Month: August 2019

1: SIGN UP FOR THIS WEBSITE, USING DR. COUGHLIN’S  INSTRUCTIONS (below.)

2. Read and annotate the excerpt from Keith Gilyard’s Voices of the Self that I handed out in class. While you’re reading, mark passages that stand out to you for whatever reason– you love them, you hate them, they make you think.

3. Fill out the “triple entry journal” I handed out in class using quotes from the Gilyard article. At least 5 quotes. There are instructions on there, but to recap: in the first column is the quote (don’t forget page #) second column, summarize the quote in your own words, and third column, respond to the quote. Don’t be afraid to be opinionated! Use slang or a “different English” if you want! Be you!

As I said in class, do step 3 AFTER step 2. If you try to fill out the triple entry journal while you’re reading, you’ll get distracted.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR JOINING: (1) Log in to OpenLab.  (2) Click “Courses” at the top of the screen.  (3) Go to “Find a Course” on the right side of the screen.  (4) Make these selections: School = Arts & Sciences; Department = English ; Semester = Fall 2019; no need for other selections.  (5) Click “Submit.”  (6) Scroll through the courses displayed for “hallRIGHTSfall2109,” click on it.  (7) Under the photo of the guy in the “I know my rights” t-shirt, click “Join this Course!”  That’s it!  You’re in.  Click “Visit Course Site >” at the top right corner and enjoy!

Hi everyone! What a great class! I really liked meeting all of you and telling you weird stories of “Sergei.”

So, as I said in class, your homework is as follows: read and annotate Amy Tan’s “Mother Tongue.” I gave you a copy in class, but just in case you lost it, you can find another copy HERE.

Also, please write a response of 250-300 words, responding to Tan’s essay. Print that out and bring it to class. In this response, I would like you to:  write about how your experience has been similar or different to Tan’s. BE SPECIFIC. That is, respond to specific quotes or passages of the text that stood out to you!

email me at Chall@citytech.cuny.edu if you have any questions! Please don’t email me here on OpenLab– I don’t really get those.

Hey, also one other note: If you miss the conference hour (as one student who attended the first part of class did,) it does count as a whole absence!