Writing - Notice and Construct

At Youth Voices, we believe that "the solutions to our problems, the inspiration we need to build the institutions relationships and communities that are important to us, lie in our ability to engage in conversations that matter. Conversations about what's important to us will nurture us and help us grow individually and together."

A Conversation Manifesto by Michele Martin

Here's how you can add to our conversations!

First: Add “quote sandwhiches” to your writing. Introduce, insert, and interpret three or more quotations from this week’s sources (Text-Dependent Research). Add these to your Doc. Revise, proofread, spell-check, cite, and link to the original source. Use the Guide from Youth Voices: Adding Quotations

Next: Follow the steps in this mission: Collage Essay, to use and revise all of the writing about your question that you have done so far.

Copy and post this on Youth Voices as a Discussion.

Add a Cretive Commons image, or an EDU-YouTube.

Use Cite This For Me to create a List of Sources.

Record your discussion post using Audacity or YouTube and add the MP3 or video to the Discussion.

When you have finished, copy the link to your post, and paste it into the comment box below (on this P2PU task), then click Yes, I'm done

Task Discussion

ZoeC said:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLinrMgqBJo

http://youthvoices.net/discussion/labeling-others-danger-it

on Dec. 30, 2012, 11:46 p.m.

Paul Allison said:

Here is one of your quote sandwiches:

I’m learning more about stereotypes/labels right now, and in particular what I’m wondering about is: Why do people label each other? Does it cause real damage? I was researching this question online, and this blog caught my attention

“That’s what the labels we use to ‘describe’ people do, they obscure the contents of the individual.”

Gallozzi,Chuck. Personal-development.com (n.d.) Labeling People. [online] Available at: http://www.personal-development.com/chuck/labels.htm[Accessed: 27 Nov 2012].

The quote I chose here is basically saying that the labels we put on people is covering up who they really are as an individual. It’s like you're putting a costume/ mask on them.which is wrong. This is unfair and people don’t realize that.

I think this is a powerful statement because it makes me wonder why do we have to experience this emotional pain caused from social labeling in life. These labels create an imbalance of power and control within our schools, workplaces, and communities.