Your job for today was to produce a final draft of your précis on “The Untold Lie.” Let’s get that document out.
1) Journal: (Suggested: 10 Minutes)
How is this draft a better draft than the last draft? Explain, citing good evidence in the new document using out three-step method for including quotes in our work.
2) Group Discussion: (Suggested: 5 Minutes)
Discuss your outcomes
3) Class Discussion: (Suggested: 5 Minutes)
Turn In Précis
New Concept: Plot
Journal assignment: (Suggested: 10 Minutes)
What does the word “plot” mean to you when it is used to describe a story? Go into good detail and provide examples.
Group Discussion: (Suggested: 5 minutes)
Class Discussion: (Suggested: 5-10 Minutes)
Min-Lecture:
Plot: The series of events in a story that are linked by causal relationships. It is not a summary.
Homework: One-page blog post: What is the plot of your average day? Do _not_ write a summary.
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Peter Tallau
February 10, 2011
Prof. Crowley
EH 200
Over the course of a day I will spend my time doing many different things. One of my biggest wants in life is to grow more in my Christian faith. Since I have this desire I spend time every morning and every night reading my Bible. This gives me knowledge about how to live my life and what is the best way to handle different situations that can arise throughout my day. It also provides a nice quiet way to start the day while I am waking up and getting ready for my day of classes and other activities.
An area where I spend a lot of time is going to class and doing homework. Being a college student, this should be one of my biggest focuses in life due to the fact that it basically is my career right now and what I do now will have a huge impact on my life down the road. Getting good grades now will pay off down the road after I graduate and am looking for a job in my career field.
My free time is spent mostly just hanging out with friends as I try to get to know them better and help them through any tough times they may be going through. I do my best at all times to help my friends whenever they need help. People need friends in tough times and I do my best to be there for my friends when they need someone to talk to.
Comment by Peter Tallau — February 10, 2011 @ 4:57 pm |
Alex Martin
When considering the plot of my everyday life, I had to look at the causal relationships in my everyday activities. A causal relationship is an event that will lead to another event, kind of like a domino effect. A big part of my life is being a college student. I wake up every morning and go to school. This is followed by having to do homework. These are two events in my everyday life that are linked together. By going to class everyday, I have homework requirements for these classes and to get the grades for my class I must complete the homework.
Another causal relationship that occurs in my life is going to school every day and hanging out with friends. Without school I would have not met these friends. A good way to get over the busyness of school is hanging out with my friends. It allows me to unwind after a long day and just enjoy the good times in life.
The last major event to conclude the plot of my life is between my friends and soccer. With the team being out of season, we have reserved time for the guys to get together in the gym to play indoor soccer. This goes hand in hand with hanging out with my friends. Many times before we play, my friends and I will hang out and then head to the gym together. Playing soccer is a good way to bond as a team and we look for more players to come join us. We get competitive but in the end, we are just playing for fun and to improve.
Comment by Alex Martin — February 10, 2011 @ 6:37 pm |
Kelsey Mehrtens
02/10/11
EH 200
Plot-Average Day
Trying to find causation relationships in my average day was not exactly the hardest task. The first was obviously the daily occurrence of school and homework. Every week day I go to class because I am a full-time college student. Because I go to class, I have homework. If I did not go to school, I would not have homework to complete. This is a major part of my average day, because instead of having a 40 hour a week job, I am a full-time student, so I spend 40 hours a week either in class or doing homework.
Another causation relationship is between work and school. I am a full-time student, but part of my financial aid is work-study. Because I am at school, I have a job, but without a job I would not be able to go to school. This relationship works both ways because without a job, I would not be able to pay for school, but without being at school, I would not have my work-study job. This has a third aspect to it, as it is work-study and not just work. At work, when I am not busy, I do school work. If I was not at school, I would lose the second aspect of the job I have, making the study part of work-study irrelevant, eliminating the relationship.
The final relationship that is part of my average day is that between school and friends. I live in another state, so I met all my friends through school. Without school, I would not know the people I know as my friends. Consequently, since we are all full-time students, when we hang out during the day, a lot of our conversations revolve around school. We talk about professors, homework, interesting things that happened in class, etc. Without being at school, even if we did meet another way, we would have very little to talk about.
Comment by Kelsey Mehrtens — February 10, 2011 @ 7:13 pm |
Logan Brown
In class we have been discussing terms that are brought about in the stories that we have been reading. The new term is plot. Plot is the series of events in a story that are linked by causal relationship. It is not a summary. In class we went over a summary of our average day, now given this definition I will give you an inside on the plot of my day. Be prepared,` my life is extremely boring.
When I went out to my car this morning it would not start. I got frustrated because I needed to go to the bank so I could order a valentine gift. Luckily my aunt got me AAA for Christmas so an hour later they came and towed my car to the shop. So now I am stuck with no car and an empty bank account. My job entails me of picking up a little boy from school and going out into the community with him. My car has been stuck in the shop all day though so I had to call out of work. Since I had to call out of work I am now losing fifty dollars and going to get a slap on the wrist for not completing my hours for the week. The bright side to this is that I now have had plenty of time to do my homework and study for a test.
The empty bank account means that I can’t go pick up my car until tomorrow because the bank is closed. Not only don’t I have a car, but I cannot order the Valentine gift until tomorrow either which means the turtle won’t make it here until Tuesday or later which defeats the purpose of a Valentine gift. It has been a rough day but a very successful one when thinking in terms of homework completion. I was able to write to papers get one checked by the teacher which led me to go back to my room and revise it some more. I will also have more time to study which will hopefully lead me to get a better grade on my first anatomy test. A good grade will then put a smile on my face.
Comment by Logan Brown — February 10, 2011 @ 9:08 pm |
Nathan Gosselin
EH200
Plot
The plot of an average day in the life of Mr. Nathan Gosselin begins because of causal relationships. First thing I was married which makes me a husband, because I am a husband, I have a wife. Since I have a wife I have a family that I am responsible for. Since becoming a husband and starting a family through marriage this has resulted in offspring. I am a father of two boys aged 2 months and 2 years. For the fact that I am a husband of a wife and a father of two boys I am also a pharmacy technician. I am a pharmacy technician because I am a father and a husband, and need to have a job to earn money to pay for expenses and to support my family financially. I am also student, I am astudent because I am a pharmacy technician, being a pharmacy technician means I do not make enough money to support my family financially the way that I want to. So I am a student so that I can make more money than a pharmacy technician can make.
I explained these things about my self because they are the links to the series of events that happen in my average day. I wake up in the morning because the alarm goes off. I get up because I have to either go to school or work. I go to work or school because I am a husband and father. If I go to school this causes me to have homework to do. I do the homework because I want to get good grades in my classes. I want to get good grades in my classes because I want to graduate. I want to graduate because I want to become an RN, I want to become and RN because I want to become a nurse anesthetist. I want to become a nurse anesthetist because I want the salary of a nurse anesthetist which will then allow me to provide financially for my family in the way that I want to be able to.
Comment by Nathan Gosselin — February 10, 2011 @ 10:34 pm |
Jaimie Beers
Professor Adam Crowley
EH 200 Approaches to Literature
11 February 2011
During class we have been learning new terms; class, income, play, and setting. Now our newest word that we are working with is plot. Our definition of plot, according to our class, is the series of events in a story that are linked by causal relationships, which are events that happen and make another event happen. When thinking about plot and an average day of my life I have to pay close attention to the causal relationships that happen during my day. When I think of my average day one of the biggest events that happens is that I go to school. Because of my want for a higher education and a great job it results in me setting my alarm every week night, which then results in me waking up and going to school in the morning.
Since I get up and go to school, school then results in me getting homework from my professors, and due to the fact that I want to do well in school and succeed I do my homework when I get home from school. When I’m not doing homework or I’m not in school I’m usually working. Due to that fact that I have bills and things to pay for I have to work in order to make money so I can pay for them. Because I go to school, have homework, and work I can get stressed. So because I don’t want to get stressed and I want to have a good time I like to hang out with my friends and have fun. Then because I spend a lot of time at either school, doing homework, working, or playing it in return makes me tired at the end of the day which then leads me to my bed for a good night sleep, and because I go to bed it then circles back around leading me to setting my alarm to get up and do it all over again the next day.
Comment by Jaimie Beers — February 11, 2011 @ 2:36 am |
Until recently, I have never really taken the time to consider the plot of my average day. To be honest, I would have to say that I have been living each day passively with the inability to recognize the relationship between myself, and each day that just seemed to drift by. For instance, when I came to college, I had a busy class schedule that consumed most of my day. There were times between classes and after classes where I would either being dong homework, eating at the dining hall, hanging out with friends, sleeping, or engaging in activities that brought temperary happiness. As time went on, I became so occupied with my routine that it was the only thing that mattered. However, as this continued, I started to become so consumed by this routine, that I lost a sense of faith, direction, and purpose. The best way I can put it, is that I was never fully aware of who I was to begin with. I started to conform to these activities and lifestyles that I thought were acceptable and brought happiness into my life. While instead, created a false identity of myself that caused languish and a lack of self awareness.
In conclusion, I encountered a moment in my life that I will never forget. A moment where I have become awakened to the world around me. As I mentioned before, who I was becoming in my first year of college was not the best version of myself. Rather, a version that masked the true meaning and understanding of self. I had become so focused on doing things for the wrong reasons. Constantly thinking of things in the past and future that prevented me from living in the present moment. I feel that this is an example of a causal relationship in my life.
Comment by Marshall davis — February 11, 2011 @ 8:23 am |
The newest concept we have discussed in class is plot; a series of events that are linked by causal relationships. As I begin to think about the plot to my average day, honestly it seems to be pretty boring.
I’m a sophomore in college studying Hospitality Management because someday I’d like to plan events. Because of this I attend classes daily Monday through Friday. I’m not a morning person at all, so when I wake up in the morning I go to the gym to gain motivation for the day. Once I’ve done this, I’m able to make it to all of my classes and not be exhausted. Because I want to be an event planner, I go to my internship at the Convention and Visitors Bureau where I am helping to plan and coordinate their annual dinner that is going to be held in May. After my internship I usually come back to school and do my homework, so I can get good grades. Since I typically still have a lot of free time on my hands, I’m involved in a few organizations at Husson: Kappa Delta Phi NAS, Student Government and The Hospitality Association of Husson. My nights are usually always occupied with a meeting or an event that one or more of these organizations is holding. Finally, after all of this is done, I’m ready for bed.
After considering the plot of my average day, it becomes evident that most of the things I do are linked together and therefore happen for a reason. I’d never really thought about this concept before, but rather just went about doing the things I do because I felt like it.
Comment by Lindsey Oliver — February 11, 2011 @ 1:49 pm |
From the moment I wake up in the morning it can usually be predicted how my day is going to play out. If I wake up easily, ready to start the day, then it will usually be a good day. If I wake up and am dragging then my day usually does not go so well. After I wake up and get dressed I go to work. Work then sets the pace for my day. If it is a slow day at work it will most likely be a slow day and vise versa. After work comes class. Depending on how work goes, I will be ready or not ready. On the average day work goes fine and prepares me for classes. Classes are sadly the climax of my day. This is the time when the waking up and preparing comes to point in which it really matters. Classes also make or break my spirit and affect the rest of the day. A good class equals me leaving and spending the rest of the day relaxing and happy. A bad class leaves me getting out of class upset and needing to spend time on homework throughout the afternoon. On the decline from the climax of my day I do the homework given from classes and sleep in order to start the process all over again.
It is difficult to break down an average day in terms of plot because events can be random and affect each other in a random matter. The fact that large events during the day may not deal with the larger plot also makes it difficult. Writing this has also helped me realize that I have a truly humdrum life at school. When I am home my life consists of more eventful activities and more activities in general. At school my life is consumed by working, classes, and homework. I am hoping that later in life my life gains that action adventure plot read about in books and seen in movies. Here is to hoping.
Comment by Justin Richards — February 11, 2011 @ 1:59 pm |
1 Page Blog Post on Plot
When considering the plot of my everyday life I had to take into perspective all the causal relationships part of my life; this is what plot is based on, causal relationships. There is only two main focuses in my life and those are being a college student as well as a collegiate athlete on the softball team. Being on time and present in class causes me to get up and get ready for the day. Then by going to class that causes me to participate in class discussions as well as carry out the daily homework I need to do for the next time I am in that class.
Being a collegiate athlete causes me to do many daily physical fitness exercises as well as schoolwork. I must first be present in all my classes, and then be on time for practice when it is scheduled. These things cause me to run, lift and stay healthy for practice and games during the season as well as in the off season. I first go to all my classes, then take the time to run, lift, and take ground balls to stay in tip-top shape for the season. In doing all these daily activities I find that I am very tired and run down at the end of each day. By the time night comes around I go home to my apartment and I have to take care of my dog. Sometimes this causes me to go to bed early and take a shower. Also, in order to be prepared for the next day I must get my school bag ready for the classes I have tomorrow and get my softball bag packed for a game or practice. The plot of my daily life is caused by a domino effect of events in my life that I must do on a daily basis.
Comment by Aimee Mortensen — February 11, 2011 @ 2:01 pm |
Lindsay Riedel
EH 200
If I were to plot my day, it would go something like this: First thing, my dog steps on my head; or any number of other defenseless and sensitive sleeping body parts. Because of this, I wake up. Because I’m awake, I cannot go back to sleep. Because I probably have to go to school – or work – I get up and start my day. Because my roommate closely resembles a bear waking up from hibernation in the morning, I avoid waking her. My stomach growls, which reminds me to eat something. My dog is whining, so we go for a walk. Because my dog took too long locating the holy grail of pee spots, I’m late in getting back to the house, so I have to rush to make it to class on time. Because I’m in a hurry, I forget to put on make-up and when I get to class I closely resemble a zombie.
Because my chemistry professor likes to ramble, I’m ten minutes late in getting out of class. This causes me to be angry on my drive home; and because of this I end up cutting off another driver. Because I cut that driver off, I manage to avoid getting stuck at the punishment light. This improves my mood.
Because I have no time to eat while at school, I’m famished. To counter this, I cook myself some food. Because I have school again tomorrow, I start on my homework. Because I just got out of 5 hours of classes, however, homework fails to hold my attention for long. Because I’m bored, I procrastinate. Because I’m trying to procrastinate, I end up cleaning out my closet, or doing some other mirthless, boring chore.
Once the chore is done and I have nothing else to do, I have to find something else to help me avoid doing homework for a while yet.
Once my roommate goes home, this gets easier. I cajole her into playing cribbage with me. Because I win and she is somewhat of a sore loser, the end of the game is less than pleasant. Because of said unpleasantries, I decide that homework might not be so bad after all. Because of this series of events, my homework is done early for once.
Comment by Lindsay Riedel — February 11, 2011 @ 2:33 pm |
Over the course of my day, I do a variety of things and in no particular order. One of the biggest and most important things I do when I first get up in the morning, after I pack my things for classes, is to spend time with my parents. I commute back and forth to and from the campus, and my parents need to be around me as much as I can before I get a career. Being a univeristy student has more responsibilities than I am used to. I am a second year student and have more responsibilities now that I am progressing with my education and getting a career.
When I am not spending time with my family and I am not in class, I like to spend the time I do have with my friends. I try to be there when they need me and I am always a person with advice. There have been times where a friend needs someone to be there for them or to talk to, and I was able to help them to the best of my ability. I am not a perfect person, and I will be one of the first people to tell you that.
Comment by Dan Volz — February 11, 2011 @ 3:37 pm |