Questions for Task Two

1. Why did you choose to not finish high school?
I chose this because my father did not finsh high school and I want to know why and it goes along with my paper.
2. What was the hardest part of High School?
I choose this because it it has to go along with the fact he did not finish High School
3. When did you first deside you wanted to quit High School?
I chose to ask this because I would like to know why and it also is part of why I am here today.
4. Where, other than school, did you spend most of your time in High School, and Why?
I think this had an affect on why he did not finish High School.
5. What did you do outside of school that may have distracted you from high school?
This question also played a facter in him not graduating

Casa Question 1

                I believe that all of the cuentos were women’s stories because it was a grandmother trying to prepare the women for married life and all of it’s the ups and downs. Also to tell the women how to protect themselves, so that they would not be hurt the same way that these women in the stories have been hurt. It is mostly for the women in the family to protect the women in the family.

            I think that some stories that would be from the other stories would be taking care of the family and war stories. Also stories that are about hard work to take care of you families to protect and care for them, to be the provider for the family and be the head of the family. Some of the stories could be about how to survive in war so they could fight for their country and come back to provide for the family. Also there could be stories of war that they might have had when they fought for their country. They also could tell stories about how to survive in a place where you don’t have much to survive on.

            I think that there could be many people telling these stories on the male side. It could be from the wise old grandfather that has the most experience of all. Could be a father telling a curiouscuriouscuriouscurios son. An uncle telling nephew about things that the father won’t tell. Also an older brother talking to a younger brother that may have a few questions about certain subjects he cant talk to his father about.

Sister Flowers (question 4)

           My home town is New Bloomfield, Missouri a small town about eleven miles away from Jefferson City, Missouri. It is a small town that has about 600 people and not very much diversity and if something is different than what you are used to then people what you to stay away from it. Some people in the town believe that if you are different or do not have the same beliefs about everything then they will try to avoid you and most people in the town do not have open minds. It made me think that the world acted like this all over. But as I got older I knew that it could not be this way and I knew that people had to have open minds about defenses among people. Well I was glad to see when I got to college a bunch of different people and different people and cultures that I could learn about and learn new things that people do based on their cutlers and backgrounds.

            Coming from a small town was also weird when I came to college because my freshman class has more people in it than my whole town and it is a little overwhelming for me and it makes me. It makes me feel like not talking to people because there are so many people. It is not like my town because I was friends with almost everyone in my school now every day I see about fifteen people I have never seen before and I am not used to it.

Task Two Questoins

1. Why are you interested in these subjects?
As of right now i really dont know who i am going to write about because all if my family are 300 miles away, so i will have to find someone here in St. Joe but i dont know who.
2. What makes him/her interesting and unique?
I Will look for some one that i think will have a very good and interesting story.
3. What sort of questions would you ask and why?
 What inspioerd you for this choice in your life?
Why did you deside that you choice for your life?
and some more open questions.
4.What sort of problems do you think may arise for Task Two?
Finding someone to interview and making up questions.
5. What do you anticipate? Why?
 I anticipate that this could be a very fun task if i interview the right person.
6.What questions do you have for Task Two?
What are some good open ended questions to ask?

Self-Evaluation (the right one)

-What is the thesis for your paper?

“Change the world” he always told me. In my life I had many inspirations, my parents, my grandparents, and kids that have diseases and still manage to be stronger than me, but only one person and one thing completely turned my life around.

-List the main points you make in your paper.

• I was a terible stusent in elementry school.
• I was Coach Les's project child.
• I would have to work hard academically to wrestle.
• How i wrestled over the years and got better at it.
• How I stayed away from drugs and alcohol.
• how i started out bad in school then got better when I got older.
• The things Coach Les taught me

-What was the most helpful advice you received from your peer evaluation?

That I needed to ad more detail and explain better about some of the people in my story. 

-What was the most helpful information you received in class for your paper?

Everything that Ms. Chastain told me was wrong with my paper.

-How many drafts of this paper do you think you wrote and how/when did you write them? For example, did you compose at the keyboard, did you write lots of notes to yourself, did you pre-write or outline, did you write in small chunks of time or sit down and produce an entire draft at one sitting?

I wrote 2 drafts and i just sat down, started writing at me laptop, and i just did it all at one time

-What would you do differently with this paper to make it more effectively, or what did you try to do that you just don’t think you got a good handle on?

I would take more time on the first draft, so that it would be better and i could atleast have less to fix on it when i do the final copy.

-What are most pleased with about this paper?

What pleased me best about my paper is  on the feedback i receved when i was handed back my first draft.

Task One Evaluation

· What would you like for the instructor to know?

I would like the instructer to know that that worked really hard on the paper and i took every thing that you said that i need change and i changed it to fit what you wanted to know about.

· What would you like for the audience to know?

I would like the audience to know more about my Coach thats why I wrote the paper.

· What would you like feedback on specifically?

I would like to know if the paper was good, I am not confidence a writer right now.

· Tell the readers about the strengths and weaknesses of task one.

One of the strengths of the paper was that is that you really get to know how much Coach Les means to me

One of the weaknesses of the paper was that when i wrote my paper the first time I just made a lot of erroers in the paper.

· Where did you excel and why?

Once i figured out what my topic was i wrote my paper really fast with very few witers blocks.

· Where did you struggle?

I struggled what my topic was going to be, it took me untill i started writing to figure it out.

On Becoming a Chicano

I am a white if that is what you want to call it. I have white skin but that does not mean anything. It does not describe my personality or it is a trait like blue eyes or blond hair. I have never really had too many struggles with my racial identity. Most people just think I am a normal person. A couple of people have called me a cracker before or a crazy white boy but that’s it, and it really doesn’t bother me. So I don’t worry about it.


I have struggled academically like Rodriguez we both struggled in English but unfortunately English is my natural language. I have always been bad at spelling and grammar. Some teachers thought I had a learning disability, but I grew up and everything started clicking in all subjects. Now I get good grades most of the time I have to work hard and apply myself, but I am a hard working person so it I not hard on that part for me. Some people made funny of me for being “stupid” but now I am in college and they are still living with their families. When I was a lot younger, in grade school, I could not do my homework alone my mom and my dad would basically do my homework for me, when I should have been doing it alone. After I got to into seventh grade my mind started clicking and everything is a lot easier and I get it.