Week of 8/28

Monday, August 28

• Discussion: Syllabus and Class Policies
• Reading(s):
  • Selection from Virginia Woolf’s “Street Haunting: A London Adventure”
  • Selection from Audre Lorde’s “The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House”
• Homework: 100 words on a piece of your own writing that you’re proud of
  • If you don’t have a piece of writing that you’re proud of, you can instead write 100 words on a work of writing (a book, a song, a play, etc.) that has inspired you

Wednesday, August 30

• Discussion: Reading and noticing as qualities in a writer
• Reading(s):
  • “How to Read Like a Writer”
  • Optional: “On Keeping a Notebook”
• Handout(s):
  • Active Reading Checklist
  • “Taking Notes While Reading”
  • “Annotating Texts”
• Homework:
  • Sign up for OpenLab by Friday
    • https://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/blog/help/signing-up-on-the-openlab/
    • https://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/blog/help/joining-a-course/
  • Read Unit 1 Assignment Page and bring any questions you have to class
  • A list of at least ten details you noticed on your way to or from campus
    • Turned in by next Wednesday via OpenLab Docs
      • https://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/blog/help/using-docs/

Next Week

• No class on Monday!
• On Wednesday we will start looking at examples of language narratives, Unit 1’s focus