1) Response to Moodle Comments
2) Review of “Active Reading” Strategies (Greene & Lidinsky 29-50)
- Why the Pen Is Mighter than the Highlighter
- Word Choice (page 31)
- Rhetoric (32)
- Hirsch excerpt (33-36)
- Analysis of Hirsch
- situation (36)
- purpose (36)
- claims (37)
- audience (38)
- Provenzo’s Response to Hirsch (39-41)
- Smith and Watson excerpt (42-45)
- Sample Student Analysis (45-46)
- Erhrenreich Excerpt (46-49)
- About Writing an Analysis of Ehrenreich (49-50)
3) Group Discussion Questions for Tannen’s Essay
- What factors contribute to whether you do or don’t decide to speak in class?
- Once you have decided whether to speak or not, what factors contribute to whether you actually get to do what you’ve decided?
- Are you more likely to wish that you had spoken up more frequently, or more likely to wish that you could be silent more frequently? Does your answer change under different conditions? (What about outside of class, with your family, or in the workplace?)
- Discuss your answer to question 1 (top of page 350, “Given that Tannen…”). Find a specific passage in Tannen’s essay that helps you answer this question.
- Discuss your answer to question 2 (top of page 350, “How would you describe…”) Find a specific passage in Tannen’s essay that helps you answer this question.
4) Passages Selected by Students
Somebody from each group, please post a comment with the page number and at least a summary of the passage you chose in your group; also, explain why you chose it.
We chose the passage about the student that thought he was wrong because no one disagreed with him. (Page 347)
Pg.348, Last paragraph
After class, Brian briefly explained why his group picked this reading… someone remind me to have the group share their reasoning with the class.
Our group choose Pg.348, Last paragraph as a useful passage from the readings. We all agreed that we found it’s statements useful. We felt that we could relate to the passage content. In summary, it talked about one student’s struggle with speaking up in class. She wanted to participate, but she was worried that her answers and questions wouldn’t be interesting or intellectual enough. As students, we all struggle with some degree of hesitation or fear related to sharing ideas or speaking in front of others. But, our group concluded that participating and staying engaged, to whatever degree you can, is what’s important. Don’t worry about sounding silly or tripping over your words. Sometimes, we build things up in our head as being worse than they truly are. Participate as you can and contribute your thoughts/ideas about class topics and group discussions; then, you’ve already taken the right step forward.
Page 347 “Students who speak frequently in class, many of whom are men, assume that it is their job to think of contributions and try to get the floor to express them. But many women monitor their participation not only to get the floor but to avoid getting it.”
That one struck me as important, too.