Author: Monroe Street
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Read James Baldwin, âThe Discovery of What it Means to Be an Americanâ (pp. 7-10 in Language packet). Come in prepared to discuss your thoughts on the form/style/craft of one sentence as well as 5 helpful vocabulary words. Â
Write a response to the below prompt (on your personal history of your relation to language):
Etel Adnan, “To Write in a Foreign Language”
Re-read excerpts: p. 1â”I was born in Beirut…”âthrough p. 3â”…French as a commercial language
Discussion Qs
–What “educational experiences’ do we notice?
–How is the influence of colonization on language registered in this essay?
–To what extent and in what ways might we think of English a âcolonialâ language?
–What do we make of Adnanâs interest in âcopyingâ the language of other Arabic writers? Is âcopyingâ a viable way to learn? Why/not? In what ways?
Writing Prompt / Freewrite
Begin making an outline (a list) of a 5-10-step history of your own relation to language(s). Make a list of the experiences whereby your relationship to languageâEnglish and/or othersâhas evolved in some way.
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Welcome
Hey everyone,
Welcome to English 1101. To be able to post to our site (this one), you have to get your City Tech e-mail activated then set up an OpenLab account and then sign up for this course here. Then you’ll be ready.
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Monroe