AN EXAMPLE OF
CREATING AN IDEA CARD
A student is researching Honor
Crimes (murdering women for perceived violations of social ethics such as sex
before marriage). She is trying to propose a solution for her thesis.
PROCESS: The student has the following information on
several (quote) note cards. As she reads
the note cards, she realizes how complex and deep this issue may be. She thinks her readers need to view her
proposals in the context of how hard it is to change culture. After reading the quotes several times, she
jots down her analysis on an idea card.
“A Tunisian Intellectual on The Arab Obsession with Vengeance” Reform
in the Arab and Muslim World (Special Dispatch),
“Tunisian
intellectual Al-'Afif Al-Akhdar analyzed and criticized dominant
values in the Arab world. . . The culture of tribal vengeance haunts... not
only in our relations with the other but also our relations with each other,
between Arab countries and within each country, from honor crimes [i.e. murder
of women] to tribal and factional strife. Rightly, Muhammad Hasannain Haikal(7) called the 20 years of war between the Al-Gama'a
Al-Islamiyya and Islamic Jihad organizations and the [Egyptian] police 'the
blood vengeance war between the police tribe and the Islamist tribe.”
"This deep-rooted culture of tribal
vengefulness in the [Arab] collective
consciousness is a fundamental driving force. [This driving force] has
transmuted this consciousness into a fixated, brooding, vengeful mentality,
instead of transforming [that kind of culture] . . . and adapt it to the
requirements of the time, as did Japan in the aftermath of its unprecedented
defeat in the history of mankind in 1945."
Idea card “A
Tunisian Intellectual . . .” p 2
Comparing cultural change to
Al-'Afif
Al-Akhdar has authority= Tunisian intellectual, studies culture
“culture of tribal
vengeance”.= “dominant value”
from
honor crimes to state-to-state relations
compares change need to that of
So how
fast can Arab society change? My ideas
don’t have the impact of an A-bomb---it might be realistic to recommend slow
and gradual results/expectations
Here
is what a paragraph in her paper may look like if she used her idea card
in combination with her quote cards
Tunisian intellectual Al-'Afif Al-Akhdar has
analyzed what he calls the “culture of tribal vengeance”. He says revenge is such a “dominant value” in
the Arab world, it effects relations between people as
well as relations between Arab groups and relations between Arab
countries. He cites honor crimes as one
example. He cites the 20-year “blood
vengeance war between (Egyptian) police” and their political adversaries as
another. He compares the magnitude of
cultural change needed in Arab society to the change that took place in
Japanese society after 1945. (Tunisian Intellectual 2.) Since nothing of the magnitude of an atomic
attack is prodding change in the Arab world, we can only expect the changes to
be slow and gradual.
FOUR
PAGES OF SAMPLE NOTE CARDS: SUPPORT FOR NOTECARD VARIETY PACKET DUE THURSDAY
OCTOBER 23
1. TWO idea cards: one word processed, one hand written
2. TWO quote cards: one hand written and one word processed that is copied and pasted from the original source
3. TWO paraphrased cards: one hand written on binder paper and one hand written on a 3 x 5 card
4. ONE summary card using any medium you chose
ALL CARDS MUST HAVE CITATION* AND SUBJECT HEADING
(CORRESPONDING TO OUTLINE SUBTOPICS)
*except idea cards (your thinking is the citation)