Hello, dear students!
Today, there are two things to do:
- Share your dialogues with your Cohort and formally critique them. The syllabus misstates the critiques aren’t due until Monday; however, please do your Cohort a courtesy and critique them by 11:59 PM on Friday, May 8, so everyone has the weekend to revise the dialogues, which are due on Monday, May 11.
- As I’ve mentioned before, we don’t have a Final Exam for this class, but we have a Final Portfolio. The Final Portfolio includes:
- A Final Reflection Essay
- Revised memoir pieces (2)
- Revised short stories (2)
- Revised poetry (2)
- Selected and revised Journal entries (2, minimum)
I’m going to focus on the Final Reflection today, because that’s the piece of the Portfolio that will be the most work. Please do the following ASAP:
- Read and reread the Final Reflection Essay assignment sheet on OpenLab. There’s a lot of information there!
- Focus on the brainstorming questions and take notes as you do the following:
- Look back at your Journals.
- Review your major writing projects for this class. Think about what you learned through each project.
- Start thinking about how you will organize this Reflection. It doesn’t have to be a traditional five-paragraph essay; however, it does need to show how you changed as a writer and how you can use these skills in college and beyond, so there needs to be organization of some kind.
- Start writing! It needs to be at least 500 words, but can be longer.
- The Rough Draft of the Final Reflection Essay is due on Wednesday, May 13.
- The final drafts of the Final Reflection & Final Portfolio are due Wednesday, May 20. This final date is unmovable. I am required to post grades soon after this date, and I have three classes, which means I have a lot of grading to do.
Again, the Rough Draft is due Wednesday, May 13!
On Monday, I’ll talk about revising and formatting the Portfolio. If you have questions, you know where to find me!
Be safe & well!
