PICASA ASSIGNMENT

 I love fishing and the biggest fish in Utah are at Strawberry Lake

 Went to Yellowstone this summer and saw my first grizzly bear

Went to Moab for fall break and biked it up

POST 4

     I wouldnt classify myself as an awesome reader.  I think that on a scale from one to ten I am about a 7.  I think most of this is because usually what I am forced to read does not interest me and therefore I read it very slowly and cannot concentrate on the content because my brain is thinking the entire time, "no one talks like this, so why are they writing like this."  Generally its textbook or a journal I am force feeding myself for a class assignment.
      I dont remember enjoying reading stories as a kid as much as I liked the competition of how many pages I could read compared to the other kids in class.   Sophomore year of high school however ignited my interest in some of the more classical books.  I enjoyed having discussion of deeper meaning and symbolism in class guided by the teacher.  I enjoyed trying to find the alternate meaning behind the words of the author.  This was brought to an abrupt halt when I started my Jr year of high school and the book "heart of darkness".  I am pretty sure that I am one out of two people in the class that actually read the book and not the spark notes including the teacher.  I lost interest trying to discern meaning on my own, followed the crowd, and did excellent on my books exams thanks to spark notes.  It wasnt until college that I found a true appreciation for reading.  I had sprained my ankle badly and was unable to run on it and had to use the elliptical machine.  I found this machine to be extremely boring.  To fight off my boredom I grabbed the first book I could find and it was "The Good Earth".   It was not the most exciting book but it definitely kept my interest and I found that I wasnt reading so I could work out, I was working out so I could read.  Now that my ankle is healed I moved back to the treadmill but have still continued to read on my own for enjoyment.  Now that I am at the end of this blog post I realize that was an awful long way to simply state that I use to not like reading but now I do.  Thanks.

BLOG POST 3

In class we have been talking a lot about writing, and it has reminded me how much I hate writing.  I have been trying to remember where my hatred started and I think it was 6th grade.  I had to write a paper on panda bears, and I thought the paper was kick A but when the teacher started to hand papers back she didnt have mine.  When I asked her where mine had gone she said, "oh I must have lost it." And then she gave me an A.  After that I think that I lost any interest in writing.  At least writing research papers.  I dont think that I had a problem with short stories that were purely creative writing, but after a certain grade teachers seem to think that the only effective writing is done with hours of research.  Anyway, I guess my advice to all the english majors becoming teachers out there is not to lose your students paper, and if you do, simply ask for another copy instead of giving the A (which I am sure I would have gotten anyway cause my paper rocked.).

SCED POST # 2

I have been thinking about literacy and how to implement it into a physical education class that is based on movement and activity.  There usually is no need for a text book and the only real literacy that will be transferred will be instruction from me to my students on cues how to do certain skills. I was trying to think of other ways of how literacy will be involved in my class and I came up with another.  I realized that a big part of physical education is enjoyment so that the students will continue to be physically active.  And if literacy can be anything that is transmitting information from one source to another, evaluating my students attitudes towards certain activities would serve as a form of literacy.  I will need to monitor and change my teaching strategies for each class that comes and the only way to successfully do that is to adjust to my students needs and interests.