Cyber-Assignment for today
1. Book title with author
2. Theme or subject or topic you are exploring
3. Question you are answering
4. Thesis
The essay is due Monday, April 30, 2012. Bring it electronically as an essay portfolio, which means all the documents created connected thematically to this book will be included like reading logs and cyber assignments.
You will add the peer review before submitting. On Tuesday, students will each be assigned an essay to read and grade. If you are not present, your essay will not be read. If you do not have an essay submitted, you will not be able to participate.
Tomorrow, bring in the planning and outline to share for Essay 3. The presentations will take place over the next week. Each student needs to also prepare an abstract.
1. Book title with author
2. Theme or subject or topic you are exploring
3. Question you are answering
4. Thesis
The essay is due Monday, April 30, 2012. Bring it electronically as an essay portfolio, which means all the documents created connected thematically to this book will be included like reading logs and cyber assignments.
You will add the peer review before submitting. On Tuesday, students will each be assigned an essay to read and grade. If you are not present, your essay will not be read. If you do not have an essay submitted, you will not be able to participate.
Tomorrow, bring in the planning and outline to share for Essay 3. The presentations will take place over the next week. Each student needs to also prepare an abstract.
posted by Professor Wanda's Posse at 10:04 AM
25 Comments:
Flora Diamond
Professor Wanda's Posse
English 1A
4/21/2012
Book title:
The Foretelling by Aliace Hoffman
Theme: An ancient story of amazon warrior women who fight for survival to stay free from patriarchial rule. The story follows a young girl, Rain, who is the product of gang rape, and is neglected and stigmatized by her mother, the Queen of the tribe. As future ruler of the amazons, pressure is put onto rain by other members of the tribe to think in traditional standards of hating men. In addition she tries to apease her mother, who doesn't even acknowledge her presence.
Questions: Should a child of the product of a rape be so stigmatized and mistreated in our modern society?
Thesis: Women who have been raped shouldn't view their child as a reminder to the rape.
Colleen Low
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1A
24 April 2012
Cyber Assignment:
Book Tiltle:
Twenty-Five Chickens and a Pig for a Bride by Evangeline
Canonizado Buell
Theme or Subject or topic you are explaining:
Discrimination in the U.S. (connected to the time line of the author’s life).
Question you are answering:
Due to individuals such as the author, did societal discrimination change or shape the author’s view and situations in her life.
Thesis:
Although the subject of discrimination in United States demonstrate the realities of social stigma of races in the memoirs of Evangeline Buell, her experiences as a female of biracial parents provides discoveries upon herself, and shapes the author’s view and understanding during situations in her life.
Colleen Low
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1A
24 April 2012
Cyber Assignment:
Book Tiltle:
Twenty-Five Chickens and a Pig for a Bride by Evangeline
Canonizado Buell
Theme or Subject or topic you are explaining:
Discrimination in the U.S. (connected to the time line of the author’s life).
Question you are answering:
Due to individuals such as the author, did societal discrimination change or shape the author’s view and situations in her life.
Thesis:
Although the subject of discrimination in United States demonstrate the realities of social stigma of races in the memoirs of Evangeline Buell, her experiences as a female of biracial parents provides discoveries upon herself, and shapes the author’s view and understanding during situations in her life.
Ana Vasquez
Cyber Assignment Post
4/24/2012
1. Book title, Author: Their Eyes were watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
2. Comparing and contrasting Janie’s three marriages. What pulls Janie into these relationships with three different men? How are the men different from each other? What does she learn from the three marriages?
3. Question your essay/ book report will answer: What makes Janie attracted to these 3 different men? What makes them all different from each other?
4. Thesis:
Although Janie Crawford had a lot going for herself: money, beauty , and confidence, she is unable to settle down with a stable man worthy of her, because she feels she is young, and should live life happy, not miserable and next to a man she doesn’t even love.
Jovita Wechsler
English 1A
Prof. Wanda Sabir
1. A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf
2. How money and education are what a woman needs to write, and when a woman writes she has power.
3. How money and education are what a woman needs to write, and when a woman writes she has power.
4. Although many criticize Virginia Woolf’s work for being elitist, I believe that her arguments are very valid in the sense that one needs a room of one’s own to be able to write and think, and money to be independent and afford the life of a scholar.
Daniel Escudero-Whitney
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1A
24 April 2012
Cyber Assignment
1) Book Title
The Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. LeGuin
2) Theme or topic
Self destruction -- recovery from failure.
3) Question to answer
Can someone who has destroyed himself almost completely make amends with himself and the world?
4) Thesis
Youth is not lived, it is survived. Surely we can all find some point in our lives when we nearly destroyed some aspect of ourselves. In order for us to recover from our self-destruction, we must first make amends to ourselves.
Colleen, your thesis is great. I look forward to reading the essay.
Daniel, rewrite your thesis using the 3-part thesis form.
Flora, your thesis is more of a judgement which might alienate your audience. It would be better to let the characters illustrate what happens when a child is abandoned, and how this early rejection taints her development.
From what you told me the child, now an adult is going to be leader of her people. What kind of leader will she be given her early trama, magnified by the trauma of conception--rape?
You could write: In X, Y, Z, novel, author P, uses the story of L to show how one's birthright is not enough to shield one from hardship and pain.
Jovita take yourself out of you thesis. Otherwise it is good.
Daniel Escudero-Whitney
Professor Sabir
English 1A
25 April 2012
A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. LeGuin
Book Report Outline
Thesis: Although we all go through self-destructive phases in life, we do not all learn to forgive ourselves, since in order for us to recover from our self-inflicted suffering we must first make amends with ourselves.
I. Ged begins his path of self-destruction
a. Ged’s pride is challenged by a young girl; she wants to test his power
b. Ged reads a forbidden passage from Ogion’s book, opening a gateway between the worlds of life and death
c. Ged becomes known to the shadow
II. Ged’s pride is challenged on Roke by Jasper
a. Ged summons a spirit from the beyond to show his superiority over Jasper
b. The shadow, waiting for its moment to strike, passes into the world of the living and attacks Ged, nearly killing him
c. After many months, Ged makes a slow and painful recovery, never really gaining the strength he once had
III. Ged relocates to an island to protect it from a dragon
a. After leading a somewhat normal life, Ged fails to save the son of his friend, in so doing, finds himself marked by the shadow yet again
b. Finding that he cannot protect the islanders from the dragon and defend himself from the shadow, Ged decides to confront the dragon
c. By knowing the dragon’s name, Ged gains complete control over him. He also gains a measure of empowerment from having bested a dragon.
IV. Ged travels the world on the run from the shadow
a. The shadow posses a man who tries to kill Ged
b. Ged finds himself at a mysterious castle with a powerful stone that tries to posses him
V. Ged flies to Ogion the Silent who counsels him on the shadow
a. Ged becomes the hunter, instead of the prey
b. Ged gains power over the shadow which causes it to flee from him in his form
c. Ged finds the shadow at the edge of the world
d. Ged and the shadow become one, as they once were before this whole thing began. By restoring his shadow to himself, Ged made amends with himself, and removed a great danger from the world.
Conclusion: We have done things in our lives out of pride, or envy, or lack of self-worth, that have lead to damaging consequences. If we survive these moments in life, we must forgive ourselves before we can move on. Forgiving others for their wrongdoings is a kindness, forgiving ourselves is an imperitive.
Allison Griffin
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1A
April 12,2012
1. Book Title: The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan.
2. The, subject or topic you are going to explore: the relationship of Chines immigrant mothers and thier American raised daughters.
3.Question you are anwsering:Can a child still have a close bond with thier parent if they were raised in different countries and have different culrural influences?
4. Despite thier differences a mother and daughter can have an extremely close bond regaurdless if they were raised in different countries.
Stephen Yang
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1A
25 April 2012
1. Book title with author
The Treasure Keeper by Shana Abé
2. Theme or subject or topic you are exploring
Whether it is right or wrong for a woman to save her people by breaking laws and taboos that binds them.
3. Question you are answering
Should one woman decide the fates of others in order to save the one she loves?
4. Thesis
Although Zoe Cyprienne Lane doesn't have the power as others have, she still has the strength to go to save her kind from extermination by breaking taboo and law, to go against the hunters of her people the Sanfs, attempt to rescue her imprisoned fiancé and Alpha male of her clan Lord Rhys Langford.
Jamie McNair
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1A
25 April 2012
book title: Twighlight Saga: Eclipse
theme/topic being explored: love and frienship
question: How does Bella, the protagonist, handle being torn between her bestfriend and her boyfiend?
thesis: Although Bella loves her boyfriend Edward and is sure she wants to be with him forever, she countinually finds herself drawn to her bestfriend Jacob.
Hoan Vu
Professor Wanda Sabir
25 April 2012
1. Book tittle
The Joy Luck Club Author: Amy Tan
2.Theme or topic
Mothers daughters relationship.
3. Questions to answer.
Mothers identities.
Daughers identities.
Friendships
Relationship between the mothers and daughters.
Who the mothers wanted their daughter to be.
how do the daughters reacted.
How does everything played out.
4. Thesis
Although the immigrant Chinese mothers in Amy Tan's novel, The Joy Luck Club, come from
traditional Chinese values and want what is best for their daughters, the daughters are
struggling to establish their own American identity which contradicts their mothers' ideas
about what makes a "good daughter." Herein lies the conflict between the four protagonists
and their moms.
Kathleen Adams
Professor Sabir
English 1A
25 April 2012
Title: Black White and Jewish
Theme: The Struggle for Identity
Question:
How do you find out who you are and where you belong? What side do you relate to the most Black, White or Jewish?
4)Thesis: Being born bi-racial is sometimes confusing to one; race is a huge issue and being privileged is another one. Although, these cultural boundaries made Rebecca search for the person within,it was untimely the company of great teachers that helped her rise above her racial uniqueness and become a great writer.
Courtney Coleman
Professor Sabir
English 1A
Re: Book Report
25 April 2012
1. Book title with author
White Lines by Tracy Brown
2. Theme or subject or topic you are exploring
I am exploring mental and physical abuse.
3. Question you are answering
I would like to answer why the characters are being neglected by their mother.
4. Thesis
Although, Mothers give birth to their children sometimes mothers are not aware that their children may have been mentally and physically abused assertion mothers think they know everything that goes on with their children life.
Sulekha Yussuf
Professor Sabir
English 1A
26 April 2012
Book Report
1. Book title with author
Memoirs of an Arabian
Princess by Emily Ruete/Princess Salamah
2. Theme or subject or topic you are exploring
Comparison between a woman’s life in Muslim society(Oman,Zanzibar and Africa) and the conditions
within the 19th century European bourgeoisie
3. Question you are answering
There is not
only one way to see the world and "you cannot produce civilisation by
force; you should allow other nations the right to follow their own
ideas and traditions – which must have developed as the result of
mature experience and practical wisdom – in seeking enlightenment
after their own fashion." Emily Ruete
4. Thesis
Although women in the
royal court of Oman and Zanzibar were not taught to read or write
(outside of basic Koran lessons) and therefore there are no written
legacies that describe what life was like for them, except for
Salmah's, her memoirs highlights her role as an ambassador for the
country of her birth, the contemporary relevance of her ideas on and
commentary about cross-cultural awareness, appropriate health care,
literacy and education for women as well as her unique non-European
and female ethnographic commentary on nineteenth century Europe.
Nezha Abdelrahman
Professor Sabir
English 1A
26 April 2012
1.Midnight by Sister Souljah
2.Falling in love with a non-Muslim, determination, and motivation in keeping his family safe from harm’s way
3.What aspects led Midnight to fall in love with a non-Muslim woman, despite the fact he was raised to only love/marry a Muslim?
4.Motivated and determined to keep his family safe, Midnight, a 14 year old boy, used his quite personality and hustling techniques to help him and his family survive the life in Brooklyn which is a long way from home.
John Sills
The Hunger Games : Susanne Collins
Character development, themes, and literary style contribute to the books success.
How did Collins create a book so addicting to read that is should be regulated by the FDA?
Although the book is marketed toward young adults, it transcends age by crafting intense story arcs and easily relatable characters. The parallels found between our society and the one depicted by Collins further humanizes the characters making us more invested in their success.
Reagan Lolo
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1A 8-8:50 AM
2 May 2011
Abstract
Book Title:
Extraordinary Means, by Donna Levin
Theme, Subject, or Topic you are exploring:
Parents’ responsibilities towards their children ( In connection with book’s narrator’s parents’ behavior).
Question you are answering:
Should penalizing children be a way for parents to absolve themselves of their guilt?
Thesis:
Extraordinary Means is the story of a young woman who is diagnosed in an irreversible coma, however, is still able to observe her family’s debate over whether or not to take her out of life support. Legal battle between a very hard-working father and a very superficial mother is probably the best way one can describe the whole saga. Parents should not be allowed to get away with their irresponsible behavior by penalizing their children.
Nezha Abdelrahman
Professor Sabir
English 1A
3 May 2012
I rewrote my question and Thesis
3.What aspects helped Midnight survive the streets of Brooklyn and Why he choose to invisble?
4.Midnight, a motivated and determined young teen, used his quite personality and hustling techniques to help him and his family survive the life in Brooklyn which is a long way from home.
Mark Jansz
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1A, Spring 2012
3 May 2012
Abstract:
1. Book title with author
Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
2. Theme or subject or topic you are exploring
How someone is forced to grow up at a young age, having to have lots of responsibilites at an early age.
3. Question you are answering
How someone at a young age is able to handle so much responsibility.
4. Thesis
Although she is young, Katniss’ actions show otherwise. She becomes the supporter, taking care of her younger sister, mother, and other loved ones who depend on her for their survival.
1.)Book Title: Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother
Author: Amy Chua
2.)Theme/subject/topic I am exploring:
3.)Question: Should one way of raising children be appropriate to use on all children to make sure that they becoming successful results?
4.) People all have different personalities which will cause them to go through life creating accomplishments differently than other's with personalities that are different theirs.
Colleen Low
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1A
3 March 2012
Evangeline Canonizado Buell’s memoir Twenty-Five Chickens and a Pig for a Bride: Growing Up in a Filipino Immigrant Family recounts her life through short stories that exemplify the fight for the common ground of equality. She is the epitome of her African American grandfather; a Buffalo Soldier a coined term for their skill, strength and bravery during battle. The author’s brazen fighting spirit against bigotry is influenced by her rich and diverse cultures of tradition and community. Evangeline’s essence is inspired by jazz, blues and spirituals because her Filipino father played the coronet and he believed that the path to an education would led to a better life. He loved his daughters and did not want them to marry too young to go to college and told his daughters it was for two reasons “First, [they] were brown, and second you’re a woman” (115). The events in her life were a synthesis and it is no surprise that she is an activist because she is a product of diversity for which sets her apart from the ordinary. Although America represents itself as a great nation based on the rights of individuals, equality and liberty, the author demonstrates the realities of social stigma of races in her examples, to which her biracial heritage provided discoveries about herself and shaped the author’s view and understanding during situations in her life.
James Espinoza
English 1A
Spring 2012
4 May 2012
1. Lucky by Alice Sebold
2. Rape and the effects it has on someone, good or bad.
3. Can something as traumatic as rape not only affect them negatively but positively?
4. Although Alice is severely affected negatively by the rape in the end it makes her who she is today and she uses her experiences to better herself.
Adriana Ultreras
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1A
1. Book title with author
A piece of Cake by author Cupcake Brown.
2. Going through a hard life and learning to survive at such a young age without any hope for a better future.
3. When you grown up in a abusive environment where you are continously made believe that no one cares about you, how can one change the way they are and become a better person.
4. After tragically loosing her mother at a young age, Cupcake also lost the chance to be a normal child and had to face a hard life of physical abuse, drug buse, and protitution. Despite her rough path, she was able to leave the abusive cycle and reach her full potential.
Jaron Terrell
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1A
Straight Outta East Oakland by Harry Louis Williams 2nd
In this book it explore the life of Mr. Williams growing up in the streets of East Oakland.
I grew up in the streets of East Oakland and faces the same challenges, I wont to explore how are lives compare growing up in the same streets at different times.
After his mother gave birth to him she died in her last words was "first born", so they call him "first born". He is form East Oakland and After seeing his Bestfriend get shot in the head and killed, he turn to the streets and to a childhood friend to make money for his college founds.
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