Blog # 6 Response and reflection

Scarpa,

I kind of understand what David means regarding every classroom having separate rules to make the grade. From experience as a student and observing classrooms each teacher expects different things from their students and they also have different expectations from each individual student. If a teacher has a disruptive class and is constantly dealing with behavior management she may have little time to actually teach the class and has lower standard regarding the quality of work and is probably struggling to get the students to turn the work in. If that teacher has a senior class she may expect their writing to be on a higher level than her freshman class and grade their papers differently. I agree that writing should be judged the same but teachers of other subjects may only be concerned with content and ignore major errors in student's writing. I agree with her because I think you do have to adapt to college level writing ant that is why colleges make students who do not pass their English regents with a certain score take a placement exam. We as students and teachers assume that everyone can write and read just as we could growing up and excelled just as we did but many students despise writing and reading and do not do it on their level. I do believe you should be able to tell the difference between a college student's paper and a high school student's paper because they have been trained on what college professor excepts and colleges generally us MLA format which college students follow as a guidelines

I agree with Bean stating that students writing problem and difficulties should be addressed in grades 1 through 12. Students are taught the fundamentals of writing in elementary schools and in the upper grades they learn how to content write and how to write different types of essays. The English regents in graded on content and clarity and gramme errors are not considered in the final score. I think students have to read college essays and use MLA format in high school and modeling is the key the more they see these types of essays and their expectations they will improve drastically. I also believe students need a guide book so they can refer to when they are not sure of what to do. This is what college students do to improve their writing and is something that is lacking on the high school level. Overall, the key to improving students writing is using a reference book on writing and researching different types of essay formats.

Reflection

I really enjoyed using this form of journeying because I had to focus on what my partner wanted to address and we got feedback from each other. I felt like I didn't have to rely on what the author's in the articles and books were saying and I could add my own opinion and thoughts and bring them to my partner's attention. It helped me to get to know my classmate better and understand her thoughts about the reading and I realized we have similar and opposing ideas regarding the reading materials. This journeying was very interesting and the simplest for me and I feel I got a lot out of this activity.