Sunday, May 20, 2012

Reading-25-reflection


   Fifth teen weeks I ago started a reading 25 at South-West College my initial thoughts where that I was a good reader because I comprehend most of what I read. I will read something every day via it be on the internet, newspaper or from a magazine. Now that is near the end of semester I get chance to look back over this course an analyze how reading is different for me then it was at the beginning of the class I have learned important key factors in reading that are essential for one too become a great reader. I have learned a method called talk to text which has help me not only for understanding the reading material  with confidence and I defiantly a can see improvement in my other classes. The class has been a enjoyable for myself learning main idea, supporting details, implied main ideas, inferences, purpose and tone ,argument, and critical reading.

Sunday, May 6, 2012

My Argument

     I believe that youth football programs are cheating kids in the way they organize their weight class. The reason that I feel this way is due to how they group kids into weight classes and not  into age groups. So if a kid is five or ten pounds over-weight they are being punished by not being allow to play with their own age group. They have to play with the older children because of their weight. By me having children that play this sport, my son has never had a chance to play with his own age group because of his weight.  This is where I feel the unfairness comes in to play because due to the fact they allow the child to gain one pound per week, and by the end of the season the child has gained ten to twelve ponds anyway. In addition, when these kids get to high school there is no weight class so what is the difference between one year in the eighth grade and one year in the ninth grade.