main idea and supporting sentences

Main idea: How friends influence us and how my classmates made me a more positive person by their passion and considerations.

Topic sentence1:
Almost everyone knows that their friends can affect their life in a way or another but what most people don't know is that this effect is far more powerful than they can imagine.

supporting sentences:
a.Your friends don't just influence your decisions but they can alter your view of the world, change your perception and turn you into a different person!
b.The ways your friends affect your life:
   *They change your beliefs about things: Your beliefs can be changed.
   *They affect your self confidence.
   *Your friends affect your behavior.
   *Your friends can infect you with bad emotions

Topic sentence2:

Make your friends a good influence on you.

supporting sentences:

a.surround yourself with positive people .

b.Friendships can benefit you in lifting your self-esteem.

c.Your friends should lift you up and help you to be the best person you can be.

Topic sentence3 :
* I don't think I will ever have the chance to run into anyone that can influence me more than the other 29 girls in my class.


supporting sentences:a.I learned how to express my feelings and found the real me due to their help.


b.They taught me friendship isn't just a kind of  sentiment, but also the greatest power to change a person. 

c.the real experience I had to support my theory of the first and second paragraph.

topic 11/11

Main idea: How my classmates made me a more positive person by their passion and considerations.

Topic sentence:

* I don't think I will ever have the chance to run into anyone that can influence me more than the other 29 girls in my class.

*The year I spent with them has gradually changed my pessimistic personality and made me more optimistic.

*I learned how to express my feelings and found the real me due to their help.

*They taught me friendship isn't just a kind of  sentiment, but also the greatest power to change a person. 

11/5 adding details

Focus more on my personal feelings:

1.What my classmates really helped me was making me more honest to myself. You have to admit your feelings to yourself first before looking for a way to solve your problems. 

2. After they made me share, I felt that I'm not only closer to them, but also a lot closer to myself.

3. Being able to say what I really felt is one of the happiest thing  to do on earth. I appreciate my classmates for giving me the chance to learn this precious lesson.

I posted 2 posts today 

11/5 new thoughts from discussing with studio classroom's teacher

The teacher really helped me a lot with deciding my specific topic. With her help, I solved my greatest concern about being too personal and that I might loose my connection with the audience. 

The teacher's suggestions and my changes:

1. I overcame my problem with not being able to fully express my own feelings. There must be a lot of people including the audience who have the same problem as I did. I can use this connection to lead them to my topic.

2. I can talk about why people can't express feelings and my own reasons why I can't express mine( my family, the society, and the people I met...) 
I researched some information of what some experts found out about why  people can't say their feelings out loud and some general studies.  

http://www.counselingcenter.illinois.edu/self-help-brochures/self-awarenessself-care/experiencing-and-expressing-emotions/

http://www.rachelgreen.com/ei-expressing-feelings.html

http://suite101.com/a/free-emotions-by-owning-and-expressing-feelings-a158667

http://advice711.com/emotions_feelings/expression.html

http://www.ictstexas.com/express-your-feelings-in-4-easy-steps

After talking about the information and the theories of why caused problems of expressing oneself then I'll talk about what the experts say that would help express one's feelings.
After talking about the research, I want to come back and talk about myself and the most essential reason that made a difference in me- my classmates. 

Manifest the things they've done that changed me and what my changes are by act a little play on stage and make the presentation more entertaining and real.

third try on topic 11/4

What I used to be like:(brief)

1. I wasn't someone who show my feelings in front of others. I don't say out what I really feel. I don't cry in front of others and I don't show my anger. 

2.I don't show what I like or dislike.( This made me don't know what my real interests are.)

3.I don't share my feelings with others. I don't like to talk about myself.


My change:(brief)

1.My classmates made me share what I really felt and tell them what's on my mind. When something bad happens, I tell them, even though they can't solve the problem for me, they spend time with me and help me feel better because they're beside me. I wouldn't have someone to share my sadness with if they didn't help me say them out.

2.When some of my classmates do something really childish or say something inappropriate, I'll tell them because I know they won't be angry and will be thankful because someone point out their mistakes.

3.We talk about almost everything. This made every of us closer to each other and be like a family.

4.They lead me find what I'm interested in by sharing their owns. And we got the same interests to discuss. We got laughter and really good memories because of our mutual interests.

5. They came up with a lot of nicknames for me because once I told them I don't really have one. This made us closer, too. I really appreciate how thoughtful they have been for me.

10/31 second try on topic

To narrow down the topic, I want to focus more on the influence I got from my current classmates.
Since I entered high school and got in the same class with them, I've really changed a lot.
I want to share three main stories that have caused great change on me.
Maybe I can talk about the old me for a little and what kind of personality I had to point out how much I've changed...

The three themes I want to talk about (not set yet)
1. I wasn't someone who could say out loud what I really liked and wanted, but because the girls in our class are free to share everything, so I began to open up my heart to them.

2.I couldn't trust people and believe that someone would really pour out his or her heart to one another, but the girls in our class gave out everything for this class and let me see the unbreakable love we have for each other.

3.I wasn't someone who was devoted to activities in class or any kind of group work, but the girls in our class fight hard to be the best for everything. They taught me to reach and hold on to success when I have the chance.

Since I'm talking about our class, and every one of them are beside me now, I really hope my classmates can get involved in my eight minute presentation. 

10/29/2013 topic

Main Idea: 
I have lived for more than 16 years on this world already. In this project, I want to explore myself, and find out what built my personality.

Why I want to do this: 
When we started to work on this topic, Miss You asked us to decide our topic based on our own interests. I thought about it for nearly three months and can't even come up with something. After discussing with Miss You, I found out the reason was because I don't even know what my interests are or what I like.  Rather than working on topics that I'm not really in to, I would like to spend this precious time on understanding myself. 

My little outline:
The people that influenced me in my life-
 my family, my kindergarten teachers, my classmates and teachers from elementary school to high school

The environment I have been through- 
my family education, my schools, cram schools, and the badminton team I've been in.

The things(stories) that influenced me-
in badminton team, third to sixth grades, prepare for the B.C. test and now. 

How I want to do it:
I would want to act a little play on stage to present every stage of my life. I think by this way, it would be more interesting because all I'm doing is telling a story. In my opinion, the best way to tell a story is to act it out.

My concerns:
My theme is nearly all about myself, I don't know if the audience would be interested in my own story and listen to it for 10 minutes.
The second concern is, if I want to act a play, will it be too complicated and hard to prepare?