Dialectical journal for the Childish Gambino activity

Video about DIALECTICAL JOURNAL

Template to use:

Name:                                                                                                

Reading (title and author):                                                                                                                

Quote when the words themselves matter; paraphrase when the idea matters.

Text Notes and Noticings	Reactions / Commentary / Questions

Important Aspects of the Reading	Your Thoughts on the Important Aspects

Connect the dots…  can you relate personally to ideas in the text?  Can you relate aspects of this text to other texts?

MIT:  Most Important Thing (from the reading)

Additional notes / musings:

Argument and Chain of Reasoning

Inductive and Deductive Reasoning:
https://www.mscc.edu/documents/writingcenter/Deductive-and-Inductive-Reasoning.pdf

Chain of reasoning and fallacies:
http://www.belmont.edu/english/pdf/Writing%20an%20Argument.pdf

The Ancient Aliens / Harris Moves worksheet

Directions:  complete the chart as you watch the episode from the History Channel’s Ancient Aliens. 

Remember, you are listening for the Harris Moves:

The first move, coming to terms, refers to the process of reading, getting to know content, concepts and issues. When you come to terms in writing, you restate the work of another writer. The mechanisms for achieving this are: summarizing, paraphrasing, quoting and writing descriptions. In making notes about a reading, you would be looking for the writer’s purpose (what they intended to do in the text), the writer’s main argument, the evidence provided for the claim and how this relates to your own argument. One misunderstanding about academic readings is that we all read and receive the same message when we can really all interpret the same article quite differently. Academic writing is often about explaining how you read a paper and what you interpret from it. Your notes need to explain what you understand from the source text, what your interpretation is and how it relates to your argument in your own writing (Harris, 2006).

What is the purpose of this episode?	HOW DO YOU KNOW? Be specific. (And use the sheet about rhetorically accurate verbs…)

What is the episode’s CLAIM?

Quote when the words themselves matter; paraphrase when the idea matters.

Note SPECIFIC instances where the episode is:
Illustrating using other texts as examples to explain your point (anecdotes, data, scenarios)
Authorizing when you use an author to support your thinking, this is the “quick appeal to another writer as a voice of authority” (Harris 44).

Extending	HOW does the episode use the ILLUSTRATING and AUTHORIZING to put (their) own meaning on an idea drawn from another text to advance (their) argument?

Questions / comments:

THE HARRIS MOVES article

Here is the link to the GOOGLE DOC

The Yellow Wallpaper links

Sorry about the packet from the print shop...

Here is the link to the story:

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1952/1952-h/1952-h.htm


Here is the link to "Why I Wrote 'The Yellow Wallpaper'":

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/theliteratureofprescription/education/materials/WhyIWroteYellowWallPaper.pdf



Here is the journal set up:

The BINARY JOURNALS                                            

For this part of the assignment, your charge is to record the binary opposites in The Wizard of Oz (teacher guided), “The Yellow Wallpaper,” “A Room of One’s Own,” and the Narrative.   Please use this format for all Binary Journals.

As you work through the text, note all of the binaries you find-- where there is tension in the text.  As you do, make specific note of where these binary opposites are at work.

Binary opposites (the first two are filled in for Oz)	Notes: Who, what, where, when, why, how…
Good / Evil
Light / Dark

When the reading or viewing is completed, review what you have collected.  Which 3-4 binaries affect the text the most? Put the positive aspect on the left side and the negative aspect on the right side.

POSITIVE / dominant	NEGATIVE / non-dominant

WHAT ARE THE IMPLICATIONS OF EACH COLUMN?

This is narrative.  What does the text imply ("say") about each aspect when read together?  Ask yourself, "so what?"  One paragraph of analysis per side, minimum.

What are the implications when looking at the left hand (positive) side?	What are the implications when looking at the right hand (negative) side?

ASK YOURSELF “SO WHAT?” AGAIN…

…what conclusion(s )can you draw from those implications? This should be at least one paragraph of synthesis.  don't forget to illustrate and extend.  This, as with all classwork, should be your own work.  

Remember-- you haven't connected this to the text yet.  We will do that together in class.  

LINK TO A BLOG FOR THOUGHT:  https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/vitamin-f/201308/feminism-is-dead-long-live-feminism