Who Am I?
MBA
Major Blog Assignment
Value: 10 marks!
One of the themes the Sec 1’s were to study this year is identity. Do you know who you are? Have the literature and the assignments you were given contributed to a better understanding of self? This assignment will attempt to answer that question.
Just as the example I gave in class of Capote peeling back the layers of the onion to reveal the characters of the two murderers “In Cold Blood,” I want you to discuss who you are—your character and what you believe in. The study of philosophy will contribute to an understanding of self as well, but until we have delved deeper into “The Little Prince,” students will have to use their analytical skills learned in poetry. How well can you transfer these skills to a study of self?
Your task is to find a song that represents who you are. You then must do an analysis of the lyrics showing how they reveal your character or an important aspect of who you are and what you believe in. For this part of the assignment, you will have to use all your poetry skills. And while the task is the same for each student, everyone’s response will be different because it will come from “self.”
After you have analyzed the song, you must respond to it. Please go back to your learning style and incorporate this into your response. By individualizing your responses according to your learning style, this is in fact another display of self or who you are.
You should use your imagination for this part of the MBA. If you are visual it could be a collage response, if you are musical it could be added verses to the lyrics, or a written response in poem form. Just be sure that your response reflects who you are!
Who is the best person to judge if you have been accurate in your assessment of self—your parents. Please have either your mother or father respond in a line or two (they are welcome to write more) judging if they think their son has captured who he is.
There will be another response, this time from a peer. The person listed numerically after each student will judge their peer’s work. Number 34 will read number 1’s MBA and respond. The criteria for judging will consist of:
1) Effort. Did the student make a concentrated effort to find a song that represented him?
2) Analysis. Was the analysis strong, accurate, insightful and did it reflect the writer’s personality?
3) Response. Was there a thoughtful response to the song that incorporated the student’s learning style and again reflected his personality?
4) Overall. Now combine all these factors and holistically give your peer a mark out of 10. Please write a minimum of a 100 word critique on your classmate’s MBA.
These are the criteria I will use to judge each assignment. I will take into account the written critique, the mark they gave to the classmate and how thoughtful and accurate their remarks were. I will also look at parental responses. This will form a major portion of your final blog mark. A final grade out of 10 will be assigned.
Timeframe: All students must have their assignment finished by Friday. Critiques should be done by Friday evening or Saturday at the latest. I will be reading blogs this weekend and assigning final grades.
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