Hey everyone,
I think I will be writing about my High School community. It will be the best and easiest topic for me since I spent the last 4 years of my life there. I think I will spend some time talking about the different cliques in a High School. I was never apart of a clique, I was friends with jocks, nerds, cheerleaders, emos, and ect. There are also tipping points all around High School so I believe I can include a bunch of those.
I was thinking about writing about the JMU community, but as Emily said I do not think I have been here long enough.
Thanks for reading,
Cameron
Cameron, I'm going to tell you the same thing I told Emily. If your high school is unique enough that you can position it as its own community distinctive from the typical American high school community, this can work. Like I told Emily, I attended a pre-engineering high school which offered courses and programs that were very different from a typical high school curriculum, so I can imagine constructing a narrative about the pre-engineering high school community.
ReplyDeleteIf you do not have something that unique, though, I'm afraid you would end up writing about high school communities in general rather than that of your particular school. You may want to narrow your topic. Consider a club you belonged to or a class you took that was community in itself.
I don't think that being a freshmen should deter you from writing about the JMU Community. This is where some research comes in! There are so many communities within the JMU Community. You could consider the new standards that Dr. Rose established in regards to changing the alcohol culture at JMU. You could think about our liberal arts perspective or what it means to be a member of the freshmen community at JMU. You could write about your residence hall, your frog group, or the DNA Age. These ideas may or may not appeal to you, but I would love to see you writing about some facet of the JMU community if you have any interest in doing so.
Even though you haven't been apart of the JMU community that long i feel that it would be a better topic then your high school. You could even narrow it down to something more specific about JMU such as your dorm. I know that the village, where i am living, has a number of qualities that make it unique from the others.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Jeff. Although we've only been at JMU for a short amount of time, i feel that they are a lot of things you could use for example, you could use one of your classes as a community.
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