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United We Stand Or Fail

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Thursday’s topic was about cooperation as Professor Jimmy had the entire class work as a group.  I mentioned in my previous blog that we left with a homework assignment, “My Life as a Graphic Novel: How I Made it to College.”  My first event was about my mom reading to me at home when I was little.  I drew two apples, one with leaves on my mom’s side to indicate that she was my first teacher.  The one on my side had no leaves, to represent that I’m not fully grown yet.  In order to mislead my mom with a school-teacher, I drew on the background a refrigerator, window, and a stove to represent our home.  I loved going to school because my mom taught me how to read, write, and count basic numbers by the time I entered kindergartner.  I even wanted to go to school during the weekends.  My second event was when I finished elementary school and received two certificates: one for Academic Excellence, and the other for President’s Education Awards Program, when Bill Clinton was in office.  I drew my teacher next to me as I saw it in the picture that my mom took us.  I drew swings in the background to represent that I was in elementary.  My third event is about drama as I didn’t graduate from middle school because I started hanging around with two girls, friends who were not serious about school.  I illustrated them by taking me away from the graduation stage, and my facial expression reflects how I’m regretting it.  I drew someone graduating and expressing all of his/her excitement as I’m missing that opportunity.  My fourth event is when I graduated from high school.  I drew, similar to my second event, myself holding my h.s. diploma in the foreground while wearing my cap and gown.  I’m also smiling while winking an eye with a thumbs up.  On the background I have the graduation ceremony.  I wanted to show how I don’t feel lost by having an education, and therefore, I want to continue with my education, which leads me to college.  My story was in a sort of manga style, with only ink and no color.  In continuation to the group, Prof. Jimmy told us to place them on the middle two tables and then to look at them.  We all got up and circled around the long wooden tables to see everyone’s visual stories.  It was amazing seeing everyone’s events.  I learned more about them and felt more comfortable in the class.  After we saw our mini stories, Prof. Jimmy told us to divide our homework’s from ‘top to worst.’  Many of us felt wrong in doing so because we didn’t want to put anyone in the spotlight when it came to the ‘worst’ section.

One of my classmates suggested we marked our favorite story with a check mark.  We walked around again, but then Prof. Jimmy surprised us by saying that we had fifteen minutes to organize our homework’s into the three different sections.   The result of our work led us to disappoint Prof. Jimmy as he was given the wrong winner, but then he made it double the better by given prizes to the two top winners.  We were all then divided into four groups.  I was in group number two.  We had to answer how we ranked our classmates to be better than others, if it was a good/fair, and if how was the group process of decision making.  I mentioned in my group that I voted for storytelling and effort.  My other classmates, in my group, said that creativity counted as well.  As for the group process of decision making we agreed that for future assignments we should write our names on the back to prevent friends voting for friends, and make it fair to everyone.  Every group gave their responses when we met back.  We cooperated as a whole group at first, and ended as four groups still cooperating with our answers.

Vocabulary-Adjectives In My Own Words:

1.)  Amazing: Incredible, fun, joyful.

2.)  Mini: Short, tiny, small, brief.  

3.)  Better: Outstanding, superior, good quality.