Each of my thoughts on the readings has started the same way. I have a vague idea about the concepts. My conclusions are mostly surface level and content based observations on the reading. Once I start thinking about the text with the class, I usually have to start over the rethink everything I had thought. Putting on a new lens has been one of the biggest changes I have had to make so far this term. Especially when it came to breaking down the paragraphs in Greenblatt, I’ve been exploring new ways of going back and examining text in a new light in order to think about it differently. Writing my thoughts down in my common place book has been a tool of success when dealing with my new ways of thinking. Thinking about the text in different lenses has required me to be able to put down my thoughts because I’ve needed to constantly go back and refer to them. Once my class has collectively and individually have worked over a text again and again, usually breaking it down multiple times and writing about it in our CPB, there seems to be a moment of realization. I saw this most in Scott when I felt that all the thinking had paid off and we were able to grasp his concepts in more ways than a literal sense. Common-placing and in-depth re-reading have allowed myself and our class to be able to understand and look over the two main texts we’ve read and they serve as the two most important takeaways from the term so far.
My two blog post images show two different ways of thinking that I’ve been able to improve on this term. The first is breaking down a text in different lenses and looking at it through writing. The second is being able to take an idea and concept we’ve been working on and create a drawing or concept map of shorts to demonstrate the ideas. The ideas of on each page draw on the themes and ideas surrounding self fashioning and Greenblatt’s ideas. Both surround the thought process of Greenblatt and his ideas, one being personal and the other theoretical, expressing his ideas through mapping his concepts in order to be understood and learned from. I struggled quite a bit with the concept of self-fashioning and Greenblatt’s way of never settling on a concrete example. I personally am a thinker that is able to operate best when given an example or analogy, but I feel that Greenblatt steered clear of that. Since figurativeness and passive voice were his ways of communicating, I took longer to grasp what he was saying, and I am still a bit confused. My main goal for going forward is able to not be reliant on examples and explanations, but I want to be able to look between the text and find the information I need to understand the reading. As a class, I see us being able to move faster through texts. The process of understanding and communicating what we’ve learned has only progressed more everyday, so I think that we will be able to productively move through more readings at a faster pace.
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