I'm trying to...
I always flip through the tv channels when a commercial comes on. I hate commercials.
...do my math. Two times eight is...
I try to cycle between two or three channels at one time, so that I almost never have to watch commercials.
Uhm. Two times eight is...
It sucks though, when the channels are in sync and the commercials all come on at the same time. Right now I'm watching NCIS and Tom and Jerry.
Uh. Two times eight is...
The commercials are in sync again though, so I try to do my homework in between the shows. Two times eight is sixteen. But three times eight is...
Oh, show's back on.
Monday, October 31, 2011
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Ideas for Multigenre Paper
Writer's block
Dealing with non-attentive students
Students with ADD*
Students going through a hard time
That's all I've got. To be continued?
Sunday, October 23, 2011
I Still Don't Know What I Want My Paper To Be About
This post is four days late, and I still have no idea what topic I want to use for the multigenre paper. Maybe I should write about helping students deal with writer's block. But I feel like that would be a very limited topic (not a lot to say).
From Tom Romano's Blending Genre, Altering Style: Writing Multigenre Papers (2000):
From Tom Romano's Blending Genre, Altering Style: Writing Multigenre Papers (2000):
A multigenre paper arises from research, experience, and imagination. It is not an uninterrupted, expository monolog nor a seamless narrative nor a collection of poems. A multigenre paper is composed of many genres and subgenres, each piece self-contained, making a point of its own, yet connected by theme or topic and sometimes by language, images and content. In addition to many genres, a multigenre paper may also contain many voices, not just the author's. The trick is to make such a paper hang together. (x-xi)
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Lending Library: Elaboration
William Carlos Williams writes poetry that doesn't rhyme, and neither does TS Eliot. However, TS Eliot uses techniques like repitition and different type faces while Williams doesn't. I enjoy Williams' works more because they're easy to understand while also having deeper meanings if the reader decides to look for them.
An activity for students to do could be to take one of the poems and turn it into a short story. I feel like this can be easily done with all the poems I was given. However, a really good story would also include the subtleties within each of the poems that involve a deeper reading.
Another activity students can do would be to interpret a poem into their own words so that they can share with the class what they think they mean, and a discussion can build off it.
An activity for students to do could be to take one of the poems and turn it into a short story. I feel like this can be easily done with all the poems I was given. However, a really good story would also include the subtleties within each of the poems that involve a deeper reading.
Another activity students can do would be to interpret a poem into their own words so that they can share with the class what they think they mean, and a discussion can build off it.
Saturday, October 1, 2011
Lending Library: Thoughts
I'm not sure where I'm giong to go yet with this Lending Library project. I'll need to think about it more over the next week. However, here's what I have so far:
My authors are William Carlos Williams and T.S Eliot.
William Carlos Williams has a funny name. "William Carlos Williams (September 17, 1883 – March 4, 1963) was an American poet closely associated with modernism and Imagism. He was also a pediatrician and general practitioner of medicine, having graduated from the University of Pennsylvania. Williams "worked harder at being a writer than he did at being a physician"; but during his long lifetime, Williams excelled at both. Two days after his death, a British publisher announced that he was going to print his poems. During his lifetime, Williams had not received as much recognition from Britain as he had from the United States, and Williams had always protested against the English influence on American poetry. Modern liberals portray Williams as aligned with liberal democratic issues; however, as his publications in more politically radical journals[9] like New Masses suggest, his political commitments were further to the left than the term "liberal" indicates. He considered himself a socialist and opponent of capitalism." (Wikipedia)
T.S Eliot I have heard of before. "Thomas Stearns "T. S." Eliot OM (September 26, 1888 – January 4, 1965) was a playwright, literary critic, and arguably the most important English-language poet of the 20th century.[3] Although he was born an American he moved to the United Kingdom in 1914 (at age 25) and was naturalised as a British subject in 1927 at age 39. For a poet of his stature, Eliot produced a relatively small amount of poetry and he was aware of this early in his career. He wrote to J. H. Woods, one of his former Harvard professors, "My reputation in London is built upon one small volume of verse, and is kept up by printing two or three more poems in a year. The only thing that matters is that these should be perfect in their kind, so that each should be an event."[27]Eliot said of his nationality and its role in his work: "[M]y poetry has obviously more in common with my distinguished contemporaries in America than with anything written in my generation in England ... It wouldn't be what it is, and I imagine it wouldn't be so good ... if I'd been born in England, and it wouldn't be what it is if I'd stayed in America. It's a combination of things. But in its sources, in its emotional springs, it comes from America." (Wikipedia).
Pastoral could be about confusion in regards to religion, or simplicity versus difficulty. Landscape With the fall of Icarus could be about unobservances, or being too caught up with goals or jobs to notice much else. The Great Figure could be about emergency or urgency, or a bad night. The is Just to Say could be about apologies or vengence. Winter Trees could be about hibernation, or comings and goings. Williams has a style that involves a lot of imagery and subtlety. Not much is spelt out for the reader besides for events happening within the poem. Readers are encouraged to think outside the box, which could either be a good or bad thing in regards to students.
From the Waste Land could be about a woman having a baby. Some questions I asked about it are:
Why are Lil's teeth gone?
Is being in the army and not having a good time once you got out an excuse to be rude?
Is Albert willing to cheat on Lil?
Why is "antique" underlined?
Why does Lil look so old? What pills?
"Died of young George" Is George her kid, the name of a pill? Is she on birth control? Is it working?
"What you get married for if you don't want children?" Social question. Should people only marry to have kids? What about love?
Is a "hot gammon" a food?
Repetitive good nights. Murder? Suicide? Going to bed? Miscarriages?
Why is the last line underlined?
Why is 172 there and underlined, or is it just a page number?
This poem raised a lot of questions for me, which could lead to a lot of discussion with students. However, students might be thrown off because of the style of the poem. It's difficult to read and understand what's going on, which wouldn't help students become interested with it.
The only writing assignments I can think of thus far would be to mimic the styles of either T.S Eliot or Williams within a poem, but that seems very usual and expected. I'll have to do more thinking to come up with something better. Maybe a way to relate the two authors together.
My authors are William Carlos Williams and T.S Eliot.
William Carlos Williams has a funny name. "William Carlos Williams (September 17, 1883 – March 4, 1963) was an American poet closely associated with modernism and Imagism. He was also a pediatrician and general practitioner of medicine, having graduated from the University of Pennsylvania. Williams "worked harder at being a writer than he did at being a physician"; but during his long lifetime, Williams excelled at both. Two days after his death, a British publisher announced that he was going to print his poems. During his lifetime, Williams had not received as much recognition from Britain as he had from the United States, and Williams had always protested against the English influence on American poetry. Modern liberals portray Williams as aligned with liberal democratic issues; however, as his publications in more politically radical journals[9] like New Masses suggest, his political commitments were further to the left than the term "liberal" indicates. He considered himself a socialist and opponent of capitalism." (Wikipedia)
T.S Eliot I have heard of before. "Thomas Stearns "T. S." Eliot OM (September 26, 1888 – January 4, 1965) was a playwright, literary critic, and arguably the most important English-language poet of the 20th century.[3] Although he was born an American he moved to the United Kingdom in 1914 (at age 25) and was naturalised as a British subject in 1927 at age 39. For a poet of his stature, Eliot produced a relatively small amount of poetry and he was aware of this early in his career. He wrote to J. H. Woods, one of his former Harvard professors, "My reputation in London is built upon one small volume of verse, and is kept up by printing two or three more poems in a year. The only thing that matters is that these should be perfect in their kind, so that each should be an event."[27]Eliot said of his nationality and its role in his work: "[M]y poetry has obviously more in common with my distinguished contemporaries in America than with anything written in my generation in England ... It wouldn't be what it is, and I imagine it wouldn't be so good ... if I'd been born in England, and it wouldn't be what it is if I'd stayed in America. It's a combination of things. But in its sources, in its emotional springs, it comes from America." (Wikipedia).
Pastoral could be about confusion in regards to religion, or simplicity versus difficulty. Landscape With the fall of Icarus could be about unobservances, or being too caught up with goals or jobs to notice much else. The Great Figure could be about emergency or urgency, or a bad night. The is Just to Say could be about apologies or vengence. Winter Trees could be about hibernation, or comings and goings. Williams has a style that involves a lot of imagery and subtlety. Not much is spelt out for the reader besides for events happening within the poem. Readers are encouraged to think outside the box, which could either be a good or bad thing in regards to students.
From the Waste Land could be about a woman having a baby. Some questions I asked about it are:
Why are Lil's teeth gone?
Is being in the army and not having a good time once you got out an excuse to be rude?
Is Albert willing to cheat on Lil?
Why is "antique" underlined?
Why does Lil look so old? What pills?
"Died of young George" Is George her kid, the name of a pill? Is she on birth control? Is it working?
"What you get married for if you don't want children?" Social question. Should people only marry to have kids? What about love?
Is a "hot gammon" a food?
Repetitive good nights. Murder? Suicide? Going to bed? Miscarriages?
Why is the last line underlined?
Why is 172 there and underlined, or is it just a page number?
This poem raised a lot of questions for me, which could lead to a lot of discussion with students. However, students might be thrown off because of the style of the poem. It's difficult to read and understand what's going on, which wouldn't help students become interested with it.
The only writing assignments I can think of thus far would be to mimic the styles of either T.S Eliot or Williams within a poem, but that seems very usual and expected. I'll have to do more thinking to come up with something better. Maybe a way to relate the two authors together.
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