http://blog.lib.umn.edu/thorx011/1421/ course log en-us 2005-12-06T16:05:28-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/thorx011/1421/033645.html Hey Marvin.. Yeah, I can't wait for Christmas break either. The break for U of M students will be a MONTH. That's GREAT! How long is your break? I remember it's either 1 or 2 weeks only.. At least you... 2005-12-06T16:05:28-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/thorx011/1421/033083.html Hi Marvin! I’m doing fine. How about you? Wow, so did you enjoy your Thanksgiving break? I enjoyed my break, like I said Thanksgiving was the first break for the U of M students. My family didn’t have our Thanksgiving... 2005-11-29T16:12:09-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/thorx011/1421/032288.html Hi Marvin! How are you doing? How do you like gym class so far? Did you enjoy art last quarter? What was your best drawing? What about math? Do you understand fractions and decimals? Which subject is your favorite subject?... 2005-11-15T16:36:10-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/thorx011/1421/031767.html I don't have a favorite teacher because I was never close to any of them. My teacher for world history would yell or scream randomly because the class wasn't responding to his questions. At times, i thought that was pretty... 2005-11-08T16:34:08-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/thorx011/1421/031266.html One of the interesting thing about college is that you decide when you want your class, such as what time, and what weekdays. I have a 2 hour break before my next class begins. During those two hours, I do... 2005-11-01T16:36:47-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/thorx011/1421/030428.html Hi Lincoln students! My name's Lee Thor (female, Hmong) and I'm a freshmen at the U of M. I was born and raised in St.Paul. I went to Benjamin E. Mays for elemantry, and Murray Jr. High for middle school.... 2005-10-20T23:50:09-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/thorx011/1421/030427.html Feedback from my revision group wasn't as terrible as i thought. I felt I did a pretty bad job because my intro sucked and there was more info about my junior high. I felt that I wasn't emphasizing on the... 2005-10-20T23:28:25-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/thorx011/1421/029917.html When we watched the movie about poverty in Ohio, I was really shocked at how the school looked like. There were holes in the ceilings, and if it rained water would drip. My high school had that problem but it... 2005-10-14T17:39:05-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/thorx011/1421/029827.html Comparing Murray Jr. High and Lincoln Community School Basic Skills Test (BST) in 2005. More than half of Murray students passed the reading and math test. In reading, 383 Murray students were tested and 294 students passed. Compared to Lincoln,... 2005-10-13T17:03:50-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/thorx011/1421/029321.html I've done citations in my high school. My senior year, we had to do a research paper and cite at least 3 or 4 works in MLA style. I thought it was alrite, because I only had to cite for... 2005-10-07T19:17:52-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/thorx011/1421/029320.html In both readings, their family is very important to them. LaRhonda puts her family before her education. An education that if she graduates could possibly give her a bettter job and help her family with payments. For Alexie, his father... 2005-10-07T19:07:39-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/thorx011/1421/028727.html I forgot that we had to do 2 blog entries every week. This week has been alrite, i guess. the revision group was okay even though two other people didn't show up. I'm not really excited about having a pen... 2005-09-30T17:09:44-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/thorx011/1421/028630.html What really shocked me was the math and reading scores. They're less than half of the state. And comparing with the district, their scores are mostly half or a little under. My other observation was how the students felt safe... 2005-09-29T16:42:13-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/thorx011/1421/028250.html I liked the first essay because she took educational knowledge with her such as the terms. And when you understand the terms, you understand what the writer is trying to say. And the teacher! She soften up when her mom... 2005-09-26T11:22:14-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/thorx011/1421/027395.html 1. Maybe because he was a minority. I'm not qutie sure. 2. Religion and society played a role in the story becuase his family was catholic, he went to a catholic school, and his family spoke spanish at home only,... 2005-09-15T16:22:18-06:00