comp1MelindaShock

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Heyy! My name is Melinda Shock. My major is American Sign Language Interpretation. I hate lectures that make just about everyone fall asleep. I love class discussions and working in groups because then it's a lot easier to get to know your classmates and it makes class a lot more interesting. I hate writing and it's definitely one of my weakest points. I love sign language, reading, dancing, and hanging out with friends.

**Learning Styles Profile**
 * Rate each of the following on the basis of 1 to 4.**
 * 1=least like you; 2=a little like you 3=quite a bit like you; 4=most like you**

Do you: Like to write? 1 Like to learn new words? 2 Like to tell stories? 3 Enjoy reading? 4 Give good directions to others so that they understand the first time? 2 Have a good memory for names, dates, facts? 1 Enjoy making or hearing puns? 2 Enjoy metaphors? 3
 * Learning Style #1**
 * Total score 18**

Do you: Like to work with computers and calculators? 1 Enjoy math class? 2 Easily add numbers in your head? 1 Enjoy doing science experiments? 1 Ask a lot of questions about how things work? 2 Enjoy chess, checkers, or other strategy games? 2 Enjoy logic puzzles or brainteasers? 1 Like to go by steps, from A to B to C, rather than jumping from A to D? 4
 * Learning Style #2**
 * Total score 14**

Do you: Read maps, charts, or diagrams more easily than text? 1 Build interesting three dimensional constructions (like LEGO buildings or others)? 1 Prefer to draw pictures rather than tell stories? 1 Find your way to a new place easily? 1 Like to take things apart and then try to figure out how to put them back together? 1 Doodle a lot on notebooks? 1 Visualize the back side of an object from looking at the front? 1 Estimate distances between objects easily? 2
 * Learning Style #3**
 * Total score 9**

Do you: Find activities like riding a bike, skating, or walking on a balance beam easy? 3 Run, swim, and exercise without getting tired? 2 Learn to play new sports easily and quickly? 1 Learn a new dance step easily and quickly? 2 Use a lot of hand gestures and body movements when talking to friends? 2 Like touching things you’ve just seen? 3 Cleverly mimic other people’s gestures or mannerisms? 3 Move, tap, or fidget while seated for a long time in one spot? 2
 * Learning Style #4**
 * Total score 18**

Do you: Enjoy playing a musical instrument? 3 Listen to music a lot? 4 Hum or sing a lot? 3 Tell people when music sounds off-key? 4 Have a good singing voice? 2 Remember the melodies of songs? 3 Sing harmony? 1 Compose music in your head or on paper? 1
 * Learning Style #5**
 * Total score 21**

Do you: Like to work and/or play with others? 4 Understand how people are feeling by looking at their faces? 4 Give advice to friends who have problems? 4 Have a good sense of empathy or concern for others? 4 Seem to be street-smart? 2 Seem to be a natural leader on teams? 3 Get energy from being with people rather than being alone? 4 Feel that several minds working on something are better than one? 2
 * Learning Style #6**
 * Total score 27**

Do you: Often need a quiet place to work or just be alone? 3 Like to make collections of things that have special meaning for you? 3 Remember your dreams? 3 Display a sense of independence or strong will? 3 Have a realistic sense of your own strengths and weaknesses? 4 Accurately express how you are feeling? 2 Have an interest or a hobby that you don’t talk much about? 3 Get energy from being alone rather than being with people? 2
 * Learning Style #7**
 * Total score 23**

Do you: Enjoy collecting bugs, flowers, or rocks? 2 Like to closely examine what you find in nature? 2 Keep detailed records of your observations of nature? 1 Like to watch natural phenomena like the moon/tides and hear explanations about them? 1 Become fascinated with one thing from nature and want to learn about it thoroughly? 1 Want to find out the name of a bird or a bug you’ve seen? 1 Like to classify things? 1 Want to become a geologist, biologist, or some other type of scientist? 1 Teaching Experience
 * Learning Style #8**
 * Total score 10**
 * **9/6/10**

I taught a friend how to finger spell their name in sign language. It wasn't as easy as I thought it would be. I thought it would only involve kinesthetic intelligence by showing her with my own hands how to do but I quickly found out I had to also explain verbally, using Interpersonal intelligence, how to do some of the letters, sometimes even just having to fix her hand myself into the right shape.

-To what learning styles does the lesson you were trying to teach seem to appeal (for instance, shooting baskets might appeal most to Kinesthetic and Interpersonal intelligences)?

Kinesthetic and Interpersonal

--In terms of multiple intelligences, what were the strengths and struggles of the person you were trying to teach? How did this help or hinder your efforts?

The girl I was teaching did better with learning through interpersonal intelligence like when I explained how to shape her hands. This hindered my efforts because it was easier for me to just show her rather than to explain.

--What evidence did you have that the person had learned the lesson? In terms of multiple intelligences, what form(s) did that evidence take?

I knew that my friend had learned the lesson when she randomly came up to me a few hours later and finger spelled her name on her own. It was a little bit shaky though so I showed her a couple of the letters again and this time it was easier for her to understand just by me showing her using kinesthetic intelligence. ||
 * 9/13/10**

Revisiting Teaching Experience and Food Challenge

How did genre, audience, and purpose figure in those processes?

For the teaching experience the audience was my friend who I was teaching the sign language to. The genre was a lesson and the purpose was to enable my friend to be able to finger spell her name in sign language.

For the food challenge the audience was our Comp 1 class. The genre was a competition and the purpose was to persuade the class into thinking that our meal for 5 dollars or less was the healthiest out of all the groups' meal ideas.

Topic Talk: Person
 * 9/15/10**

Topic Choice: Switchfoot

List five facts that you already know about this person:
 * 1) Switchfoot is not only a Christian rock band, but it is also mainstream which is very rare for this genre of music


 * 1) Switchfoot’s first album sold over 2.6 million copies


 * 1) Two of the members of the band are brothers.


 * 1) Jon Foreman (the lead singer) writes all the songs that the band plays.


 * 1) Switchfoot supports Habitat for Humanity and To Write Love on Her Arms.

Answer these questions about this person:

1. How did this person impact the world?

They’ve reached more non believers than any other Christian band by going mainstream and because of their excellent quality of music

2. Why do we still learn about this person and his/her works today?

They continue to make hits year after year and they’re apart of our generation’s popular music.

3. Why are you interested in researching this person?

They’re one of the few Christian bands that have reached an extremely large amount of people and they’ve been playing and continue to be popular for such a long time.

4. How do you personally connect with this person? They’re my favorite band, I can relate to their lyrics a lot and listening to them has helped me with my faith from an early age on.

Resources

What resources do you think will be useful to you? Specific books? Series of books? Magazines? Periodicals? Interviews? Internet sites? Films? Other?

Short films, interviews, music videos

Topic Talk: Event, Issue, or Other Topic of Interest

Topic Choice: use of child soldiers

List five facts that you already know about this topic:
 * 1) There are still more than 200,000 child soldiers in Africa today.

2. Girl soldiers are often raped.

3. Most child soldiers are between 14- 18 years old.

4. Very few people even know what a child soldier is let alone aware of child soldiers in Africa and the amount of them.

5. There are just as many if not more child soldiers in Asia than there are in Africa.

Answer these questions about this topic:

1. How did it/will it impact the world?

This has corrupted and ruined way too many children’s lives in our world.

2. Why is there still interest in it today, or why will there continue to be interest in it?

These exorbitant amounts of children are being forced into violence and sexual intercourse at very young ages and hardly anything is being done about it.

3. Why are you interested in researching this topic? I am very passionate about children, their well-being and issues like these that are so astronomical and horrendous yet very little is done to help or eradicate the situations.

4. How do you personally connect with this topic? I was the president of the O Ambassadors club in my high school and our focus was raising money and awareness for third world countries and all of their problems such as poverty, child soldiers, and sex trafficking.

Resources

What resources do you think will be useful to you? Specific books? Series of books? Magazines? Periodicals? Interviews? Internet sites? Films? Other?

Books, films.

Once you have completed worksheets for __TWO__ topics, please answer these two questions; be prepared to discuss your answers in class:

1. Of your two topic choices, which one do you think you will find the most information about? Please explain. Child Soldiers. It is such a huge issue that hardly anyone talks about that has been going on for years.


 * 9/17/10**


 * 9/20/10**

I have decided to make my multigenre project topic "How to Lose a Guy in Ten Days". Many girls I know have absolutely no problem picking up guys but being able to hold on to them and keep a serious relationship with them is a whole different story. I will be researching tips on how to keep a guy in relationship advice books, in credited magazine articles, and by interviewing many different guys to get their opionions. My genres will be a timeline, recipe, magazine article, advice column, collage, digital story, map with legend, interview, and graph/ chart.
 * 9/22/10**

Process Journal
 * 9/25/10**
 * 10/1/10**

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 * 10/6/10**
 * =A Relationship = ||
 * A relationship between two people can have very different meanings. In some relationships such as two lovers, they can also be best friends because they share good communication. A relationship between a parent and child has a special bond because they share love, and affection for each other. However, there are times when a relationship can go bad because there is no understanding, lack of communication, and a feeling of distance in the relationship. In comparing and contrasting the two essays “Arm Wrestling with my Father” and “Shooting Dad” each have a lot in common, communicate through actions, and [|gain understanding] for one another.First, by comparing the two essays they have a lot in common, like each essay is about a child and their relationship with their father. However, they differ because Manning’s essay is about a relationship between father and son, and Vowell’s is about the relationship between father and daughter. In each essay the main child focused upon gives notion to a sibling in the story whether, it be a sister or a brother. ||

- - part of essay (could not view rest of essay)


 * **The Child In Him**

I loved the child in him so innocent and sweet The mischief in his eyes the blush upon his cheek The tender way he spoke that showed me that he cared The touch of his warm hand that gently touched my hair The smiles that we shared that filled my life with glee For when I was with him I found the child in me

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 * 10/25/10**


 * 11/1/10**


 * 11/8/10**



magazine article
 * 11/15/10**



Status of my Project- I'm not as far along in my project as I'd like to be. I'm pleased with what I've done so far but I need to pick up the pace and make a final decision of how I'm going to package everything together for the final presentation. I really want to make a video, but I'm not sure how to go about that or if I have enough time to do so.
 * 11/10/10**