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Education Narrative Assignment (Unit #1 Essay)

Together, we have discussed several works, including Caroline Hellman’s “In Defense of the Classroom,” José Olivarez’s “Maybe I Could Save Myself By Writing,” and Perri Klaus’ “The Influence of the Perfect Teacher,”  in which the authors speak to educational experiences both inside and outside school settings.

Now it is time for you to write your own education narrative. Think of one or more experiences in your life when you learned something important and transformative (you do not have to discuss school specifically). Describe these experiences in detail. What did you learn or conclude, and take with you moving forward?  You will want to fully develop your ideas with rich detail and further explanation, along with at least one connection with the class texts,  integrated with The Quote Sandwich.

ENG1101WritingProcess

Read/Brainstorm/Outline/Draft/Edit/Revise

Comma Video

Semicolon Video

Sentences

The Quote Sandwich 

1.   Bread: Set up and introduce quote. Include the author’s full name, text title (capitalized and in quotations), and genre (type of writing).  Summarize the text fully (this will take several sentences!)

Example: In his essay “Maybe I Could Save Myself by Writing,” Jose Olivarez writes about the challenge of navigating different aspects of his identity in school settings. (continued in other summary sentences)

2. Veggies/ meat/ tofu: The quote itself, with a page citation (number) if possible 

Ex: Olivarez writes, “I’m telling you this because I wrote a book of poems with one foot in the past, one hand in the present, and a nose on the future” (45).

3. Bread: Analyze quote. Avoid repeating the quote or merely paraphrasing. Instead, say what the quote means, and then explain how it relates to your own writing.

Ex: Here Olivarez emphasizes the importance of his family history in his writing, as well as who he is as an individual. His point relates to…

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Rough Draft Checklist

1.Is my essay the right length? Is it properly formatted? (double-spaced, indented paragraph) Does is have a good title?

2.Does my writing fulfill the assignment expectations (re-read assignment guidelines to verify)

3.Does the introduction set the scene for the reader and fully introduce the topic and focus? 

4.Is the thesis, or main idea I wish to propose, clear? Is there a way to clarify it further?

5.Does the BP order (sequence) make sense?

6.Do BP examples adequately support main ideas? Could some examples be more fully developed?

7.Are text connections well-integrated? (QUOTE SANDWICH)?

8.Does the conclusion wrap up the essay in a way that avoids repetition, and offers food for thought to the reader?

9. Is each sentence clear and correct?  Are the sentences sufficiently varied?

10. Is punctuation correct (commas, semicolons, colons, etc)?

Peer Review Partners:

Amir and Hailey

Arnold and Bryant

Chanell and Mark Noonan

Jahlyssa and Reina

Egor and Justion

Miguel and Joshua

Juan and Maria

Phillip and Bijoy

Sharif and Caleb

Pawel and Edwin

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• Read: Perri Klass, “The Influence of A Perfect Teacher” (2021)

• Download and save to your computer class folder:

Writing-Process (1)

Education-Narrative-Outline

Writing Assignment:

1. Write a  paragraph about an educational experience you have had in life, inside or outside of a school setting. Your paragraph should set the scene for the reader: when, where, and what, before describing the experience and what you learned in the process.  This will ultimately be fleshed out and become your Unit 1 essay (see Major Assignments).

Upload your assignment to this GoogleDrive.

2. In our next class we will work on transforming this paragraph into an Outline for your Unit 1 Education & Identity narrative.  For #3 here, start thinking about how you would like to tell your story.  Where do you want to start, and where do you want to end? What are some important ideas and memories? What are some compelling details you can provide throughout the narrative, to support your ideas? What might your paragraph order be?   You could address these questions in a paragraph, or copy and paste the outline (delete the example text) in your Comment  and fill in the information there.

I begin today’s class with a photograph of a Haitian man and his son being “rounded up” by an American border control agent near Mexico.  Here is the full article on how President Biden has ordered over 15,000 Haitian migrants at the border of America to be flown back to Haiti. How does this image connect with last week’s readings?

1. Review How to Write A Summary
2. Read José Olivarez, “Maybe I Could Save Myself by Writing” and “Mexican American Disambiguation”  and “Citizen Illegal” (2018)
3. Write a 1-paragraph summary of one of Olivarez’s texts, using the Summary Powerpoint template as a model. Include a quote from the text that you feel represents an important idea. For example: As Olivarez writes, “Maybe I could write the stories I was craving to read. Maybe I could save myself by writing.”
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FOR TODAY’S CLASS

• Watch 2019 LAF student video on Olivarez. Share any response you have to the student comments. Can you relate to something a fellow City Tech student articulated?
• Watch Jose Olivarez read “Citizen Illegal”
• Discuss Unit 1 and brainstorm