Officer Winter is on stakeout right now in Enterprise 314 until about 4:00. For anyone who wants to talk; I promise Chris & Snoop won't shoot you.
Reminder: Wednesday's class will consist of workshops for transitions and metacommentary, so be sure to read They Say I Say chapters 8 and 10. Even if your essay isn't due until Thursday, you will benefit from coming to class with something reasonably complete. We don't have the lab yet, so you'll want to print out your draft or bring it to class in some other readable form.
Essays Due Tuesday 2pm: Schwartz, Toder, Holmes, Powers, Barney, Regier, Semenov, Baldino, Stevens, Laudiero, Symons, Velazquez, Kim, Garney, Abed, Mailey, Musgrave, Elam
Essays Due Wednesday at the start of class: Moyers, Stockmann, Klein, Annatone, Hagos, Wright, Shahidi, Johnson, Cohen, Ambrosio, Werner, Price, Foreman, Brahim, Taweechaisuntis, Fogg
Essays Due Thursday 2pm: Lawrence, Liggett, Perez, Guevara, Yorgen, Pollack, Peji, Brown, Thacker, Spencer, Bowman
Watch This Space: Since we spent more time on the introductions workshop today, I'll post here about the disciplinary writing discussion.
Opportunity: These are topics we will cover in class this month, but for more depth the Writing Center is giving a workshop on "evaluating and integrating sources" in your research. It meets on Monday, April 11 from 2:30-4:30 pm in Student Union Building II, VIP Room II. There is also a workshop on "citing sources" in the same place and at the same time on Tuesday April 12. To reserve a spot for one or both of the workshops, email wcenter@gmu.edu . Definitely a good idea to attend if it suits your schedule.
A STUDENT WRITES
ReplyDeleteThesis for AA-first draft:
According to Beliveau’s article titled, “Posing Problems and Picking Fights: Critical Pedagogy and the Corner Boys”, he argues that in The Wire the community and environment the children were raised in played a significant role towards their education. Also, the lack of involvement from both parents and the school board affected their learning capabilities greatly. Beliveau quotes that “the show's discussion of education is both formal, within the confines of traditional schools, and informal, within the confines of the corner and the game”. In other words, Beliveau believes that the children’s knowledge was divided between what they learned in school and what they learned in the game. However, I say that the children used the knowledge they acquired from the streets and applied it to their school work and overall life in order to get a better understanding of the curriculum they were being taught and gain consciousness of who they were and where they belonged in life.
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My main note... what you are defining as a disagreement with the Beliveaus seems to me to be a perfect restatement of their main point about The Wire. They say (roughly) that a critical pedagogy would involve the students taking an active role to apply academic concepts to their real lives, and that this particular sequence in the show gives us an example of what that looks like.
So as with many other students on the article analysis, I am left wondering whether you are trying to force a disagreement you don't really have for the sake of following the template, or whether you have somehow misunderstood the article.
Minor editing notes for future reference... choose either "according to Beliveau" or "he argues that," not both. There isn't really a verb "quotes that."