Sunday, January 27, 2013

class debate

Well for my first blog I decided to write about our first debate in class. So earlier this week Mr. Sweeney decided to let the students as a class pick the topics for our three research papers. Although this task at the beginning seemed to be an easy assignment he decided to added alittle something extra. For this particular assignment the class as a whole had to all agree on the same three topics. "Ohhh man not cool". He tried to make the topics we had to choose from broad so we could write about a plethora of sub-topics. But that made it even hard. In my class I believe there are atleast 20 students which means 20 different ideas 20 different point of views and 20 different thought processes. The only thing that ran through my mind when i rrealized how difficult this task would actually be was "What is this man thinking, is he trying to be on this one subject all semester." To begin we all decided to just simply take a vote because in our minds majority ruled but Mr.sweeney had completly different thoughts.Our voting only eliminated one of the nine topics we had to go through. After about ten minutes of deliberation and trying to pick apart other ideas we all unanimously decided the one topic we all wanted to write about was family. At this time Mr. Sweeney said he was doing this for a reason and all that what through my mind was what could possibly be the reasoning behind this confusion. So this made me begin to think of reasons; maybe its to bring the class together and get us talking, maybe it was to make us get our persuasion on, or maybe it was just to kill class time. Well the truth is i have know idea ans i dont think im going to know untill Mr. Sweeney decides to tell us lol. 

                                                                    Che'nyce Lewis