The issue of moral dilemma in my project paper

Moral dilemma; is the major issue being highlighted in my project paper. It is typical yet crucial to be discussed. I would like to deliberate the literal meaning of moral dilemma. According to Concise Oxford Dictionary, Tenth Edition, moral is an adjective that defined as “concerned with the principles of right and wrong behaviour and the goodness or badness of human character” or “adhering the code of behaviour that is considered right or acceptable”. Meanwhile, dilemma is described as “a situation in which a difficult choice has to be made between two or more alternatives”. i would rather said that this issue is an imperative issue that need to be given the greater importance on especially for the students in the stage of adolescent.

In both short stories “A White Heron” and “Hills like White Elephant” have brings out the issue of moral dilemma to the students and how the dilemma resolved; most importantly the students will look on how the action done by the characters based on the right decision made that will actually brings something prominent and would give a greater effects for their next coming future. Therefore, I am gravely believed and convinced that both texts are very reliable and very good to be used as the teaching materials especially for the secondary school. Firstly because both texts have encircle the most important basis of literature; where it fits well with the three literature model (personal growth, cultural and language model). Secondly for it provides vast of knowledge for the students to grasp some meaningful values emerge from the texts.

Approaching the end of the semester...

It was the second last class of EDU 3234 Reading and Project Paper for Teaching Literature in ESL Contexts. and i do learn about the great speech of Martin Luther King. It was tremendously terrific speech indeed. i was captivated with the usage of binary opposition he used in the speech that represents the dream and the hope of African American in the US. Hmmm..thinking of another week to go, i would definitely miss this as analyzing the language in literature class really prompt me into higher level of thinking that it would lead me to a broader horizon as it enables me to see things differently and understand things clearly.

What a teacher is?

This is definitely an interesting class of all. ~grins~ It was fun, entertaining and thoughtful. How each of us perceived what teacher is (the metaphor of a teacher) is creatively thought and differently seen by each of us. Well, I have listed few of the metaphors; most of them are common like candles and light in the darkness. Once it’s my turn, I then said the teacher is like “blood”. Everybody goes like “blood?” and they were laughing themselves out. Hello? I have reason and sturdy justification guys! Blood would be the indicator of sustenance that actually provides nutrition and nourishments to the souls of a student. Where it becomes the source to enable students to “breathe” and without the blood that circulating inside our body that bring oxygen, we would be dead. Without being educated, we are futile. Apart from that, after the class I think of another metaphor which I think it is better than blood, heh. A teacher is like an airplane. Airplane does bring us to further destination in quick time rather than any other transport. Here, teacher could be seen as a means that could figuratively leads students from the state of not knowing to the state of knowledge. Airplane flies in the sky, so definitely the views would be completely different. A long the journey towards, gaining knowledge, teacher actually show the way and giving us ample space of going to the same destination yet with different ways of looking at things. I believe this would be the greatest impact that the teacher would have on the students since the chance given to constantly looking at things in different ways, will establish who you are. How we think made who we are, and thoughts and ideas we utter show who we really are – through the endless guidance of the teacher.

Presentation on Position paper

Presentation of my position paper; I was relaxed at first yet I’m getting nervous being in front. I’m not sure why, but I just can’t control it. As I started to present, then things are getting better. Here are some of the points that have been highlighted in my position paper;

1. resistance towards bias perspective on gender
2. the clichéd labels on how girl should be
3. the womanly changes in her
4. her action against her dad

In her route of her journey into womanhood, those points above have actually prompted her into womanhood. How bliss I was after presenting my arguments!

The Road Home – inspiring!

This is a really interesting movie; well I guess it is so inspiring. It puts greater importance on the nobility of the teacher, how people surround thinks and rose highly of the role of a teacher. Teacher is very often not realized the long term effect that they might had in their students’ life. We may not know how we may affect people. Being an educator or a teacher, we have the most vital job of all by educating the students producing future generator of the nation.

“As I sit at my desk, I have learned a great truth; the answer for nation problem. The answer of all the problem in the world comes to single word. And the word is education”. Lyndon B. Johnson

To be a teacher, our role is not only to teach but to educate the students of the exact truth of life so they will be able to see things lucidly and act wisely.

Fun, fun and fun!

I was wondering why we need to change the room for the class. Then I was informed that we are going to have a speaker from England. So I guess it would be boring. Because sometimes speech doesn’t work well with me. I will attend to hear but it would 10 minutes of attentive listening. Then, I’ll be lost nowhere. Anyhow, to my surprised, wow~ I guess I’m totally wrong! It was the moment of pleasure! Meeting Kim Trusty and enjoying one and half hour of my life in the class is definitely defining. The activity was simple yet it was really meaningful and fun. It would definitely invoke my creativity of creating activities hopefully for my teaching of literature in future to be even more lively and exciting. I like the part where we need to read aloud and attempting on the task based on the poem of LULU – a nice piece of work. The most significant part of it is when we need to create a poem from three different points of view. It was really very fun and enlightening I would say. We come out with a poem entitled “I see”. I have already forgotten the poem but the last lines were “through the window I see” indicating a broad horizon of what Lulu saw from the wide open window. I did learn whole lots of new things from her from simple things of how to hold the microphone properly to how to really seriously engage to the students to the text. I’ve found out that Kim Trusty has a myspace account and I have drop a message to her. Yet, still waiting for her reply. Honestly, she rocks! Ha-ha.

Get ready to put ideas in written =)

I went to meet Dr. Noreen and hand her my draft. I was so happy that my draft was accepted. There are alterations should be made, the rest are all fine. =) . So here is my thesis statement:

“The issue of moral dilemma is ingeniously “crafted” through the symbolism and value conflicts represented by different style of writing in the short story A White Heron by Sarah Orne Jewett and Hills like White Elephant by Ernest Hemingway.”

Now, I am so really excited to write on the paper. Since these two texts are favorite texts (Jewett’s A White Heron and Hemingway’s Hills Like White Elephant), ideas keep on flowing on and on. So, here I am taking a break for being suffocated with bunch of ideas, heh. I just can’t wait to finish this and read the final product.

Andy Warhol

“We are going to watch a movie today”, devoid of knowing what to watch, I joyously said “Yeay!” well, I guess most of us were so excited to watch movies because according to our experience, watching movies in literature class is always fun and enjoyable. =) As the story starts, we were having some sort of sound problem that make us really frustrated since we could hardly hear the sounds. As the movies goes on, we started to yawn. I looked around and saw many heads were “nodding” and then, come the next yawn and it continuously happen on and on and out of sudden it stop when the movie was over. To be very honest, I was so not really keen on watching it. The only things I remember were the paintings of Campbell tins, Marilyn Monroe and description that could slightly be heard in the room. But, the most significant or the most vivid fact that I heard is that his masterpieces was fundamentally related to his religious belief. Andy Warhol was an American artist and a central figure in the movement known as pop art. He was definitely a genius in doing such amazing pop arts paintings. I was awe by his talent! The way of he looks at things could actually be seen through his masterpieces. The paintings of different angles of torn Campbell’s tin were incredibly great!