Commentary 1/27/14

Deshaun Newsome 1/23/14

Do now 1/24/14

In three words i can sum up everything I've learned about life. "It GOES ON"
                                                                                                        ~Robert Frost
This quote is saying that no matter what happens, if you are not killed from it, then you will just have to move on. Everything must come to an end and a person must learn to move on. Therefore, "Life GOES ON"

Do Now 1/22/14

Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
                                                                                                                 ~Dr. Martin Luther King
Just because a person doesn't know everything about something, they should still give it a try. Instead of going by what is seen, they should go by how they feel. Like a book, a person would never know what to do unless they open up.

Commentary 1/23/14

Ja'Quala Smith 1/22/14
Jamal Hughes 1/22/14

Culture In Music Cognition

Culture in music recognition refers to the impact that a person's culture has on their music cognition, including their preferences, emotion recognition, and musical memory. Musical preferences are biased toward culturally familiar musical traditions beginning in infancy, and adults' classification of the emotion of a musical piece depends on both culturally specific and universal structural features. Individuals' musical memory abilities are greater for culturally familiar music than for culturally unfamiliar music. The sum of these effects makes culture a powerful influence in music cognition.

Culturally bound preferences and familiarity for music begin in infancy and continue through adolescence and adulthood. People tend to prefer and remember music from their own cultural tradition. Familiarity for culturally regular meter styles is already in place for young infants of only a few months' age. The looking times of 4 to 8 month old Western infants indicate that they prefer Western meter in music, while Turkish infants of the same age prefer both Turkish and Western meters. Both groups preferred either meter when compared with arbitrary meter.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_in_music_cognition 

I think this article is not accurate because if a person feels that he or she likes a kind of music that their culture does not like, then they are not betraying their culture, that music is just their preference.
Do you think culture has something to do with music preference? Explain.

Commentary 1-22-14

Angel Morris, 1-21-14
Kayla Brown, 1-21-14

Do Now 1/17

"I've missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life, and that is why I succeed."
                                                                                                                                        ~Michael Jordan

To succeed a person must fail. There is always going to be  bump in the road somewhere, you just have to keep moving on. As long as you keep your momentum, you will get where you need to be.
                                                                                                                                     ~Derion Anderson

Do Now 1/16

"Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others; it is the ONLY means."
                                                                                                                     ~Albert Einstein
Basically this quote is saying there is no other way to influence anyone accept setting an example. Everyone has someone to look up to. A person's role model sets an example, which is why a person looks up to that role model.
                                                                                                                     ~Derion Anderson 

Commentary 1/15

Kyla Williams, January 14, 2014
Mariyah Mannie, January 14, 2014

Understanding of the Do Now

"Life is 10% of what happens to me and 90% of how I reaction to it."
                                                                                        ~Charles Swindell





Life depends on your reactions to things that happen because every cause has an effect.

My New Year's Resolution

My New Year's Resolution is to be a better student.

1. Be more respectful.
2. Don't do anything to get in trouble.