Tuesday, April 2, 2013

Appearance Counts!

     This is in response to Mrs. Stevens blog on appearance....



APPEARANCE COUNTS

     Yes, it does. It matters in your social life and in your business life. It is the defining line between your success, and your ridicule. For example, Ugly Betty.
Yes, though she is a fictional character in a fictional business, following a fictional story line; the message still rings true. When you present yourself in the manner in which you'd like to be treated, then you receive that kind of treatment. Ugly Betty presented herself in an adolescent way, so she was treated as a child and as if she was incompetent in her job.
     

These are a few good examples of professional dress:


And with the good comes the bad....





Friday, March 1, 2013

Storyboard

Here is a copy of my Storyboard and lesson plan.


Here is a link to my lesson plan.  Click here.



Monday, February 25, 2013

Glog Blog

This is a glog I made through edu.glogster.com. This glog explains the steps to creating a controlling idea in a thesis paper, and provides videos, visuals and step by step instructions. This glog is targeted to my 7th grade Comp. class.

Thank you! Enjoy! 


http://s6jko72.edu.glogster.com/taren-holder-7th-grade-english-and-comp-controlling-idea

Friday, January 18, 2013

My Plans for the Future




As the last first semester of my high school career closes, and the beginning of my second semester unravels, I cannot help but think of the road that lies before me. But more importantly, where that road is going to take me. The place where I'm going to end up. I also have to consider how my actions now, dictate whether that road is a road of success or a road of unnoticed potential. Then I think of the things I want to change in myself...

1. I want to change my attitude. Compared to how I once was, I developed the traits of a Negative Nancy. I've created quite a sadistic outlook on life, and tend to often see the glass half empty... or just empty. Because that's how it's gonna end up anyway. I hope that by changing this outlook, I can become happier, and by expecting things to be better, things will become better.


2. I need to start getting on top of this whole college thing. Like seriously, it's about six months away. Six months. And I'm just now applying for FASFA? Yikes. I've kind of set myself up for failure. And I hope by changing this pattern I can set myself up for success instead.


3. I want to make better grades this semester. I need to start turning in my paperwork on time, and staying on task so I'm not hurrying to turn in papers last minute.Hopefully, by making better grades, I can have a more enjoyable second semester.

20 minutes


When I become a teacher, I can make sure that my kids develop a love of reading by reading in class often. I would also choose books that I know they can connect with, and will catch their interest. I'll praise them when they finish books, or when I see that they're becoming passionate about what they're reading.


As an intern teacher, I can MAJORLY see the difference in the student who read versus the students who don't. The students who read have a larger vocabulary, don't stumble during popcorn reading, their writing is more fluid, and they understand classroom material more than the kids who don't.


If I was a parent, to ensure that my child reads, I'd instill a love of learning as soon as possible. Children act by example, so I'd make sure to read in front of them often, and always praise them when they do read. I'd start a library for them, and add higher level reading books as they grow older. We'd read together, and I would make sure that they understand what they're reading, and how it affects our world.


I love reading. It provides an escape from reality, and hooks you into a world different from your own. 


I believe that if we read more in classes, I'd have a higher understanding of those subjects.


When I read, I mostly read mystery books. Just fun, easy, and interesting books. But lately, I've been wanting to challenge myself even in my recreation reading. I recently bought "Emma" by Jane Austen from Barnes and Nobles, and plan to start that book very soon.


I probably have twenty minutes that I could read more, rather than twitter or facebook.


If I could do it all over again, I wouldn't blow off my junior year. I'd buckle down, and do all my work when it was assigned. I would read more as well.



Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Solutions

     In light of the tragic massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary last Friday, the same question echoes through every American's mind: "Why?" Why did this happen? Why did this happen to those kids and educators, who were doing an everyday, normal task... Simply going to school     

And why is it, that a school is no longer a safe environment for our kids? As an educator, and as a person who adores children, this not only angers me to an extreme extent, but causes me immense heartbreak.      

These children's parents should be planning Christmas mornings, not funerals. Those kids had every right to graduate, get a job, enjoy birthdays, play in the water every summer, find love, and have kids of their own.      

They had every right to see the new year. But they are forever frozen in 2012.      

And for that, there is no justice. There is no peace of mind. There is only the anger, sadness, tears and rage that drives the fire, ensuring this kind of tragedy never happens to another educator, or another child ever again.    

And to do that, we must not forget. 

We cannot forget the slaughter of those twenty innocent  children, and those brave six teachers and educators. We cannot forget the feeling of sheer terror we all felt, when the live coverage of the event flooded every TV station. We cannot forget the images we saw of the neighbors, coworkers, friends, sisters, brothers, mothers and fathers. We cannot forget the sensation when the breathe was knocked out of us, as we heard all twenty-six names of the dead in President Obama's speech. We cannot forget the names of those children. We cannot forget the faces of those children.


We cannot forget

Noah
Emelie
Jack
Jessie
Victoria
Grace
Catherine
Dawn
Mary                                          
Lauren
Olivia
Rachel
Jessica
Ana
Charlotte
Daniel
Josephine
Chase
James
Dylan
Anne
Avielle
Benjamin

Thursday, November 1, 2012

Field Trips

     My favorite field trip I went on was when in the third went to the planetarium. We were studying stars, their different patterns, the shapes, and how they line up in the sky. When we went to planetarium we had a presentation that showed us the stars above our head, and the people who worked at the planetarium told us about the different stars that were less known.

     I remember being totally entranced in the show, and loving every second of it. The screen above us made it feel like we were sitting under the stars. And when they'd focus on one star, or constellation, the screen would zoom into it, and it felt like you were in a spaceship flying through space.

     What made this trip so memorable to me was that it a lesson I had never done before. When we had talked about the stars in class, we'd look at pictures in books, or on the internet. But it always felt like we were in the classroom. This gave us a kind of out-of-body experience and made us forget that we were learning, and all we had to enjoy the field trip.