Over the semester, we had three Formal assignments. The first was our Hiraeth assignment. For those of you who do not know what a Hiraeth is, it is a longing for something you once had and want to go back to. For our second Assignment, we did our Academic Mindsets assignment. Writer's Carol Dweck and Alfie Kohn both have different idea's about the way students should learn. Carol Dweck believes in a fixed mindset, which is people who believe their basic qualities, like their intelligence or talent, are simply fixed traits. They spend their time documenting their intelligence or talent instead of developing them. Alfie Kohn believes that people are trying to "fix" students when they really should be fixing the systems. He believes in the Growth Mindset. For our third, we did th Film-Based Assignment. In class we watched a movie called "Step Brothers" starring Will Ferrel as Brennan, and John C. Reilly as Dale. They are forty year old men who still live at home. Their newly married parents Nancy and Robert are tired of them living there and getting into trouble. Our assignment was to write a letter to Nancy and Robert Doback, about the problems they are facing with their sons and ways to help them solve those problems.
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Informal Assignments