Peer Review for Task Four

1) Does the paper contain sentence fragments and/or run-on sentences?
2) Does the paper contain quotes from the text.
3) Are the quotes set up correctly in alignment with MLA style?
4) Does the paper contain supporting details?
5) Has the writer included personal examples used as support?
6) Is the connection carried throughout the paper beginning at the introduction through the conclusion?
7) Does the paper contain analysis of the text?
8) Does the paper contain summary of the text?
9) Does the paper contain a Works Cited page that is set up in MLA style?
10) Is the paper three full pages in length?
11) Is the paper set up in the correct format?

Self evaluation task 4

What is the thesis for your paper?

List the main points you make in your paper.

What was the most helpful advice you received from your peer evaluation?

What was the most helpful information you received in class for your paper?

How many drafts of this paper do you think you wrote and how/when did you write them? For example, did you compose at the keyboard, did you write lots of notes to yourself, did you pre-write or outline, did you write in small chunks of time or sit down and produce an entire draft at one sitting?

What would you do differently with this paper to make it more effectively, or what did you try to do that you just don’t think you got a good handle on?

What are most pleased with about this paper?

Questions for Reflections and Writing

My relationship with books is complex. I am not the person to just pick up not only a book but a piece of literature and begin to read it. There are very few books that catch my attention as reader, and make me want to increase the amount of reading I do. I seek out the book s I like to read if I am in the mood to read that certain type of book. This would be a book of some sort of action or adventure. My parents would always read to my siblings and me as children, and I actually enjoyed reading until reach the sixth grade. This is when I would have to begin reading aloud in front of the entire class. I didn’t start back reading until I reached high school because it was mandatory for some of my classes. Unlike Rodriguez in The Lonely, God Company of Books, I never felt that I had to read books to become more intelligent in the classroom.  Now that I am attending I may find myself doing just as Rodriguez in the essay, trembling while looking at all the books I am expected to read.

Analysis to a topic that Kozol examines.

Do you think our educational system is effective or do you think changes need to be made?

I think our educational system is very effective, but does need a few changes. Our education system is effective because it gives students more than enough time to grasp the information. This is only if they are taking full advantage of the educational system. The changes we need are in the curriculum and the discipline. The curriculum needs to be more interesting something that’s grabs the student’s attention. No exceptions when it comes to behavior you do the crime you must do the time.

Response Let Teen-agers Try Adulthood(For You To Analyze)

 Botstein is writing for the older audience in the essay “Let Teen-agers Try Adulthood”. Botstein structures his appeal by saying that school sports are dominating the studies in school. He also says that the educational process is too long and that years should be taken off of it. Botstein appeal about sports I agree with because athletes' are given certain privileges because the scored the game winning touchdown at Saturdays game. I disagree with his appeal about the education process because if you let kids out of school at a to early age the will be to naive and immature to survive in the “grown up” world as they call it.

Response to Where College Fails Us

My experiences of college are all great experiences that have open me to new things. One new thing that I experienced in college was having the freedom to whatever I want when I want to do it. It’s such a relief not having to get permission from my parents to do things I want to do. Another great experience that I’ve had is visiting other colleges and meeting different people most from the opposite sex. The reason I am here in college is first to get my degree in physical education and minor in athletic coaching so that I can pursue a carrier of being a high school physical education teacher and  football coach. The second reason I am here is to get away from home my parents and younger siblings specifically and to have fun. My mother told me the people I meet here in college I will know for the rest of my life, as I meet new people everyday  I’m starting to think my mother’s right. To me college is worth the time effort and expense if you make the best out it. By this I mean having fun, going to different events on campus, going to parties, going out with friends, and not just staying in your dorm room. Life is not just all work