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Class Info

  • Dates: Wednesday, 9/29-Tuesday, 10/5
  • 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.

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, the Week 3 Agenda, and the Week 4 Agenda. This includes the readings, discussions, and review of Project #1: Education Narrative assignment. It’s important to catch up on this work because it is all set up to help you write Project #1. Plus, I will not penalize late work. You can catch up with the informal writing and use it to help you complete Project #1!

To Do This Week

The readings offer us additional examples of education narratives–this time focused on reading–to help us explore the education narrative genre as we continue drafting and revising our own education narrative.

Actions

  • Meet with me during Student Support Hours to talk about your work. Join me on Thursday, 9/30 at 11:00-11:30am or Tuesday, 11:30am-12:00pm or 1:40pm-2:30pm, or make a request for a different time. Use our class meeting Zoom link.
  • Watch Jacqueline Woodson, “What Reading Slowly Taught Me About Writing”

Reading

Writing

  • Our main goal this week is to write a complete shitty first draft of your education narrative.
  • The first step is to contribute your answers to some of the brainstorming questions, which you can add as comments to brainstorming discussion. I’ve added an extra question related to the readings from last week and this week.
  • Then, start revising your answers to a narrative into a draft, following the instructions in our drafting discussion.
  • Add another word entry in our glossary and watch it develop. Review the glossary instructions.