John's Reading Reviews

 Today in class Mr. Davidson asked us to reply to the following three questions, so I'm going to try and answer them in this post.  1. Do you like to read fantasy or Science Fiction? why or why not?  2. What fantasy or Science fiction location from a Novel is your favorite? would you want to go there yourself? why or why not?      I have enjoyed reading Fantasy and Sci-fi novels since I was in grade school. I started with books like Harry Potter and Percy Jackson. One of my favorite parts about fantasy and sci-fi novels is the familiarity and difference that these worlds can have, like in Harry Potter, where things like paintings and stairs aren't even fully what they seem. Or in sci-fi novels, which have tons of futuristic technology, and some things that would make life so much easier. If I could go to any location from any fantasy or sci-fi novel, I'd have to choose Hogwarts from Harry Potter. I know that it is a pretty overused location, but the reason ...

 This past week in class, we looked at the idea of perspective influencing the way that people see things. To illustrate this, we broke the class into groups and chose an argument over which a person will take the opposite stance their partner has, and create an infographic against or for a topic. Jean and I paired up and took the prompt of "Have curse words lost their shock value". normally I would have argued for that Idea, as many curse words are used a lot in regular conversations now. but I found myself actually going against that Idea, which made me have to step out of my comfort zone and look at things in a completely different way. While there were a lot of arguments for the idea that curse words have lost their meaning, I had a lot of trouble finding an article that proposed the opposite idea. But when I finally did, I knew exactly how I would make my argument. The Infographic I made was designed in that particular way, as the only argument against cursing having los...