Reading for Book Club (10/27)

The book I read for this week’s book club is Growing Up Asian American. It is a collection of short stories or excerpts written by authors identified as Asian American—from the second to the fifth immigrant groups. It is divided by three sections: memories, identity, and growing up. I have read some stories from the [...]

One Strategy

I’ve decided to use sociograms as one of my reading strategies for my seminar; this is also the one that I will talk about tonight.  I’m really just writing this post to give you this link.  This is a very comprehensive site on the topic, and it is great for learning about reading strategies in [...]

reading strategy

One strategy that I have found useful for my unit plan is known as “Extending Content Beyond the Text”. An example of how I plan on conducting this is as follows:
*First and foremost, always model the procedure. After doing so, then assign the procedure for the class to do it independently.*
1. Read article(s) from [...]

Implications for Teaching (HO)

Hello AED 541,
So often teachers have goals and exercises for their students that are never carried out. Why? Because the education system pressures teachers and administrators to “teach to the exam,” causing them to lack time for additional work, insight and activities. As the article in ch. 10’s “Implications for Teaching” states: “U.S. education has [...]

Strategies

Hi everyone,
I just wanted to say that I’m finding this week’s reading on learning strategies extremely helpful. How about everyone else?
I especially enjoyed the Beach/ ‘Obrien piece. I’m planning to use some of those strategies for my seminar. Tonight I will be sharing the rereading and revisiting texts strategies. I will apply the strategy to [...]

Mini Lesson Details for 11/27

Goodmorning 541.
Tonight I will be using Macon, Bewell & Vogt’s “Somebody Wanted – But-So” technique to look at the poetry assigned in my unit on teens at home.  I find this technique to be an excellent strategy for dissecting difficult pieces of poetry, short stories, or novels with struggling readers, and I will definitely be [...]

Li’s Mini-Lesson for Nov. 27th,2007

Li Li
AED541 Post-Colonial Criticism Mini-Lesson (handouts)
Oct.27th, 2007
 
Talking about Postcolonial criticism, we have to know what postcolonial literature is to begin with.
Postcolonial Literature: it seems to label literature written by people living in countries formerly colonized by other nations.
Problems with this definition: this term misleadingly implies that colonialism is over when in fact most [...]

Post-colonial critique

I’m going to be presenting post-colonial approaches to texts tomorrow, so I decided I should give something of a preview.
Post-colonial theory examines the ideological formation of a certain kind of power structure (hence the affinity with New Historicism and gendered theories).  The colonial power structure is founded on the formation of subjects as “other,” generally [...]