Q2 Notebook

In the 2nd Quarter, I feel like my notebook has become an even more helpful tool in English. I feel like a lot of what we’ve done this quarter is reflecting, as well as learning and becoming more aware of identity and the influence of language and race. Because of this, I feel like my notebook has not only become a place where discussion notes and reflections happen, but often now where I store information and resources of how to use Trevor Noah’s unique techniques of writing, as well as notes on examples surrounding race. In the future, I plan to keep this merge alive and continue to have my notebook even more diverse than it has been in the past few months.

Q2 Notebook Flipthrough

Q2 notebook

In my notebook, I noticed that while I started to take more notes in class, they weren’t really neat and with no context make no sense. So I guess something that I would want to work on is giving my notebook more context and making it neater and more tidy. Even though my work isn’t the neatest, it still helps me learn. For example, if I forgot the definition of the word jargon, I could go back into my book and get the definition.

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My Notebook Reflection

This is my reflection on how my notes have been coming and my notes on Born a Crime. My notebook has helped me learn by helping me to have something to write notes in so that I can go back later and study them. Moving forward I will write as much as I can in it.

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Q2 Notebook Reflection

This notebook for Q2 has helped my learning because it helps me express my thoughts through my notes and not always my words. Something else I believe It helps me do is it helps me learn more about things and be able to look back at them in a descriptive way instead of just remembering them inside of my head. I plan to maximize my efforts by being more descriptive in my notes and suggesting different ways of learning throughout my notes. I finally believe I will maximize my efforts by explaining and going into more depth on my notes and their reasoning. I finally believe this has helped me learn because it has taught me the importance of notes and how descriptions are very important more than brain memory of these certain topics. video one and part dos

Q2 Notebook Project

My Q2 notebook has seriously helped me with all the work we have done. This quarter in particular we did a lot of independent work. The notes I took in class allowed me to get my work done without having to ask for help. In Q3 I intend to do all that and more. I hope to be a little more descriptive in my notes so what I am saying is more identifiable to anyone else reading my notes.

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Q2 Notebook Reflection

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My Q2 notebook has helped me stay organized with my work, ideas, and class discussions. Even though I noticed a drastic changed in my notes from Q1 to Q2, I feel as though there is still room for improve meant in Q3. In Q3 I hope to stay more consistent with visual note taking and highlighting and writing in pens.

Q2 Notebook Project

My notebook, as it did last quarter, has helped me keep my class notes and thoughts organized in a place where they are easily accessible. However, there are still many ways in which it can be improved to maximize its potential. Moving forward, I hope to introduce more note taking styles into my notebook and explore a larger variety of visual tools.

My Q2 Notebook flip through Video

Q2 Notebook Project

My notebook has helped me in many ways this quarter. It has made it much easier to collect data and notes and keep them all in one place. It has also helped me work on my organizing skills and made me neater overall. I plan to keep getting neater and use more arrows and boxes to make my notebook look nicer. I want to take better notes and more descriptive annotations over the rest of the year.

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Q2 Notebook Video

In the first quarter, I had a goal of establishing a good base for my notes. This meant I would use the outline method and my notes would be clean. It was in quarter two I built upon that. In my video, you will see I attempted within my notes to create an organizational system, tried to use more symbols, wrote more unprompted notes, and explained my reactions within annotations. While some goals were more successful than others, my overall growth as a notetaker in quarter two is the most impressive. Click here to watch!

Tiffany Zhang - Q2 English Notebook

My notebook has tremendously helped me throughout the second quarter. By taking notes during class, I could go back and reference them. It was beneficial when incorporating figure language into my vignette. It also forced me to pay attention in class and to pick out the most essential points in discussions. Moving forward, I plan to organize my notes better and add more visual elements.

Flip-through of my Q2 English notebook

Q2 Notebook

In Quarter 2 I worked on trying to get my notebook in the same format so it would be organized. I did this but my handwriting slowly got worse because of the group discussions. I paid more attention to getting the information down, then how it looked. So next time I want to continue to have a good format and all the notes down but hope it becomes more neater. Next time I also want to get down more of my thoughts during class discussions and to keep working on making class discussions better in my notes. flip-through of my notebook

Q2 Notebook

This quarter, my notebook has grown and become full with thoughtful notes. Aside from given in-class notes, we’ve had both pod and full class discussions, in which I wrote down my own ideas and recorded the ideas of others. My notebook has allowed me to experiment with new note-taking styles and has been a place for me to express my opinions. Moving forward, I want to continue experimenting with all the different note-taking styles we learned in class, and continue using methods I learned in this quarter.

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The Eye of the Tiger

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This week we are discussing the “White Tiger” through the Marxists lens. We talked about Balram and his journey through the business world.

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“Marxism in India.” Taylor & Francis, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00472337485390621?journalCode=rjoc20.

As said in the article Marxism has been an active intellectual force in India for over 50 years. Throughout “The White Tiger” We get glimpses of it as Balram progresses the life of a business man. He starts of works in a tea shop and works his way up by uses murder as his number one tatic. Marxism is “characterizes as the philosophy revolutionary social action, the activities of the Marxists as thinkers organizers.”

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Butt, Shaehroz Anjum, and Zarina Qasim. “Rise by Sin or Fall by Virtue: A Marxist Study of Class Consciousness in The White Tiger, and How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia.” Journals.uop.edu.pk, 2021, http://journals.uop.edu.pk/papers/3(19).pdf.

The Article “Rise by Sin or Fall by Virtue: A Marxist Study of Class Consciousness in The White Tiger, and How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia” illustrates the divide between the rich and poor in Adiga’s White Tiger by using the Marxist lens. The authors highlight how the main character, Balram, segregates people based on their social status, “Balram learns that the rich are able to digest everything and everyone who comes in their path while the poor owing to their lack of desire for material possessions remain helpless in the capitalist jungle.”(Page 7). This provides additional insight into both the novel and the Marxist lens because it analyzes Balram’s division of society based on other characters’ income.

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University, Perdue. “Georg Lukács – ‘the Ideology of Modernism’ (1962).” Taste to Waste, Perdue, 23 Feb. 2012, https://tastetowaste.wordpress.com/2012/02/23/georg-lukacs-the-ideology-of-modernism-1962/#:~:text=A%20very%20compelling%20critique%20of,the%20form%20of%20social%20protest Links to an external site..

This article summarizes Lukacs’ points about modernism, and because the article was written in 2012 it does offer some potential to compare the two eras. I wish it did more compare and contrast rather than just summarizing key points he made, however, I noticed a lot of articles regarding Lukacs’ work seemed to summarize rather than analyze. The article talks about how Lukacs’ gets so in depth with his analysis that he “manages to overshoot its mark and reveal Lukács own allegiance to art…” This suggests that Lukacs’ own bias is shown through his work and his arguments, even if he has a legitimate point.

Harpo, Who Dis Women!?!?!?

Host: Synai, Devin, Seyiram, Aliyah, Phoebe

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In the second episode of our podcast, we will go through the novel using a feminist lens. We will break down our women characters and react to the situations that are brought upon them and how it affects their mental health and responses.

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Works Cited “International Women’s Day 2022: Why Colour Purple Symbolises Feminist Movement.” News18, 8 March 2022, https://www.news18.com/news/lifestyle/international-womens-day-2022-why-colour-purple-symbolises-feminist-movement-4834931.html. Accessed 10 January 2023. Jackson, Lauren Michele. “Alice Walker’s Journals Depict an Artist Restless on Her Laurels.” The New Yorker, 18 April 2022, https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/04/25/alice-walkers-journals-depict-an-artist-restless-on-her-laurels-gathering-blossoms-under-fire-valerie-boyd. Accessed 10 January 2023. WATKINS, MEL, and Alice Walker. “Some Letters Went to God.” The New York Times, 25 July 1982, https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/98/10/04/specials/walker-color.html?module=inline. Accessed 10 January 2023.

Out of the three articles I read, I think I enjoyed the New York Times on the web because it dove deep Into the context of the book and addressed several lenses, with feminism being the most prominent one. It also sums the book up from a different perspective and opened my eyes to more information that I didn’t automatically see about the story. One idea I thought was important was the role and influence that the women character had on each other and the influence she had on the males, especially her husband Albert who changed his ways because of Celie,” it is Albert’s real love and sometimes mistress, Shug Avery, and his rebellious daughter-in-law, Sofia, who provide the emotional support for Celie’s personal evolution. And, in turn, it is Celie’s new understanding of an acceptance of herself that eventually leads to Albert’s re-evaluation of his own life and a reconciliation among the novel’s major characters.”

Devin

Wilson, Jennifer, “Untangling the Legacy of The Color Purple.” New Republic, 1 February 2021, https://newrepublic.com/article/161165/legacy-color-purple-alice-walker-book-review

This source tends to connect the novel with the musical a lot because it blew up during the time the broadway was airing. With the feminist lens, we would see the book as a girl who is a rape survivor. And it is connected to Alice Walker on a personal level. However, male writers who do not see through this lens think the book is an attack on them. Black Writer Ishmael Reed believes that this book is an attack on black men and how they are characterized as rapists. With an open mind and with or without a feminist lens, this book is not the case. It is more focused on how there was sexual abuse and what it is like to experience it at a young age rather than race and time period. It is one of the main things that is throughout the book because this trauma has been carried out the entire way and the plot that is continuing the story. From young sexual abuse to marriage at a young age. And through all of its mistreatment of women.