Reading Annotation Blog #11

Reading Annotation Blog #11


The book called " Bootstraps" by Victor Villanueva talks about his personal story as a Puerto Rican  in the United States. The first chapter " The Block" which means where the black people and other uneducated people with different culture and different languages used to make TROUBLE. The author went to School with different teachers which have different understanding of students. Some teachers don't even know about the background of the student's life and language culture. "No college" since he talks a lot of about "Ghetto" when usually don't have education background so what the college mean for is the future of the prison.  Victor really want students in ghetto should be continue on the education instead of hanging out for no reason with other uneducated people. Because, he grew up from the society however, he out of there and made himself educated person. Therefore, the first chapter is talking about his first step of life and success. 

"Still, I have a hard time seeing you as someone of color." My guess , that he meant that as a compliment, likely having something to do with competence. The colleague must see "color" as brown and black and not quite as able (though the incompetence is a social problem, tot a genetic predisposition, no doubt). (xiii)

"Color isn't always race when it comes to teachers. It's an attitude, more an understanding of where we live than where we're from." (2)

Language was not the problem of the would- be dropout. (8)

Reading Annotation Blog #10

Reading Annotation Blog #10

"LYING IN THE TALL GRASSES,  EATING CANE "

This article is talking about how she became the writer/ poet through discovering through the Caribbean and African American writer. She is from Jamaica, by the time when she's back to the country, she started to observe the people in her country and their education. During her work, she talks about her mother language which is Jamaican. However, she feels like even though she has been writing for over twenty years; she doesn't feel like she is not perfect enough.

"They lived life with a robust intensity that tingled me to the core. I searched my mind for words, language with which to convey the intensity of their feelings, but believed myself to b sadly lacking. So I stored their stories in the recesses of my mind. " (185)

"I always suspected this history I was being taught was somehow erroneous or at best lopsided and suspect. ! didn't feel wrong or inferior, yet my education was telling me that even the way we Jaqiaicans spoke-was wrong." (185)

"Why did it take me eighteen years to discover them and then so far from home? From then on, I read avidly and tentatively began to seek out black writers in New York" (186)

 In many ways, I sense that the depth of my feelings borders on sickness; yet I am also painfully aware that this lover is as necessary as the blood that feeds my heart. (188)


Questions:

- What she means by first priority? " But I have never given writing first priority" (188)
- Who's her lover in poem?

PW (04/26/18)

PW (04/26/18)

Richard Wright is trying to say about the race while there was discrimination and racism back in the history of United States. I think the article introduce with that quote because the narrator also been through the situation and understand how they felt. They are meant to born with negative assumptions even though if there is true or not.

Blog #9

This article talks about history of black people and how they been treated. Everything around for us was terrible, dark and violence crimes. In 1986, the narrator was in sixth grade when the white boy was about to shoot him based on his skin tone. The narrator had to learn how to shield his body by nodding and shaking hands in order to survive the neighborhoods. He had to be careful with whatever he does because based on the skin tone, the rules are essential for him. The violence makes him cost the body. Later, he married to a woman and have a baby; they lived in Delaware with not enough property.  Slavery and Enslavement are not meant to be the end but it is wrong to claim the black people's present circumstances but never compensate for the triumph. They struggled a lot in the past therefore the narrator wants his son to understand his ethnicity and how he should be acted in order to responsible for the worst actions of other black bodies.

"Thus America's problem is not its betrayal of "government of the people, " but the means by which "the people" acquired their names" (6)

 "I tell you now that the question of how one should live within a black body, within a country lost in the Dream, is the question of my life and the pursuit of this question, I have found, intimately answer itself."(12)

"It does not matter if the agent of those forces is white or black-what matters is our conditions, what matters is the system that makes your body breakable." (18)

"The world had no time for the childhoods of black boys and girls. How could the schools?" (26)

"Slavery" is this same woman born in a world that loudly proclaims its love of freedom and inscribes this love in its essential texts, a world in which these same ....... is the enslaved." (70)

Reading Annotation Blog#8

Reading Annotation Blog#8

Learning to Read article is talking about how Malcolon X's reading process from the beginning to pro. Before he became the minister of Mr. Muhammad’s, he went to the prison. This was how he started to read and study. He started to read about History of the United States then around the world. Which book made him more interested reading in book were "Abolitionist Anti- Slavery" and "the father of History". Through reading books, what he had learned was how the white people brought up issues with other types of ethnicity. It is basically talking about how reading can change through your thinking?

"Reading it over and over, especially certain sections, helped me to understand that if you started with a black man, a white man could be produced; but starting with a white man, you never could produce a black man- because the white chromosome is recessive." (3) 

One
 was,
 “What’s
 your 
alma 
mater?” 
I 
told 
him,
“Books.” 
You
 will 
never 
catch 
me 
with 
a 
free 
fifteen
minutes
 in 
which 
I’m
 not 
studying 
something 
I 
feel 
might 
be
 able 
to 
help 
the 
black 
man.
" (6)


Where 
else 
but
 in 
a 
prison
 could
 I 
have 
attacked
 my
 ignorance 
by 
being 
able 
to 
study 
intensely 
sometimes 
as
much 
as 
fifteen
 hours
 a 
day?
(6)

Research Paper Peer Draft

https://docs.google.com/document/d/12P40MQoZl6GBO-yXKuoxHuVaetWt1z4KhWHKOdpTeds/edit?usp=sharing

PW: (04/19/18)

PW: (04/19/18)

The open- ended question is really important because it makes the interview looks more interesting and more things to learn from their answers and also we can ask more questions based on their answer too. For example; how, why and what would you do, etc.

Annotation Blog #7

Annotation Blog #7

The article is talking about how to do an interview with good strategies. When we ask questions, it said there is also collaborative listening. There are two different questions which are closed questions and open questions. Closed questions are more simple questions like what, who, when, etc. But for the open questions are like why, how, etc. When we do the interview, the most important thing is being a good listener. Even we ask the perfect questions to interviewee, if we can't interpret and not being a good listener. The information we get will not be that good. In order to become a good listener, we should prepare for the set of good focused questions and need to change directions in anytime based on the interviewee is heading to. There are some strategies how to set up for the interview.


 "Those strategies are part of interviewing - learning to ask and learning to listen"(220).

"Although most people think that the key to a good interview is asking a set of good questions, we and our students have found that the real key to interviewing is being a good listener"(225).

"To become a good listener as a field interviewer, you must also haves structured plans with focused questions. And you must be willing to change them as the conversation moves in different directions. With open questions, background research, and genuine interest in your informant, find yourself holding collaborative conversation from which both learn. It the process, not the preplanned information, that makes an interview successful"(226).

PW (04/17/18)

PW (04/17/18)

I never listened to Kendrick Lamar but I think he is winning the award maybe he is representing his society by creating into a music. Maybe I would involved in the humanities by be myself and make sure my voice heard by everyone, just doing what I am believing in and keep going. In humanities, as a human we need to have a sympathy to emphasize other people who need help.

Research Outline

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MaSIH_R337MWR3kRf9QmuU5sedaq8a5SBcRMtKh5YAI/edit#

PW (04/12/2018)

PW (04/12/2018)

Both of my scholarly articles agree that Myanmar Education system need to be change and not investing more money on the military. Since, there wasn't enough money to afford; they didn't have better programming in the education and lack of teacher's requirement. They also talked about how diverse people have different language in Myanmar but the government forced to be have only one language which is Burmese in 8 different cities. They both agree that the reason why Myanmar Education System is out of date because they still believing in the histrorical period which really impacted on the modern society.

Annotation Blog #6

Annotation Blog #6

Chapter 4 is basically saying like whenever we write the paper, we need to prove our instinct whether we agree, disagree or both to let the reader know about where we are making a claim. Also, giving examples about how to write the agree or disagree in the passage and what we should need to put reason for those claims that we make. There are three ways to respond; 1) disagree and explain why 2)agree and with a difference 3)agree and disagree. what it means by when we disagree; we have to make sure we persuade our argument to the reader about why we disagree. when we agree, we need to tell the Reader about our experiences and sounds like more realistic. when we are in both, we need to make sure which points we agree and which points are not.

" For this reason, this chapter's advice applies to reading as well as to writing. Especially with difficult texts, you need not only to find the position the writer is responding to - the "They Say" but also determine whether the writer is agreeing with it, challenging it or some mixture of the two"(56)

"That is, the complexity,  and originality of your response are more likely to stand out and be noticed if readers have a baseline sense of where you stand relative to any ideas you've cited(57).

Chapter 5 is saying like most students are familiar with the sentence " Don't use I in essay" but the article said that it is okay use "I" because the readers might don't know "is that your opinions or other people's opinions" Therefore, "Differentiating your views from those of others, or even offering your own views in the first place."(72) then, there are examples to show how to write clearly "voice maker"

"Frequently, when students have trouble understanding difficult texts, it is not just because the texts contain unfamiliar ideas or words, but because the texts rely on subtle clues to let readers know when a particular view should be attributed to the writer or to someone else"(69).

Chapter 6 is saying like we all should have counterargument to make the essay sounds more interesting and more open minded.

"It suggests that even though most of us are upset at the idea of someone criticizing our work, such criticisms can actually work to our advantage(78)".

Chapter 7 talks about how "So What and Who Cares" important because when we didn't put it, it makes the essay looks less interesting and not too detailed about the topic. There are some template to grab reader's attention by suggesting the real problem in your claims. Also, we are basically trying to say is why we care about our claims and why the reader should care.

"The best way to answer such questions about the larger consequences of your claims is to appear to something that your audience already figure to care about. Whereas the "who cares?" question ask you to identify an interested person or group, the "so what?" question ask you to link your argument to some larger matter that the readers already deem important"(97).

Resarch Annotation BIBLIOGRAPHY

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1092oZfGAfIvXrcmIk8d3bK2xRixUq9KFSApRRu4-
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PW: (04/10/18)

PW: (04/10/18)

My research paper is doing not okay yet because my topic is Myanmar Education so there are not a lot of people studying about that topic so it is kinda hard for me to what to focus on the paper. I don't have scholar source because most of the book only talks about Myanmar's Politics and Change in the Government.

PW: (04/05/18)

PW: (04/05/18)

Yes, I usually trust the websites that I visited. It is because I feel like no one gonna post or write blog when they don't know what they are talking. So, those websites can be used as opinions and arguments. but I never thought about beside Wikipedia, there are a lot of untrustworthy sources out there.

Reading Blog #5

This article is basically saying that whatever we see in the website, we shouldn't rely on them until this sources are reliable because For example, Wikipedia has unlimited permission to edit the information however we want. Therefore, this can lead to our misinterpretation with new wrong perspectives. Also, we should be the evidences that we claim. This is important because if there is no evidences,  our claims will be untrustworthy and makes us look like judging other people's view points. We also have open minded when we are looking at other people's claim because we all have different perspectives based on what we believe. 

This article also talks about young people are not good at researching because we believe in things easily and not researching enough about where this information really came from. Every students use INTERNET to research. This becomes to normal in these days. As this becomes normal, a lot of sources are available for us and it is really easy to find out. However, we don't know for sure where this info came from? They didn't give us enough details to trust this website or not.  There are a lot of sources but it is really difficult to find where the information came from and should we trust them.

"It was obviously never the case that just because something was printed meant that it was true"(14).

"The higher up in a Google search, the more credible the entry. Sometimes students remarked that they considered the qualifications of the author before believing what they found, but in no instance of the screen captures could the researchers find evidence that author credibility steered students’ decisions"(15). 

“The teaching of history should convey only facts and be free from political motives, personal opinions, biases, propaganda and other common tactics of distortion. Every claim that is made about history should also be accompanied by documentation proving its basis"(16).

"Simple questions. Who owns a site? Who links to it? Forget about power drills and pneumatic nail guns. Can we start with a hammer and a saw? "(16)

PW: (04/03/18)

PW: (04/03/18)

I would rather to research the topic that I am interested because I feel that it is easier for me to do that. Interviewing sounds fun but it is more harder than reading scholarly sources because we need to meet someone and give more time to them and maybe or not we will get enough information.

ESSAY #3

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kZtf0hK_Z9mgne3ZbQCarITbPLHFo8fXfHCerm1LMyQ/edit