Thursday, April 21, 2011

Sample Page of Notetaking

I thought it might be interesting since this is a reading blog to put up a scan of the first page of the book and the notes I take while reading, to provide insight into how I work with the text itself. 

A Note About Purpose:

So my professor has asked that I put a note in about purpose and where I expect to go with this blog for a kind of framework with to work with.  I first became interested in the literary blog as I explained before as way to engage deeply with a text and have enjoyed the previously mentioned Solinquist blog on Coetzee which I will look to as a kind of mentor text.  That said I do not fully expect where this blog will take me or what will come of it.  I hope to keep on with it after this class and I hope it makes an effect on my reading somehow.  As far as this blog concerning writers workshop and education is concerned it will mainly be a content study of literature and it's analysis through writing.  It is important as a teacher to really think of how you can model and how you read a text and in some ways I do hope this blog will help me explicitly think about how I read and how I write perhaps and help me reflect on how I might teach this in some small way or model this thinking to my students.