By Monday please read:
"Looking for Work": By Gary Soto, p. 26
and
"What We Really Miss About the 1950's": By Stephanie Coontz, p. 31
These are two distinctly different pieces addressing the ideas of home and family. As you read think critically about these texts and what the authors are saying. Be sure you examine what is happening on all three levels of critical thinking: literal, analytical and interpretive/rhetorical. You need to create a post addressing these readings, and I am most interested in your analytical and interpretive/rhetorical thoughts. Consider the following in your response:
Each essay is written in different writing styles, there are things to learn from each. Using your analytical skills choose one or two elements to focus on from each essay (ie: Soto's use of pop culture references, Coontz's use of research) explain how these elements do or do not contribute to effective writing.
On the interpretive/rhetorical level of critical thinking, what do you think these authors are driving at? Given the nature of our text, do these pieces challenge or critique some cultural beliefs about American families?
What do you find the most interesting about each of these pieces.
**Remember to read and respond to your classmates' posts!
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5 years ago
O Wow the 50's sure were happy times. It seems as if whenever one thinks back on the nineteen fifty's they see nothing but good times and even better people. As i read these articles the first by Soto it speaks of a boy who gets the idea of the perfect American family from the tv families. They have the perfect life and are always smiling and all-in-all just happy people. Through watching these shows he recieves these ideas he has been feed and figures that if his family dresses and acts like they do, he will be more accepted in the world and become a more liked family.
ReplyDeleteThe second article by Coontz was about how the 50's really arent the happy times everyone thinks they are. By looking in movies and pictures of the 50's it would appear as one of the best decades there has ever been, however this is because we are only looking at the happy times, with no grasp toward the hard times at all. If we were to look at our time and showed only the good we would also look as if we were perfect too. The fact is perfection doesnt exist, there is no perfect generation, or perfect American family. All can appear perfect if the only thing you see is what people want to see. With this next article it shows of the wars, trials, and conspiracies all back in the fifties. They were indeed not the happy times every thinks they are. Rather than trying to be perfect, or be just like something else, why not just simply be the best we can be.
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