Writing is a PROCESS Not a Product
My sponsor of literacy was my sophomore English teacher Mr. Benedict who vastly improved my righting in one brief conversation. I decided to re-make the story about this conversation into a music playlist. I chose a music playlist because I love music and thought it would be cool to try and recreate my story with … Continue reading Extension Project A
For this extension project, I converted my literary narrative into another art form: watercolor. I was inspired through watercolor last weekend as I sat on the beach on the Oregon coast. My friends were making their own non-school related art, and I thought I might as well try to convey my narrative into another form … Continue reading Extension Project 2
Here are some of the research studies I have participated in on campus and online. One study I participated in (Measuring attitudes between professions) was for an upper level psych student.This was my favorite study. I went to the AIC buildings and he asked me to complete an online simulation. I was told after the … Continue reading Extension D
To transform my literacy narrative I used watercolor to depict what happened in my story. In the painting I am showing the first scene of when I started reading “The Handmaid’s Tale”, I am shown laying in a hammock in the words by a river bed. It’s a simple picture but shows me the beginning … Continue reading Extension Project A
I went to the Disney and Its Worlds panel and it was amazing! Each speaker had very interesting points. The first speaker titled her presentation A Successful Partnership: Gender Roles and the Ballroom in Disney’s Beauty and the Beast. She used analysis of the waltz and ballroom scenes in both the live action and the … Continue reading Disney and Its Worlds PAMLA Panel Review
For extension Project A, I chose to challenge myself by writing my Literacy Narrative over as a poem. However I did not use a poetic style known to most. I used a poetic style I encountered some time ago in a book I read. The book is called Way of Kings, and is part of the … Continue reading Extension Project A
I have recently started volunteering with a Whatcom Humane Society Program called Dog Day Reading Afternoons where dogs and their handlers go to libraries or schools and kids who are struggling with reading read aloud to the dogs. I am handler for a dog named Kiwi, a super sweet golden retriever who loves all the … Continue reading Extension Project Make Your Own: Reading with Rover
Field Notes I am doing my research project with Tor on how physical exercise affects academic comprehension. We are conducting surveys on how students around campus are personally affected by this. Most of our completed surveys have been done online however, I had a few in person encounters. The most memorable one was when … Continue reading Field Notes
In total I participated in four research studies, three online and one in person study that took a fair amount of time to complete. The three online studies all had to deal with how much and what aspects of a story that people recollect when they read something. In each study I was given multiple … Continue reading Extension Project D
I have participated in three research projects for my psychology 101 class, all of which are very interesting. The first study I participated in was about half an hour long, separated into two parts. In the first half of the study, I went to a room along with two other participants and we watched a … Continue reading Psych Studies Extension Project C
