Inquiry Questions

Who sets the standards in Standardized Testing? Professors, teachers, or should the students?

What gives the right for the Standards Tests to be the difference between going to a University and going to a City College.

How do we balance the financial inequality between different schools?

Are parents treating their children

What are the pros and cons of Standardized Testing for students?
- Perspectives of teachers and students that go through the public school system
- The question does imply a personal stake b/c I was apart of the public system
- Students should care for the way they are graded

As a past student enrolled in a public school, I feel
Therefore, we have to ask ourselves what are the Pros and Cons of Standardized Testing. I believe evaluating the positives and negatives of Standardized Testing is a hard topic to approach. There are many positives and negatives resulting from set Standards but one can argue that the removal of set standards can be


Draft Proposal Due Tues
(Why you're intreated in this topic)

Practice Write 10/25

Remind yourself of Fish + Zorn's arguments, type of article, + where/how they "road-mapped" their thesis. Ask any questions you have in your P.W.

After reading Fish's arguments against the standards of the school system, I was dumbfounded by his path of teaching. Fish wanted to implement his teaching on sentence structuring, but for the entity of a English class.

Annotation Blog #8 Young

Summary/Main Ideas:
- We all should know everybody's dialect, at least as many as we can and be open to the mix of them in oral and written communication.
- Black English doesn't make it own-self oppression
- Instead of forcing people to learn the Standard Language Ideology, we should teach language descriptively.
- learn the different cultural perspectives
- teach how to understand listen and write multiple dialects simultaneously
- enlarge our perspective on what good writing is and how it is used through our daily lives
- As a society be more flexible/acceptable to language diversity

Quotes:
"Teachin one correct way lend a hand to chopping off folks' tongues." (111)
I agree with Young's response to Fish, having one standard in languages limits the ability for potential tongues to forum.
"Cuz nobody can or gone really master all the rules of any language or dialect" (112)
How can professors grade their students justly if every students language is different?
"Everybody mix their dialect they learn at home with whateva dialect or language they learn afterwards" (111)
If everyone speaks their own language why does the school system implement a standard for every to follow?

Critical Questions: 
How would our school system fairly grade their students on English if there is no standard.
How do we change the structure of what the school teaches.

Practice Write 10/18

"Sigh of Relief" - open prompt after turning in Essay 2. (How do you feel about it?)

Definitely glad that the essay is over. However, I did enjoy writing this letter to my former teacher. Although the essay was more of a thing to do, it help me analyze the Young's text more in-depth and fully understand his stance against standard english ideology.

Book Club Blog

Summary/Main Ideas:
The novel begins with our protagonist, Janie returning to her home town. However her return isn't what you expect. Instead of being welcomed she is gossiped about and laughed at. In spite of that, the women mocked at Janie because they are jealous of her physical prowess leading to a subjective view on her return. Even the men judgement of her return is subjective. They changed their way of judging her based on her physical body. As the book progresses, the setting of the novels visits the past. As we learn, Janie's first husband is Logan. Janie's main reason for marrying Logan however is that Logan provided is that he is well off and can financially support her. His qualities of honesty and hardworking helps their marriage but on the other hand it hurts their relationship. Throughout their marriage, Janie constantly tries to find true/real love in their relationship. Thus Janie seeks the advice of her Nanny. Her nanny a who believes in God and a former slave, defends Logan and their marriage. In spite of that, I believe the nanny perspective/view is different to Janie's. Because her nanny is a former slave, one is justified to say that her view on a husband that can support the family, content. Because her privileges of human rights was taken away from her due to slavery, her goals in life are very different for Janie's goals.




Quotes:
1) "Ships at a distance have ever man's wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the Watcher turns his eyes away in resignation, his dreams mocked to death by Time. That is the life of men" (Hurston 1).

After reading the first few chapters of the book, the first paragraph of Hurston's novel begins to seem more critical to the main theme of the book and to its title. The main protagonist Janie goes through several marriages searching for a idea of love, but with that other life values or the qualities of the "pursuit of happiness." This quotes shares Janie's values in life or for her instance her husbands (for now). The horizon symbolizes the values Janie's second husband has which is Ambition.

"Now, women forget all those things they don't want to remember, and remember everything they don't want to forget. The dream is the truth. Then they act and do things accordingly."

This is the second paragraph to Hurston's novel. I believe this quote has the same value if not more to the first paragraph. This quote main describes Janie's reasoning behind several husbands. And even some of the reasons Hurston wrote this book. It also points out the difference of goals between Men and Women. (I'll elaborate more on this when I read more).

*Currently adding more quotes :)

Annotation Blog #6 From Inquiry p. 32-46; 241

Summary/Main Ideas:
Analyzing the Text Rhetorically
- identifying the writers purpose
-separating the parts of an argument
Identifying the Situation
-what moves the writer (motives)
Writers Purpose
-to respond in a particular situation
-what they're trying to accomplish
Writers Claims
-assertions that must be justified with evidence
-thesis should also point to solution
Writers Audience
-author's language helps identify audience
-certain genre
Major or Minor Claims
-claim of fact
-claim of value
-claim of policy
-acknowledge multiple point of views


Quotes: 
1) "To be culturally literate is to possess the basic information needed to thrive in the modern world"
Is the author arguing against being socially literate?

2) "Creating any curriculum if by definition a deeply political act"
Does establishing a curriculum in school create a fair system for all students to learn and follow?

3) "We eaten ethics foods in my childhood home, but these were all borrowed"
Does one create their own ethics when grown up?

Interpretive and Critical Questions:  
What if the writers claims on the can not be justified in your view but to others?
How do we create a fair school curriculum if every kid has their own style of language?

Practice Write 9/27/16

So we don't have to compose Essay #2 in an unfamiliar genre (a traditional rhetorical analysis), what other ways can we describe our close reading/language analysis to someone. Who would an appropriate audience be? How would they help motivate your purpose? (I have some ideas, but I want to hear yours.)

We can describe our close analysis to someone by connecting our opinion after reading the paper and describe through oral communication. The appropriate audience would be people that relate to the topic.

IDEA DRAFT

IDEA Draft

Anzaldua: How to Tame A wild tongue

Argument:

Different tongues in a certain language doesn’t make you inadequate in the language itself.  

Quotes/Paragraphs:

1)So if you want to really hurt me, talk badly about my language. Ehtnic identity is twin skin to linguistic identity. I can not take pride unless I can accept my own language and other languages I speak Pg39

Ethnic Identity vs Linguistic Identity: How she was raised vs how she was taught?

2)I will no longer be made to feel ashamed of existing. I will have my voice. Overcoming the tradition of silence pg 40

She stating her claims and not accepting the social norm but her individual priorities 

Practice Write 10/4/2016

Ms. Maroun,

Hi Ms. Maroun, this is Clinton from your first period English Class 2015-2016. I want to tell you Im sorry about the way I expressed my feeling towards you in class. I never realized how fun and productive of a class you were teaching. I apologized for my grouchy mood and and my consistent tardiness. I remember hating waking up for school and getting to class on time thus all that anger was put towards you and it really shouldn't have been. Thanks for dealing with me and the rest of the entirety of the class but I wish you the best of luck with future students and the times you're with Galileo.

Your former student,
Clinton