What do you think of the journal entries about the chapters? Do they help your understanding of racism, irony, or history? If so, how? If not, what can be done instead to help your understanding of these topics?
I understand why we have the journal entries and that we get points from them, basically proving that we are reading on schedule. However, I personally feel that it is harder to concentrate on what is happening in the story because of these entries because I am always looking for examples of irony, history, or racism in the text. Once I find an example or two, I can fully concentrate on what is happening in the text, but before that point I have some difficulty. I do feel that irony, history, and racism are very present in the text in a multitude of ways, however, and know journaling might help for a future test or discussion. I can’t think of any other ways that would promote an understanding of the mentioned topics other than stating a specific event and having students respond to it in the terms of irony, history, and/or racism. -Katrina Hauser
I think that the journals help me a bit. I think that they help me keep myself focused about what I'm reading and i begin to see the racism, irony and history in what I read. Though, I think that we should have discussion questions because I think we need to talk about the book more as a group.
Jake Gaal- Personally I don’t like doing the journal entries about racism irony, and history. I don’t think they help me understand the story any better than just reading. I think that instead of doing journal entries every day, we could start having class discussions. That way, we could all hear each other’s thoughts about the subjects. I think it would also be interesting to hear Mrs. Gill’s personal opinions about the text that we have read.
3 comments:
I understand why we have the journal entries and that we get points from them, basically proving that we are reading on schedule. However, I personally feel that it is harder to concentrate on what is happening in the story because of these entries because I am always looking for examples of irony, history, or racism in the text. Once I find an example or two, I can fully concentrate on what is happening in the text, but before that point I have some difficulty. I do feel that irony, history, and racism are very present in the text in a multitude of ways, however, and know journaling might help for a future test or discussion. I can’t think of any other ways that would promote an understanding of the mentioned topics other than stating a specific event and having students respond to it in the terms of irony, history, and/or racism.
-Katrina Hauser
I think that the journals help me a bit. I think that they help me keep myself focused about what I'm reading and i begin to see the racism, irony and history in what I read. Though, I think that we should have discussion questions because I think we need to talk about the book more as a group.
Jake Gaal-
Personally I don’t like doing the journal entries about racism irony, and history. I don’t think they help me understand the story any better than just reading. I think that instead of doing journal entries every day, we could start having class discussions. That way, we could all hear each other’s thoughts about the subjects. I think it would also be interesting to hear Mrs. Gill’s personal opinions about the text that we have read.
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