Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Discussions

We had another one of those group discussions in Mr.Sweeney's class. This time, we got to write any discussion questions that we could think of on a card and converse with each other about the subject. One of the discussions I participated in was about the death penalty. Of course like many other Americans, majority of students in the class room said they agree with the usage of the death penalty. I for one disagree with its presence. Many of the students arguments were that the many people deserved to die if they killed someone else. My argument and response to that was I felt that it does not make the situation any better to kill someone for a wrong doing. Your judging an individual for taking someone's life, yet you are doing the same deed as they have done. Either you way you look at it killing is killing. You can sugar coat with morals anyway you like but the justice system is doing the same thing they are judging other people on. I also feel like not only are they doing the same sin, but they are trying to play the role of God, and its very obvious. I feel like no single man has the right to deny life and judge others for any reason, considering the fact that they are far from perfect in themselves.

Grammar Schmamar

My group and I presented our Grammar Schmamar projects. I was hoping to make the presentation better than the first group we seen. They were a little disorganized, so I was hoping not to follow in those same footsteps. My group created a slideshow presentation depicting the uses of commas and semicolons. We each read aloud the meanings of them both and then examples on how to use them. After we presented when to use commas and semicolons, we showed sentences that required either a comma or a semicolon, and asked students for the class to show where one would be located. For every right answer, the student received a piece of candy from the bag.

Scrimmage

For my second out-of-class event, I decided to attend a Richard Bland Basketball scrimmage. When Mr.Sweeney informed us that this counted as an event, I quickly jumped at the chance to go because Basketball is a passion for me, so the fact that I could go to a game and it count for my class made it all the better for me. Needless to say, I was expecting more from the Statesman team. I had played with a few of them during gym hours before, so I was expected a really good college game from then. It was nerve racking when they could barely bring the ball up the court and produced numerous turnovers in the start of the game. I know they have good handles from seeing them play before, but i wasn't showing up when game was going. I can admit, alot of the players on the team have a nice shooting ability and good athleticism, but you need substance to back it up to create a shot and create plays. That's were handling the ball comes into play.