I later decided I should envision a reader for thestories I would write. And the reader I decided onwas my mother,
This shows, how great a writer Amy Tan is cause, for a writer I think the most important thing for them is that their reader will appreciate, love and understand their work.
-Americans represented in Amer-ican literature. Why are there few Asian-Americansenrolled in creative writing programs? Why do somany Chinese students go into engineering?
Having an Asian parent, the level of education you are expected is high. It is like a tradition to the family to pick higher "Best" field jobs such as doctor, engineer, lawyer or etc. in order to be accepted. Especially if you're an immigrant who is a first generation or the continuing generation college student, the expectations tend to get higher.
t'smy mother tongue.
Mother tongue is not limited to the national language of the nation but instead mother tongue is the language with which you grew up with.
t has become our language of inti-macy, a different sort of English that relates tofamily talk, the language I grew up with.
I can relate to this, as I myself also use a different kind of English when I'm at home with my mom or talking to my family. It's like a break from the outside world because with them I do not need to worry about someone judging my pronunciations / grammars
My "home" tongues are the languages I speak with my sister and brothers, with my friends.
I can relate to this as well, as I do this at home and with the people I am comfortable with. We speak our own languages with a mix of everything.
We needed a language with which we could communicate with ourselves, a secret language.
Our language is what become a part of us, a part of who we are because language is what connects us to the people that surrounds us.
by speaking English, you're ruining the Spanish language," I have been accused by various Latinos and Latinas.
No mater the race or ethnicity someone will always have a say and tell that something is wrong. People will judge because everyone sees faults with everybody, especially when they are different.
Until I can take pride in my language, I cannot take pride in myself.
Because language is a part of us, we were raised and taught to speak.We were confident until people see faults in it, thus we hesitate and we feel ashamed of us
I've never heard them applied to men.
The patriarchy system is usually common among minorities such as in a Hispanic household or an Asian household, especially in this author's era. Women are seen inferior to men.
page 260 "I preferred reading in the total isolation of my own room"
I relate to this, as I do this myself because it is more comfortable especially without the noises to distract you to your own world of imagination inside the book you are reading.
page 259, "I would guess, I wrote a million words."
Hyperbole, Malcolm's fierce passion to learn made it possible for him to teach himself the words he never knew existed. Most prisoners are limited to education especially back in the day. For him, I feel like knowledge is everything.
page 257, "I became increasingly frustrated at not being able to express what I wanted to convey in letters that I wrote, especially those to Mr. Elijah Muhammed,"
Although writing is a free form of speech, it is difficult to convey the right message with the right tone and action. Unlike speaking where body languages is shown in order to understand better the point of the message.
Responsibility
This whole chapter touched me. It understands and accept each and every students learning capabilities and flaws. And that indeed, our experiences shapes us who we currently are. We have our own differences but we also have our own similarities. And that we have responsibilities to do and decisions to make.
Freire called this “reading the world,” which is the premise of this text and many of the projects involving student choice in our curricula across SFSU and beyond. In Freire’s critical pedagogy, or radically progressive way of teaching, the curriculum is framed around the students’ worlds, involves their real issues, desires, and needs, and the teacher can learn from the multiple literacies of the students’ worlds even as they teach them more traditional literacies in school.
I like how you reference, activist/authors in order to go in depth of what learning should really be. It is true that not only students learn from the class, but teachers / professors as well. I also like how it is stated that students need to learn the real issues of the world, what we need to learn and be involve in.
Like all trips, this book will have a beginning and an end, with a middle that will provide many insights and stories from our teaching that are hopefully memorable because they relate to your own experience.
I like how you started it with a rhetorical device of simile, you compared this book to our journeys in college, where indeed there is a beginning and an end to everything.
Engagement in Active Learning: Introduce how this textbook and classroom activities will engage students in active learning as they read, to engage students with interactive experiences during the process of learning and reading.Openness, Flexibility: Prepare your mindset to be flexible and open to new reading and writing situations in college; reinforce the growth mindset model and prepare students with strategies to control their reading and writing growthResponsibility, Metacognition: To reflect on your own learning styles and build strategies for reading and writing based on your individual learning process. Home
Key words, main points of the chapter, helps us understand and predict what will the discussion / chapter be about.
Being Open-minded
I believe as a student it is very important to be open minded an trying new ways of teaching. Discovering things along the way, and it shows that you are willing to help us to the best of your responsibility.
Unlearning traditional rules of writing that constrain creativity
These themes shows that you as our professor, respect us as students and individuals instead of the stereotypical teaching. These themes shows me that you are different, and you are active and passionate about your teachings.
While the Black Lives MatterMovement for racial justice, peace, and a redistribution of police funding is unique to our periodof history, it is also a culmination of lots of historical work, at least in part through academia:through conversations, books, artwork, sociological studies, ethnographic interviews, cinematicdocumentation, and knowledge that was produced, at least in part, in radically progressiveacademic settings
With this information, it gave me the idea that you show awareness of situations outside the class and it shows that you include current events and issue in our learning class, and I am very excited for it.
As I learn from you, I guess you learn from me-- although you're older--and white-- and somewhat more free
This sentence is powerful to me, this shows that with both races, both different ages, both differences, they learn and try to understand each other together. However, the "me" is more bound and limited by society while the "you" is simply free