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For those of you in Junior Conferences today, read Professions for Women by Virginia Woolf  (p 356) and I Want a Wife by Judy Brady. Start taking notes on the reading using the Gender Discussion Notes graphic organizer. You will need to bring that to use during the discussion on Thursday and it will be due immediately after the discussion. We also talked about our next paper. You’ll need to use two of the sources listed in the paper instructions and two quotes from the discussion in your paper (read the paper handout and the discussion notes graphic organizer).

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Take care and I’ll see you tomorrow.

Thank you for your work today in the discussion of work itself. I appreciate your ideas and willingness to dive into the myriad of issues that surround our topic today.

As we begin to learn about synthesis, your homework this weekend is to read Chapter 3 in the TLC book up to page 74.

2nd period asked if we might continue this discussion on Monday. Let’s do this: if on Monday after the weekend there are still issues you would like to talk through, let’s do it. I will prepare something else if, after a couple of days, you’re okay with where we had to end (ah, the tyranny of the clock!).

Have a great weekend!!

Be prepared to discuss these issues in reference to yourself and the essays (Labour, Serving Florida, and Surgeon as Priest).

1. What are your ideas about and philosophy of “work”? What is it for? What does it mean to you? How do you want work to integrate into other parts of your life, i.e. family, friends, time off, hobbies, recreation, etc.?
2. How do you reconcile the “ideal” concerns of work with the “real” concerns like paying the mortgage?
3. What do you want to be and how does that fit in with your ideas surrounding the questions in point 1? If you don’t know what you want to be, what is important to you about your life? How does your idea of work fit into that? What types of professions allow you to be the type of person you want to be?
4. How do you view different professions? for example, less “educated” professions versus more “educated” professions? What factors influence your views?
5. How does Orwell’s implication that we wear masks and our faces grow to fit them influence all this? For example, how might being a police officer change your personality? Being a doctor? A librarian?

Sorry this post is up a bit late. Your homework is to blog a reading response to The Surgeon as Priest. Remember that this is a paragraph or two that shows your understanding of the meaning of a part of the text and its significance to the whole.

They say a picture is worth a thousand words. Now, we’re not going to write a thousand words, but pick two of the pictures below and compare them. Compare their visual elements. Compare their argument. Compare their effect on the viewer and the way those effects are created. As we just read Richard Selzer’s The Surgeon as Priest, how do the images you chose to analyze relate to that essay?

Really analyze these images. Don’t stop with something like, “This picture shows a scary looking surgeon and reinforces people’s fears about going under the knife.” Continue on with how that effect is created. What specifically in the image makes the surgeon look “scary”? Don’t forget colors, lighting, angle, medium, and other effects.

Please blog your analysis.

Click on the thumbnails to see a larger version of the entire image.

If you haven’t already, please read “From Serving in Florida” by Barbara Ehrenreich on page 179 in the TLC book. Then do the questions on rhetoric and style numbers 1-4; 6-7; and 9-12 on page 187. There are 10 of them.

Please turn them in on the blog.

We will be talking about this essay on Monday and discussing the questions, so you may want to have a copy of them with you for the discussion.

Have a good weekend!

We will turn in the assertion journals on the nobleness and sacredness of work on Monday as well, since that in class activity ended up moving outside of class and the due date was fuzzy. On the blog or on paper is fine on that one (some of you finished it in class).

For tonight, blog questions 1, 3, 6, 7, 10, 11 on page 211.

Also try and figure out what intellectual ideas might make the character of the essay more palatable to his audience.

If you did not finish the assertion journal, do so tonight.