Genre Ideas

for my genre idea i am considering a fairytale.  It would be a mock of the khan academy but support its use.  i am thinking of writing story of a kid who is struggling in school and one day in the field behind his house a huge hand comes out of the sky (khans hand) and it has a giant pencil.  It writes on the ground and teaches the boy his school work.

Essentialism and Experience

This blog is in response to the reading on essentialism and experience.  The author is describing how certain traditional concepts, ideals and skills are necessary to society and should be taught to everyone.  This article also places a high degree of importance on connecting experiences of different students together, as well as connecting these experiences to the material being taught.  The author says how students are more likely to participate when they have a specific experience related to the material.  The article as describes the struggles black women have to go through in school and that white males are ignorant which i don't fully agree.  this article was a fairly difficult read and i got the feeling that it was almost a close reading similar to the ones we had to do in class.  Overall it was a pretty interesting article.

My response to close reading essay

After handing in our second draft i feel i have a better understanding of close reading.  it is still challenging for me however, and will require more practice before i am good at it.  Overall i don't particularly like close reading.  it requires a thought process that i have trouble tapping into.  i think more on a straight and narrow path so i can succeed in math and business classes but in english it is tough for me to really analyze what an author is trying to convey.  We'll see how my second revision turns out and what needs improvement to help finalize my essay.