CHABOT COLLEGE—SPRING 2016—2nd PAPER—English 4--Bread Givers.....

CHABOT COLLEGE—SPRING 2016—2^nd PAPER—English 4

One of the central claims that James Gilligan makes in his book Violence, and that Mary Pipher makes in her book, Reviving Ophelia, is that girls and women in the United States today are being harmed by something called the “Girl Code.”  (This code can be thought as the socially expected gender rules for women.) Pipher argues that this Code is everywhere and that girls and women have a hard time not changing their behavior to meet the Code’s guidelines. She goes so far as to say that any girl who resists the code should be called a Hero. And yet, some anthropologists have argued that the job of any society is to keep itself growing and prospering. And if this means that some individual members of the society suffer or are compromised—as long as the society itself is improved--well that is the way it goes.

For this paper you will be investigating these ideas and coming to your own conclusions about whether you think this trade-off (between the needs of women and the needs of a greater society) is worth it.  Here are some questions for you to consider. You don’t need to do them all, but a majority of them should probably be considered. You may also generate your own questions.

What do you think are some elements of this Gender Code for women in the book or movie?

What are the negative consequences for women when they follow the code in the book or movie? When they break the Code?

Could the Code offer any Positive benefits for women? For society?

Is Sara a Hero? Why or why not?

Is Sara a Feminist? Why or why not?

Of course you will want to start paragraph topic sentences (3-4-5) off with concepts and keywords, while for sure keeping people—Reb/Sara/etc—out of that part of the paragraph. They are brought in later to support your concept.

And of course you must integrate quotes from Bread Givers and from any other helpful sources including Hester Street you may have in order to support your points. You need to average 2-3 quotes per page of the paper.

The page minimum is 6 full pages….

—BNDJTM (But Never Do Just The Minimum.)

The first draft is due on March 23.

The final draft is due on April 6.

Individual Feminism--ENGLISH 4 Class

Pls read this essay....


The Lost Tradition


it will give you a good framework for answering the question on the essay about Feminism...

One thing to consider is what KIND of feminist, if any, is Sara.... this article can help sort that out....

Draft Day for Eng 4--on Wed

hey there, for this Wed we have draft day. Pls bring 2 copies typed of your essay....
try to bring 9 paragraphs on draft day.....


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DRAFT DAY ... this wednesday for 1A and 102

hey there, so this Wednesday Is draft day for your movie/violence paper...

pls bring 2 copies typed of the essay....(or at least one hard copy if you send a digital version to me)

you will be sharing your draft with 2-3 students....so pls bring copy of paper.... ...see you then

Remember, no names of characters in topic sentences... instead...lay out a specific aspect of what ever theory you are working on......THEN apply it to your movie...

HW for MOnday the 21st in English 4

Ok, so the draft day is coming up on Wed the 23rd, so, lets get started on that by using this weekend to start the essay...

lets have you do 6 paras..... Try Rule of 3 for 2 of the questions, to get the 6 paras...

pls type and print and bring to class.... on Monday

HW due on Monday the 21st --for 102 and 1A

Hey there, so we are into the writing of the 2nd paper now!

Our draft day is the 23rd of course, so in anticipation of that we are going to start writing....

Pick one of your movies and write up 6 paragraphs.

 Probably a good way to do that is to pick 2 of the theories (Ray, Gilligan, Before/During'/After) and do a Rule of 3 for each theory....

Bring a hard copy of your writing to class....

HW for Wed...for 102 class

Pick one of your movies, and apply two of the theories to it......try to Rule of 3 each theory. make 6 paras.... remember, don't start paras with characters, start with concepts...

type and bring on Wed...

HW for 102

Pls read the #2 essay assignment in the post below....then:

1. your HW this weekend is to decide on which 2 movies you think you want to do for the paper. Be prepared to explain why you like these 2 movies on Monday.

2. your second thing to do is to read this essay:

https://otiscatmann.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/rb-ray-essay1.pdf

after you read it,,, pls answer this question:
What is the outlaw hero's relationship to these 3 things:
1. Aging  2. Society and Women   3. Politics and Law
Pls do a paragraph for each of the 3.

HW for English 4...assigned Monday march 7

hey there, this HW is due on Wednesday March 9

• Get the Bread Givers book. Start reading, and pls read up through chapter 8.
• Writing Prompt: Discuss 2 tensions that Sara as an individual has with her larger family unit. (type this--figure 1-2 paragraphs of discussion for each tension.)
• Visit: Tenement Museum website--cruise around on it and write 2 paragraph discussion of what you think of it

     

HW due for Monday March 7th in English 102 and English 1A

SO, as we said in class, the next essay will ask us to analyze movies in terms of how they portray violence.

To get us started, here is our homework:

You are going to do this  homework 2 times, with a different movie each time...try to pick 2 movies that portray violence in different ways, to give yourself some comparative analysis.

1. Watch a movie of your choice, paying particular attention to the violence in the movie. (You will need to pick a movie with violence in it.)
2. After you watch the movie, pls answer these 2  questions:

a. How is violence portrayed in the movie? (is it arty? fun? exciting? funny? horrible?....etc.)
b. What seems to be the purpose of the violence in the movie?


Remember, you need to watch 2 movies, and answer the questions 2 times, once for each movie, of course.