Thursday, November 12, 2009
Guest Blogger - Kelsey M.
The three short stories we have learned about this week are Young Goodman Brown; A Good Man is Hard to Find and Everyday Use. In class we have also swapped teachers for the three days, which brought new ideas and perspective into the situation. We have become very used to one specific Teachers methods that when a new person comes in with their own ways to teach a short story, it makes the students think in ways that they aren’t used to. We discussed the short story “Everyday Use” by Alice Walker on Wednesday and talked about the importance on how the Mother’s use of Dee’s name changes. When Dee first comes home from College, she tells her Mother that she changed her name to Wangero, and would like to be called that. As the story goes on, the mother always thinks of Dee like, Dee (Wangero). I believe that signifies a neutral setting, no strong emotion is pulled through. When she says, Dee, she reaches a very high emotional peak and remembers that Dee is her daughter and she has control over her. When she uses, Miss Wangero, I believed that she was being sarcastic and becomes slightly bitter with Dee. And that’s what we’ve been talking about in AP Lit.
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The switch of teachers definately gave everyone a new perspective of how things are taught. But it also made people appreciate their own teachers much more. Once the students got used to the way the teacher taught the subject it was harder for the students to want to learn from a diffrent teacher. Which is actully why I think Kelsey chose to point out "Everyday Use", Ms. Arko taught that story. It is amazing how students can learn so much diffrently through each teaching style even though it is pretty much the same general idea. Any ways about "Everyday Use", look at it in Wangero's perspective. I personally don't think she knows quite yet who she wants to be. She changes her apperance with all the fads, and one day she wants quilts and the other day she doesn't. Dee is a very confused person and is just rollin with what society wants her to be. I think she needs serious help.
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Caitlin Albers
i think the way that the mother changes Dee's name to Dee(Wangero) then to just Wangero shows how the mother feels about Dee and how it seems like she is becoming less and less of her daughter, and i think the changing of her name shows how the mother is kind of disowning her.
ReplyDeleteI really like how we switched teachers. It was interesting to have different teaching styles for a few days. I liked how in Everyday Use, the little things, such as changing her name and what her mother called her, showed her quest to find her self, and at the same time showed the distance that Dee put between herself and her family.
ReplyDeleteI also enjoyed getting different point of views and getting a wide variety of different teaching processes. With Katie's responce, I do agree that with the name changes, she loses her respect for Dee(Wangero). She loses so much respect that she basically pulls Dee out of the family and almost in some sense put a boundary between them.
ReplyDeleteI think the switch of the teachers was kind of nice. Obviously no offense to Arko in any way, but it's nice to switch up the learning process once in a while. Makes you think a little differently, too. And as for the Dee-Miss Wangero thing, I completely agree. Most of us have probably heard our full name once or twice when were caught in the cookie jar as a kid, and I think the whole "different name, different attitude" comes into play here as well.
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