Respond to your blog about Interview.

Interviewing my Aunt Stephanie over the telephone was great. I learned things about the people she went to school with to add to my paper, also the financial struggle she went through growing up. Some concerns I have is not being able to transfer my interview to my paper well. I plan to over come this by writing at least 2 to 3 drafts to better my paper.

5 Questions For Task Two

What did other family members think of yoyu being the only one wanting to get an education? What were their educational backgrounds?

Do you think school has mad who you are today? Why or why not?

What sport did you play in school?

What did you want to be when you grew up? Why did you choose that occupation?

How would you describe your first day of school? Why?

What kind of grades did you make?

I chose these questions because I really didnt know what else to ask. A few questions I asked based of the background I knew about my aunt. The other questions were jsut simple closed-end questions that I wanted to know.

Self-Evaluation

Self-Evaluation

What is the thesis for your paper?

Because of basketball, i was able to succeed in my classes, be apart of a team, and make it to college.

List the main points you make in your paper.

I guess the main point(s) of my paper would be wanting to change the way i acted in school, after not getting a chance to finish a basketball season 

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

Not to use the word "thing" or "stuff"

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

The most helpful infromation I think was being able how to delete run-on sentences

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?

 Before I wrote my first draft I made an outline. I did a total 3 drafts. I wrote 1 a week.

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?

In some parts of my paper i could explain more in detail, and some other parts, I could explain less.

I dont think I did good on grammer, I also think that a few of my Topic sentences are too long.

What are most pleased with about this paper?

Its my first paper, but i thought I could have done a lot better on it.

Response to Writing Topic Question. "Sister Flowers"

Like Angelou, my Aunt Stephanie threw me a life line. My aunt helped by showing me from right and wrong, when no one else would, not even my parents. Growing up as a young child I was easily influenced by older peers. I lived life on the edge, till my aunt pulled me back to reality, giving me a second chance at life.

Response to Questions and Reflection & Writing.

The word Cuentos means Stories. One example I provided from the book was when Mama was telling the young child how old Laura was when she first got engaged, and the doubts Mama had about the wedding.

Respond to your blog subjects that you are interested in interviewing and writing about for Task two.

The person I'm going to be interviewing is my Aunt Stephanie. I think she is very interesting because she's the only one in my family that values an education, and wanted to successful. Some questions i might ask are: What kept her motivated to stay in school? What were some of the road blocks that were in her way of earning an education? What did her family think of her being the only one wanting to learn? Problems that i may run into for this Task Two assignment is being able to put my paper all together and creating a thesis statement. A question I have for Task two is how would I start my introduction?