In the Walker article, I found the idea that big ideas can engage students in deeper level thinking to be an intriguing idea. At first I wasn’t so sure that I thought this was such a big deal, however the more I thought about it, the more I realized that I find myself doing this often. For example I’m planning on throwing my girlfriend a party for her birthday (this being the big idea), and from this it led me to thinking about who should be invited, what there should be to eat, what time the party should be, where the party should be. While this is a very basic example I feel the author brought up an excellent point.
One thing that I found confusing in the walker article was the distinction between subject matter and the big idea. To me I found that the subject matter was more specific and more of a local idea, where as the big idea to me seemed to be more of a general overall theme or maybe I should say a global idea. However I am not sure that this is correct.
In the Barrett article, I found the idea of denotation and connotation very confusing. To me it seemed as if denotation was more of an explicit, where the idea is as seen. And then connotation is more of an implicit idea or an idea that can have more than one meaning depending on who is interpreting the piece. However it seemed like there may have been more to what these two things mean and I was unsure what those things might be.
One thing that this article however did do a good job of was examples. From tee-shirts, teddy bears, and cereal boxes to the cover Rolling Stones Magazine. So while I did have a hard time understanding the difference between denotation and connotation, the examples were very helpful in helping understand what the author was trying to show. I was able to make out some of what was being said, and had there been no examples I’m not sure that would have been the case.
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