We’ll use Perusall to annotate and read together. I Kinda Forgot…
Every day we have millions of thoughts and ideas in our head, and we go through many things in life, that we forget those thoughts and those ideas. Wednesday I had a great idea for this blog…that I totally forgot. Sad. But, I will try my best to make it an interesting vlog. Ha.
The five paragraph…that damn burger. I never was fond of those paragraphs and I just hated writing formal essays in high school. In the Wiley article, Wiley mentions how some certain aspects of why he didn’t like the 5 paragraph paper was because he thought that it was taught in a monotone way? Ok, not monotone–but at least to where the students felt that they did not include their own insight and their own voice. And I can completely agree with it.
Ugh, you have no idea how empowering it is for me to say “I” in an essay. It’s like, yes! I want you to think of me, and screw the rules of looking profesh. I want us–the writer and the reader–to be one. I want us to see one another, and by the end, we are two different opinions, and all because you read my opinion.
Here in college, I love reading first perspective essays. And ones that don’t have a perspective at all bore me to death. Sorry not sorry.
This robotic formula is something that should be good to teach in middle school, as a sake to teach kids a somewhat guide for writing, but I think this “guide” should be completely abolished by the time we get to high school. I wish writing was more of voicing your opinion on your own terms about the subject rather than professors telling us what to write and what to expect.
For example, coming up in my political science class, we have an essay that is about the Muslim Ban. Oh my God, I was pumped to write nasty shit across the page with my blood and rage about it, but wait, I can’t because I only have to say what he did, and how he did it. My voice will not be heard, and it will be nothing but a waste.
On the other hand, this blog is amazing and great. This is where I execute my emotions and slay the nightmares of robotic writing. In these blogs, I have the power to say what I want. Sure, Kim tells us what to read–but she gives us freedom to write about what we believe is good for us.
I hope one day I will continue to use this freedom of writing and portray it to our children so that they may be free to be #freedomwriters.
2 Replies to “I Kinda Forgot…”
Love the tone in this post Jazmin. I like the post you make here: “This robotic formula is something that should be good to teach in middle school, as a sake to teach kids a somewhat guide for writing, but I think this “guide” should be completely abolished by the time we get to high school.” I might add “guide for writing…in school or for timed-essays.”
Nice job
I agree on how empowering it can feel to freely say “I” in an essay and face no repercussions. Yet, the fact that something as simple as including our own voice like “I” is seen as wrong is kind of amazing but like in a sad way. Students are expected to distance ourselves from our own writing, but in doing so does have the effect of shutting out their thoughts to create, like you said, a very robotic and disconnected perspective. All in all a great post that brings up a lot of good points.
-Marie C. (^_^)/