subject choice ethos pathos logos

The subject I decided to cover was acl tears: surgery or rehab? I looked at 3 articles specifically. In one of them the article title is athletes risk second injury after acl reconstruction. This article summary is that after reconstructing of the torn acl into a new one, is that 2 years later there is a chance to tear the same knee again or to tear the opposite knee. The second one I looked at was called a torn acl may not always mean surgery.  It sums up that is your not going to play sports then you can go to rehab and heal the tear almost all the way back to its regular acl before it was torn. If you are playing sports there is still a chance you don’t need to get surgery and can still play sports, you just have to let it heal long enough.  The last article I looked at is titled surgery can be an option. It sums up that surgery is probably the best possible idea for a torn acl, and then once you get surgery you could be back and doing regular activities tops a year. The surgeons will either take hamstring from your own body because its strong, or a deceased persons acl. I think that getting surgery is the best option, so for people who play sports, like me can jump slowly back into them the next year.

journalism opinion question from ken ross

           My opinion on the “Docs to parents: Limit kids’ texts, tweets, online” is that I disagree. I think that kids’ should be able to use their phones and laptops and to text and tweet. If parents banned our phones from us, if we went to hang out with our friends or had an emergency where we needed to call 911 or someone, then we wouldn’t be able to and that’s the cost of our safety. I feel that if parents did follow through with these recommendations, and take away our phones after 2 hours of using it; we would trick them right out of their own rules and find a way to use it even though they told us not to use our technology. We could also be using our technology for a good cause, like setting up a website to end world hunger and putting up donations to really help people. Even if we are not doing homework, I think that having our phones also lets us contact our friends. I feel that taking away our phones is like taking away some of our freedom, we can’t really contact anybody if we want to and we won’t have any sort of social life so we will always be bored.

Magazine Review

           The magazine I decided to review was seventeen magazine. I personally find interest to this magazine because I sometimes use tips from it and like to read certain facts and cool things in it. My magazine is directed towards 9 year olds which I find quite odd since the magazine is called seventeen magazine. I feel that maybe the writers wanted to attract the young people of today and get them to get more tips to feel older or to have tips for when they are older. My ratio from adds to regular adds in the magazine are 61:130. this ratio shows that there are more regular stuff in the magazine that related to the actual magazine instead of ads. In the 100 word article I covered, there were 8 sentences, and 120 syllables which made it a reading for a 9 year old. I would write this magazine for 15 years old to 19 years old because I feel that we would get more enjoyment if it appealed to the teenagers. I feel that a lot of teens take a lot of advice from seventeen magazine, and I think they would be disappointed to really know the truth behind the magazine to be written for 9 year olds.

Gianna Larson

Data driven article

October 16, 2013

Mr. Kefor- F Block

              Teachers and their walls

         

           By looking at teachers walls, what assumptions can you make about the teachers based on the certain things on their walls? I was really curious to find out the answers to this topic, so I went around to a good amount of teachers classrooms with questions already in my head for what I was looking for in each classroom.

           I went into 13 different teachers to make my observations. When I went into each teachers classroom, I had a piece of paper that was categorized into 4 categories, posters(subject), organization such as fire drill procedures and so on, any student work that is featured around the room, and any other posters that don't relate to the subject. I brought some of my classmates along with me to help me make observations. Christine Remick, Carli Arcaro, and Casey Holmes, help me sufficiently with helping me to collect the data I needed for my data driven article.

           In some classrooms there was close to nothing at all, but in others there was everything that you could have asked to see in a teachers classroom. The total amount of tallys I got for the posters relating to the subject were 13. Every class I went into had something that related to the subject they taught. I found that the Spanish classrooms had the most posters related to their subject. The next category was organization. I found that once again every classroom I went to had a tally for organization. Every classroom had a fire drill procedure hung up near there door, and they also had a fire exit plan to the nearest exit out the school. For student work, I got a total of 10 talleys. Going around the classrooms I found out that the math teachers had the most student work hanging up around their rooms. The last category was posters in general. The total tally for posters were 9. Not many classrooms had posters up in their room that didn't not relate to their subject. I found that the science classrooms had the overall most posters not related to their subject hanging in their room.

           By my results, you can make a conclusion that the science department is the classrooms that had the most of everything in almost each category. The science classrooms are the classrooms that are very well organized and have the most student work, which could mean that they really value the students work more than the other teachers.

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Wooley, Marx E. "Action Steps for Implementing a Healthy School Environment." Web log post. Action Steps Healthy School Environment. N.p., 2003. Web. 03 Oct. 2013. http://www2.edc.org/makinghealthacademic/concept/actions_environment.asp.

Holcombe, Rebecca. "Adolescents’ Perceptions of School Environment, Engagement, and Academic Achievement in Middle School." Adolescents' Perceptions of School Environment, Engagement, and Academic Achievement in Middle School. N.p., 2012. Web. 03 Oct. 2013. http://aer.sagepub.com/content/47/3/633.abstract.

Research Question: By looking at teachers classrooms, what assumptions can you make about teachers based on the certain things on their walls?