Phi 210 Week 1

What Did You Expect To Learn When You Picked Up The Book? To What Extent – And How Effectively – Were Your Expectations Met?

Prepare an (approximately) 200 word summary of the textbook material you have read this week on Chapter 6. This summary should be entered in your learning journal this week.

This week’s discussion was worse than last weeks since some people were not listening and that more parts of the book were getting more challenging to understand. I did not enjoy the discussion director’s part of the discussion because most questions were hard to respond to and there was a limited amount of

2. List three specific insights (new ideas or concepts) you learned from this chapter—include a quotation from the book for each: Insight One: Page 33 reads, “In prayer, real prayer, we begin to think God’s thoughts after him: to desire the things he desires, to love the things he loves, to will the things he wills. Praying takes practice, dedication, and passion. Being the humans that we are, we tend to focus on ourselves a lot, but to have more powerful and meaningful prayer, one needs to focus on people around them and their situations. As well as things that will show love and happiness to

1. What did you think of the reading? Did the Nacirema people have weird customs? What were your initial feelings? Did they fit one of the concepts from the chapter: culture shock, cultural relativism or ethnocentrism?

I found the book to be a wealth of knowledge. The chapter titles were catchy and I was able to put visual images with some of things which were discussed in the book. In Chapter 2 Allies and Enemies, I automatically saw boys against girls; each group thinks they are better. However we are interchangeable.

Your assignment is to read the book and answer a set of review questions. The questions will be impossible to answer without actually reading the book. The questions do not necessarily address the larger themes discussed in the book, but are intended to highlight interesting details, and simply force a closer reading of the book. I recommend that you keep the questions before you as you read. You will be asked to affirm that you have done your own work.  After completing the reading and the questions, you will write an essay based on the book. The essay question is found at the end of the review questions.

Reading chapter eight, after watch the video for our second WRA really opened my eyes to see different perspectives. Though chapter eight did not really make me question anything either. It was all mainly chapter five that has put a few questions in my head, but the rest of the chapters gave me knowledge that I will use for the future. 2. Name three concepts that you found to be of particular interest in this module.

Question: What seems to be the purpose or focus of this particular chapter? What do you observe the author doing here? How does this chapter seem to work in the terms of the author’s larger argument?

Directions: To give you a comprehensive understanding of all aspects of the novel, answer the following questions for Part Three in complete sentences and use a different colored font.

I still am confused on why they don’t bring it up during the book and that intrigued me. #2. What things are you doing to help you understand the book?

Question number 4 about how the reader should interpret the book was a great conversation in my opinion. My group and I all contributed well to this question. My response was that the reader should interpret the memoir in sociological

Chapter 2 is full of information that made me think of things in a new perspective. I came across so many things in the chapter that made me have more appreciation for the power and overall greatness of our God. There is so much that goes into the body and it's responses that there is no better explanation than a creator. While I was reading I was trying to take everything into account about neurons. It is amazing how they are such a small part of the body, but hold such a great responsibility.

3. I'm not sure exactly what the next chapter is about, but I seem to remember hearing that we weren't going to be using the textbook for the next chapter. I might be wrong about that, but if I'm not, then my preparation will likely be very similar to this chapter. If I don't think I understand the content of the next chapter very well, then I'll obviously do more review before the test, but other than that, I don't see much changing (assuming I was right about not using the

Chapter 1-  This chapter was very interesting to me. I feel this way because it opened my eyes about what I’m reading and how I’m reading it. For example when Foster was explaining the story he began talking about a quest. Now when I was reading the passage, the word quest didn't even pop in my mind. I thought it was just a regular kid going to the store to get some bread. Now I understand how to pick the story apart and find a quest within that. He also explained the parts of a quest which was very helpful for me. It made it that much easier to pick out each part of what I was reading and be able to analyze it  with no problem. I now understand that you have to dig deeper into the story and you never know what you’ll find. My first example that focuses on the theme of this chapter would be “The Spongebob Squarepants Movie” In the movie Spongebob gets turned down from the promotion of his dreams because  Mr.Krabs said he is a “kid”. However, he still goes on the adventure to Shell City to stop Mr.Krabs from being executed. He faced many obstacles in the way. At the end Mr.Krabs realizes he’s not a kid after all.