Sunday, October 23, 2011
Response to Course Material
Since my last response, we have started a close reading of The American Dream. We are picking apart the finer details of the text and annotating our books. It's interesting how much freedom we have to choose the topic that we want to talk about, Ms. Holmes gives us minimal guidance, which I enjoy very much. It allows the students to have a more rich and thoughtful discussion when it's all between equals, without an authority looming over us who decides for us what the right answer and wrong answers. I'm not exactly sure what we should focus on marking when we do our annotations, the elements of DIDLS and other small observations, or the broad interpretations, symbols and motifs.
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I agree that it is nice to have an equal setting for all of us students to argue. One thing that I worry is that we as students may be missing an important theme of the play, or be unable to connect two points that Ms. Holmes knows is there. Because she rarely talks, I am less confident about our class interpretation. I think that we should be marking both the DIDLS and observations as well as the large interpretations. I have been trying to connect 3 or 4 details that i see on a page into a large observation that i write in the margin.
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