No Class

I did not have to attend class on Thursday. I would like to say that I thought this class was going to be a lot more boring than it really is. I have never really liked to take English classes because I dont enjoy writing papers on a given topic, but I must say I have really enjoyed this class. I have learned a great amount of information. Rather than just being taught how to write I have learned many other useful skills. I wasnt really sure how to feel about the ending of How to Catch A Tiger By the Toe. I really wanted things to work out with her father and I was disapointed that Jamies father had to go to prision. On the other hand I was happy that he stood up for what he thought was right and that he didnt back down just to stay out of jail. I like the book because prior to reading it I knew nothing of the McCarthy years. To be honest, this is my junior year of college and I am just now starting to be interested in politics. The book gave me an insight into those years and I found it to be very interesting. I also like that it gave us an insight into who Jamie was and how she overcame the obsticles that she faced in the begining of the book.

Tutoring

Once agian my partner and I had a successful tutoring session. A man came in and needed help on his grammar and sentence structure on a paper that had to do with a play. I thought the session was going to be much harder than it was. I am not very good with writing about plays on my own so I didnt think that I could be much help to the person I was tutoring. I also thought it was going to be hard because I had never read this particular play before. To my suprise I enjoyed reading what this person had to say. The play was very interesting and his writing caught and kept my attention. He really didnt need much help, he like all writers just missed simple mistakes.

Class

I did not have to attend Thursdays class because I am covering gender so I am going to write about Tuesdays instead. On Tuesday we talked about the book Catch a Tiger by The Toe. I must say this was the most interesting thing we have read in this class. I really enjoyed this book, I read it over spring break. Although I am not into politics as much as I would like to be so talking about it in class helped me on a few parts of the book that I did not understand. I really felt bad for Jamie because her family seemed to be just as normal as mine and I felt that she was treated unfair. I dont think that she should have been kicked off of the NB and I dont feel that her father or mother should have been fired. I do understand that at that time people we looking out for our country but I dont think that people should be fired just because of word of mouth. I felt bad for Jamie when she was at school and noone would talk to her because of her fathers beliefs, that was unfair. I am looking forward to talking about the rest of the book next week.

Tutoring

Tuesdays tutoring session went really well. A women came in from nursing school and needed help on a paper about constipation. I was very interested in what she had to say about this class and paper because I am applying for nursing school. Her paper was very well written and she really did not need that much help. My partner and I looked over her paper and didn't have too much to say about it. They only problem that she seemed to have was that some of her paragraphs were too long and could have been broken. She had two different subjects in one very long paragragh and they should have been two different paragraphs.

Thursdays Class

For our final project it was my day to attend class on Thursday for the gender portion. I was very happy that I chose gender because there seems to be a lot to talk about. In class we watch a portion of the movie clue and talked about the various aspects of gender and how they applied to the characters in that movie. I am very happy that there were different and individual days for the topics that we are going to talk about in the last paper. Having a single class for gender was very helpful because there was a great amount of things to talk about regarding gender. I am just hoping that in the end I wont have any problems making my paper 7-9 pages.

Tutoring

Tuesdays session went pretty well. My partner and I needed a little extra help than normal. A women came in and needed help on citing a paper in APA form. My partner and I were very unfamiliar with this because we had never had to use APA before. We used a book in the writing center to help us help the women that we were tutoring. We were successful in helping her with most of her paper except when she wanted to know how to cite a tax paper. After asking for help we found out that in the book you could look under the government documents part to find out how to cite it. Overall the session went really well.

class

Well I did not go to class on thursday because I am doing the portion of the final project that has to do with gender, so I attend class this thursday for my part. On Tuesday we talked about gender and sexuality. The final project and paper was also one of the many things we talked about. I am a little nervous about the final paper because of its length. The last time I had to write a paper that was 7-9 pages was my freshman year of college and I am now a junior. I am hoping that because my group is writing on the movie Pretty Women it will be easy to talk about gender. I am very familiar with this movie and I already have a few ideas of how this movies aims to a certain gender.

Tutoring

Our tutoring session went well on Tuesday. A women came in and needed help on writing a paper on a story about an organ donation. Her paper sounded good she just needed help on her sentence structure. At the end of the session she seemed very pleased with what my partner and I had helped her with. I felt bad because we were not able to help her with her whole paper and she had to make another appointment. She had a four page paper and we had only gotten through two pages. I guess thats not too bad. I would rather do a good job with helping her than to skip over stuff just to get throught the whole four pages.