Sarah Kay Summary Response Larissa Ibarra

Sarah Kay’s “If I Should Have a Daughter” displays how she tries to walk through life with an open heart and mind. She also discusses how she always tries to stay simple with who she is and tries to stay true to herself. Another topic she discusses is how she really became a poet and how when teaching teenagers to write poetry she always tells them to write down 10 things they know to be true. Sarah Kay spreads the idea of truth and openness through “If I Should Have a Daughter.

Through “If I Should Have a Daughter” Sarah Kay demonstrates how open mindedness, open handedness, and open heartedness can improve the world because of how understanding different cultures or people would be. If someone is closed off completely they could miss the most important details of life as well as not experience anything wholeheartedly. If teachers were more accepting of every learning types and saw different perspectives new curriculums and teaching systems might be implemented. If the same philosophy was to be used by everyone in the world there would be no war, all cultures would be accepted, and there would be no prejudice. Sarah Kay was also very captivating. She had a great use of words and is honest with the audience, “my knees still buckle” (Kay). Kay also used very expressive hand gestures. One could also tell how honest and real she was being with the audience by her tone. Along with her tone she included the audience with having the audience write down three thing they know to be true. One way I could use Kay’s talk with my own is her tone, it was calming and also very honest. “If I Should Have a Daughter” shows how one’s talk can be playful, honest, and still make you think about your decisions.

Ken Robinson Summary Response Larissa Ibarra

In “How Schools Kill Creativity” Ken Robinson discusses how the arts have been considered an inferior subject for students to be invested in. He states that all children have natural talents they can offer the world, but school systems squander the hope of having an artistically inclined career. Robinson also makes the point that intelligence can come in many ways and can be experienced in many ways. Overall the video conveys that everyone has a great deal of creativity to offer.

Ken Robinson’s “How Schools Kill Creativity” effectively portrays how much students have to offer and also how schools tend to oppress the artistic, creative side of children. Robinson speaks about how intelligence is experienced through many things and how it can differ depending on the person, “And the third thing about intelligence is, it's distinct” (Robinson). Robinson also talks about a woman, Gillian Lynne, who was always told that she had learning problems. However, she just learned differently and ended up becoming a successful choreographer. If schools started catering to the arts just as much as math and science a generation of creators and new thinkers would rise. The world would become a place of efficiency and well as beauty if the artistic types were not told to hide their creativity. Along with wonderful insight on creativity Robinson also presented the information in a very effective way. He was straight forward and also included the audience with questions that made the audience want to dive deeper into the subject. While he was straight forward he also made some parts humorous a which was a good relief from all of the information. I think Robinson’s style could help me with my Ted Talk in the way that I would like to add some bits of humor into mine along with pieces that really gets the audience thinking. “How Schools Kill Creativity” shows how every person’s intelligence should be highlighted and celebrated.  

Scribe 2/27/15

Work time

Conclusion Paragraph- Solutions, can be video, concept map, basically anything

Have writing and your website done

peer editing Monday and Tuesday 

Question for Cory Doctorow

Do you think our government will ever get like the one in Little Brother? 

Larissa Ibarra Franklin Quote Summary Response

A quote by Ben Franklin states that those who are willing to give up their freedoms should not be granted safety or freedom.

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety", said by Ben Franklin, correctly portrays the American way of thought on security and freedom. Humans will sacrifice their privacy to a point where they have none just for temporary security. One can see how the American society is constantly allowing its government to invade their privacy. Letting the government have access their daily activities and searches in order to be protected from terrorism is almost outrageous. Most would rather have their privacy rather than temporarily be safe from terrorism, “More than 60 percent of respondents said they value privacy over anti-terror protections” (Associated). Many would rather have some parts of their life private instead of only being protected for a short period of time against terrorism. Being protected is a priority in American society, but terrorism is always updating and changing, there is almost no possible way for the government to keeps Americans safe from every attack. When the people of the United States' students start being tracked it becomes excessive, "the technology was easy to acquire, meaning people outside a school might be able to monitor a student if they obtained the student’s unique tracking number" (Chammah). The school started putting these tracking devices in the school ids for attendance purposes but with the technology so easy to access it puts the students at risk. The devices are doing more harm than good, they invade the students' privacy as well as endanger them.

However, giving up privacy can be worth sacrificing if it means being safe. In some instances letting go of some privacy can be essential to staying safe. Being protected from terrorism sometimes is more important than privacy, "A large majority of Americans say the federal government should focus on investigating possible terrorist threats even if personal privacy is compromised, and most support the blanket tracking of telephone records in an effort to uncover terrorist activity” (Cohen). The government's efforts should be spent keeping America safe and if that means sacrificing personal privacy than American society should be willing to have their telephone records tracked. Everyone wants to have their privacy but some value their safety more. Some want their everyday activities to stay private and if they give up their privacy for security but they end up not being safe, all of their sacrificing was almost a waste. Security can only be kept temporarily and privacy is not worth giving up for a short period of safety.

At first glance giving up privacy seems like a reasonable price to pay for safety. This position seems reasonable because if a terrorist attack occurs then one would be willing to have the government track them if it meant catching and stopping a terrorist. But it's more complicated than that, if the government if busy tracking and monitoring everyone and honing in on anyone that looks suspicious then anyone can look like a terrorist or threat. With all of the government's energy being spent on monitoring everyone the chances of them catching a terrorist is very slim and they can only guarantee safety if they actually catch a terrorist. Also, there will always be another threat the government can not protect its people from everything therefore giving up all of one's privacy is pointless.

   

Works Cited

ASSOCIATED PRESS. "Poll: Americans Value Privacy over Security." POLITICO. Politico, 27 Jan. 2014. Web. 04 Feb. 2015.

                  Cohen, John. "Most Americans Back NSA Tracking Phone Records, Prioritize Probes over Privacy." Washington Post. The Washington Post, 10 June 2013. Web. 04 Feb. 2015.

Chammah, Maurice, and Nick Swartsell. "Student IDs That Track the Students." The New York Times. The New York Times, 06 Oct. 2012. Web. 02 Feb. 2015.

Scribe November 20, 2014

Group quiz on 451 136-end 

Work time on Symbol Project 

Introduces Final: Spoken word poem performed in front of the class

I bet poem: targeting a group of people

Honest poem

Rock Out poem

Memorization

Time: 3:10

SCRIBE 11-13-2014

Quiz on Farenheit 451 pages 41-68

Went over SAT questions: Exercise 3 question 2,3: thrusting in, thrusting out, verbatem, verbose, killing words

Turn in Othello, LOF, LWG 

Work time on Symbol

Homework: Read 451: 68-91, Fishbowl, SAT quiz, symbol project