Did You Ever Wonder?
A few days ago we watched a video in language arts class called Did You Ever Wonder. It was very interesting and brought up some pretty interesting questions. Especially when it talked about teaching green but are they acting green? If not what is tat teaching? I think our school can relate to this because while Mr. J and Mr. R have the whole global issues and roots and shoots class but the building of our amazing school used so many unnecessary resources. I also think it’s interesting about the high school dropouts statisticts, and I somewhat agree. I think that schools should require in the curiculum a course on global issues and how to help the environment. I think that school can be boring when the information you’re having to remember is pointless for our future. I think everyone should know that we have destroyed 2/3 of the ecosystems we live off of. If people don’t know this, why would they do anything to help? As Paul Hawken said “We have become parasites and are devouring our hosts.” This is close to what Mr. R has said before about us being leeches of the world. In Malaysia when we were bit by leeches and complaining about how stupid and pointless leeches were Mr. R reminded us that leechs need to suck our blood to survive, its not only because they feel like being mean to us. But as human-leeches we suck our earth dry, and only because of our wants. I think it’s important to realize this, and that our world isn’t perfect, we can’t keep surviving like this because we will eventually push our resources over the edge.
Global Issues | Comment (1)Today In Class…
Today we talked about why art is important. The class came up with four reasons, reflection, communication, expression, and thinking. Art isn’t only paintings and sculptures, it can be writing, music, dance and other things. Art is a good way to communicate with people because it reaches many people. It can talk about problems in the world and people will listen to it through music, or read about in in a book or poem, or look at it in a piece of art. You can express your feeling by writing a poem, a story, or a song. We also talked about doing this activity and how its important. Doing this after every class will make us listen and think more in class. We also talked about how you have to think about poetry and how the title of a poem can tell you alot about a poem.
I learned that every word in a poem is put there on purpose that the author looks for special words to put in the poem to make it have a certain sound I also learned that a writer could write for five years and still have something the change.
I daydreamed about how hungry I was and what I was going to do this weekend and what thinking about the new lost episode comming out this weekend.
I didn’t have anything I wanted to say and the only times I did I said it.
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By June I want my blog to be full of my work and acomplishments. I want it to be a portfolio of poetry and stories I have written this year. I hope people will be reading and watching my blog grow. I want this blog to express me, and my interests. I hope this will be a way to express my feeling and way of life to people who’s feelings and way of life is different than mine.
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