The first concept I want to talk about is simply how in our discussions we reach truth. Since we spend maybe half of the class discussing it's important to have one of the entries on it. We bicker and banter back and forth on concepts that are very broad, to concepts that are very small. Some people may think that we waste time on the nitty gritty but it's important to look at everything that an author has in front of us. From the class I've learned, "everything was written therefore it has a reason for being there".
The greatest discussions (I think) came from the first thing we read in the school year, "The American Dream", just because it was very weird and not many of us had read anything like it. When we disagreed with this one, it was very difficult because everything seemed to work as evidence for both points. Discussing "Death Of A Salesman" was my next favorite because people developed different opinions about what each thing meant, and most of it could be proved both ways.
I agree with what you said about the discussions. I love listening to everyones opinions and actually get a lot out of them (even though we all know I rarely say anything). You talk about the discussions of The American Dream and Death of a Salesman, but what were some of the themes from those plays? It would be helpful to do a brief summary of the plays so you can use this to go back and study later. Because you talk about the class discussions and a few of the works in this post, you could possibly combine all your writing about the literature into it and add summary for each. That way, you could not only remember the discussions we had about each novel/play but what we actually discussed in them and what some of the main ideas of each work were.
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ReplyDeleteWow, a different way of organizing the blogs! I never thought of using the discussions as one of the concepts, but it definitely fits in with the curriculum! I agree with the points you made about the importance of discussion, but I felt like you could have given more detail as to what we were discussing in class. Although the topics we discussed in class varied between the hours, it would have been nice to read about other class discussions!
Great job!
I agree with Ginger that you need to have more academic material in this post--"discussion" is certainly a main course activity, but it's not a main course concept.
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