ENG 1101 Week 4 Agenda

Class Info

• Dates: Wednesday, 9/22-Tuesday, 9/28
• Meeting Info:
  • For the synchronous sessions, we will meet on Tuesdays 12:00-1:40pm via Zoom and share notes in a shared document.
  • For the other class meeting time, which would have been 100 minutes long, you will do your work throughout the week asynchronously, on your own time. This work and homework are indistinguishable but all contribute to your informal work for the semester.
  • Work will be due during the week as noted in the weekly agenda, usually with Monday mornings as a deadline to join a discussion so we all have time to read an respond to each other.
  • Student support meeting hours are opportunities to meet synchronously with me individually or in a small group via our class Zoom link.

Topic

ENG 1101 Project #1: Education Narrative

Objectives

• To consider and discuss aspects of education and educational experiences through the lens of writing
• To begin drafting educational narratives
• To contribute to course discussions to build our community

To Do from Before

Please catch up on any work you have missed from the Week 1 Agenda, the Week 2 Agenda, and the Week 3 Agenda. This includes the readings, discussions, and review of Project #1: Education Narrative assignment.

To Do This Week

The readings will help us explore the education narrative genre to be able to analyze the genre and begin to draft our own education narrative.

Actions

• Watch Phil Smyth and CAES, “Understanding Genre Awareness” 

• If you haven’t already, or if you didn’t understand them, watch the three “Allegory of the Cave” videos from the Week 3 Agenda
• Bonus: read about body doubling as a study technique

Reading

• (Re-read) the instructions for our Project #1: Education Narrative
• CONTENT WARNINGS: the following texts include representations of imprisonment and enslavement and related maltreatment and torture.
• Plato, The Republic, Book VII (“Allegory of the Cave”)–this is the Google Doc created from the PDF from last week.
• Frederick Douglass, “Chapter 7” from the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
• Malcolm X, “Learning to Read”
• our comments in our discussions

Writing

• Participate in our brainstorm by adding questions we want to answer about our education in a comment in response to the Project #1 assignment instructions post.
• Contribute to the discussion about reading education narratives like a writer
• In the Google Doc, annotate Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave” by adding notes about anything that stands out to you. Feel free to comment in reply to classmates if that makes sense to do.
• Continue brainstorming for Project #1 in our first Project #1 discussion. We will begin peer review on our brainstorms so be sure to post yours by Monday morning.
• Write your first glossary post!

Remember you can always ask questions, either in response to this agenda, in the ENG 1101 Q&A area (as a post with the category ENG 1101 Q&A, or as a comment on the Q&A post/pages that I already added there), or by emailing me at jrrosen@citytech.cuny.edu