Reference:
Bolima, D. (n.d.). Contexts for understanding: educational learning theories. Retrieved from http://staff.washington.edu/saki/strategies/101/new_page_5.htm
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Own the Word: Double Entry Journal 3
Reference:
Bolima, D. (n.d.). Contexts for understanding: educational learning theories. Retrieved from http://staff.washington.edu/saki/strategies/101/new_page_5.htm
Friday, August 26, 2011
"As Soon As She Opened Her Mouth"; Double Entry Journal 2
QUOTE:
Nonstandard, socially marked dialects do prevent people from succeeding in the middle-class world, but they do not prevent people from learning to read and write. (Purcell-Gates)
REACTION:
This reading was very moving, it felt as though I was watching this mother trying desperately to get someone to help her son learn to read and write. As a parent I understand the desire for your children to become more successful in life than they have been capable of doing. I know someone the recently graduated from one of the public schools here in West Virginia that can barely read or write. The situation was much like that of Donny in the reading. This person is a very smart and intelligent person; their experiences and expertise are not in literacy. However, the teachers that this person has had throughout school have failed them terribly. Teachers should try and teach all students to perform to the best of their abilities and that they are capable of great things with hard work and determination.
REFERENCE:
Purcell-Gates, V. “as soon as she opened her mouth!”: issues of language, literacy, and power. (pp. 122-139).
Related Source:
The related source I chose is a very simple cartoon that shows a public schools official looking for good teachers.
Nonstandard, socially marked dialects do prevent people from succeeding in the middle-class world, but they do not prevent people from learning to read and write. (Purcell-Gates)
REACTION:
This reading was very moving, it felt as though I was watching this mother trying desperately to get someone to help her son learn to read and write. As a parent I understand the desire for your children to become more successful in life than they have been capable of doing. I know someone the recently graduated from one of the public schools here in West Virginia that can barely read or write. The situation was much like that of Donny in the reading. This person is a very smart and intelligent person; their experiences and expertise are not in literacy. However, the teachers that this person has had throughout school have failed them terribly. Teachers should try and teach all students to perform to the best of their abilities and that they are capable of great things with hard work and determination.
REFERENCE:
Purcell-Gates, V. “as soon as she opened her mouth!”: issues of language, literacy, and power. (pp. 122-139).
Related Source:
The related source I chose is a very simple cartoon that shows a public schools official looking for good teachers.
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
Tall Tales of Appalachia Reaction; Double Entry Journal 1
QUOTE:
''Local color'' writers made brief visits to the mountains, then wrote fanciful books about the queer, violent mountain folk. As realistic as Harlequin romances, local-color books like Mary Murfree's ''In the 'Stranger People's' Country'' were read and reviewed as journalistic accounts. (O"Brien, 2003)
REACTION:
It is outrageous that anyone would take a book and use them as a journalistic account. The fact that people in today's modern society still use information like this to stereotype is unreal to me. I personally did not understand how West Virginians were being stereotyped this way until I moved to Charlotte, North Carolina. When I would tell people that I was from West Virginia they would look at me funny. Several of them even thought that I meant western Virginia. I had to explain to them that West Virginia was a state itself, separate from Virginia. They would assume that because I was from West Virginia that I was uneducated and only knew how to do things such as farming. Categorizing any individual because of the location of where they were born and raised is ridiculous. All people are unique individuals and should be treated well and appreciated for their differences as well as their commonalities.
REFERENCE:
O"Brien, J. (2003, May 10). Tall tales of appalachia. The New York Times, Retrieved from http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/10/opinion/tall-tales-of-appalachia.html
RELATED SOURCE:
http://www.abetterwestvirginia.com/2007/12/04/west-virginia-stereotypes-dont-believe-the-hype/
This is a link to an article written by Jason Keeling. In the article he describes how the image of the so called "hillbilly" has followed the state of West Virginia. The stereotyping of West Virginians is not perhaps the worst issue that we face, it is that there are a lot of native West Virginians that believe it themselves.
''Local color'' writers made brief visits to the mountains, then wrote fanciful books about the queer, violent mountain folk. As realistic as Harlequin romances, local-color books like Mary Murfree's ''In the 'Stranger People's' Country'' were read and reviewed as journalistic accounts. (O"Brien, 2003)
REACTION:
It is outrageous that anyone would take a book and use them as a journalistic account. The fact that people in today's modern society still use information like this to stereotype is unreal to me. I personally did not understand how West Virginians were being stereotyped this way until I moved to Charlotte, North Carolina. When I would tell people that I was from West Virginia they would look at me funny. Several of them even thought that I meant western Virginia. I had to explain to them that West Virginia was a state itself, separate from Virginia. They would assume that because I was from West Virginia that I was uneducated and only knew how to do things such as farming. Categorizing any individual because of the location of where they were born and raised is ridiculous. All people are unique individuals and should be treated well and appreciated for their differences as well as their commonalities.
REFERENCE:
O"Brien, J. (2003, May 10). Tall tales of appalachia. The New York Times, Retrieved from http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/10/opinion/tall-tales-of-appalachia.html
RELATED SOURCE:
http://www.abetterwestvirginia.com/2007/12/04/west-virginia-stereotypes-dont-believe-the-hype/
This is a link to an article written by Jason Keeling. In the article he describes how the image of the so called "hillbilly" has followed the state of West Virginia. The stereotyping of West Virginians is not perhaps the worst issue that we face, it is that there are a lot of native West Virginians that believe it themselves.
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