resistance to Civil Government" there was a sense of comradery and freedom. He has very expressive thoughts towards America especially our government. When reading this very unique essay I can see his individuality as clear as glass. One perfect example is when Thoreau writes in his opening paragraph about the government. He states:

I heartly - 'That government is best which governs least'; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which also I believe ,- 'That government is best which governs not at all"; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have. Government is at best but an expedient; but most goverments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient. (Thoreau)

I honestly can say that I commend Thoreau for is indiviuality to display the universal truth. He is bold for saying most of what he says and how he feels. He reminds me of of an earlier author we've read about, Micheal Moore in his essay, "Idiot Nation." they both are very blunt and honest in their own way. Now they both have me wanting to read more of their works.

Kid Rock

This is just to point out that the sexism is not limited to any ethnic group but it is across the board with in all music
SEX SELLS and everybody is buying..........


SO HOT
by Kid Rock
You got a body like the devil and you smell like sex
I can tell you're trouble but I'm still obsessed

[Chorus:]
Because you know you're so hot, I want to get you alone
So hot, I wanna get you stoned
So hot, I don't want to be your friend
I want to fuck you like I'm never gonna see you again
....Yeah.....C'mon....Yeah

You're like the kiss of death, like the hand of fate
I can tell you're trouble but I still want a taste

[Chorus x2]

Because you're so hot I want to get you alone
I want to get you stoned
I don't want to be your friend
I want to fuck you like I'm never gonna see you again

See you again
See you again

"Crank Dat Dance"

[Chorus: x2]
Soulja Boy Off In This Hoe
Watch me Crank It
Watch me Roll
Watch me Crank Dat Soulja Boy
Then Super Man Dat Hoe
Now, Watch me You....
(Crank Dat Soulja Boy)
Now, Watch me You....
(Crank Dat Soulja Boy)
Now, Watch me You....
(Crank Dat Soulja Boy)
Now, Watch me You....
(Crank Dat Soulja Boy)

[Verse 1:]
Soulja Boy Off In This Hoe
Watch me Lean And Watch Me Rock?
Super Man Dat Hoe
Then Watch me Crank Dat Robocop?
Super Fresh, Now Watch Me Jock
Jocking On Them Haterz Man
When I Do Dat Soulja Boy
I Lean To The Left And Crank Dat Dance
(Now You)
I'm Jocking On Yo Bitch Ass
And If We Get The Fightin
Then I'm Cocking On Your Bitch
You Catch Me At Yo Local Party
Yes I Crank It Everyday
Haterz Get Mad Cuz
"I Got Me Some Bathin Apes"

[Chorus x2]

[Verse 2:]
I'm Bouncin On My Toe
Why Me Super Soak Dat Hoe
I'ma Pass It To Arab
Then He Gon Pass It To The Low (Low)
Haterz Wanna Be Me
Soulja Boy, I'm The Man
They Be Lookin At My Neck
Sayin Its The Rubberband Man (Man)
Why me Do It (Watch Me Do It)
Dance (Dance)
Let Get To It (Let Get To It)
Nope, You Can't Do It Like Me
Hoe, So Don't Do It Like Me
Folk, I See You Tryna Do It Like Me
Man That Shit Was Ugly

[Chorus x4]

i guess this is the lyrics that comes to mind