Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) are often caused by things such as abuse, neglect, caregiver mental illness, household violence, racism, community violence, or other negative experiences. These cause children to have extreme amounts of toxic stresses. These stressors often times stick with children for extended periods of time. When children experience things like poverty racism, and violence it can heavily impact their development. It often causes disorders that lead to major damage of the body and brain. Those damages are often hard to overcome and lead to social issues. Not only do ACEs and toxic stresses effect social skills and health. They also effect ones ability to learn. Often times adults who experienced ACEs as children are less educated due to a struggle in that area. These stressors cause it to be difficult for many children to learn. These issues are both extremely detrimental to childhood development and are important to look out for.

1. There were a lot of really great advisory points that were made in the podcast. The two points of advice I believe will help me the most were “ Take advantage of fast track” and “Meditation Mondays are with Camp Best on Mondays”. Im really excited to try having a great relaxing time on Mondays. 

2. The thing I’m most looking forward to in collage is finding stability and having fun. What I’m least looking forward to is the harder work periods that come with collage. 

3. If there was any piece of advice that I would give to someone going into 9th grade its take advantage of it. Each and every day counts when you look back. There were so many times that i wish I had taken a break to do something incredible, so many events that I already miss, and so many people I will have only had in that stage of life. I was never someone who cared about school like I should have. I just wanted to get through it and move on. When covid took that second half of the year away I was overjoyed. That is until I realized at graduation that it was gone. The memories and people you’ll have in your life during high school will be ones you miss. I was blessed to experience to high schools that were entirely different. If I could go back and take it all in again. Trust me I would without hesitation.

Earlier this week in mindful Monday we discussed empathy and how we could be more empathetic. I went into the week with a mindset of trying to be more empathetic to those around me. I ended up having a big opportunity to do so. In my fraternity we had to vote on wether to keep or kick out a member. I felt really bad for him and truly felt his pain. I felt it so much so that when I stood and spoke, trying to argue in his favor, I could barley speak. I thought that everyone would feel the same empathy that I did and it hurt that they didn’t. In the end we lost him by just one vote. I was truly hurt and hated the entire situation. When I listened to the podcast and heard how people have become less empathetic, how people can be killed as if its a video game, and how a man was so brutally treated in his test it was awful. I understand that sometimes people deserve what’s coming to them. I just hope I can continue to live life with the mindset that they don’t.

Conversation

The conversation video was incredibly engaging. She started it off slow with some basic conversation topics. Then she said throw all that wisdom away and made it interesting. She explained how in todays world people are so quick to judge. Instead of talking there are kids sending over one hundred text a day. She also explained how there is rarely anything to talk about without conflict. The first point that really stood out was just being open to others views. Instead of judging and just trying to answer truly listen. That is such a hard thing to grasp at times but so important. The next point came in the form of a quote from the speakers sister, “A good conversation is like a miniskirt; short enough to retain interest, but long enough to cover the subject. I died out laughing at this with a friend. It’s such a witty analogy and so true. You have to keep interest but don’t make it too lengthy. I think if you put these into play you can really help your conversations.

Murray Reading Journal

Title of Article + Proper MLA Citation for Works Cited page	Donald Murray “The Makers Eye”
Summarize the article — include your reaction, thoughts, anything to help you remember its claims. 100 to 150 words	The article breaks down the writing process from Donald Murrays perspective. It explains how writers go through the first draft looking for different grammatical issues. Murray then goes into styles of writing. He talks about how you have some writers that hate everything they do and others that love everything they do. In the end there is a bale between the both needed. He breaks down detachment and how it helps writers. He basically says that you can take input but don’t let it cloud your style. Writing is an expression of the writer not others opinions. He ends the work with an overview of the seven elements of writing and what they do.
Define new terms and concepts by quoting or paraphrasing the original author.	NA
How does this reading connect to other articles from class and/or your own research? Â	It was a very broad writing paper. Things like going over your paper and blocking out others opinions have been included in other works.
Based on the reading, craft one question to act as a springboard for class discussion.	What is the most important aspect of keeping a piece of work ones own while still taking input from others?

Literacy to me is most importantly reading. I love reading and the worlds created through it. As a kid I was never a good reader. I often struggled to read which made me feel left out. Luckily I was read to often by my parents. My mom has told me many times that id sit for hours even before I can recall and listen to books. I find reading is always something I can fall on for inspiration in life or writing. Which is why my mom is such a big literary sponsor for me. 

My Mom is such an incredible person. She is an actor and when I was young a collage professor. She has so much energy and excitement in everything she does. This came out so much in her reading to me over the years. The building blocks of a play are the words that make it up. She was able to use books almost like a script. That really drove me to want to read better and helped me bring books to life. 

When I was a senior in high school my class was studying a play. My mom made sure I knew it in a big way. My living room became a play reading. My mom, myself, and various skilled actors she new all sat together and read. Each of us brought our part of the play to life. It was incredible to hear each part aloud. Each character had meaning and life. Which is all put together in the writing itself. It was an incredible experience that led to me making an amazing grade on the test. 

Fishman Reading Journal

Title of Article + Proper MLA Citation for Works Cited page	Author(s). “Title of Article.” Title of Journal, Volume, Issue, Year, pages. Andrea R. Fishman A Lesson from the Amish Literacy and Cultural Context 1987 Pages 842-849 Volume 64
Summarize the article — include your reaction, thoughts, anything to help you remember its claims. 100 to 150 words	The article begins in an amish home filled with family and friends. It tells us about there dinner cooking, games to be played, and most importantly the readings that occur. It then breaks down how this seems like a normal household but is not. In the next section it describes the various reading materials the family has and how they get them. The next section describes how the amish write. It is unique in its own ways and a big part of amish life. It describes so many interesting parts of life. It seems that the amish are much more simplistic people than most.
Define new terms and concepts by quoting or paraphrasing the original author.	NA
How does this reading connect to other articles from class and/or your own research? Â	It is a very unique way of living. It in many ways sounds like parts of my life. It also made me wonder how that style of learning could possibly be more effective for learners like me.
Based on the reading, craft one question to act as a springboard for class discussion.	Is the amish way of learning applicable to a more modern way of life?

24 Hour Writing Log

9:00 AM

Text Massage

3 words

tutor

10:27 AM

Text Massage

10 words

dad

10:45 AM

Snapchat

3 words

main contacts

12:00 PM

Text Message 

24 words

roommate

12:15 PM

Text Massage 

15 words

friend

12:36 PM

Text Massage 

39 words

friend

1:31 PM

Text Massage

12 words

friend 

5:43 PM

Text Massage 

1 word

friend

6:23 PM

Text Massage

20

girlfriend 

6:45 PM

Text Massage

25

friend

8:00 Pm

Text Massage 

40

Girlfriend 

Reading Journal James Gee

Title of Article + Proper MLA Citation for Works Cited page	James Gee Volume 171 Journal of Education 1989 pages 18-23
Summarize the article — include your reaction, thoughts, anything to help you remember its claims. 100 to 150 words	The article broke down different aspects of discourses. It broke down five main aspects of discourses. One is that discourses are inherently ideological. Two is that discourses are resistant to internal criticism and self scrutiny since uttering viewpoints that seriously undermine them is defined one as being outside them. Three is discourse defined positions from which to speak and behave are not however defined just internally. Four is that any discourse concerns itself with certain objects and puts forward certain concepts, viewpoints, and values at the expense of others.
Define new terms and concepts by quoting or paraphrasing the original author.	Discourse-a socially accepted association among ways of using language, of thinking, and of acting that can be used to identify oneself as a socially meaningful group or “socail network”. Acquisition– process of acquiring something subconsciously. Learning-process that involves conscious knowledge gained. Literacy-control of secondary uses of language. Dominant Literacy-control of secondary use of language. Powerful Literacy-control of secondary use of language used in secondary discourse.
How does this reading connect to other articles from class and/or your own research? Â	Discourses are a big part of any writing and could be implemented to any of the works we have been studying.
Based on the reading, craft one question to act as a springboard for class discussion.	How does discourse effect a writing work?

Peer Group Resume

1. I am really good at letting my ideas flow. If I am passionate or relate then I can easily come up with good work. If i don’t relate or feel passionately I sometimes struggle to come up with anything. I hope to improve that skill throughout the year.
2. I want to know how my work makes one feel. Does it draw you in or make you wanna stop reading. Is there lots of errors or improper usage of words. I do well when criticized and prefer that to blowing over mistakes.
3. Gryffindor 
4. bdinkin@go.olemiss.edu
5. I am a little lost on all of this. I would guess I would prefer the most forgiving option since I struggle with school.