Semester

From inquiry one I took away the idea that movies can have multiple messages and we can pick up on them by doing close reading. Before this I didn't really think to look in the background of a movie to find things that would relate back to the ideas of the movie. I thought they were just backdrops really.
From the second inquiry I took away how to research a movie. I never knew there were cites that would show you old critics review. I found that really interesting as well as the fact that there are several online movie review websites. I never knew this and now use them a lot.
From Inquiry three I learned that everyone is going to like something different and that's okay it only lead us to be curious as to what is out there that we haven't seen, heard or read. I walked away from this begin more open minded about texts and even the word texts in general.
I think I will uses some of my first paragraph of inquiry one because I used a lot of voice and I found this paragraph to draw the reader in which is what writing should do. If we weren't drawn in we wouldn't keep reading the text. I also think I will use some of my research arguments from inquiry two that highlight what my theses was because I really liked my theses and think it was strong for this type of paper. Overall I think I improved as a writer and a movie watched throughout the semester.

reflecting

I found the topics that were presented on Thursday to be almost as good as the ones on Tuesday. I really liked fantastic Mr. Fox to be a movie I would consider viewing. I was also pleases to see someone had grey's anatomy on their list. I really like that show and agree that it touches on both medical senerios as well as teaching life lessons.

Cannon reflection

I really liked Rachel's fly away home video. I remember watching it when I was younger and now really want to watch it again. I also liked the last leaf video. I really would like to look at that as well. I was also interested to find out that Incubus did so much philanthropic work.

Canon

I have found after reading the articles that the canon is truly a male dominated, white dominated grouping of writings. Even after years have past women and writes of color have not seemed to make a dent in the list. This brought me back to high school when we had to read "the classics". It surprised me that many teachers teach them with no relevance to how they relate to our society today. For example we have come a long way form when Of Mice and Men was publish and it is till taught but why? To show that we have changed and what life was like back them. Yes its important to get a view of the past but we need to document the present to because shortly it will also be the past. I like that some teachers are wanting to share new books that have meaning to their classes. Our values have changed slightly the american dream is no longer to own a house with a fence when we have so many towns and skyscrapers. We need more diversity in the canon so kids can truly understand why these works are great other than begin just dead white men. What is valuable now is accepting one another and begin who you are. being an original and the cannon doesn't always do that. Thus it needs to be revises.

My Cannon
The host -Stephanie Myer
Just Listen -Sarah Deesen
Dream Land- Sarah Deesen
Ender's Game
Shakespeare
Silver Linings Playbook
The Help
Boy in Striped Pajamas
Anne Frank
Pride and Predigest