I’m pretty sure we’re all feeling the same mix of “Oh my, it’s already midterm season, thank gosh!” and “Oh no, it’s midterm time!”
I, for one, am very excited to be halfway through the semester, but at the same time there is a large cloud of looming due dates and assignments hanging around, that have me dreaming of the sunnier days in April
For the midterm evaluation, the three blogs I have chosen are linked below. I also included a little blurb of what they are about 🙂
Blog 1: Story & Literature
In this blog I explored the aspects of social media ad hypertext in the context of literature, and how they might be impactful to both literature and story. For this particular post, I researched especially the meanings of the different words, and the implication of applying those definitions to literature. I received a few comments on this post, and I very much enjoyed the opportunity of engaging with the other students in this class!
Blog 2: Sense of Home
I quite enjoyed writing this particular blog, as it gave me the opportunity to use my voice as a storyteller, but also as a student, to explore my own definition of “Home”. I would also like to note, that most of us are fortunate to be able to call a place home, since for so many their homes, and their native lands, are being debated, stolen and destroyed.
Blog 3: Paradox of Dichotomies
For this post, I chose to explore the use of Dichotomies in Thomas King’s stories. Not only do dichotomies have a powerful effect on challenging the way people think, but they also set up a binary notion of having to chose something over another. The implication that believing in something devalues the truth of something else creates a conflict when that belief is challenged. Whether or not we implicitly do this, and how morality is developed, are both interesting aspects to take in to account.
zhanna kutlimetova
February 27, 2020 — 12:04 am
Hi Nicole,
You have great posts and interesting discussions in your blog, and great photos too! I decided to contact you in connection with the research projects which we are expected to submit at the end of this term. Aran Chang and I have already agreed to work together on the project, so we are wondering if you are interested to join us.
Few words about me – I have some experience of working on the group projects in the course of online studies, which I have enjoyed very much. I must admit, that writing is rather a challenge for me, but I’m getting more confident with every course and assignment I’ve completed. As any of us, I’m pretty busy with my studies and work, but meeting the deadlines for course assignments is certainly my priority. I work part time, and go to one of the high schools once a week to earn volunteer hours for my potential BED application :). If we work together, we can discuss the area of the research for this course later on, once the group is formed. I’m flexible about it and oriented on the opinion of the group. We have briefly discussed with Aran, that facebook messenger could be our potential communication tool for this project, but this is something to be agreed with everybody in the group.
We are looking forward to your feedback. In case, if you prefer to respond via e-mail, you can send it to joanne.kutlimetova@gmail.com.
Thank you, Joanne
PS: FYI, I’ve just posted the same “join us” message in the blog of Indra Diaz, as we need 4 partners in the group :).
zhanna kutlimetova
February 29, 2020 — 2:35 pm
Hi Nicole,
I hope that everything goes well for you :). I just wanted to remind that the deadline to find partners and post the names in the group is tomorrow. Can you please let us know if you are still available (have not joined yet the other group) and agree to work with us (for the moment with Aran Chang and me) ASAP. We will wait for your answer till 4 pm today, and if we do not have it, we get in touch with other classmates.
All the very best,
Joanne