Literature an Indians Looking Glass for The White Man Questions – Description
Weekly reading journals are designed to encourage critical reflection on your reading and writing practices. Since this course examines the ways in which literacy practices reflect and shape worldview and our sense of identity and belonging, reflecting on your reading and writing practices presents an opportunity to reflect, also, on how you approach problem-framing and problem-solving, participation in civil discourse, and participation in the linguistic or discursive life of the communities you belong to.
For this journal, you will continue to practice and hone the close-reading interpretive process you began in the last module. In order to meet the standards for passing defined in the rubric, ensure that your reference specific reading, focus, and/or time management strategies in question set #1. For question set #2, you may select from the following texts: Emerson’s “The American Scholar,” Hawthorne’s “Ethan Brand,” Apess’s “An Indian’s Looking-Glass for the White Man,” and Thoreau’s “Civil Disobedience. Be sure that your observations connect directly to your analyses when moving through the CRIT steps. Remember that for the “contextualize” step of the CRIT process (step 3), you need not conduct outside research; instead, you are invited to use corresponding texts from the same time period to provide context in addition to Dr. C’s video lectures. Finally, for question set #3, conduct a more concise CRIT process to move into the “argue” step of the CRIT process by forming an argument that responds to the question about the role/impact of gender that is directly related to the literary features of Frederick Douglass’s “Learning to Read and Write” and Harriet Jacobs’ Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Remember to relate specific evidence from the text to your ultimate conclusions.
In Journal 3 (I’ll send a copy below) you identified some strategies that you would like to take forward into future readings and modules based on your experiences from the first two modules. Which of these strategies did you implement for the readings above? What was the result of that implementation? What changes might you make to your reading approach moving forward and why? What changes might you make to your time management or focus practices moving forward and why? Please use specific examples from relevant texts to anchor your description of your problem-framing and -solving techniques. (I’ll send some links of previous readings for reference)
Select two texts from the readings above and provide the following for each text:
A paraphrase that sticks closely to the facts of the text,
At least 2 themes you’ve observed in the text,
A statement of what commentary you think the text might be making about these themes or what stance it may be taking on these themes,
A strong line (or passage) from the text that supports the above statement,
An observation you made about the language or patterns of the text,
An observation about the context that you think might be significant, and
Two statements of analysis that tie together your textual and contextual observations with the themes and commentary you’ve observed. These statements of analysis should explain why the relationship between text/context and theme or commentary are potentially significant.
Compare and contrast the themes and literary elements in Frederick Douglass’s “Learning to Read and Write” with Harriet Jacobs’ selections from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. What impact does gender have on the thematic and stylistic similarities and differences you’ve noticed?
Previous Readings:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/oi08ucr9hyw5eeq/6rPQ8k23…
https://www.dropbox.com/s/m22mig6r0gi3e2b/dyKmimqr…
https://www.dropbox.com/s/9t84ddtanzh21co/xntKcr4g…
Journal 4 Readings:
“An Indian’s Looking-Glass for the White Man,”: https://www.dropbox.com/s/073n7gp7gapey5t/William%…
“Civil Disobedience”: https://www.dropbox.com/s/256nlihqpgeya4k/Henry%20…
“The American Scholar”: https://www.dropbox.com/s/mdj01x69z8s7abx/Ralph%20…
“Learning to Read and Write”: https://www.dropbox.com/s/g5quf99l3iianj1/Frederic…
“Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.”: https://www.dropbox.com/s/wd2xv99a2gmpl7b/Harriet%…
“Ethan Brand”: https://www.dropbox.com/s/t9l79sw78j591wc/Nathanie…
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