One tool to assist you in making meaning of your class viewing experiences and your personal experience in this course is the reflections you will write. In these reflections, you will engage with the ideas presented in the media we watch and process the intersections of your personal experience with this course.
For each reflection, you will be given a set of framing questions to address. You may choose to address some or all of the questions, and you are also invited to add your own reflections beyond the scope of the questions. To prepare to write your reflection, I suggest that you sit with and think about the framing questions (or other questions of your choice) for a good while. Live with the questions, and let them live in you. Then sit and write your way into your response. If you are fully engaged with the questions, you may not know where your writing will take you, and that’s a good thing in a reflection. Each reflection should take you someplace you didn’t know you were headed, as you discover the meaning the class experience has for you as an individual. Write the reflection only you can write.
Reflections must be turned in during class. If you are unable to do this, you must make special arrangements with me personally, each time, in order to be able to turn the reflection in at all.
Reflections must be printed on ONE single sheet of paper. No stapled papers will be accepted. Reflections must be no longer that two pages--or two sides of one page. Reflections must be in a standard font, with standard margins. Reflections must be double spaced.
Reflections are worth 5 points each. If you turn in your reflection on time (during class!) and have clearly engaged with the questions, you will receive full points for it. I welcome the opportunity to meet with you to discuss any questions you may have about your reflections.
Reflection Questions
Remember you do not have to answer all of these questions. You don't have to write about any of them. You need to write about something closely related to the episode. If you have your own ideas about what to write about, feel free.
- Ward wants to be his kids' friend. What was your father's attitude toward you and your siblings?
- Wally helps The Beav when the haircut goes bad. What was your sibling's relationship with you? Were they helpers?
- On Leave It To Beaver, June does all the cooking, cleaning, food shopping, sewing. What about in your house? Who performed those functions?
- On Leave It To Beaver, there is no yelling, no fast and furious debates at the dinner table, actually very little passionate emotions expressed. Compare this to your house growing up.
- On Leave It To Beaver, June and Ward seem to have some affection for one another. They hang out together a lot and he seems protective of her. Compare that your parents' marriage or a parents' romantic relationships.
- On Leave It To Beaver, June seemed to run the discipline of the children, while Ward implemented her suggestions. Compare this to your family. What was the discipline of children pattern or habit?
- Wally seems to see a lot of his parents' behavior as sneaky or hard to understand/decode. What about you? How did you view your parents as you grew up?
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