Hello all!
This week in light of one class reading Stargirl and two classes completing To Kill a Mockingbird, we are going to talk about our ideas about cliques and courage.
What role do cliques play in socializing/education (high school) and the rest of your life? Do you consider yourself a part of a clique? Do you judge people by the people they hang out with? Are there certain symbols for different cliques? Is steroetyping ever good?
What does 'courage' have to do with every day living? Do you find yourself judged incorrectly by your friends, activities,religion, polititical stance? Do you look at some groups or individuals and look up to them because they do not follow 'the road most taken'?
Who is your role model? Why?
Enjoy!
Mrs. Gaboury
PS Please respond as your own post. Feel free to comment on other's post--politely and so that no one feels attacked. This is a writing/sharing forum. Do not become The Silencer. Encourage the voices of your peers. If not you, who?
Friday, November 16, 2007
Thursday, November 15, 2007
GEEKS AND FREAKS
Well, me personally dose not have a clique, i just hangout with anyone that im close to. I don't get picked on and i don't have a weird trait about me, other than the fact that i think Ninjas are awsome and pirates are bad people, but really im just a regular person who wears regular cloths and i don't persicute other people based on what they like or do, sometimes i do because they are my friends and im joking around. I don't think sterotyping is a good thing, because if someone dresses weird or acts weird dosn't mean they aren't cool people, so i think we should just get along, but i don't understand when people try to be people they aren't, just be yourself and im sure someone will like you for not what you look like but whatt your like on the inside.
freaks and geeks
the roles cliques have on education and students are bad. I think this because when you put two and two together then it just isnt a good working enviorment for kids and teachers. When your in a clique you feel great because you feel like your in with the crowd that you fit in now and when you dont have that you feel that any word could break you. When a clique starts stuff about you, you feel horrible you feel like you wana crawl under a rock and die and you also feel so depressed. i think that its not good because after you get picked on alot you just wana retaliate. but most of the time you dont and you still feel down.
I do think that i am part of a clique but we do not start stuff or pick on people just from what they wear or do. The clique that im in is the Vballas, it sounds pretty funny but its great, for a volleyballer. We hang out with each other and do things, but we also have friends who are not volleyballers and thats fine because its always good to have more then one friend.
To be honest i do judge people but im learning its wrong to judge people from what they wear or what they do. My role model is a Varstiy Volleyball player named Megan. She is my role model because everything she does i want to follow in her footsteps. Megan is a very good Volleyball player and good in school she doesnt do stupid things and she mostly a very nice girl. I hope that she gets into a great college because she deserves it and i hope she makes it onto the Volleyball team because she is a great player. I hope that shes does make everything because then I would want to follow her, i want to get into a great college and make a Volleyball team in college.
I do think that i am part of a clique but we do not start stuff or pick on people just from what they wear or do. The clique that im in is the Vballas, it sounds pretty funny but its great, for a volleyballer. We hang out with each other and do things, but we also have friends who are not volleyballers and thats fine because its always good to have more then one friend.
To be honest i do judge people but im learning its wrong to judge people from what they wear or what they do. My role model is a Varstiy Volleyball player named Megan. She is my role model because everything she does i want to follow in her footsteps. Megan is a very good Volleyball player and good in school she doesnt do stupid things and she mostly a very nice girl. I hope that she gets into a great college because she deserves it and i hope she makes it onto the Volleyball team because she is a great player. I hope that shes does make everything because then I would want to follow her, i want to get into a great college and make a Volleyball team in college.
Freaks and Geeks
Cliques are a huge part of high school because we naturally just stay with certain people that we are like. Everyday someone stereotypes someone else and no one can say that they haven't because we all know that everybody does. People definitely judge each other by the people who they hang out with and also what they wear. I know that I do it all the time. Like if you wear all black and chains and stuff people classify you as goth. If someone wears hollister and American eagle the are classified as a prep. People should never stereotype because its never good.
Courage has a lot to do with everyday life because everyday people are pressured and have the courage to stand up for whats right. Sometimes I do get judged incorrectly because of the people I hang out with or the activites that I do. I really don't have a role model but I do look up to my older cousin because he is really successful in stuff that he does.
Courage has a lot to do with everyday life because everyday people are pressured and have the courage to stand up for whats right. Sometimes I do get judged incorrectly because of the people I hang out with or the activites that I do. I really don't have a role model but I do look up to my older cousin because he is really successful in stuff that he does.
Family Traditions
Ha, that's kinda funny. (Not in a mean way.) I was just talking about family traditions with my mom yesterday. We talked about the fact that my dad finally has a house of his own that is big enough to support the family for Thanksgiving dinner, whereas before, he always lived in small apartments and we always ate Thanksgiving dinner at my grandma's house. Now we are eating it at his house this year, and it feels like such a strange thing. I am so used to having dinner at my grandma's house, that it is like... wierd to have it anywhere else. My mom says that that is what happens when you break a tradition that you are used to for so long. It just feels different.
Traditions are created when a certain action or talk are used over and over again around the same time of year, creating a ritual. At least that's what I think. Traditions are something that unify a family and create a time when everyone is doing the same thing, therefore creating a "family bonding". :] Some examples are: always going to a certain place on a holiday and making a food item together, or listening to "gramdma got run over by a raindeer" on X-mas eve with your grandma, (hee hee, that's another one of mine.) They can be little things that may seem insigificant to other people, but mean a lot to the family, or they can be large things involving the community.
UMM>.......... Ok, I have to go now bye
Traditions are created when a certain action or talk are used over and over again around the same time of year, creating a ritual. At least that's what I think. Traditions are something that unify a family and create a time when everyone is doing the same thing, therefore creating a "family bonding". :] Some examples are: always going to a certain place on a holiday and making a food item together, or listening to "gramdma got run over by a raindeer" on X-mas eve with your grandma, (hee hee, that's another one of mine.) They can be little things that may seem insigificant to other people, but mean a lot to the family, or they can be large things involving the community.
UMM>.......... Ok, I have to go now bye
Stereotyping and Cliques
Sorry if this isn't as good as my first one. I'll try and make this one just as good, but no promises. Cliques and Stereotyping are a huge part of highschool and every day life. Stereotyping can be found just about every where that there are people. It is practically impossible to ever stop it, you may even be doing it with even realizing it. If you really think about it, stereotyping is basically any thought you have about any other person, negetive or positive. As for cliques, they are just a result of stereotyping. I think that I'm a part of many cliques ranging from Prep to Geek. I like to do some stuff with one group and other stuff with another. Even though I am part of several cliques I still judge other people by who they hang out with. It isn't that awful to do so. By looking at the people someone is with I can figure out what their interests are, and see if I would get along with them. Stereotyping can also help to get you out of trouble sometimes. If you know that a group has a habit of getting hurt or in trouble you can avoid it. I don't that I am judge incorrectly by my friends, but that some people tend to think I am more quiet and shy than I actually am. It sometimes even surprises people how much I talk when I get started. The thing is I don't talk unless I have something I think is worth saying. As for going the road less taken, I think that it is a very courageous thing to do. It doesn't happen that often unfortunately because it isn't an easy thing to do. Although there are plenty of people now and in the past who would make great role models I can't decide wich one I would like to chose. But I look up to people who make a good difference in the places around them. Poeple who influence others.
Emily Tucci
Emily Tucci
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
Freaks and Geeks and True Courage
Unfortunately, it seems like cliques play a very important role in high school, and a somewhat more minor role in the rest of life. It seems to me like cliques can play a role in socializing, but they don't have to. If someone has the courage to go and talk to a member of another clique, or just to someone that they don't know, it seems like they might be able to hit it off quite easily. Of course, that all depends on the people. But from what I've seen of people, well - they can be quite a bit more versatile than they seem.
And speaking of courage - it has a heckuva lot to do with everyday living. From the smallest bit - like finding the courage to try that leftover meatloaf at dinner - to the largest amount - like, hmm, let's see....I don't know, like a love confession or standing up to bullies. (Those seem everyday enough for me.) I don't know if I have ever been judged because of my friends, religion (or lack thereof), or any of the other things mentioned. I suppose people do think that I am a geek just because I happen to be smart and to use said intelligence to the best of my ability, but I really don't care. So what if I am a geek? Nothing wrong with that if I think it's okay. So, to sum it up, if people have judged me, I either haven't noticed or have ignoring them and erased it from my memory.
As for role models and looking up to people, I really don't tend to do that sort of thing. The closest thing I have to a role model is that thing that was mentioned in health class last year - my "Ideal Self". Basically, I don't look up to individual people, but if a person or fictional character or animal or whatever has a trait that I admire, said trait gets added to my "Ideal Self" - me at my best. So you could say that I have no role model, or you could say that I have an absolute plethora of role models. (Hey, I just used one of our vocab words. Fancy that. Go plethoras!)
-Ali
P.S. I am so a geek. But I am a cool geek. I am a flippin' awesome geek.
And speaking of courage - it has a heckuva lot to do with everyday living. From the smallest bit - like finding the courage to try that leftover meatloaf at dinner - to the largest amount - like, hmm, let's see....I don't know, like a love confession or standing up to bullies. (Those seem everyday enough for me.) I don't know if I have ever been judged because of my friends, religion (or lack thereof), or any of the other things mentioned. I suppose people do think that I am a geek just because I happen to be smart and to use said intelligence to the best of my ability, but I really don't care. So what if I am a geek? Nothing wrong with that if I think it's okay. So, to sum it up, if people have judged me, I either haven't noticed or have ignoring them and erased it from my memory.
As for role models and looking up to people, I really don't tend to do that sort of thing. The closest thing I have to a role model is that thing that was mentioned in health class last year - my "Ideal Self". Basically, I don't look up to individual people, but if a person or fictional character or animal or whatever has a trait that I admire, said trait gets added to my "Ideal Self" - me at my best. So you could say that I have no role model, or you could say that I have an absolute plethora of role models. (Hey, I just used one of our vocab words. Fancy that. Go plethoras!)
-Ali
P.S. I am so a geek. But I am a cool geek. I am a flippin' awesome geek.
Monday, November 12, 2007
ps..
i had said in my previous post that it was 10:01 and it really was but i thin kthe time is messed up on the clock .. ok just clearing things up it is now10:06 good night
Cliques... wow. Cliques definitely play a humongous role in high school.... and middlee... and thankfully not elementary, at least for me. [the word] clique was just an innocent word with high hopes to have a beautiful definition and be said proud and loud. But this poor 6 letter word was given to be the word with the meaning of -being judged or ridiculed or harrased i guess by what you look like,how you dress, and who you hang out with.
Cliques affect people everyday, every school or job, everywhere. Whether at work or at school people are judged by the ways i had said earlier. I mean common now, it doesn't matter if you have even said 2 words to a person, because you know them RIGHT? because they hang with the"jocks" or the "Goths" and that makes them THIS WAY ! Because they dress a certain way or hang out with a certain crowd they are like e v e r y o t h e r "geek" or "skater" that you have never said two words and yet someone how just know.
Cliques effect education because there are sooo many people who have friends who don't acheive in school. Who don't try and fail every class.and must think to themselves" you know what I had better not get that easy A in math class because i am actually intellegent, i meen i might not be accepted by my own [so called] "friends". i might make someone confused on which group i belong to , yeahh i deffinitely don't want to do that" ..hmm " if i got that A it might actually make a small chip away at my own stereotype, small but powerful, w a a a i i i t
I forgot that would be achieving something though so.... i had better just stop this nonsense."
OK so I am most likely considered to be part of a clique. and if you disagree then i think your awesome. I don't really know what to say , i wish i wasn't considered to be part of a clique and who knows maybe I'm not. But i know that sometimes when i share something about one of my friends[ like a funny story] to another friend who doesn't particularly hang out with those people and i say my friends name i usually get a .. ohh i don't like her, shes a snob, a look
or you know something along those lines.
and i just think to myself wow how you ever talked to this person because they are really nice or wouldn't be hanging out with them. i try my best not to judge people in anyways but what can i say it happens but when it does happen i actually go up and talk to the person .. people always say as do i that you shouldn't judge someone when you have never said a word to them.
so i really do go up and talk to the person who i have judged because i guess in my mind i want the judgment to begone, disappear because 50/50 chance its wrong. and usually they turn out to be really nice people. i remember in 7th grade art i sat next to a person who shall not be named[ lord voldemort] haha just kidding but i thought of that after saying the shall not be named thing] and they would be considered emo or goth and i was pretty scarred and bummed that i had to sit next to them but i decided i was going to talk to them and see how they were . and i did and it turned that that person was soo respectful and kind.He or she just had a bad rap/stereotype.
wow i have to hurry up ivebeen typing for like an hourr.
alright symbol would be nerd=smart jock=muscles Goths= wear black and another iss umm popular= snobby
i really don't think that any good could ever come out of stereotyping.
Courage.
people need courage everyday to get through the put downs and to be individuals. i thikn i am constantly judged incorrectly because of the people i hang out with. and because of religion i am a proud catholic teenager. people have asked me " ohh are youu realllllly religous" iand i just think to myslef youre either religious or not, practicing or nonpracticing. yes i do go to church and religion every sunday and you no what its not something i dread to go to either. and also i went away for 4 days to ohio on a pilgrimage to find god and discover the way and i will never forget it becasue it was amazing and unforgettable.
I do look up to some individuals because they have not followed the road most taken. One idividual is my brother aka my hero. He is an awesome person who is interested in so many things and is always nice to everybody. except for the occasional fight for the bethroom then things can get ugly.But he is so smart and plays sports, loves classical and jazz music and is a killer sax player and has a deep faith. He is my role model along with my parents but i can't get into detail becasue its 10:01 pm and im drifting to sleep.
see youu tomorrow mrs gabouryy - melissa roff and wow this is extremely long
Cliques affect people everyday, every school or job, everywhere. Whether at work or at school people are judged by the ways i had said earlier. I mean common now, it doesn't matter if you have even said 2 words to a person, because you know them RIGHT? because they hang with the"jocks" or the "Goths" and that makes them THIS WAY ! Because they dress a certain way or hang out with a certain crowd they are like e v e r y o t h e r "geek" or "skater" that you have never said two words and yet someone how just know.
Cliques effect education because there are sooo many people who have friends who don't acheive in school. Who don't try and fail every class.and must think to themselves" you know what I had better not get that easy A in math class because i am actually intellegent, i meen i might not be accepted by my own [so called] "friends". i might make someone confused on which group i belong to , yeahh i deffinitely don't want to do that" ..hmm " if i got that A it might actually make a small chip away at my own stereotype, small but powerful, w a a a i i i t
I forgot that would be achieving something though so.... i had better just stop this nonsense."
OK so I am most likely considered to be part of a clique. and if you disagree then i think your awesome. I don't really know what to say , i wish i wasn't considered to be part of a clique and who knows maybe I'm not. But i know that sometimes when i share something about one of my friends[ like a funny story] to another friend who doesn't particularly hang out with those people and i say my friends name i usually get a .. ohh i don't like her, shes a snob, a look
or you know something along those lines.
and i just think to myself wow how you ever talked to this person because they are really nice or wouldn't be hanging out with them. i try my best not to judge people in anyways but what can i say it happens but when it does happen i actually go up and talk to the person .. people always say as do i that you shouldn't judge someone when you have never said a word to them.
so i really do go up and talk to the person who i have judged because i guess in my mind i want the judgment to begone, disappear because 50/50 chance its wrong. and usually they turn out to be really nice people. i remember in 7th grade art i sat next to a person who shall not be named[ lord voldemort] haha just kidding but i thought of that after saying the shall not be named thing] and they would be considered emo or goth and i was pretty scarred and bummed that i had to sit next to them but i decided i was going to talk to them and see how they were . and i did and it turned that that person was soo respectful and kind.He or she just had a bad rap/stereotype.
wow i have to hurry up ivebeen typing for like an hourr.
alright symbol would be nerd=smart jock=muscles Goths= wear black and another iss umm popular= snobby
i really don't think that any good could ever come out of stereotyping.
Courage.
people need courage everyday to get through the put downs and to be individuals. i thikn i am constantly judged incorrectly because of the people i hang out with. and because of religion i am a proud catholic teenager. people have asked me " ohh are youu realllllly religous" iand i just think to myslef youre either religious or not, practicing or nonpracticing. yes i do go to church and religion every sunday and you no what its not something i dread to go to either. and also i went away for 4 days to ohio on a pilgrimage to find god and discover the way and i will never forget it becasue it was amazing and unforgettable.
I do look up to some individuals because they have not followed the road most taken. One idividual is my brother aka my hero. He is an awesome person who is interested in so many things and is always nice to everybody. except for the occasional fight for the bethroom then things can get ugly.But he is so smart and plays sports, loves classical and jazz music and is a killer sax player and has a deep faith. He is my role model along with my parents but i can't get into detail becasue its 10:01 pm and im drifting to sleep.
see youu tomorrow mrs gabouryy - melissa roff and wow this is extremely long
Cliques (by Sara) Cont.
People who don't act like everyone else is a lot of the times considered odd, but they're just being themself. There's nothing wrong with that. Why waste your life being someone you're not? I dont' think stereotyping is ever good because it immediately takes away the chance for someone to get to know the person for who they are. Instead, that someone will meet the other with wrong expectations.
Courage. I think courage is a HUGE part of high school. I think courage shines when people decide not to follow their peers because they know that's the right way to go. I think courage is in those who act like themselves with people they don't even know. I do occasionally find myself being judged incorrectly. Many think I'm REALLY shy at times, but they are wrong. Sometimes I don't have much to say in a conversation, so many just assume I'm too shy to
speak up, but that's not true. Those who know me really well know how wacky I can get.
I do find myself looking up to those who speak and think for themselves because it's nice to see someone not following the crowd. Kit Collins, for example, is someone who I look up to. She doesn't care what other people think of her. She has her own style and I love it! She's so original with everything she does. There's only one Kit Collins!
I would have to say my role model is Holly's older sister, Amanda. She is like a big sister to me. She is always doing what SHE thinks is right. She doesn't judge people; she gives everyone who she talks to a chance. She wasn't voted class angel for nothing! :)
Courage. I think courage is a HUGE part of high school. I think courage shines when people decide not to follow their peers because they know that's the right way to go. I think courage is in those who act like themselves with people they don't even know. I do occasionally find myself being judged incorrectly. Many think I'm REALLY shy at times, but they are wrong. Sometimes I don't have much to say in a conversation, so many just assume I'm too shy to
speak up, but that's not true. Those who know me really well know how wacky I can get.
I do find myself looking up to those who speak and think for themselves because it's nice to see someone not following the crowd. Kit Collins, for example, is someone who I look up to. She doesn't care what other people think of her. She has her own style and I love it! She's so original with everything she does. There's only one Kit Collins!
I would have to say my role model is Holly's older sister, Amanda. She is like a big sister to me. She is always doing what SHE thinks is right. She doesn't judge people; she gives everyone who she talks to a chance. She wasn't voted class angel for nothing! :)
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