Lesson 8

I am the lead student on this lesson and I hope I do a good job of teaching it.

I started by fixing the citations and submitting the rough draft of my persuasive essay, which has to be sourced in MLA style. I had to look it up, as I have never used MLA style before.

I then moved on to the readings. The first essay was called 'The Pleasure of Eating' and one of the first things I read was a comment on eating responsibly. I believe that not only do people need to be aware of what they eat and what food may contribute to issues with their health, people also need to be aware of where their food comes from. The author makes it clear that food simply does not appear magically in a grocery store, ready for eager consumers to buy and eat. There is a very interesting, but complex process involved in getting food from the source to the shelf and the politics involved in that process is how difficult the  transition is made by those who have authority over food. Power and money are at play when it comes to the production and distribution of food and those fighting over those factors often step over innocent consumers while trying to keep hold of such control. Consumers, in turn, try not to get involved in the politics of food because all they want to do is get the food so that they and their loved ones can survive. Unfortunately, consumers become involved in the politics of food when they end up paying a high price to eat simply because those involved in the politics of food care more about the almighty dollar than pleasing consumers. The consumer sometimes also suffers reactions from the chemicals put into food during the transitional process, so there ends up being lawsuits and protests against those involved in food politics. The author has a very lovely poem at the bottom that reminds us that God gave us sources of food on the earth that we might live and live well, but when politics are involved, everyone forgets the beauty of food.

After that, I moved on to the Grammar Lesson, which dealt with Shifts in Time, or, in other words, tenses. I read a handout on Shifts in Time and also watched a video on it. I took the quiz twice and got two wrong the first time and I only got one wrong the second time because I thought a question was wrong that ended up being correct.

I moved on to the Paragraph and Essay Development readings, which were on Introductions and Conclusions; Revision, and Development.