Blog 7

Consider the job, career, or typical worker in your Ampersand piece of writing. Now... rewind the clock to your parents' generation. What is life like for your typical worker in that job? What is similar to today? What is different? What is in the news? What concerns would they have? Please do this once for a specific year in your parents' generation and once for a specific year in your grandparents' generation.

Back in my mom's day they had chalk boards and there was no internet access due to this projects took forever to work on. they would send their students to the library. It was similar in the way of now because there were both good and bad teachers and they tried meeting the curricular. Technology had grew at a rapid rate. It has improved and help teachers get more work done.

My grandma attended school in Mexico and only spent a few years at school at her time school wasnt so important. Her parents preferred that she worked but she still learned writing and reading while making money for her family at a young age. The concern at this time would how be the increase of kids attending school.

Blog 6

Link to three outstanding Ampersand article pitches that you have seen on other students' blogs.

What makes each one stand out to you? What makes you believe these pitches would lead to great articles? Write a paragraph for each.

http://mconsunji.tumblr.com/

The thing that stood out on Monika's blog was Pitch #2: Research article on how prices are going up because certain fabrics like cotton and how people are reducing to “cheaper” fabrics. This stood out to me because I think readers would be interested on how prices in China are affecting the USA. She can turn this into a really informative article. She can do tis by looking up facts on prices, like how they have decreased as the years have gone by.

http://kgrant11thgrade.blogspot.com/

My favorite pitch on Kadija's article was I'm thinking about doing one on a cat's/dog's POV. As how they feel once they come into the hospital. Scared, worried, whatever. I think this would be a cute idea because not many people actually do think about how pets feel. I think that she can get readers to be like oh I never thought about that, and she can tell readers about her experience with handling pets.

http://tapandhthma.blogspot.com/

This pitch stood out to me 1. People work in society. In some instances, people tend to be more "robotic" than human in their work. They work, coming to and fro, almost like bees, buzzing along and working for the hive. Here is a point of view from an intern working with insects, and what he says looks alike between bees and the human race. I really liked this because honestly I think it would be boring to read about working with bugs because its such a boring topic, like bugs really? you see them everywhere and they are just pesty insects. But Tomas made his headline interesting.