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Regretful Decisions: A Reflection on Being Talked Into Things

In this journal entry, I explore a personal experience where I was persuaded into something I later regretted. Reflecting on peer pressure and decision-making, I detail the circumstances that led me to say yes, the emotions surrounding the experience, and the lessons learned. This reflection emphasizes the importance of standing firm in one's beliefs and being mindful of the influences around us. As I write about this incident, I also relate it to broader themes from our English studies, including character motivations in literature, particularly in "To Kill a Mockingbird."

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Regretful Decisions: A Reflection on Being Talked Into Things

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  1. English 2 October 3, 2013 Pick up your journal before you sit down.

  2. JOURNAL Write about a time you were talked into something and you regretted it.

  3. Agenda • Take up signed Progress Reports • DGP • Vocabulary crossword • Continue writing rough drafts; use internal documentation

  4. DGP • sara read the novel to kill a mockingbird in her english class

  5. Vocabulary 3 list • Crossword

  6. Rough Draft Writing • 1. Follow the organization you set up in your outline. • 2. Completely cover one subtopic before you move to the next. • 3. Paragraphs should be SEVERAL sentences in length (6-8). • Due Monday, Oct. 7

  7. Body Paragraph Template • Topic Sentence from thesis statement • Note Card Fact to support topic sentence (example) • Comment that adds to the fact • Another Note Card Fact to support topic sentence (example) • Comment that adds to the fact • Conclusion Sentence relating back to the topic sentence

  8. Example Body Paragraph • (TS) No one can deny that cell phones have caused traffic deaths and injuries. • (NCF) Cell phones were implicated in three fatal accidents in November 1999 alone (Smith 21) • (CMT) Early in November, two-year-old Morgan Penne was killed by a driver on her cell phone. Morgan’s mother reports that the driver ran a stop sign and killed Morgan as she sat in her car seat. • (NCF) Later that month, a corrections officer guarding prisoners by the road side was killed by a man distracted by answering his cell phone (Smith 23) • (CMT) The driver said in court that when he looked up he had no time to stop. • (C) Expert testimony and witnesses all conclude that driving while phoning is dangerous.

  9. Internal Citations / Parenthetical Documentation • 1. If the source has an author • Last name and page number (Jones 37) • 2. If the book has no author • First word of title and page number (Trees 872) • 3. If it’s a web source with no author • First word of article title only (“Leaf”)

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