Reading in this way positions you as a critical reader who is not only engaged dialogue with the author, but is now learning from how this author writes.
It's like judging and analyzing multiple ideas at once by just figuring out two main ideas stated here: what the writer is saying, and what the writer is doing. These two things could be completely differently worded, but they end up doing the same thing.
concept of Discourse Communities to refer to the way we recognize writer’s moves (and eventually make our own intentional moves as conscious, informed writers) within various different genres, cultures, and academic disciplines, all thought of as “communities of practice” that continually shape, and are shaped by, the Discourse created by you.
I like the way this is worded, to be shaped by the ones who raised you from the ground up, and to be able to differentiate what's your "normal" and what society's "normal" is.
Or I’ll use that annotated question as a chance to engage in discussion with others and better understand the text later in class, with the help of my colleagues.
This is a good idea to engage yourself with not only the curiosity you have as a reader but as a student, actively asking the class or colleagues for help.
Persistence: Introduce persistence as an academic habit of success, and prepare students with various strategies to persist through difficult reading situations in college.
I think being persistent allows the student to stay proactive in their academic career, and that I need to especially grasp this concept.
KWL + Reading Process
I never knew about the KWL + Reading Process
work to recognize the contributions and skills that every person brings to the organization
Give credit where credit is due.
nce the group has made a decision about which way will be taken, honor that decision and see what you and the organization will learn from taking that way, even and especially if it is not the way you would have chosen;
Be open minded, learn to adapt, and be better even if it's something you might not have wanted in the first place.
role play ways to handle conflict before conflict happens;
Outline, plan ahead, see the problem from afar before facing it head on.
working together will improve performance; evaluate people’s ability to work in a team as well as their ability to get the job done;
Group projects can be really fun and interesting but at times I'd rather just pace myself and do it alone.
mistakes are seen as personal, i.e. they reflect badly on the person making them as opposed to being seen for what they are –mistakes
I can relate to this, when I mess up I beat myself up about it until I can get back to where I want to be.
Culture is powerful precisely because it is so present and at the same time so very difficult to name or identify.
Very interesting way to put it; Culture is powerful however it is made powerful by the ones who put themselves at the top in the first place, it's not that difficult to name or identify it's just blatant ignorance.
he nation’s blue-chip companies wrote poorly and that businesses were spending as much as $3.1 billion annually on remedial training” (A23).
Interesting statistic, why enforce such strict laws over the use of home discourse but waste so much money on the training of poor writers?
“Yes, you do, and I am not here to take that language from you; I’m here to teach you another one.”
I like the way this is said, not only accepting someone's culture/language, but they're willing to go the extra mile by teaching them another language.
But dont nobody’s language, dialect, or style make them “vulnerable to preju-dice.” It’sATTITUDES. It be the way folks with some power perceive other people’s language.
I definitely agree with this statement. People in power always like to belittle those below them, and are the reason why stereotypes exist.
Black English dont make it own-self oppressed. It be negative views about other people usin they own language, like what Fish expressed in his NYT blog, that make it so.
How have other people used "Black English," incorrectly or correctly if possible?
Where do I begin, cuz this man sho tryin to take the nation back to a time when we were less tolerant of linguistic and racial differences.
He's implying that if people don't get to use their natural discourse, that they're bringing society back to the ways they used to be, intolerant, ignorant, and flat out racist.
Troy is one example. It spends only about $6,000 annually per student on services and instruction, less than half as much as a typical flagship state university.
I'm interested in to seeing how this works for this college. Most colleges have an absurd amount of cost for tuition and this seems like something that might not even work but I guess it does for Troy.
Living on campus puts you so much closer to all of the resources that are accessible to you,
This is true I feel as if I'm not connected to the campus as much as I should be, especially being 6 hours away where I can't even see it for the first time.
with higher rates of student success simply seem to have been trying harder for longer.
I figured students who are brought up in the middle class/higher class who are given resources to succeed from the start are pushed to higher expectations no matter what, thus leading them to greater success and an easier startup.
“understand what they will face in the labor market, understand what their chances are, if they don’t get a college degree.”
I think it's harsh but needed to remind students of the fear of what might happen if they do not earn a degree that might make it harder for them to receive a good job as soon as possible out of college.
Students tend to do better when they are following defined academic paths, rather than “aimlessly signing up for classes,” as Pamela Jackson, the provost of Fayetteville State, said.
I think without any academic advising, or guidance towards classes students are bound to fail. With specific roadmaps, or help from others I think a student can be motivated enough to do whatever they put their mind to.
Many lower-income and middle-class students excel in high school only to falter in college. They then struggle to get good jobs.
I think college is a different ball game for lower-income students as they usually have a job or two during the school year on top of homework, tests, etc. Certain expectations from family and pressure might also increase the rate of dropping out, especially when student loans are the only way out and they have to decide whether or not it's worth it.
Paraphrasing
This is a helpful tip to me because I usually never paraphrase and I think it'd help instead of just always using direct quotes whereas I can write my paragraph with more originality than before.
The Three Forms of Textual Evidence
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zl75r4MJtic
The top slice of bread is a signal phase or lead in to the quote, the meat is the quote, and the bottom slice is an elaboration or application of the quote.
Your body paragraph/s that prove/s your topic sentence should have 30% evidence and 70% analysis. Keep in mind that if you use at least three pieces of evidence, you are able to establish a pattern of thought.
This tip is especially helpful for me because sometimes I get lost in what I want to write and I try to get too many ideas across and it ends up becoming a large mess of a paragraph.
T–to the E-to the A
Having a structured method of embedding a quote or even writing a paragraph is a great way for me to strengthen my writing and to get all of my ideas across.
Pg 265
"You will never catch me with a free fifteen minutes in which I'm not studying something I feel might be able to help the black man."
To have such a goal to help people in need is such a reoccurring theme in history that only a few people can be recognized and remembered for. Civil Rights Activists are very brave for what they do in the past that still build upon today.
Pg 258
"I saw that the best thing I could do was get hold of a dictionary - to study, to learn some words. I was lucky enough to reason also that I should try to improve my penmanship."
I think it's very admirable for someone to really push themselves to learn something that they really do not know with just the help of inanimate objects. And in his case especially, he copied word after word to think about writing words and how to learn it.
Pg 260-261
"The teachings ring true - to every Negro. You can hardly show me a black adult in America - or a white one, for that matter - who knows from the history books anything like the truth about the black man's role."
I think it is true that history has a white-eyed view towards other ethnicities. You cannot show anybody the true role of a person of color through out history because it was never their choice or free will.
"I can't tolerate any more excuses. If I don'treceive the check immediately, I am going to haveto speak to your manager when I'm in New Yorknext week."
I think it's interesting to see this type of communication between native-speaking parents only with their bilingual children still happening everyday. I've heard friends and families' stories of the same thing, where a government letter comes in and their children needs to translate it for them.
I've often used the samekind of English with him, and sometimes he evenuses it with me.
I think people should be more supportive if you come from a background where learning a new language whether you be young or old, is hard. I think the husband did something nice using the same kind of English with her over the years.
But to me, my mother's English isperfectly clear, perfectly natural. It'smy mother tongue. Her language, asI hear it, is vivid, di
I can personally relate to this quote as my Filipino Grandma speaks with an accent that I cannot recognize. People say that they can't understand her sometimes when it just sounds like perfect English to me.
Spanglish
My dad grew up speaking Spanish but overtime as he embraced the American culture, he lost it overtime, so I hear him speak Spanish here and there, but he calls it "Spanglish." I never understood why neither of my parents wanted to teach me or my siblings any of their native languages.
At Pan American University, I and all Chicano students were required to take two speech classes. Their purpose: to get rid of our accents.
My mom grew up speaking Tagalog, (the Filipino Language,) and at school her teachers would do the exact same thing, they would ask her only to speak in English. Because of this, she now can only speak English, understand Tagalog, but not reply with Tagalog words. I think this is a stolen part of her identity that she would really wish she could have back.
"Who is to say that robbing a people of its language is less violent than war?"
This quote speaks out to me because there are many different types of violence, battles, or war, but taking something away from a person's culture, identity, and language, is far more traumatic or hurtful because it's what their life has been built upon.
Therefore, the optimal zone for learning is the “Growth Zone,” right between “comfort” and “panic.” Growth happens when learners work through the appropriate level of challenge; challenge should be determined both by your teacher and the way they set up their classroom; and by you and the way you set up your flexible, growth mindset.
I like this point of view as there will always be a level of confusion for new material that I personally believe most students have trouble grasping but through the "appropriate level of challenge," they do everything in their power to try and learn and do better.
Learning must be challenging, but everybody has their own level of challenge
I love this line. I love a great challenge when I know I can be great at it when I see it. This class is an example, along with college in its own. I am excited to give college a shot and to give it my all even if all of it's online and it only slightly distracts having my entire family around me at all times during school hours. Everyone has their own level of persistence, motivation and hope for their own future.
as most of us are lucky enough to be taught basic comprehension in elementary school and don’t give much thought to the act of reading after that, except as a chore for school that it usually becomes around junior high.
I never really thought about it this way, where being able to read at a young age is a privilege and how fun it used to be. It really did become a chore around junior high because instead of reading it at our own pace, or being able to imagine all these great stories we were forced to cram as much as we could into our brain the night before a quiz or a test on the same material.
why do you think your experience has been like that? What were pros and cons? What ideas from this chapter might have improved your experience?
I'd say the teaching styles in college is completely different than what I went through in high school. In college, you realize that there's a greater risk in failing than succeeding so you try to push yourself to greater lengths whereas high school, unless you have strict parents you're not as likely to motivate yourself to extremes. I like college too because I feel like most professors care about me and are willing to help me succeed where as my high school teachers would try to help me in the right direction but were never able to.
when he describes how educators have to be responsive to young learners’ best “zones” for learning, we have narrowed our discussion to theories of adult learning that have been proven to work best actively and collaboratively.
I think teachers connect best and teach better when they interact and engage their students in fun activities and ways to really get them thinking about what everything really means. Once the student and teacher both master this then it's easy on both parties to teach and master a certain subject or activity.
I guess being colored doesn't make me not likethe same things other folks like who are other races.So will my page be colored that I write?
No matter what background you come from or what race you are, it all comes down to the equal fact that we are all human beings, and race shouldn't matter when you want to like something.
I firmly believe that academic reading and writing experiences are meaningful only if wecan make personal meaning from them, by making connections to our own past knowledge andexperience, and asking questions to generate new knowledge that has particularly specialmeaning for us in the present
This shows that you're looking for your students to really look deep into their academic reading and writing experiences to pull connections about our lives we may have looked at differently before.
By actively involving you in your learning in the above ways, I am practicing a“pedagogy,” or way of teaching, that will empower you to advocate for yourself, makeintentional and original choices as readers and writers, and get the most out of your experienceat SF State and the culture we collectively create here.
This shows your values as a teacher, you want us to find our own voice, our own values, and to get the most out of this class by working with you.
The Labor Journal will also give us achance to communicate, for you to tell me anything you think I should know about your labor, andto help me assess how well you are progressing, what areas we need to practice more, andwhere you may be especially engaged or stimulated positively by your learning. I will set asidetime in class to start your Labor Journals each week.
This shows how willing you are to really help your students out and get into a consistent routine for success.