16. 62/50

I could not resist when I saw this picture on Flickr..It is 2 in 1. Misspelling and our presentation film!
Anyways, enjoy!

'BIG Beuys Don't Cry' by k.tommy under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic

What have I been up to this week?
Sooooo…. Group Orange’s last mission was accomplished only two days ago. We did our best to show everyone our hard work, and hopefully, it will pay off =))) I just can’t believe that we were able to get through 62 slides in 50 minutes!! In the end, I was like “Wooaaahh!” Overall, I was satisfied with our presentation.

So honestly, Hazal, what did you think of Boys Don’t Cry?

Honestly, I do not enjoy watching harsh films like Boys Don’t Cry. There were a lot of scenes that make me hide my face because of the film’s intensity, brutality etc. I have always thought of female directors as having a more sensitive and soft perspective, so Kimberly Peirce’s raw take on the physcologically challenged and morally corrupt characters shocked me. It shocked me a lot, actually. It was very hard to go through each scene because there were so many things that I could not accept. However, this film is really suitable for ENG101 since one of the themes is gender. This film is based on gender issues, so I’d recommend people with assignments on sexual identity to watch this film. Be aware, though, this is not a fun time film. It is darn serious, so unless you want to spoil the mood, don’t watch it! ;)

Any last words..?

That is it from me.. for 2009, that is =PPP
I’ll see everyone next year, so HAPPY NEW YEAR’S!!!

15. Error Correction

‘You Gotta Be In It to Win It’ by LA Wad under Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0 Generic



My answers to the second part of the worksheet are below:

Part A)
*Jim Hawkins
*He lacks self-confidence.
*Poverty
* He could not be a man OR -if you really want to use the word ‘successful,’ the following would be okay yet it sounds a bit weird to be honest- he was not successful at being a man?
*Turn on the TV
* Her husband
*People raise/nurture/bring up their children (In my opinion, any of these three words should be acceptable) AND the second part of this question was confusing: “misgrowing of children”—now the correct grammar structure is misgrowth, but you cannot use ‘misgrowth’ for children!!! I guess it is ‘raising children’ OR ‘bringing up children’ in this case.
*Listening to them
*Winn was on a quiz show called ‘Dotto.’-I have a question here Sonja: How can I use ‘as’ here? The reason for me to ask this is because I sometimes use expressions like ‘named/called as’ and I was wondering if it was wrong to use ‘as’ with such verbs. I want to be sure.
* Our clothes
* Men with similar attire/outfits

Part B) Misspelled Words
- Depth or debt(depends on the meaning)
- Masculinity
- Standard
- Professor
- Clothes
- Backlash
- Nominee
- Violence
- Eccentric
- Forty five
- Rituals

14. My Rather Dramatic Celebration

This week proved to be worthwhile for me and my teammates. We won the pub quiz, so GO TEAM ORANGE!!!!! I would like to congratulate my group members and thank Sonja for giving us such a generous award : DDD That just sounded like my own Oscar-speech, didn’t it? :)

Okay okay..Back to the subject..The quiz was tougher than I expected. For example, we lost a question because we wrote ‘a’ instead of ‘the’ which was quite surprising. Also, by doing this quiz, I learned that we must always explain ourselves as if the person we are interacting with had never heard anything about the topic before.

Overall, it was a fun and rewarding experience. I’d recommend the pub quiz to other classes. It is less stressful and we learn a lot from each other.

Anyways, after the creative post of my fellow teammate Serra, I decided that I should join her in the creative department and make my blog a bit more personal. I did not want to copy her, so my picture is rather dramatic, but it is orange alright ;) I hope that my fellow teammates like this. It’s my treat for them :)

13. Other Presentations

This week, I got to be the spectator instead of the presenter which was beneficial in its own right. Though I wasn’t talking, I used just as much as effort as if I were talking while observing my peers. The experience proved to be worthwhile indeed.

Firstly, I realized how crucial it was to direct your focus towards your audience. Some presenters achieved this very naturally. I really liked that :)

Also, I learned that organization is the key to having a successful presentation, and an efficient way of reaching to an acceptable level of organization is… PRACTICE PRACTICE PRACTICE!

To get ahead, my group members and I will watch the presentation this week and start to prep for our presentation on the 28th. I’ll post more about our work-in-progress later. Please look forward to it :)

12. Evaluation

‘Stephen Colbert Motivational Poster’ by Louisville Joe under Creative Commons Attribution- Noncommercial 2.0 Generic

Sooooo... We, group orange, were the first one to present. Yikes! Boy, didn’t that add the pressure on us? It has been a while- a looooong while- since I presented something, so I was quite nervous in the beginning. Hopefully, I managed to overcome my nervousness as I carried on with my speech. Other than that, I enjoyed presenting. I just like to speak about literature and inform people, so this experience was really worth while for me. All of the group members tried their best. With our schedules clashing and the surprise holiday, it was difficult for us to prepare for this, but we worked really hard. I hope that everyone appreciated our effort and liked what we did.

On a further note, I think our presentation was really good; however, I would like to make the final one even better! I want to speak more and interact with the audience :) If anyone wants to give advice on how to improve our presentation skills, please do so. I’d personally benefit from it, so please don’t hesitate :)

11. My Presentation Notes

Hello everyone! I will blog about my presentation experience later tonight or tomorrow but until then, I thought it would be nice to post the parts that I’ve presented in class. If there was anything that wasn’t clear, you can refer to my notes below. If that is still not enough, please feel free to ask me by commenting.
I hope that you liked my group’s- shout out to GROUP ORANGE :) - presentation. We worked really hard. Last time I checked, our e-mail count was 37!!
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Summary Keywords

Harassment / Aspiration to be a ‘man’
Buys a gun
Shoots Jenny the mule
Lies
Is ridiculed
Runs away to be accepted as a man

After being constantly harassed by the people around him, Dave buys a gun to prove that he is a ‘man’. However, he ends up killing a mule by accident which ridicules him even more than before. Finally, he runs away from home to a place where he can be accepted as a ‘man’.

Dave Saunders;
*17
*African- American
*uneducated, motivated to get a gun
*mistreated
*not very bright (naive)
wants to be a ‘man,’ inexperienced