1,024 Matching Annotations
  1. Jul 2017
    1. Then all smiles stopped together.

      The death?

    2. E’en then would be some stooping; and I choose Never to stoop.

      This seems potentially related to the changing of titles consistent with the remarriage possibility in my below annotation.

    3. lessoned

      Pun, right? Educated?

    4. all and each Would draw from her alike the approving speech,

      This seems to be the hinge upon which the poem moves.

    5. Is ample warrant that no just pretense Of mine for dowry will be disallowed; Though his fair daughter’s self, as I avowed At starting, is my object.

      This seems to suggest a very specific course of events for the poem that I don't understand yet. Perhaps a death (hence the focus on the portrait and potential remarriage?). This would color the interpretation of "last" as a modifier for duchess, though if there's a change of title through a marriage, it'd be a demotion to move from duke to count.

    6. “Her mantle laps Over my lady’s wrist too much,”

      I don't have much of a grasp of what this means.

    7. since none puts by The curtain I have drawn for you, but I

      This syntax is difficult for me to understand.

    1. Anyone already in hot water might see advantage in making Don Jr the center of attention in the scandal. Not smart or longterm thinking but thinking nonetheless.

      True.

  2. Jun 2017
    1. I try very hard to get my students to like reading.

      Very different problem than the above highlight.

    1. Calling school choice a "theory of change," Wisdom asserts, "School choice works.” What's needed now, she argues, is “a favorable policy environment for choice to be truly effective."

      Implementation fallacy?

    2. he falsely correlated the National Education Association’s conversion to trade union status in 1965 to a drop in scores on the SAT. (The scores changed because more students were taking the test.)

      See this book for more on the subject.

    1. Sessions testified that he “basically recused” himself from the investigation into Russia and the Drumpf campaign immediately after he was sworn in as attorney general on Feb. 10, and that he “never received any detailed briefing” on Russia’s cyberhacking or other influence efforts from that point forward.

      Does this sound weird?

    1. Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain;

      The last item in this list seems emphasized for breaking the "Nor, (single word)" pattern.

    2. Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world, which seems To lie before us like a land of dreams, So various, so beautiful, so new, Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain; And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night.
    3. So various, so beautiful, so new, Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain;

      Trio of trios here. These are some of my favorite lines, and I see them as the most powerful.

    4. down the vast edges drear

      When I read this I get a sense of movement, esp. of falling. It feels stark, and cold (maybe from the wind).

    5. Begin, and cease, and then again begin,

      I like the rythmn here.

    1. In the 21st century, most Americans marry for love. We choose partners who we hope will be our soulmates for life.

      Is this breaking down?

  3. May 2017
    1. our best guide is usually our own reactivity,

      Like Brad Reedy's comment about our own feelings in a pedagogic relationship as (sometimes) diagnostically relevant.

    1. She read Orenstein’s argument, and she thought, yes, that was what she wanted for her daughter, the freedom to feel what she feels and want what she wants and not take any shit for it — the courage to take possession of her own desire.

      "when all he did was go down

      into the salt tide of wanting as much as he wanted, giving himself over so drunk

      or stoned it almost didn't matter who"

      -Excerpt from "Tiara" by Mark Doty

    1. Such phraseology is needed if one wants to name things without calling up mental pictures of them.

      Objectification

    2. Each of these passages has faults of its own, but, quite apart from avoidable ugliness, two qualities are common to all of them. The first is staleness of imagery; the other is lack of precision. The writer either has a meaning and cannot express it, or he inadvertently says something else, or he is almost indifferent as to whether his words mean anything or not.

      Contrast w/ Peter Elbow's Writing Without Teachers