I just have to say that I like annotating "The American Dream" It was helpful, and I am able to understand the poem better when the whole class is discussing. But I think when we discuss, we tend to over think, for instance. "You would rather sleep with me wouldn't you Daddy" this is a very simple sentence that means exactly as what is sounds like. But when discussing in detail my class had a twenty minute discussion on whether Grandma really meant it in a sexual way or not. Which I have to say is very unnecessary...
We didn't really do much these few weeks except reading and annotation "The American Dream". Oh and one last thing, on Friday fifth hour were reviewing the terms for the test. It didn't help me at all, I would really rather study the words slowly by myself, than having ten other people study with the speed of light. I don't remember stuff as fast as most people do.
I agree, annotating "The American Dream" was extremely helpful. It opened my eyes to many things I would of never fathomed could be hidden within a text. However, like you mentioned, I think sometimes we dig a little too deep. I would argue that somethings are very simply in a text and has no further (at least intentional) meaning.
ReplyDeleteThough I like annotating in class, I prefer to keep class discussion to a minimum. Discussing in my hour is more counter productive because no one really listens which kind of defeats the purpose of discussing in class. Hopefully we'll get better though because it has could be really helpful if done correctly.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you so much in that certain things are not as significant as people can make them out to be. I disagree with the particular example you used, but agree with your over idea you get at.
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