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The Waking
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I feel my fate in what I cannot fear.
I learn by going where I cannot go.
We think by feeling. What is there to know?
I hear my being dance from ear to ear.
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
Of those so close beside me, which are you?
God bless the Ground! I shall walk softly there,
And learn by going where I have to go.
Light takes the Tree, but who can tell us how?
The lowly worm climbs up a winding stair;
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
Great Nature has another thing to do
To you and me; so take the lively air,
And, lovely, learn by going where to go.
This shaking keeps me steady. I should know.
What falls away is always. And is near.
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I learn by going where I have to go.
--Theodore Roethke
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Joy's Updates - Straight from the Horse's Mouth.
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Wednesday, March 31, 2004
Actual Test Questions and Answers
I agree with what Michael wrote in his comment, and even though I require some memorization, most of the test questions are discussion. I want them to analyze and apply what we read for class. Here are a few examples from the latest test. I got some unintentionally hilarious answers to the Moby-Dick questions.
1. If Moby-Dick is a novel symbolizing the conflict between good and evil, discuss who or what symbolizes good and evil, Captain Ahab or Moby-Dick. Explain why and give reasons based on what we read and discussed in class.
Some students included these as part of their answers: 1 - Captain Ahab is evil because Moby-Dick is an innocent whale, and Captain Ahab bothered him. Captain Ahab shouldn't have put his leg in the ocean because he was just asking for it. Moby-Dick symbolizes good in this novel because he's just a big fish. He doesn't know any better. 2 - Moby-Dick was just trying to live his life, but got tired of being hunted and finally snapped. 3 - Moby-Dick ate and killed Ahab, the boat, and the crew. 4 - Moby bit Ahab's leg (wham!) and ivory peg leg (double wham!).
For the most part, they gave good answers to this but with a few odd statements thrown in. Many of them are on first-name basis with Moby.
2. Which of Thoreau's essays influenced Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr.? Explain this in terms of why Thoreau wrote the essay, under what conditions, and how it specificially had an impact on the manner in which the leaders organized their protests. Include Kohlberg's stages of moral development in your discussion.
I also include quotes for them to tell who wrote them, the piece it's from, and what it means. Some of these answers are interesting, too.
This one generated some strange conclusions:
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by statesmen and philosophers and divines."
They did well with this one though:
"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away."
Except for "listen to your own music but at a distance."
3:14:00 PM
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