Wow! Let me just start by saying that this blogging thing is so new to me that I can not believe I actually figured it out. This is so cool!
Anyway, on to the academic side of this post. For English 310 I have decided to look at Teen Depression. I was going to look at different rites of passage that teens have to face, but I did not have all that much valid information about it. It was such a big category that I decided it would be too much to tackle so I have switched to depression which I am also VERY interested in because it is something that is felt at one time or another by almost everyone, but it is hardly ever talked about. I think that depression runs high within middle and high school students because of all of the changes going on in their lives added to the huge pressures that they face.
As future teachers, we need to realize that many of our students are living and struggling with depression. I am hoping to find out how bad teen depression really is within schools and also if there are ways that we can help students. As this is a writing course, I hope to find information that deals with depression and writing. I would like to find that writing is therapeutic for those who are depressed but that may not be the case. I am so excited to find out what things help and what does not. Keep posted if you are interested in this topic as well, or if there are articles out there that you feel would help–let me know!
I will be using BBC News, The New York Times (Education Section), Google News, and Google blogs to answer my questions and learn more about Teen depression. So far, I have had a lot of success with these feeds!
gvsulaker said,
January 21, 2007 at 8:25 pm
Marie,
I’ll address both your 310 and your 311 blog in this comment. So far everything looks good: I like your template, title, and the way you use categories to distinguish between courses. You still need to add a complete blogroll from each course–it’s a little tedious, but doesn’t actually take that long.
Your 310 topic looks a little vague to me and may require some focusing. I think finding more information about middle school language arts programs might be a bit easier. And there are all sorts of rites of passages that adolescent go through–physical changes, emotional changes, intellectual changes, social changes–that would probably yield more articles (try teenage depression, peer pressure, or puberty, for example).
For 311, you’re looking at censorship in the schools. This will definitely yield interesting information. Good.
Don’t forget to identify your feeds in both your opening statements.