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Contents 1 gist 2 Impressing Rafael 3 getting to wonder 3.1 summative phrases 3.2 embedded, crucial concepts 3.2.1 time 3.2.2 language 3.3 common moments

gist

1) What is the definition of “gist”?

Students that studied the definition of gist provided in the Course Wiki learned that the one thing "gist" is not is "general." Here are synonyms and phrases that capture the core meaning of gist: :*key point

• specific idea within
• relevant
• important
• specific understanding
• overall point
• main point
• the exact notion
• the precise essence
• the important parts
• overarching/central theme
• details
• set-up (background/reason)
• underlining idea

Note that you can approach the gist deductively and inductively: from the various parts one can deduce the essence within, or one can induce the overall, overarching theme. One can consider the gist to be the particularity which links all the various ideas, parts, and components together, or alternatively to be the one facet or aspect that could not be taken away without losing the unique, distinguishing feature or characteristic of the whole.

Impressing Rafael

2) What was it about Thumpasorus’ decision-making post about not attending the No Mas FARC protest that impressed Rafael so much?

Responses integrated into a blogpost: Getting to Gist

getting to wonder

3) Give page number and explain the gist of three places in After Dachau that caused you to wonder what was going on.

Pedagogical ulterior motive: recognizing “wonder” as an important moment in group dynamics.

Indicators of wonder:

• out of sync with our reality
• “What the heck?”
• wants (something) and upset (can’t seem to get it)
• upset enough to call someone a name
• explanations that go against what you know (e.g., “how a teacher in 2002 didn’t know the truth about ::*what has happened in history” “not history as I knew it”)
• seemingly random tangent (about art)
• narrator’s strategies (not using Jason’s name until well into the story, until parents use it)
• when the reason for something isn’t clear
• no idea why someone wants something
• very confusing and uncomfortable
• “as far as I knew”
• is this real or not?
• no end to questions
• can’t connect with different experience (e.g., “how his family could be that way”)
• who are these people?
• don’t understand the relevance
• how can you devote time to something you don’t believe in?
• a person doesn’t seem that different

summative phrases

• “culturally enforced ethics & history”

• “a big turn”

embedded, crucial concepts

time

• “I had trouble understanding why each place of time is different. I think of time passing by and effecting the next day ahead of it.”

• “trying to piece it together like it was written today”

• “it wasn’t until the second part … that it started to make sense”

language

• sign language? Deaf? Can’t speak? Learns speech so fast?

common moments

p. 41 at least 3 ppl picked