P.W. 10/31

How did your article/book research go? What did you find?

- For my topic of domestic violence, my research went well. I found a lot of different articles that were related to leading to depression. There were also articles about shelter advocates, violence relating to pregnancy (before and after), people witnessing domestic violence and how that affected them, implications for help, mental health, and help-seeking.

P.W. 10/24

General Reflection: Should [you] use this book again? Why or why not?

- I think that you should use this book again because there are so many stories that are about many different topics and different people around the world. Many people may be able to connect to some stories that are in this book and/or are interesting in them. You should use this book again because it is also somewhat different from other books that we have read so far because it includes photographs of the people that are being talked about in the book.

P.W. 10/19

Look over essay 3 assignment sheet and your draft. What did you do well and what do you want help with?

- I don't know what I did well. Something that I would like help on is if my first paragraph makes sense. I know that I didn't finish my draft but I would also like to know if the ideas I have would go well with what I have so far.
- I am actually going to take time to finish my essay instead of doing the workshop.

Idea Draft #3

PROMPT: Choose a local or global Social Issue from A Path Appears and develop an argument for why the issue is important and what ‘we’ as readers can do about it. You will present arguments from various perspectives and/or stakeholders, in order to ultimately support your own stance and purpose: proposing action steps.

Social Issue:
     Early Childhood Interventions

Thesis Statement:
     Early childhood interventions is important because the early experiences in a child are crucial to a child's brain development. Something that we can do to intervene at an early stage is _____ which will show later school success for the child.

Ideas:
- need help with different ideas

P.W. 10/17

Response to feedback:

- I read about a question you had about the types of important phone calls I would make for my mom. Some phone calls were important. In some phone calls, to my cousins, I would get away with pretending to be my mom because our voices are very familiar through the phone when I would speak in Spanish. In other phone calls, people on the other side would know that I am not my mom because my mom would say that she doesn't speak English and that I would be on the phone to translate for her.

10/12 P.W. Essay #2 Reflection

Reflect on the prompt of writing Essay 2. How was it to 'read a picture' in a very active, ethical, and in-depth way? Thinking about the issue or topic that your picture represented, is this something you would like to research and write more about?

- When it came to only reading a picture, at first it was kind of hard to understand what was going on, but once you know the story behind it, you know what and how it came to happen. One of the issues that represented the photo I chose was homelessness. I think this would be a good topic I can research because it is something that seems to keep expanding.

P.W. 10/5

Cover Letter:

I think I did okay in my draft. I wrote about Khadijah Williams and her story which is what stood out to me. Something that I would like specific feedback on would be if I should write more about something, like analysis and including quotes, or something like that.

P.W. 10/3

"The local is global and the global is local." After watching the movie clip - thinking about the reading - how do you interpret this theme from A Path Appears? What examples/stories come to mind that shows this theme?

- I think that the theme from A Path Appears is people can't rewrite their past but they can change their future. Stories that help show this theme is when young girls who were rape victims and they try to get justice even though it doesn't help but they want to go to school to be somebody and be able to help others.