Textbook Revolution Blog Post

Textbook Revolution, from their website, is a student-run website that is dedicated to increasing the use of free textbook materials by teachers and professors. From what we see, Textbook Revolution seems to be a website that is filled with high end information that is not focused towards education for the young aged. Many of its textbooks, from what we see, are very hard and although the subjects for the website are very spread out and diverse, ranging from subjects like Biology to Environment. There is a broad range of textbooks from which you can choose from. Many of the textbooks found are not only textbooks but also .pdf files or websites. Some of the textbooks are also some books that may be used in college. However, not only do they have textbooks, they also introduce college courses with a brief overview and a website and the name of the institution to give you a rough idea and give you a view on the course. Although there actually is quite some amount of textbooks, that would be nowhere close to acting as a database of textbooks. Textbook Revolution could improve if there were some high school or middle school textbooks to add to the varying assortment of textbooks.

Quickwrite p.820

• Sacrificing something for someone’s else good without the wanting of something like a prize.
• A hero doesn’t have to have super powers or fancy costumes. It can be a normal person who has a good heart. 
• A person who performs a selfless deed in the face of adversity. 
• It doesn’t have to necessarily save someone’s life but it could be instead to educate someone or care for someone. 
• Someone who is honest. 
• Someone who fights for what they believe in (someone that most people want and agrees with their morals or fighting for positive impact and the better of society)
• Someone who helps you when you need them.
• A person who is genuinely concerned and kind about someone else’s welfare or other people's. 
• A person who inspires others to be better.
• Someone who puts themselves before others. 

List of Criteria to Evaluate Writing

1. Is the writing on topic?
2. Does the writing have correct grammar?
1. Are there any run-ons or fragments?
2. Are the sentences passive or active?
3. Are there any problems with punctuation or capitalization? 
3. Does the writing have correct spelling?
4. Is the writing in paragraphs?
5. Does the writing have a thesis? 
6. Is the thesis clear? 
7. Are the ideas of the writing in order?
8. Is the word choice right?
9. Are the sentences in logical sequence?
10. Does the writing have an ending/conclusion?
11. Are there any facts/details needed to back up their claims/story?
12. Does the writing have a hook?
13. Does the writing captivate you? 
14. Are there any sentences that could be rephrased? 
15. Are their any parallelism errors? 
16. Is the audience clearly stated? 

King Arthur and the Sword in Stone Quickwrite p.792

There are many different ways on how people can become legends in today’s world. In our modern era, we are faced with many problems: world famine, global warming, bad economy, bad relations between countries, limitation of oil, and terrorism, just to name a few. If someone were to, for instance, create a device that would make food easy and quick and healthy, his/her name would live on in whatever form people would communicate or hold information in. That person would be doing the world a huge favor and helping a countless number of people and prevent violence from spreading between the resources. Also, if someone found a way to “make” oil at an extremely cheap price, that person would not only make millions but everyone in the world and most likely as long as humanity would live, his/her name would live. Finally, if someone were to strengthen ties between countries and go as far as to create a unified Earth, not only would they get a huge clap of hands and bravado but create a safe place for all humans and people to come in the future and to live with unity and peace. 

Creation Myth

http://www.buzzle.com/articles/japanese-creation-myth.html

List of Aspects in Nature Quickwrite p.589

• sky
• dirt
• grass
• clouds
• plants
• sunrise
• sunset
• moon
• sunlight
• water
• trees
• stars
• birds
• dog
• vines
• paper (trees)
• vegetables
• mountain

Oni and the Great Bird Quickwrite p. 698

Superheroes in comic books are different from real-life heroes in many ways. Many superheroes are very famous and have many people stare at their powers, speed, strength, and courage and are dressed in fancy costumes and seem to be showing off in some ways. However, many real-life heroes do not seek adulation after they accomplish something big such as taking down a robbery of a drugstore. Those people, unlike fictional heroes, have to face true death and make a choice whether to risk their life or allow someone else’s life to be taken by the hand of Death. A true hero is one that has a normal life and when he/she sees a crime, will find a way to comfort them and bring out true courage to actually confront the criminals. Also, fictional superheroes seem to have super human qualities already and whereas normal people simply use what they have to adapt to their situation. Super heroes, in my opinion, are just fake cowards with undeserved super human qualities but true real life heroes are people that are faced with a moral choice of their own happy life with the chance of a family and happiness against risking all that happiness and life to try and safe another one’s. The true courage is the courage of standing up in the face of death when it is drawn out from your heart instead of having super powers which allow you to be invincible or invisible.