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students

Student (1) High school student (Briana , 16 years old)

Question: what are pors and cons of being a student?
Answer: Some pors are that you get to learn something you wouldn't learn in home by watching T.V or reading a book on you own, you get to learn about different thing and see understand different ways to thing about them. Another pro is that you get to interact with other people. A con is that you have to wake up so early, and it seem like some of the stuff you learn you will never use again after you are out of high school . most of the time it feels like a wast of time.

Question:What do you think will make school more worth you being there?
Answer: If we learn thing that i will always be able to use, like thing i will need to learn in the really world . It will also help if high school was like college and more care based because you will have a good understanding of what you want to do in life befor you get to college, and there maybe be a chance of you wasting your money.

Question: Do you enjoy going to school?
Answer: It gives me something to do, but i don't wake up in the morning happy to go to school. It's somethin that i have to do not something that i want to do. So no i don't enjoy it but i deal with it. The part i hate the most is home work i don't understand why if i spend alday in shool why to i have to go home and do more work ?

Student (2) 1st grad student ( jorden, age 6)

Question: Do you like school?
Answer: Yes , it's fun because i get to play with my friends and go play outside after lunch, and i dont have nap time anymore because 1st grad don't have nap time only the babys.

Question: what's the best part and worst part of school?
Answer: The best part is playing with my friends and read out loud , the worst part is home work i don't like doing home work.

Student (3) college student (shaniqua age 21)

Question: Did high school help you in college?
Answer: It did and it didn't , meaning when it comes to writting papers and stuff it helped. I learned what goes into a good paper in high school so when it came to college it was very helpful. In my high school i had to sit through every long class were the teacher just talked at you that also helped me in high school. other then that it was that much of a help because some stuff from high school they just tought over and some stuff from high school was never bought up in college.

Question: What do you enjoy most about school ?
Answer: I don't really enjoy school school it's just someting i have to do to better myslef and have a good chance at have a better futuer. So I just do what i have to do. One thing i hate about school is the home work it feels like it never stops.

Non student

Mom

Question: What do you think some pro's and con's are for students?
Answer:I feel that school all together is a pro for students, it gives them a place to go and everyday. They get to learn and share new thing with their classmates. I guess one thing that maybe a con is that they go from school then home to do home work. I can understand why they don't enjoy that.

Question: When you was in high school did you think it was such a great thing?
Answer: No because no student want to be in a place were people are making them do thing that they dont want to do, but when it's over you will understand how much it helps you .

tracy
Question : Do you miss beign in school?
Answer: Yes , when i was in school i was worried free. I didn't have to worry about paying bills and things like that . All i had to worry about was coming home with good grads . then i'll be free to do what ever i wanted and i didnt have to work to have money in my pocketed .

Question: when you was in school what was the worst part?
Answer:Home work, when i was young all i wanted to do was hang out. Home work was the only thing that stoped me becuase after finishing my home work it was to late to go back out side and if i stayed out then came home to do it i would have to hear my mothers mouth.


By Interviwing the people i did i learend that, school is something that people don't want to do but they have to so they just get use to it. I also learned that the problem that everyone have with school is home work. Every one made good points, school is something he have to do to be able to promise ourselfs a better future. student think that school is a wast of time most of the time because we learning thing that we will never see again after we get out of school. Parents seem to think school is a good place for student to interact with each other as well as grow off each others thinking .

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Fascinating

* We spend more time with the people in school then the people at home.

*We are in school for so many years that we start to learn the same things over.

*peple find school to be the most important thing in life.

Powerful questions

*Why do people have so many personl problem that have nothing to do with school , inside of school ?

*Why do people try hard to fit in inside of school?

* Why do we spend so many hours inside of school then have to go home and do home work?

Ideas

*If school thought us thing we would use in every day life , school wouldnt be has bad.

*we spend to many hour in school , thats why there are so many personal problems.

*people most likly just have on groups of friends.

we spend to many hours in school and not at home . I fill I spend more time with my classmates then ii do with my mother. By the time I get home do home work it time to eat dinner and start to get ready for school the nexts day. The school feel never ending because once to get home it fill like your still at school because there is more work yu have to do. It never ends and there is very limited family time. it seems like the only time you get to have family time is on the weekends , were yu spend most of your time sleeping after the long school week.

art project follow up questions

I made my  art  project, from the view  of  a  black  boy who is  trying  his  best  to  fit  in and be  looked  at  as  cool.  What  i  wanted  to  show  is  most  people  that turns  to  skipping  school and selling  drugs  know  that what  they  are  doing  isn't right, but  they  are  more  worried  about  saving  face and  want  people to  look  at them  ass cool.  I feel those  are  people  who  will  " kill  to be cool". I wanted  to  show  what  they  will  say  if they  could  be  truthful  with  them self  as well  as  others . I wanted people  the  realize that  people  know  what  they are  doing  even though  they  won't  say  it, because  they  don't  want  to  be  seem  as they  bad  guy.

At first  I wanted  to make a  video  and  I had  a real  good idea  for  my  video.  It  just  so  happened  that  it  did not  work out  because  i  do not  know  how  to  edit a video. So I spent  a  lot  of  time  thinking  of  something  that can  be  just  as great  and also  have  a  lot  of meaning. I thought  about  doing  a  poem,  but i  wanted  to  do  a  poem  that had  a lot  of  meaning.  so I seat  at  home  and  thought about.  At  first nothing  was coming  to  me  but when  i  started to  do  something  else  and  stop  thing  so  hard  about  it  the first  few  lines  came  to  me , but  when  I want  to  put  it  on paper it  didn't  sound  as  good  has  it  did  in my  head,  but  the line  i  felt  really  good  about  was  "kill  to  be  cool".  I stayed  with  that  line  and  the  rest  of the poem  just  kind  of  worked its self out.

Making  art  does seem  cool  to me, because  i  enjoyed  doing it . I know  cool is   something  hard to  define but  to  me  cool  is want  makes  me  happy  or  what  i  enjoy doing.  Art  is  something  i enjoy  because  it allows  me  to  express  myself  using  more  then  just  words .

   

art project

Kill To Be Cool
By Brittani Carey
I want to be cool so I skip school, hang out all day like the true G’s do.
Don’t want to be broke so now I’m selling key-lows to the people using dope,
I don’t even know what this is,
I just know this white powder in my pocket , have my stacks of money multiplying.
It feels so good but I’m still not too sure of what it is,
But I know I this powder in my pocket have niggas mother’s dyeing.
I know this is wrong but I want to smooth I guess I’m a murder cause I’ll
Kill to be cool

I sag my jeans like the rappers in the videos,
That my first step to being cool.
I rock a do-rag with my fitted turned to the back, so the girls can know that I found my swag.
I go to parties more then I attend school , I won’t be walking across that stage when my friends
do , not me I won’t graduate school.
I’m too busy In the hood , I’m the type of guy white teachers talk about ,
I’m the stereotype of all black guys, they say I will;
Kill to be cool

If I can change I wouldn’t ,
I want to make my moms proud but I don’t want to be a geek , that shit can’t go down
So instead I make her cry , every night she’s on her knees asking god “why” ?
I’m a product of ever thing around me , knowing that sooner than later I’ll be dead or in jail and
that will make my mother’s heart fill and once again I’m a murder who
Kills to be cool.

cool paper

When people think of coolness, they may ask themselves how do I appear as cool to others. How would the rest of the world react to me, will I even appear as cool? I think appearance is a very important factor when it comes to being cool . Although cool can have many different meaning to different groups and people , a person that want to be viewed as cool will try to appear as cool to everyone . So people will do things such as dress to part, act how they feel people think they should, get body pricings as well as tattoos, take drugs and drink alcoholic barrages and participate in dear devil activities to be able to prove their coolness. Your idea of cool isn’t something you are born with, over time you people make up their own mean of cool from the things they are surround by. Things such as your house hold, were you living and the group or groups of people you surround yourself with. People take cool as a way to feel in control because everything around them is controlled , cool gives you the chance to make your own identity .

People often dress in the way they will like to be indentify . when a person want to come off the are “gangster” and make people think they are not once to be messed with, they will wear their jeans off their butt so they can sag. When a person want to come off as a person that has respect and will like to be respected they will wear their pants up on their butt. For example I know guys that wear their pant off their butt when they are going to school or hang out with their friends at the movies or a party, but when they go into a job interviews or a place where they are wearing dress paints they will wear their paints up on their butt with a belt to make sure they won’t fall down. The only thing to be identified by cool isn’t the way a person dresses, now of day’s the coolest person will have a tattoo. Tattoos are something that everybody wants if they don’t already have. It’s a way to express who you are by picture or words on your body. Most of the people that are look up to now of days have tattoos, rock stars, rappers, r and b singer as well as athletic , what makes them cool is the fact that they are always in the media . Mostly everything in the media is looked at as cool. I’m even a victim of think that tattoos can make a person seem cooler, it seems like lately every boy that I’m interested in has tattoos. At first it wasn’t something I didn’t looked for it just so happened but know one of my first question when I meet a guy is “do you have a tattoo or tattoos?” and if they say yes it seems like the biggest turn on. John fanning say’s “I got my first tattoo not trying to be cool I got it to be a rebel” because he grown up in a place where everyone was the same having your own identity was the hardest part”. People get tattoos of important moments in their lives good or bad, of thing that changed their life or of moments they don’t want to forget but when they look at the tattoo they will always remember the story behind it. R and B singer Riana got a tattoo of a gun after being beat by ex boyfriend Chris Brown; it was a moment in her life she would never forget so she “tatted it”. John Fanning also said “when I was in a punk rock band tattoos seem to be a part of the live", people get tattoo's get because they feel that is what they have to do to fit in to their group. I have noticed that a lot of football and basketball player as will has punk, rap, and R and B stars have tattoos, mean while a lot of models or actors do not have them. This show how people choose to identify them self it also show s that groups of people have different views on cool .

Self identity also have to do with were a person comes from and what they are surrounded by . If a person is surrounded by a lot of negative influences in most cases they will come out very negative . On the other hand if a person is surrounded by positive influences in most cases they will turn out to be more positive. For example every one think making a lot of money is cool, but If a person comes from a place where people do not work and they like to make money the fast way (selling drugs) . They will view that as cool and something they will like to do because they weren’t taught any better. A person that was surround by that way of live , will find skipping school then soon dropping out of school and starting to sell drugs to make money as the cooler way to live. On the other hand a person that is surround by people who want to college and after college found great job as a cool thing and they will want to walk in those people footsteps , because they will view that as the right way to do thing then that will come off as cool because at the end of the day they are making money. In class Andy was making great point s even though at first I felt a little offended , he said “ Most black men do not graduate from high school, the often end up going to jail or turn to selling drugs”. At first I was trying to find any way to be able to disagree with him and have strong arguments to back up what I want to say, because I’m black and I felt every time he made a statement like that every on in the class will look over to me and the one other black female in the class. I could not find any way to disagree with Andy , because what he was saying was true. He didn’t say all black were people because he knows like I know there some black people that graduated from high school and became very successful in college as well as in there cares. People get their views of cool form the people and things they see everyday .

People often act as charters out of a movie, always playing the role they are giving throughout real life. People may view this as fake when they see the person go from playing one role to playing the next when they are surround by different people. I feel this is where “cool” comes in. In one group they may need to you step up and became the leader , and within that group your identity is the leader , but when you hang out with a different group they may need you to be more laid back and let someone else be the leader . It don’t make you fake your just playing the role you was giving . During A class talk Andy mad a very good point , if a person is in a group were everyone is playing the bad boy role the person will play the bad boy role, to be seen as cool . Your identify with the role you are giving you pick the one you feel is the most you and you with it . People are often afraid to step out of their boxes and try playing a new role because they are afraid they won’t fit in. For example I been hang out with the same group of friends since the six grade because I know that I’m accepted in that group and we are all black . I know there are a few white girls in my class that I could be best friends with but I don’t try because I don’t know how they well react or if they well accept me. So I stay in the group I feel I fit into.

The point of my paper was to show how important identity is when it comes cool. It can be using it to find out your true identity or using cool to give you identity . Being cool is important to everyone although many like myself may try not to show it . Every one want to be looked at as cool by some body.

Julie

I think you paper was very good, i feel that you stated facts and got a little personal as well. you had images to prove your points , do i wasn't like you mad a statement with out backing it up and i thought that was a very good idea. I think you should add some of the info from class. you don't have to add every thing that andy said but you should add some. i think a good place to add is where you talked about tattoos you should talk about what fanning said when he came in to talk to use. So you can have what you know that fact you got from other place then what some who has many tattoos had to say I think it would back up your point to the fullest but over all great paper and think think there are very little changes that need to be made.

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evan

I think your paper was off to a very good start. It helped me out a lot, with understanding what my paper should look like so thank you. The only thing i think you should do is make your paper a little more personal like Andy told use in class. you should had what cool ,means to you and how the topic of cool you talked about in your paper is important to you its a very small thing but i think it would make your paper more enjoyable to read because it would not be fact after fact. I'm not saying you have to get to personal but just enough to make your reader want to get through your whole paper but other then that i think your off to a great start.