Where have I been?

I have not posted on my course blog in a while because I have been working on posts for my masterpiece blog: theclassyu.blogspot.com 

Alongside creating different posts my group (Micaela, Rachel, and Caroline) and I have also been discussing, brainstorming, and preparing our presentation. 

Macbeth Notes

Act 5

Lady Macbeth has sleep walking habits, doctors discuss
  -sleep walks and explains guilt for killing people, blood on hands
Macbeth is called a tyrant
          - not afraid of English army
          - orders army runaways to be hung
Macduff searches for Macbeth so he can kill him
          - revenge
          - fights with Macbeth
              ~Macbeth says he is invincible because of the prophecy
Macduff enters with Macbeth's head
          -says Malcolm is King of Scotland
               ~Malcolm is crowned and curses Macbeth and Lady Macbeth

Macbeth Notes

Act 4

witches are chanting in circle
witches prophecy- floating head (foreshadowing)
    - Macbeth does not know meaning of prophecies
Ross trusts Macbeth
Macduff is dead, son does not believe murderers, stabs them
Malcolm says he is not fit to be king
Macduff is in England- Ross tells him his family is well and he needs to return home
                                                                  -actually murdered
Malcolm says to get revenge on Macbeth instead of grieving

Macbeth Notes

Act 2 & 3

Look at My Brain

www.theclassyu.blogspot.com is a look inside my brain. I created this blog with Micaela Hellman and am joined with Rachel and Caroline. The label at the top of the page I designed myself. My critical thinking is demonstrated on my masterpiece by my posts being directed at a specific audience. Relaying my knowledge to a group of people is thinking critically. The masterpiece itself is a collaboration between me and my friends. On this blog my brain is not displayed as much because I have not expanded my posts outside of the required posts for a grade. However, the blog shows my creativity because I designed the blog. My critical thinking is showed through me analyzing assignments and reporting on them. I have collaborated on this academic blog because I have asked peers for help on assignments and worked with others for creating their blogs. 

What About My Masterpiece?

My masterpiece is going really well. We have more than 500 pageviews and more than 30 posts already. With the pageviews we are halfway to our goal of 1,000 pageviews by June. The struggle is finding time in four girls schedules to post so when I have free time I create a few posts and schedule them to post over a period of days. Check out www.theclassyu.blogspot.com

Love is Blind

Lady Macbeth is a very influencial character. Macbeth does whatever (murder) to make his wife content even though he doesn't feel it is right. The audience sees Lady Macbeth as an evil character because she is power hungry and manipulative to her husband for making him kill the king. 

Meet Macbeth

Macbeth is introduced through indirect characterization. The witches provide foreshadowing of the whole play with the quote "Fair is foul, and foul is fair." Shakespeare's approach to exposition give the reader background information about the setting and characters and a sense of what's to come without spoiling the play by the witches saying Macbeth is going to move up and the people who positions he is taking are going to die as the play develops. Shakespeare writes Macbeth like a highly liked important person but will hit a downfall and become disliked. Violence is a clear theme in the story through Macbeth's character and conflict. I predict a lot of blood shed and death. Everyone is going to die, similar to Hamlet.

Literature Analysis: Joy Luck Club

1)  This novel is about four different mothers who are from China and their American-raised daughters. This novel is confusing at the beginning and hard to follow due to the many transitions between the four families. In the Woo family the mother is named Suyuan Woo and the daughter is named Jing-mei Woo, also known as June. In the Jong family the mother is named Lindo Jong and the daughter is named Waverly Jong.  In the Hsu family the mother is named An-mei Hsu and the daughter is named Rose Hsu. In the St.Clair family the mother is named Ying-ying St. Clair and the daughter is named Lena St. Clair. All four mothers make up the Joy Luck Club which is a club that gets together weekly to play a game called mahjong. Jing-mei is asked to take her mother's place when she passes away. Before Suyuan died, she had just found the address to her two daughters' house. When Suyuan was traveling to America she had to leave her two daughters behind but she swore to herself that she would come back to them one day. At Jing-mei's first club meeting the other mothers give her $1,200 for her to go and visit the twins and tell them about Suyuan. Suyuan always compared Jing-mei to Waverly and tried to find Jing-mei's hidden skill. She eventually signs Jing-mei up for piano lessons but that didn't go very well. Jing-mei and her father travel to meet the twins. Jing-mei is surprised at the culture here because she had a different picture of what China would look like in her head. The three sisters eventually meet and they all embrace and cry for their mother's loss. Jing-mei then takes out a picture and they realize they all look just like Suyuan. Waverly finds out that she has a gift for playing chess after convincing her brothers to let her play with them at Christmas. She was fascinated by the power each piece had and she spent the next few days studying an instruction pamphlet. Lau Po was an old man who played chess in the park and he began to teach her strategies. Eventually, she became a celebrity and people came to see her. After telling her mother about engagement to her boyfriend Rich, Lindo takes her to a restaurant. Whenever Waverly mentions his name, however, Lindo always changes the subject or ignores her so she invites Lindo to their apartment so she can see how serious they are. Waverly is scared that Lindo will criticize him as she did to her first husband. At a dinner with all of them, Rich makes a lot of blunders that embarrasses Waverly. Thankfully, Lindo eventually approves of the marriage and is invited on the honeymoon with Waverly and Rich. Waverly is ashamed of her Chinese heritage and Lindo is sad about trying to make her daughter half American and half Chinese as it is impossible. After realizing her and her mother have the same nose, Waverly finds herself becoming proud of her heritage and she tells her mother she will stop wearing two different masks (one American and one Chinese) all the time. Rose is hesitant to tell her mother about the fact that her husband Ted and her are getting a divorce. It is against the words of the bible. When Rose was younger her brother Bing was killed after he fell into the ocean. Her whole entire family blamed themselves for his death and they lost a lot of their faith that day. When Rose receives divorce papers and a big check in the mail from Ted she spends a lot of days being depressed in bed. Ted eventually calls and asks her why she hasn't signed the papers and she announces she will not leave the house and let him push her around. Ying-ying announced to Lena that she was pregnant. However, she eventually lost the baby and she continued to blame herself even though Lena tried to constantly comfort her. Lena tells us about how her mother is able to predict evil things that will occur in her family. When her mother visits her husband Harold and her in their new home she comments a lot about a list of prices of shared items Lena and Harold have. Ying-ying is surprised and lectures Lena on how she should not have to pay Harold back for simple things he does like buying her ice cream. When a vase suddenly breaks Ying-ying explains that that "You put something else on top, everything fall down". This is a warning about their marriage. 

Resource of the Day #6

Today my resource of the day was Blogilates to post the second post to our website.

Resource of the Day #5

Today Micaela and I made the final decision on behalf of our group to use blogger to set up our website (finally). The link to our site is: http://theclassyu.blogspot.com/
My resource for today was SCM to get the music to play when you open the webpage.
Another resource we used to get inspired on the design of our blog is food. We made a healthy lunch of grilled chicken and strawberries (very good by the way) over a spring mix salad and a mixed berry smoothie to give us brainpower.

10 Questions

10 Questions I would ask my expert:

1. What insider tip can you share with me?

2. How did you get a successful job?

3. What skills do you need to get the job done?

4. Why did you want to go into this field?

5. How do you create a network with your clients and other professionals?

6. Do you enjoy your job?

7. How can you get what you want in college without breaking your budget?

8. Can you give me some contacts with other professionals like or similar to your field?

9. What does a typical day (work and social l) look like?

10. How do you manage your time?

Benchmark

Caroline, Micaela, Rachel, and I have gotten past some big hurdles in our way. Creating a website name that wasn't already taken and that four girls could agree on took some time. "ClassyU" is a guide to college life with different tips and tricks on how to survive college. Making a website is harder than we anticipated because all of us want it to be perfect and cheap (haha). We had a few delays because we couldn't find a site that didn't charge monthly for having a website and we struck out on Weebly since we couldn't personalize it enough. The website will most likely go through Blogger unless we find another platform to use that we can all access and understand. The website is going to have something for everyone to look at and each of our group members can contribute in their own way. Personally, I cannot wait to get the website going and have it relate to readers and eventually having "ClassyU" become a well-known blog.

Resource of the Day #4

Thursday's resource is caffine provided by Starbucks iced mocha with 3 pumps of vanilla (yum!) My group met at Starbucks after school yesterday to create our website and talk about posting schedules and design.

Resource of the Day #3

Weebly is the resource of the day! Rachel came up with our website name "ClassyU" ("U" for university) we agreed on this name because Micaela and I came up with names for our website tabs that were more sophisticated. Rachel and I overheard Lesther discussing different website platforms in class that were different than blogger.

*Update (3/09/14 4:47PM)- We are no longer using Weebly, none of my group members could figure out how to personalize our site with the tools we were given.

Resource of the Day #2

Micaela and I are currently flash texting each other to still try and come up with a creative and catchy name for our website. The thesarus has been helpful, but has also gotten me off topic of what our website is really about. My group is in a hurry to get a name because we are excited about starting our site.

Resource of the Day #1

Creating a website name is difficult to do, I used Tumblr and other social sites to get some inspiration.

Super 5

5 Potential Experts/Role Models to Endorse My Work:

1. Mrs. Dirkes can promote our blog in the Career Center.
2. Social Media will also help promote our blog to a wider audience.
3. My sister is in college and my group can also interview other college students to get different perspectives.
4. To connect my major to our project I want to talk to my family's accountant and a financial adviser to get expert tips on spending and saving money.
5. Other college related blogs can serve as inspiration to our website.

Launch

 My career goal is to major in Business Accounting/Finance to assist others in managing their money.
 For my final masterpiece I plan on working with Micaela Hellman and Rachel Nolan to create a blog that is a guide to college living. The blog is going to be directed at highlighting each of our specific intended majors (Micaela- Business Marketing/Advertising, Rachel- Liberal Studies). Since college is expensive and college students don't have a lot of money our guide to college living will exemplify how to save money with smart shopping and DIYs, how to get a job/internship, how to manage your time (social vs academic), and maintaining and organized life.

I also plan to work with Micaela on talking to experts in different business fields to see their insight on the companies they work for and build our networks.

Brave New World Essay

Prompt:  1995 Writers often highlight the values of a culture or a society by using
characters who are alienated from that culture or society because of gender,
race, class, or creed. Choose a play or novel in which such a character plays a
significant role, and show how that character’s alienation reveals the
surrounding society’s assumptions and moral values. ---

In Brave New World by Aldous Huxley the society is broken into a five part class system. The highest social class in the World State is Alpha. Bernard Marx is an alienated Alpha for not physically matching up with the other Alphas. Huxley uses Bernard Marx's alienation to illustrate the World State's attitude toward unique characters.

Huxley introduces Bernard directly in dialogue between two other characters. "'He's so ugly! said Fanny. ... 'And then so small.' Fanny made a grimace; smallness was so horribly and typically low-caste. ... 'They say somebody made a mistake when he was still in the bottle - thought he was a Gamma and put alcohol into his blood-surrogate. That's why he's so stunted.'" (p. 46) By Huxley introducing a character in a negative light by other characters the reader infers that he is on the outcast of society. The World State's society suggests that to be superior is to be physically greater than the other class levels.

Bernard is not only physically different from the other Alphas but mentally different as well. The social normality in The World State is to have multiple partners and begin sexual activity in childhood. This prevalent idea is one Bernard does not agree to publicly share as Huxley represents Bernard's views when Lenina discusses their plans in a public elevator setting. With Bernard's physical difference, shouting at a lower class Epsilon to get an order obeyed was a task he only had to do which Alphas like Henry Foster and Benito Hoover took for granted.

Bernard's significant presence in Brave New World suggests to the audience the societies moral values. "The mockery made him feel like an outsider; and feeling an outsider he behaved like one, which increased the prejudice against him and intensified the contempt and hostility aroused by his physical defects." (p. 65) Huxley uses Bernard Marx's defects to highlight the World State's ideas of society and the way the society works. Bernard's differences create a sense of humanity in a society filled with manufactured people.

Lit Terms #6

Simile:  a figure of speech comparing two essentially unlike things through the use of a specific word of comparison.
Soliloquy: an extended speech, usually in a drama, delivered by a character alone on stage.
Spiritual: a folk song, usually on a religious theme.
Speaker: a narrator, the one speaking.
Stereotype: cliché; a simplified, standardized conception with a special meaning and appeal for members of a group; a formula story.
Stream of Consciousness: the style of writing that attempts to imitate the natural flow of a character’s thoughts, feelings, reflections, memories, and mental images, as the character experiences them.
Structure: the planned framework of a literary selection; its apparent organization.
Style:  the manner of putting thoughts into words; a characteristic way of writing or speaking
Subordination: the couching of less important ideas in less important  structures of language.
Surrealism: a style in literature and painting that stresses the subconscious or the non-rational aspects of man’s existence characterized by the juxtaposition of the
bizarre and the banal.
Suspension of Disbelief: suspend not believing in order to enjoy it.
Symbol: something which stands for something else, yet has a meaning of its own.
Synesthesia: the use of one sense to convey the experience of another sense.
Synecdoche: another form of name changing, in which a part stands for the whole.
Syntax: the arrangement and grammatical relations of words in a sentence.  Theme:  main idea of the story; its message(s).
Thesis: a proposition for consideration, especially one to be discussed and proved or disproved; the main idea.
Tone: the devices used to create the mood and atmosphere of a literary work; the author’s perceived point of view
Tongue in Cheek: a type of humor in which the speaker feigns seriousness; a.k.a.
“dry” or “dead pan”
Tragedy: in literature: any composition with a somber theme carried to a disastrous conclusion; a fatal event; protagonist usually is heroic but tragically (fatally) flawed
Understatement: opposite of hyperbole; saying less than you mean for emphasis
Vernacular: everyday speech
Voice:  The textual features, such as diction and sentence structures, that convey a writer’s or speaker’s persona
Zeitgeist: the feeling of a particular era in history

Welcome to the Interdisciplanarity

Rachel and I want to recreate our DIY blog.
How it connects to everything:

• Creativity
• Branding
• Communications
• Networking Connections
• (List to be Continued . . .)

Hafta/ Wanna

My high school life will be different from my life after high school. My entire environment is going to change and with that I will evolve. After graduation I am not going to magically change overnight but overtime I think I will think different and therefore react different than I do now. The change I am predicting in my life following high school is not a significant difference. How I live my life will be different but my persona will relatively stay the same since it has been this way up until this point in my life. Balancing the things you want to do and the things you have to do is what a lot of people struggle with especially when entering college and not having your parents breathing down your neck telling you what to do. Finding the balance is knowing and making a conscious effort to complete the harder tasks first and then relax a bit. I expect myself to slack off a bit at times but I know I will always complete my work to the best of my ability. I also expect myself to take time for my family, friends, and self to maintain a healthy balance of "work and play". The world around me is constantly changing so as far as my environment I expect it to evolve but at a slow rate so I can adapt to the change.

Lit Terms #5

Parallelism: the principle in sentence structure that states elements of equal function should have equal form.
Parody:  an imitation of mimicking of a composition or of the style of a well-known artist.
Pathos:  the ability in literature to call forth feelings of pity, compassion, and/or sadness.
Pedantry: a display of learning for its own sake.
Personification: a figure of speech attributing human qualities to inanimate objects or  abstract ideas.
Plot: a plan or scheme to accomplish a purpose.
Poignant:  eliciting sorrow or sentiment.
Point of View: the attitude unifying any oral or written argumentation; in description, the physical point from which the observer views what he is describing.
Postmodernism: literature characterized by experimentation, irony, nontraditional forms, multiple meanings, playfulness and a blurred boundary between real and imaginary.
Prose:  the ordinary form of spoken and written language; language that does not have a regular rhyme pattern.
Protagonist: the central character in a work of fiction; opposes antagonist.
Pun:  play on words; the humorous use of a word emphasizing different meanings or applications.
Purpose: the intended result wished by an author.
Realism:  writing about the ordinary aspects of life in a straightforward manner to reflect life as it actually is.
Refrain:  a phrase or verse recurring at intervals in a poem or song; chorus.
Requiem:  any chant, dirge, hymn, or musical service for the dead.
Resolution: point in a literary work at which the chief dramatic complication is worked out; denouement.
Restatement: idea repeated for emphasis.
Rhetoric: use of language, both written and verbal in order to persuade.
Rhetorical Question: question suggesting its own answer or not requiring an answer; used in argument or persuasion.
Rising Action: plot build up, caused by conflict and complications, advancement towards climax.
Romanticism:  movement in western culture beginning in the eighteenth and peaking in the nineteenth century as a revolt against Classicism; imagination was valued over reason and fact
Satire:  ridicules or condemns the weakness and wrong doings of individuals, groups, institutions, or humanity in general.
Scansion: the analysis of verse in terms of meter.
Setting: the time and place in which events in a short story, novel, play, or narrative poem occur.

Spring Semester Literature Analysis #1

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

George and Lennie are migrant field workers and friends. They are searching for a job during the time of the Great Depression. Lennie has a mild mental disorder and likes to pet soft things but ends up killing them. George looks after Lennie, and in doing so shoots Lennie to protect him from a mob.

Lit Terms #4

Interior Monologue: a form of writing which represents the inner thoughts of a character; the recording of the internal, emotional experience(s) of an individual; generally the reader is given the impression of overhearing the interior monologue. 
Inversion: words out of order for emphasis
Juxtaposition: the intentional placement of a word, phrase, sentences of paragraph to contrast with another nearby. 
Lyric: a poem having musical form and quality; a short outburst of the author’s
innermost thoughts and feelings. 
Magic(al) Realism:  a genre developed in Latin America which juxtaposes the everyday  with the marvelous or magical. 
Metaphor(extended, controlling, and mixed): an analogy that compare two different  things imaginatively.
   Extended: a metaphor that is extended or developed as far as the writer wants to take it.
   Controlling: a metaphor that runs throughout the piece of work.
   Mixed: a metaphor that ineffectively blends two or more analogies. 
Metonymy:  literally “name changing” a device of figurative language in which the
 name of an attribute or associated thing is substituted for the usual name of a thing. 
Mode of Discourse:  argument (persuasion), narration, description, and exposition. 
Modernism:  literary movement characterized by stylistic experimentation, rejection of tradition, interest in symbolism and psychology
Monologue:  an extended speech by a character in a play, short story, novel, or narrative poem.  Mood:  the predominating atmosphere evoked by a literary piece
Motif:  a recurring feature (name, image, or phrase) in a piece of literature. 
Myth:  a story, often about immortals, and sometimes connected with religious rituals, that attempts to give meaning to the mysteries of the world.
Narrative:  a story or description of events.
Narrator:  one who narrates, or tells, a story. 
Naturalism: extreme form of realism. 
Novelette/Novella: short story; short prose narrative, often satirical.
Omniscient Point of View:  knowing all things, usually the third person.
Onomatopoeia: use of a word whose sound in some degree imitates or suggests its meaning. Oxymoron: a figure of speech in which two contradicting words or phrases are combined to produce a rhetorical effect by means of a concise paradox. 
Pacing:  rate of movement; tempo. 
Parable:  a story designed to convey some religious principle, moral lesson, or general truth. Paradox:  a statement apparently self-contradictory or absurd but really containing a possible truth; an opinion contrary to generally accepted ideas

The Tale of Two Cities Lecture Notes

- The Frozen Deep was an amateur play

- written before TToTC

- have similar plot lines

- characters reflect eachother (ex. initials of characters- CD and DC, also Dickens initials)

- Lucy represents the woman Ellen's husband cheated with

- London, England and Paris, France

- stream of conscious writing style

- warn society about feared revolution (19th century)

- published in sections

- lecturer reads excerpts from TToTC

(more on paper turned in during class)

What's the Story

Joseph Heller wrote Catch-22 to share ideas of morals and personal decision making. The time period when Heller wrote this novel is during an intellectual revolution in the United States. Heller's use of satire and irony is to make war seem like a funny idea. These literary techniques led me to the conclusion that Heller was apart of this revolution to have readers rethink their morals. The plot revolves around WWII but the theme is making decisions for yourself. I got this idea from when he fleas the military to Sweden.

Lit Terms #3

Exposition: beginning of a story that sets forth facts, ideas, and/or characters, in a detailed explanation
Expressionism: movement in art, literature, and music consisting of unrealistic   representation of an inner idea or feeling(s).
Fable: a short, simple story, usually with animals as characters, designed to teach a moral truth
Fallacy: from Latin word “to deceive”, a false or misleading notion, belief, or
argument; any kind of erroneous reasoning that makes arguments unsound.
Falling Action: part of the narrative or drama after the climax.
Farce: a boisterous comedy involving ludicrous action and dialogue.
Figurative Language: apt and imaginative language characterized by figures of speech (such as metaphor and simile).
Flashback: a narrative device that flashes back to prior events.
Foil: a person or thing that, by contrast, makes another seem better or more prominent.
Folk Tale: story passed on by word of mouth
Foreshadowing: in fiction and drama, a device to prepare the reader for the outcome
of the action; “planning” to make the outcome convincing, though not to give it away.
Free Verse: verse without conventional metrical pattern, with irregular pattern or no rhyme
Genre: a category or class of artistic endeavor having a particular form, technique, or content.
Gothic Tale: a style in literature characterized by gloomy settings, violent or grotesque action, and a mood of decay, degeneration, and decadence.
Hyperbole: an exaggerated statement often used as a figure of speech or to prove a point.
Imagery: figures of speech or vivid description, conveying images through any of the senses.
Implication: a meaning or understanding that is to be arrive at by the reader but that is not fully and explicitly stated by the author.
Incongruity: the deliberate joining of opposites or of elements that are not appropriate to each other.
Inference: a judgement or conclusion based on evidence presented; the forming of an opinion which possesses some degree of probability according to facts already available.
Irony: a contrast or incongruity between what is said and what is meant, or what is expected to happen and what actually happens, or what is thought to be happening and what is actually happening

Lit Terms #2

Circumlocution: a roundabout or evasive speech or writing, in which many words are used but a few would have served
Classicism: art, literature, and music reflecting the principles of ancient Greece and Rome: tradition, reason, clarity, order, and balance
Cliché: a phrase or situation overused within society
Climax: the decisive point in a narrative or drama; the pint of greatest intensity or interest at which plot question is answered or resolved
Colloquialism: folksy speech, slang words or phrases usually used in informal conversation
Comedy: originally a nondramatic literary piece of work that was marked by a happy ending; now a term to describe a ludicrous, farcical, or amusing event designed provide enjoyment or produce smiles and laughter
Conflict: struggle or problem in a story causing tension
Connotation: implicit meaning, going beyond dictionary definition
Contrast: a rhetorical device by which one element (idea or object) is thrown into opposition to another for the sake of emphasis or clarity
Denotation: plain dictionary definition
Denouement: loose ends tied up in a story after the climax, closure, conclusion
Dialect: the language of a particular district, class or group of persons; the sounds, grammar, and diction employed by people distinguished from others.
Dialectics: formal debates usually over the nature of truth.
Dichotomy: split or break between two opposing things.
Diction: the style of speaking or writing as reflected in the choice and use of words
Didactic: having to do with the transmission of information; education.
Dogmatic: rigid in beliefs and principles.
Elegy: a mournful, melancholy poem, especially a funeral song or lament for the dead, sometimes contains general reflections on death, often with a rural or pastoral setting.
Epic: a long narrative poem unified by a hero who reflects the customs, mores, and aspirations of his nation of race as he makes his way through legendary and historic exploits, usually over a long period of time
Epigram: witty aphorism.
Epitaph: any brief inscription in prose or verse on a tombstone; a short formal poem of commemoration often a credo written by the person who wishes it to be on his tombstone.
Epithet: a short, descriptive name or phrase that  may insult someone’s character,
characteristics
Euphemism: the use of an indirect, mild or vague word or expression for one thought to be coarse, offensive, or blunt.
Evocative: a calling forth of memories and sensations; the suggestion or production through artistry and imagination of a sense of reality

Lit Terms #1

Check out Rebecca's blog for exquisite definitions and easy to remember examples. Best on the internet. Thanks Becky! http://rebeccaaldrich.blogspot.com/2014/01/lit-terms-1.html?m=1

AP Prep Post 1: Siddhartha

1. What kind of knowledge is valued in Siddhartha. Is knowledge valued at all?

2. Describe how Siddhartha and Govinda compare and contrast in their relationship. How does this relationship impact the novel?

3. Compare Siddartha's spiritual experience to another book with a transfermation. 

4. What is the relationship between the internal and external words of Siddhartha?

5. How does the author use literary examples in the text to create a deeper meaning for the reader?

These questions tell me that the AP exam is looking for a deeper meaning to the words and comparing one text to another. 

what's in this for me?

I'm very excited for the last semester of my high school career. However, my learning is far from over. I will cherish these last few months with peers I may never see again as we all will take our own paths. This semester I plan to win some scholarships to help pay for my college education and prepare myself in every way to pass my AP tests. 

Hacking my Education

1. What do you want to know by the end of the course that you don't know now?

• I want to know how to make connections between school and my personal interests. 

2. What skills do you want to share on your blog?

• On my blog I want to try and show my organization and intellect. 

3. What experiences do you want to get "under your belt" before you graduate?

• Before I graduate I want to experience receiving college acceptance letters and scholarship winner letters and the stress of deciding which college I will attend. 

Personal Learning Network: 3 types of people

-peers

-public

-experts