I’m pretty sure I’m planning on using the second paper assignment option because as Gabe said, I think it would be very beneficial for me to review what I’ve learned in class and I want to do so in a way that displays my knowledge as well as my creativity and sense of style. Some main points from the essays we read and studied that I plan to focus on include:
WHY WE READ
-Frieire: rejection at the banking concept and encouragement of classroom discussion and questioning with the teacher acting as both a teacher and scholar— what we should read- some classic works (learning from past/mistakes) and new works (modern, pertaining to life today)
-Eagleton: literature as ideology- reasoning for studying literature- reading to learn, writing as a response and as a learning process throughout one’s life… studying literature to “make yourself a better person”… also “persuading to acknowledge that more than one viewpoint than theirs existed.”
HOW WE READ
-some Stein: learning how to read through How to Write
-Barthes, Booth and Rabinowitz
-authorial intent
-textual realism
-readerly idealism
*I learned to study things thoroughly and with passion and that however much I care about something and am patient with it determines my possibilities of obtaining knowledge. I’ve also realized that I cannot always understand everything, and that everything will not always be perfect, but that it is okay to not always get everything and it is okay to be lost sometimes.
*What I believe is important: education (through experience). Isn’t everyone just searching for answers, for satisfaction, for happiness? Isn’t that really what everyone really wants- to find themselves truly happy?
—dana zions
