Kinda a spooky title I know. But that is what the readings were on that we had this week. Guess Sweeney is getting us in the mood for Halloween.
So Tuesday was the day we talked about death. I will admit I did not read the reading, but we had a good time in class talking about it. The reading was about this guy that had gotten the death penalty. I do not know why he got that, but the story goes on to say that while he is on death row he changes and becomes a better person. But in the end he still dies. So we talked about if we thought the death penalty was a good or bad thing. We concluded that the death penalty is good in certain cases like for serial killers, or for those who are mentally unstable and cannot be released into the world. We then talked about if the death penalty was just a way of reducing the people in prisons (if it was cheaper to kill them for keep them in jail for life).
Thursday was when we talked about torture. Again I did not read like I should have, but oh well. From what I got the reading was about if torture was the right thing to do or not. I think in some cases you need torture. But anyway Sweeney had us split into two groups and debate about it. Again my class seems to get too involved in these debates and I thought we were going to have a fight on our hands. We then did a grammar shammer, but at the moment I do not remember what it was about.
Overall it was a good week in class. Cannot wait to see what this week brings.
Monday, October 22, 2012
Sunday, October 14, 2012
Fall Break
So this week we only had one day of class cause we had fall break. Did not really do much in that one class. Main thing we did was turn in our papers. Do not know how many people turned in their papers on Tuesday, but I turned mine in.
Other than turning in our papers we had to go through this PowerPoint that I do not remember one thing about what so ever. (Sorry Mr. Sweeney!) Then we went over another PowerPoint, but this time he did it in Prezi., which I hardly remember anything about too. All I remember was the moving of the topics making me feel a little sick to my stomach, because they were moving so fast and all over the place. For those that do not know what Prezi is, it is an over the top way of doing a PowerPoint. It is kind of cool, but after a while it kind of gets a little boring. We were supposed to have a reading that day too, but since over half the class did not read it, or like me they did not know about it, we just skipped over it all together. Anyways that is about it for this one. Hope everyone has a good work week this week.
Other than turning in our papers we had to go through this PowerPoint that I do not remember one thing about what so ever. (Sorry Mr. Sweeney!) Then we went over another PowerPoint, but this time he did it in Prezi., which I hardly remember anything about too. All I remember was the moving of the topics making me feel a little sick to my stomach, because they were moving so fast and all over the place. For those that do not know what Prezi is, it is an over the top way of doing a PowerPoint. It is kind of cool, but after a while it kind of gets a little boring. We were supposed to have a reading that day too, but since over half the class did not read it, or like me they did not know about it, we just skipped over it all together. Anyways that is about it for this one. Hope everyone has a good work week this week.
Sunday, October 7, 2012
Week Back
So this week we had class like normal. Felt kind of weird since we didn't have class any last week. It wasn't long however until we fell into our normal routine.
On Tuesday we had a bit of a slow start. We finally got into our grammar shammer groups, and talked about our pop culture papers we had been working on. I have four people in my group so we split up the days we would talk about our papers. The one guy in our group did his paper on the refs from the NFL that went on strike. I liked his paper and felt it was a good current topic. Next was one of the girls in our group who did her paper on students that go to school year round. I liked her paper. (Sorry to the people in my group who's names I didn't put, I did not want to spell your names wrong)
On Thursday in was back to our normal class routine. We played a game on the computer, then went on the grammar shammer. After that we went back into our groups and finished up talking about our papers. I started off with my paper talking about how rap music is more vulgar than country music. I am not saying rap music is bad (I listen to rap just as much as country) I was just saying it uses curse words more often. The next paper we talked about was Haley's. She talked about how pro athletes were getting paid too much, and I agree with her. I believe that it is wrong that an athlete can make millions of dollars in one year, but the leader of our country only makes $400,000 per year.
On Tuesday we had a bit of a slow start. We finally got into our grammar shammer groups, and talked about our pop culture papers we had been working on. I have four people in my group so we split up the days we would talk about our papers. The one guy in our group did his paper on the refs from the NFL that went on strike. I liked his paper and felt it was a good current topic. Next was one of the girls in our group who did her paper on students that go to school year round. I liked her paper. (Sorry to the people in my group who's names I didn't put, I did not want to spell your names wrong)
On Thursday in was back to our normal class routine. We played a game on the computer, then went on the grammar shammer. After that we went back into our groups and finished up talking about our papers. I started off with my paper talking about how rap music is more vulgar than country music. I am not saying rap music is bad (I listen to rap just as much as country) I was just saying it uses curse words more often. The next paper we talked about was Haley's. She talked about how pro athletes were getting paid too much, and I agree with her. I believe that it is wrong that an athlete can make millions of dollars in one year, but the leader of our country only makes $400,000 per year.
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