Sameness Feedback

In The Giver Lois Lowry uses the word sameness a lot. Whenever the surroundings are described, Lois Lowry uses the word same or sameness to show it. The reason the word equality isn’t used is because people can be equal even if they don’t wear the same clothing. In sameness, they grow up the same, they wear the same things. If you’re equal, you can still dress differently and act differently depending on what type of person you are. Equality is when people are treated equal, and sameness is when people are the same in every way. In Animal Farm, equality is a more fitting word because it is describing more of a ruling then the way people act. Today, sameness doesn’t exist. There is no where in the world where there are people who are exactly the same in every way, there aren’t even people who are the same to the extent of The Giver. Lois Lowry uses language much more precious language because it really adds a lot to the story. Every time we read the word “sameness” we start to get a more bland feeling to the community. The word sameness really describes what life is like in the community.

Giver Feedback

The age that is considered adult in the book The Giver, is very different to the real world. In my opinion, the age that someone would become an adult is 18. At that age, a person would have enough responsibility to be able to live his/her life be their selves. To be an adult, you have to be able to manage your life and know how to sustain yourself without help from parents or guardians. At the age of twelve, like in The Giver, it isn’t a proper age to become an adult because they aren’t mature enough and they don’t know how to live without their parents. When someone is an adult, he or she has to be able to move out, away from their parents, start work, and make enough money for them to support themselves. The age of twelve is way too young for that.

There is no definite age for when an adult becomes un useful because it depends on what his job is. If a person is a basketball player, he will become useless at the age of 40 or so. If a person is a job like a doctor or a scientist, he will be useful for much longer. In The Giver, there is no age stated when a person becomes useless, but I would assume that it is about 60. The age of retirement really depends on the person, because some people would want to work longer than others.

My UbD Outline

Here is my outline for my work time in humanities…

Monday-Bilingual Brochure Work… Start editing HRP

Tuesday-Continue Editing of HRP

Wednesday-Editing Data Analysis

Thursday-Peer edit HRP in class… Star Editing Independent Investigation

Friday-Put final touches on DA, II, CE and go to 2^nd round of HRP edit

Feedback 24-28

The visual elements of this cartoon is the kid sitting at the table with his two parents. Normally families will chat about what they did at school or at work. The caption at the bottom says, "Well yes, we could read your blog... or you could just tell us about your day." The cartoon is talking about how much technology there is and how much sometimes it can be un-necessary. When technology stops verbal communication it has gone to far. The artist is using the blog to represent one thing but there is so much more that could happen. Walking could become out-dated, along with any other mode of communication. It shows how technology is effecting young kids and will make their lives a bit to easy. The cartoonist opinion that technology isn't all bad, but sometimes it ca be used to an excess. S/he probably knows a lot of people who are constantly blogging or on the phone. My evidence is that normal daily lives are going to start to change. Normally, the kid would just tell his parents what he did, but instead he is telling them to read his blog. This cartoon is ironic because we are posting it on our blog and also because the cite Coyle got it from was www.sandiegohomeBLOG.com. I think to make the cartoon more effective he could have had the sonn on the phone or on a laptop instead or something along the lines of that.

Feedback on Vonnegut's Quote

Vonnegut is right because computers have made things a bit TOO easy for humans. Instead of us evolving into better and smarter people, it is really the computers and the other inventions that are doing the "becoming.” Vonnegut says that people kind of start to un develop with all the new contraptions that make life easier. Vonnegut is also right when he says that you becoming what you should become is what you were born to work, not the computers job. Ludites don't like technology and they think that it is going to corrupt us one day, maybe Vonnegut is right with his stories when he talks about things going hay wire with to much technology. The question really is how advanced can technology get until it starts to hurt us. In some ways Vonnegut is wrong, from the view of Bill Gates or other owners of companies that make technologies, Kurt Vonnegut would be the devil. It all boils down to how much your willing to depend on technology because you never know if it is going to know when or if it is going to bite you in the behind.

Technology

Technology is things that are invented to make things better or easier to use. In this school there is a lot of technology, enough computers for every student, a projector for each teacher, a computer for every teacher and a lot more. This school also includes a lot of classes that use a lot of technology like Robotics and Video Pro and Web. Five technologies i need are...

Wii
iPod
Laptop
Cell Phone
TV

Five things that aren't important to me are...

Hair Dryers
PS3
Asimo
Rambaa
Electronic Toothbrush

Q3 Feedback

For the new quarter I am going to try and use my time wisely. Try to get UbD work done, go to tutorials more often, etc. I want to make sure that I manage my stress and to do my work and not postpone it. I have also I think met all my goals, kept up with AR and others. I also need to ask for help when I need help. If I don't understand somethings I need to ask teachers for help. A goal for high school is to make sure that I don't get left behind and also to ask former freshman how it is so I can have tips on how to work. I have kept up with my work and my grades, but I need to make sure that it is going to keep on going.