Home Alone is the penultimate classic Christmas movie. And maybe Elf starring Will Ferrell. They are memorable and feel-good. If this class were a Christmas movie, it would not be Home Alone or Elf.
I dunno what I was going for there. Anyway I feel like much of this class has been very underwhelming. Very little of the material we have covered is new to me, and I feel like I'm being led on a leash through an illusion of choice. Meaning we are often given rhetorical questions that are designed to lead us into canned responses. There is discussion, but our paths were laid out before us before the discussion even began. Any conclusion we reach becomes meaningless, and so does our discussion. It is patronizing and suffocating. A glorified Introduction to Critical Thinking and Social Justice.
Ouch! So you would recommend that I try to let discussions happen more organically, among other things. I accept that. Speaking of leashes, though... Hyperlinks? Pictures? 500 words?
ReplyDeleteI agree with you, I think we are all used to being in a class where we practiced our writing. Now that we get rhetorical questions causes confusion and that is the resin for why there is so little participation in class.
ReplyDeleteHome Alone and Elf are great Christmas movies. For the most part they do give you the typical feel good, giving, family meaning Christmas is apparently meant to be with a set structure of beginning, middle and end. For this class its more of a structure that can lead to anywhere. I can see where you come from but the whole mission of this class is to be different than a standard English class. I enjoy the discussions we've done so far. Not gonna lie this class has changed a lot of how I view things and I got to understand more of where I come from and how I myself view things. It's helped me open up more with myself. Every-class I come in with an opinion on how I felt with the hw readings and then leave feeling the total opposite and a head full of thoughts and questions.
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