Janis Lyn Joplin

"You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow"

"Onstage, I make love to 25,000 people - then I go home alone."

• Rock Singer. Born in Port Arthur, Texas on January 19th, 1943. Graduating from Thomas Jefferson High School, she was a member of the Glee Club and the Future Teachers of America. She attended Lamar State College and the University of Texas, where a fraternity voted her the ugliest man on campus in 1963. She dropped out and spent two years traveling, performing and becoming drug addicted. In 1966, she became the lead singer for "Big Brother and the Holding Company. She is featured on the band's second album, "Cheap Thrills." The next year, she formed the "Kosmic Blues Band", and became further noticed when she performed solo at the 1969 Woodstock Music Festival. On November 15th, 1969, she was arrested in Tampa, Florida, for vulgar and indecent language, for which she posted fifty dollars bond. On October 4, 1970, she was found dead in her room at the Hollywood, California Landmark Motor Hotel, from an apparent heroin-alcohol overdose. She was never married, and left no children. Her best selling album, "Pearl," was released posthumously, and she was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995.

and here is her song that I liked the most:

• Mercedes Benz – Janis Joplin

Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz?

My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.

Worked hard all my lifetime, no help from my friends,

So Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz ?

Oh Lord, won't you buy me a color TV?

Dialing For Dollars is trying to find me.

I wait for delivery each day until three,

So oh Lord, won't you buy me a color TV ?

Oh Lord, won't you buy me a night on the town?

I'm counting on you, Lord, please don't let me down.

Prove that you love me and buy the next round,

Oh Lord, won't you buy me a night on the town?

Everybody!

Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz?

My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends,

Worked hard all my lifetime, no help from my friends,

So oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz?

Group Discussion

In groups, we had to answer some questions in class about "Motivation in the classroom".
This is the question my group had to answer: "What do the three cognitive definitions of motivation have in common?"

Answer:
The book brings us three theories about the motivation, lets see what they say:

Drive theory - the final goal of this definition is to build student's own self-esteem, using six different drives (exploration, manipulation, activity, stimulation, knowledge and ego enhancement).

Hierarchy of needs theory - "Being all that you can be". It is best viewed by a pyramid of needs that contains physical needs as its base, then emotional needs and on the top there are esteem and self-actualization.

Self-control theory - It says that the most important is to make people "decide for themselves" what to think, feel or do. Motivation is higher when one can make one's own choices.

As we can see, all of them are student centered theories and the main goal is to build student's self-esteem and self-confidence in order to achieve the Autonomy.