Alrighty, so here's what I have so far as an idea for my final essay. Sometimes I'm just bad at coming up with topics...so feel free to rip this apart...or suggest something better.
In another class we're basically covering adolescent psychology. One of the theories that we discussed recently was Erikson's "eight psychosocial crises". Basically it's a stage theory which states that, at eight different points in your life, you will be concerned with eight different crises. As an infant, it's whether to trust or mistrust the world. Later, inferiority versus industriousness. As an adolescent, you are concerned mainly with your identity. Will it be well formed? Will you have a good sense of who you are? Will you be confused? What will be important to you and how much will certain things be a part of "you."
I'm going to combine this with the stuff we covered in class about Jim Berlin. I'll argue that, in secondary school it would be most beneficial to teach with using emphasis on a writer/subjective style in combination with rhetoric. What do you think, what do you feel, how do you interpret this, which is your favorite character, which is your favorite book. why?
Writing can be a way to develop an identity. Or! It would be very beneficial for writing and reading to become a part of their identity in one way or another.: I am a person who enjoys reading. I am a person who can write competently. et. cetra et. cetra.
I'll have to come up with some strategies to get students to actually start and get interested...maybe I'll have to chunk this idea altogether. Who knows!?
Want to see the outline I made during work? I was written up for doing it...oopsie. It almost wasn't worth it. My initial ideas are always so nebulous...it takes a lot of going in circles and running on tangents to form a coherent idea. This is my outline. Verbatim:
3360 Ideas 1 Epistemology
-style? Rhetoric? Writer/subjective
-developing identity
-way to get students interested
-Appeals to them (Pathos?)
-Jim Berlin
- "I am a person who enjoys writing."
Eventually this will all turn into something that makes sense.
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i think that your essay would be very interesting to read! To me this would be a very hard task to tackle, but still very possible. Good Luck!
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