Jadyn's Journal

The sport of softball has been a community I am fully immersed in since the early age of five. As I recently retired from the sport this year, Ive been able to reflect on the lessons I’ve learned from softball and how it has shaped me into who I am today.  I remember the first day I stepped onto the field. I didn't know any girls, had never picked up a bat or glove in my life, and was surrounded by girls who were more experienced than me. As a child, I struggled with extreme anxiety and lack of social confidence. So, being in an environment full of critical parents, coaches, and players, was extremely hard on me mentally. I quit softball after 4 seasons of playing. I had no hope in myself that I would ever be able to excel like the other girls, or become as talented as they were to play at intenser levels.  After a year of not playing, my dad got a coaching position in my league. He convinced me this would be the best opportunity to advance and become comfortable in softba...

  Since the first day of class, there's been a repetition of the theme, fluency. Lydnsey has always asked us to never stop moving our pencil when writing our warm ups, just like how we never stopped moving in this genre we are literate in, and writing about today for our Unit 1 projects. Every ted talk, podcast, article, etc… that we have been exposed to in class all carries out a storyline about becoming literate. The consistency of this theme in the class has become very clear to me, and has helped me understand this Unit 1 assignment entirely. The significance of all these things helped me grasp the unit's inquiry, and helped me draw comparisons between our classwork and homework, to our final unit project.  I am now understanding analysis/arguments differently, as I feel this unit has taught me how to read between the lines. I feel like everyone's main focus is the climax of a story, or the end result. This unit has taught me how to analyze a storyline, and how the risi...

            The sport of softball has been a community I am fully immersed in since the early age of five. As I recently retired from the sport this year, Ive been able to reflect and realize the lessons I’ve learned from softball and how it has shaped me into who I am today.  I remember the first day I stepped onto the field. I didn't know any girls, had never picked up a bat or glove in my life, and was surrounded by girls who were more experienced than me. As a child, I struggled with extreme anxiety and lack of social confidence. So, being in an environment full of critical parents, coaches, and players, was extremely hard on me mentally. I quit softball after 4 seasons of playing. I had no hope in myself that I would ever be able to excel like the other girls, or become as talented as they were to play at intenser levels.  After a year of not playing, my dad got a coaching position in my league. He convinced me this would be the best...