Final Blog Project for ENG-355: Multicultural Literature.

Hi there. :) Thank you for taking the time to read my blog entries for Multicultural Literature! My name is Charisma Carter-Graham. I am a twenty-year-old, incoming senior at Grand Canyon University in Phoenix, AZ. I am pursuing a degree in Secondary Education with an emphasis in English. I am the youngest of four children, but my mom raised seven children altogether, including some of my siblings’ childhood friends. I was born with cerebral palsy. This limited my movement and balance substantially in some things, because of this literature had profound influence on me and my childhood. It allowed me to imagine in depth what skiing would like, or what it would be like to be a world-class spy. I love literature and the effect that words can have on the human heart. Literature, if done well, can bring a person to tears, make them laugh, make them feel sorrow and even make the reader feel heartbreak or love. This blog was created for ENG-355: Intro to Multicultural Literature. Multicul

I think would emphasize the role of duty or responsibility within a culture. That was a big theme in this week’s readings. Both of stories Yuan Zhen, the Story of Yingying , and the story of Confucius dealt with the roles in society that we are meant or expected to play. In Confucius's teachings it is more overtly apparent. He speaks of duty, honor, family and parent-child relationships, among other things. All of these things have to do with the responsibilities he placed importance on within his culture. In Yuan Zhen, the Story of Yingying , it was more implied: the woman was supposed to be respectable and marry whoever her family told her to, and the man was meant to be “manly” and participate in what society expects. As teachers, we should talk to our students about how they view their responsibilities in their culture and what they consist of. I could also ask them how the gender roles play into how expectations change for individuals and ask them to provide exampl

When teaching or learning English, getting an understanding of theme is very important and useful. When I was thinking of this week’s readings of Faust and Metamorphosis and what themes they had, and if they had any in common, I noticed that they all had themes of either the characters making bad choices or not being able to be able to make choices. I would emphasize this point. If I were to suggest ways to teach this theme, I would possibly split them into groups of four and have them write and talk about times when they wanted to make a choice but were unable to do so, and then a time when they could a choice. I think I would also possibly bring up different wars and how sometimes people were drafted in, without a choice. I would ask them if they agree or disagree with that. I would bring up that freedom of choice is something that we have here in the US and that it’s an important part of who we are as a nation. I am sort of unsure what elements of popular culture c