Going into this week, I have been thinking about the peer tutor relationship a lot. This is mostly due to the experiences I had this previous week with the tutor sessions I had. The class I am assigned to had an assignment to meet with […]
Year: 2022
QCQ #3
Quotation: “Jack Frost had started to paint him the way he always painted the Maple Leaf (Forever).” Comment: I found these two stanzas very interesting because of their relation to the setting, which if taken from the title, is Nova Scotia. Jack Frost is a […]
Journal #3
Opening up this chapter and right off the bat, I found the anecdote on the first page to be extremely helpful. Listening to the whole of a piece can show the tutor where the writer is trying to go with their main idea, and the […]
Application #2
For this application assignment, it was assigned to analyze “Retrospective Prophecies: Legal Narrative Constructions”, a chapter by Peter Brooks in the book “New Directions in Law and Literature” edited by Bernadette Meyler and Elizabeth S. Ankler and present the argument made by Brooks in regard […]
QCQ #2
Quotation: “Let us look at the matter clearly and fairly. I suppose that you will admit that the action is morally justifiable, though technically criminal” (Conan Doyle 3). Comment: The immediate thing I noticed regarding this short story was the characteristics it shows of a […]
Journal #1
For this journal playback, I wanted to focus on the conversation starters and potential conversations that are within the third chapter of the book. One of the main anxieties I had about tutoring was the conversation I would have with a tutee. Them coming in […]
Application #1
In this journal, “The Well Wrought Urn”, Cleanth Brooks, analyzes “Ode to a Grecian Urn” and the complexity of the statement “beauty is truth, truth beauty”. The central idea being presented in Brooks’ argument is whether or not Keats was able to highlight the relationship […]
QCQ #1
Distillation #2
Paige: I thought the slides were aesthetically appealing to the eye based upon the colors of the University. Also, the inclusion of the fact they also have a student magazine and podcast along with the newspaper. The pro’s and con’s list was something I wish […]
Distillation #1
Peyton: the energy you brought to your presentation was great, made listening to your presentation fun! I thought the inclusion of the home page of the virtual paper was good for visualization of what it looked like; and the inclusion of a PDF version. Lastly, […]
