Well this week is quite hard for my class, we are still on the second group, and not even half way done with their annotation yet. To be honest if Ms. Holmes has not stopped people in my class to ask questions and force each group to point out only a few things. We will still be on our first group. And there will be no way for us to finish the annotation by January 6th. Not much I can say, we didn't really do much this two week other than talk about Ceremony, and 5th hour is not anywhere near close to be starting to look at the multiple choice test practice.
Ceremony is a fairly interesting book, I liked it more than Death of a Salesman, partly because it is a novel instead of a play, and it is more straight forward compare to the other two literature we have worked on. I think Silko is an amazing writer in that she was able to fit so many ideas into a novel, and if we didn't do a close read and try o digest the novel it would have been easy for us to miss some minor details that Silko is trying to tell us.
Friday, December 9, 2011
Close Reading #5
When Thoughts Turn to Sex, or Not
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/11/fashion/sex-on-the-brain-studied.html?ref=health
This is a very interesting essay, lets focus on DIDLS in a little bit, right now I have to point out that "man" does not always think about sex. And we have scientific proof. Way too many times have I heard "you are so dirty" or "you are such a perv" in the hall way. And when these words are said, they come from girls, and the target is always a guy. Now I am not saying man don't think about sex at all. But not as often. And there is really no proof of saying that "man" think about sex, because according to this article, the rate of times man think about sex can differ from 1- 388 times a day. And that depends on the person too. And according to the article, woman think about sex quite often too.
Now lets get back to the close reading, Pamela Paul wrote this article as if she is one of the person being accused of thinking about sex too often. She used syntax in her article, she said “I’d really like to sleep with my boss’s new assistant” or “I wonder whether squirrels mate in the spring?” as if she was saying that herself. Expressing the sexual thought of a person. She then used diction to point out eating disorder and how that could be a factor to the sexual thought. She emphasize on how sexual thoughts are not created by just merely sexual desire, but other things could also be involved. When Paul wrote about the part where students uses clickers, it created an imagery for me, while I was reading I feel like I could see students struggle on whether to put the truth down or not, even though it wasn't a clear image but I feel like I was in the environment with those students. Paul also used numbers to emphasize on the detail of the analysis.
Not a lot more left to digest, I feel like this is a interesting article and I think everyone should read it, to see that no one is really "perverted", often times when a sentence was said, it wasn't suppose to sound sexual, but people can turn it into a sexual joke, and to be honest I feel like more girls does the transition then guys do.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/11/fashion/sex-on-the-brain-studied.html?ref=health
This is a very interesting essay, lets focus on DIDLS in a little bit, right now I have to point out that "man" does not always think about sex. And we have scientific proof. Way too many times have I heard "you are so dirty" or "you are such a perv" in the hall way. And when these words are said, they come from girls, and the target is always a guy. Now I am not saying man don't think about sex at all. But not as often. And there is really no proof of saying that "man" think about sex, because according to this article, the rate of times man think about sex can differ from 1- 388 times a day. And that depends on the person too. And according to the article, woman think about sex quite often too.
Now lets get back to the close reading, Pamela Paul wrote this article as if she is one of the person being accused of thinking about sex too often. She used syntax in her article, she said “I’d really like to sleep with my boss’s new assistant” or “I wonder whether squirrels mate in the spring?” as if she was saying that herself. Expressing the sexual thought of a person. She then used diction to point out eating disorder and how that could be a factor to the sexual thought. She emphasize on how sexual thoughts are not created by just merely sexual desire, but other things could also be involved. When Paul wrote about the part where students uses clickers, it created an imagery for me, while I was reading I feel like I could see students struggle on whether to put the truth down or not, even though it wasn't a clear image but I feel like I was in the environment with those students. Paul also used numbers to emphasize on the detail of the analysis.
Not a lot more left to digest, I feel like this is a interesting article and I think everyone should read it, to see that no one is really "perverted", often times when a sentence was said, it wasn't suppose to sound sexual, but people can turn it into a sexual joke, and to be honest I feel like more girls does the transition then guys do.
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