“Shooting Dad” Dialogue

What is the significance of the title? “Shooting Dad”

In this story I feel as though there are a couple different reasons why the title is what it is. This story is written by a young girl whose passion is art. While her father repairs and builds guns for a living being a gunsmith. Her father always tried to share his passion with his two daughters but only one shared his passion which was the author’s twin sister. While her sister loved to shoot guns, the author has only shot a gun once and that was at age SIX...When her father thought it was time to show the girls how to shoot. He thought as it of trusting them and now thought of them as “big girls.” Her father thinking this, she remembered the experience had only made her feel small, she even said “…it kicked little me back to the ground like a bully, like a foe.” So there is one reason why I think the title is named “shooting dad” it refers to her father and his passion for life.
Later in her years realizing that they will never come to an agreement about their different passions. She decided that she would try to start being a better daughter. She never really understood the reason or what it was about shooting and guns that her dad saw. She decided to spend a little bit of time with her father doing something he liked to do. Her father’s most recent tool that he has been working on for two years was nineteenth-century cannon. This was his biggest project ever because it had a lot to do with his history. The cannon was pretty small as long as a baseball bat and as wide as a coffee can. It was pretty heavy weighing about 110 pounds. She thought that this would be the perfect time to support her dad in something he cared about so much and not even participate in the project. She called him up and told him that she wanted to go with him and as no surprise he thought she was just messing with him. And later that day they were headed to Montana to the Bridger Mountains to shoot off his cannon.
The first Explosion went off and she couldn’t believe it she thought it was really cool. She right away ran to get her tape recorder and helped her father out in her own special way. That whole time they were bonding she was noticing little things about her father where they are so similar and she really liked it. At the end of the story her father explains to his family that when he dies he wants to be cremated and for his family to shoot his ashes from the cannon off the mountain on the opening day of hunting season, and that will be his final goodbye! So right there I think is a very important part where you can tell why the title is called “Shooting Dad.”

Rules for Writers Chapter 47

In this weeks reading we read chapter 47. The first thing they talked about was coming up with a good reasonable argument. People may disagree on some questions, but that is how it is always going to go. When your making a good argument your goal is not just to win the debate, or for you to get the last word in. Your goal is to bring new ideas and add information into the debate, and to explain your own understanding of the truth about the subject that your doing your debate on. There are different ways people view arguments, in a social way and a intellectual way. You need to get your research before you start to prepare for your debate, you need to make sure that you know that the audience doesn’t already agree with you or is on your side. Because you’re the one who needs to make up their minds by what you say. In the introduction you need to state your position on the issue, you need to establish your credibility, which shows them a common ground between you and the audience so your argument is believable. You want to add persuasive sentences through out your argument. Those sentence will help a lot and will strengthen your case. They talked about different ways of stating facts, examples, statistics, and expert opinions. By doing that it will really help your debate. After all this they talk about the opposing arguments. Which to me might be the most important part of your case. You really need to make sure you attempt to review the opposing arguments and counter them because this will help out your side by maybe proving them wrong. You will need to establish your purpose, demonstrate the significance of the issue your debating over, and doing so will strengthen your case!! I remember taking a debate class and it was in the summer so it was a very short class, and we didnt get to learn that much at all. But if i used these tips when i was getting ready for my debate it probably would of helped me out alot. When they were talking about using statistics and expert examples and stuff like, it really does make a different and does strengthen your debate!

“Coming Home Again” Dialogue

Why does the author's mother regret sending him off to a boarding school?
In the story “Coming Home Again” by Chang-rae Lee being a young boy at age fifteen was sent away to boarding school to get a good high school education. Being away for four years and completing his high school education was a proud moment for his mother. As a child he would always be in the kitchen with her, he knew he could not help make the food because she would always shoo them away and it was not the place for him she always had said. He would stay there anyways right by her hip watching her prepare and make the food they were about to eat. I really think she never realized how much she really liked him bothering her in the kitchen until he was gone. I think that she was scared that if he stayed with her and didn’t move away for school that he would not like her. And Change-rae knew that wasn’t the case at all.
While he as gone his mother got very ill and was fighting cancer. When he got back his mother told him that she thinks she made a mistake by sending him away to boarding school. Change-rae wanted to know why it was a mistake and she told him because she didn’t know she was going to die. So I think that is one of the reasons why she regrets sending him away. She didn’t know she was going to die so soon. And her sending him away they lost four years that they could of spent together. After so many months of pain and fighting this illness I really think she realized how much she really missed her only son, and since he was gone for so long she would remember him as that little fifteen year old boy who admired her in that kitchen.

Writing Topic: Rules for Writers chapter 46

Chapter 46 teaches us about the word texts, which means a variety of different works. They talk about annotating, active reading, making a brief outline, summarizing, and analyzing. It teaches us how to engage with our work by writing down questions or thoughts in the margin or in your notebook. This helps you to remember what your thinking , other than letting it slip away. Tells us to read and than re read again to discover the meaning or what your reading. After you do all that you should try to sketch a brief outline of the text. While doing this pay attention to the texts thesis and the topic sentences. Summarizing you want to state the main ideas or key points very simple and briefly. Analyzing you want to examine an image as a whole and break it down so it makes sense overall.
This chapter helped me out because when I read I never really understand what I just read? So I would have to reread it a couple times. Now I learned that it is easier to just write your thought and questions in the margins so you can come back and find the meaning of it and understand what your reading. Trying to make an outline will also help me so I can put things in order and understand it better. So these tips will really help me and I will try them next time I read!

Rules for Writers, Chapters 2 and 3

Chapters two and three really focused on organization and the beginning steps of the writing process. With writing a paper you start with organizing for rough draft. A rough draft is all your materials your using before you even start to write. Such as; your outlines, lists, or free writes etc. On our rough draft you don’t need to worry about it being perfect, this is the time when you can be messy and throwing your information different places to see where it fits. In chapter two they talked about your introduction, which is where your thesis is introduced. Next comes the body of your paper., Which includes the support for your thesis. And lastly comes the conclusion , where the reader should really understand your main points of your paper with out repeating things. After all this its time for revision. They introduce this in Chapter 3. Proofreading is done slow while looking for typos and mistakes. Also having a couple different people read your essay will help because they will find errors that you didn’t. A well proofread essay shows that you value and respect your own writing.
In my past English classes, the writing process was always hard for me to get. I could always come up with so many ideas but I never really known how to put them together right and develop a good paper. When I was reading about how your rough draft doesn’t have to be perfect really helped me because that is what I always tried to do, I know now that it can be messy and I don’t have to be so hard on my self and be so critical. I hope by using this tips I have read will really help my writing skills and I will keep them in mind on my future essays!

My Dad :)

If I could write about anyone in the world, it would be my Dad, Russell Poole. Every kid growing up looked at their dad as if he was superman, my dad would top them all. There is nothing my dad cant do, and I would trust in him with all my heart and he continued to never let me down. He’s tall, big and looks like a Harley Davidson biker , which may make him look intimidating, but once you get to know him he is the nicest man you will ever meet. Through all the hard times in my life, he was always there for me and always cared. No matter what the situation, he always had my back in whatever I did, even if he did not always agree. Which was usually the case, which made me appreciate him even more!

Growing up, Soccer has always been a passion of mine. Since my dad loves my passion for the game and saw how much pride I took in it, he would turn his schedule around from working everyday he could to support on his own four kids and a grandson, to somehow making it to every single game I have ever played. In the game I love looking up and seeing him with his huge tripod camera rooting me on! Here I am now, playing College ball and he still chooses to attend my games. He’s my #1 fan and my best friend; I couldn’t go a day with out seeing him. Their's a special bond between a father and a daughter, and to have such a close relationship with him had changed my throughout the years. I’ve noticed qualities I have gotten from him and I feel so proud to know I an turning out to be half the person he is.