I love your topic of your paper. Ozeki mentions a lot about GMOs and I really like the route you are taking. You might want to further think about what exactly is the art of nature? Maybe you might want to connect your last quote about diversity to the world as a whole (ex: different races). I like that you are comparing both sides; however, you might want to keep an open mind to as why farmers decide to plant GMOs instead have a set viewpoint that GMOs are bad. All in all, I really like the direction your paper is taking. Keep it up!

I love how you relate Yumi to Lloyd's potato! You might want to find examples in the text that you can use to support the argument of Lloyd treating Yumi as his potato. You also might want to find an example that supports how Yumi's role as a potato is transfered over to Cass. 

Sherry, I really like all of your quote selections. I can see the parallels; however, I’m think that you could make the connections more clear. I think we’re getting back in our groups tomorrow, so hopefully we can help you a bit more because I think that you have some really great ideas forming.

In response to Hgraves essay draft, I find it particularly interesting to view the characters as all elements in Yumi's life. It would seem that much of the novel is centered around Yumi's life and life choices and therefore a relevant claim. I think it would be interesting to see the claim that Yumi was not a bad seed, due to not being bad growing up, clarified further. Specifically, delving into what classifies as a "good seed" in the environment that Yumi grows up in and how she fits that.

The passage wrote about the connection between plant and human. From Lloyd’s words, they discovered the strong and supportive bond between Momoko and plants. They stated the definition of the word “memory” and analyzed the process of forming, recalling memory, elaborating the how plants supports Momoko.

Furthermore, the passage is related to the “contact zone”, digging deeper into the relationship between plants and human, like peas and farmers, how they support and affect each other.

We want to focus on body image and the health center. Keeping in mind the techniques of monsoon and benaifer, the health center and the students will talk one on one. Meaning that members of the health center will get to share their experience as much as the students.

WhoAmI: I think the connection to the potatoes is a really interesting idea: that the potatoes are almost a metaphor for Yumi herself because they both undergo the same growth processes led by the same person. Further, the idea that identity is shaped by our surroundings, rather than our environment, can be an interesting, although somewhat small, distinction.

The claim is that our identity is based on our environment. 

Even though Haddiyah's paper is not fully uploaded, there are already some really interesting ideas. She looked up the etymology of bad seed and found out that the bad seed is not turned bad but is born bad. So Yumi is not a "bad seed" but is a good seed that did not get flurished during her childhood. 

She also argues that the bad influences (weed) that affect Yumi is Mr. Rhodes, the teacher who got into both her mind and body. and the other weed is her parents. after Yumi ran away, she barely heard from her parents, so it is hard to stay in touch with them.