Journal 10

It is my belief that our English class should be provided mints. This is my belief because this will add an incentive to the class that will motivate my classmates and I. When provided mints we will feel as if we have earned something special and continue to strive for many more rewards in the future. A possible result in bringing in mints to the classroom would be a renewal of enthusiasm for coming to class. Rewards will award the students and may make us more willing to be engrossed in the subject matter at hand. Another possible reason that bringing mints into the class would be beneficial is that studies done by scientists suggest that eating mints stimulates the brain. While we were taking standardized tests in middle school, the teachers would provide us mints for the reason of stimulating our brains so we could end up doing well on them. I feel that our English class would be much more productive and engaged with out brains stimulated by mints. This could lead to our class staying on task well and being able to learn and absorb new information about what we are discussing in class. Having our brains stimulated would be essential to learning because we have class the last period of the day. I ,personally, am starting to feel mentally strained at this time of the day and I just want to go home. Eating mints will rejuvenate the whole class for our last hour class, so we will be able to do more and will be much more willing to take in new information. The mental weariness that the whole class could be experiencing after a long day may even vanish because we would have something special that will ignite a sense of goodwill feeling throughout the whole entire class. Overall, I think that mints should be brought into class to encourage students with rewards and stimulate our mentally strained minds.