Category: Unit 1
READ AND ANNOTATE : “Maybe I Could Save Myself by Writing”Â
READ AND ANNOTATE: “The Fourth of July” by Audre LordeÂ
WRITE: (250 Words)  So far in this unit, we have read three examples from the genre of the “education narrative.” Your first essay assignment in this class will be to write in this genre yourself. So in this discussion forum, I’d like us to have a conversation about what the features of this genre are. Please discuss some of the following:
- What, from what you’ve seen so far, are the “ingredients” (also known as “conventions”) of the education narrative genre?
- What do you think might be a place to get started with your own education narrative?
- What are your questions or concerns about writing an education narrative of your own?
- If you like, you can also feel free to share an educational experience you had and ask for feedback from your colleagues (and me) to see if we think that might be a solid place to begin writing.
Category: Unit 1
From what I’ve seen so far, the main ingredients of the education narrative genre are often in a first-person point of view because the author has to share their life experiences for an educational experience to happen. There has to be a problem and then a solution or, in another example, a sense of immaturity or underdevelopment into maturity and being grown. The experience also has to be relatable to other people. It can’t be educational if it’s not relatable or understandable because a lack of relating means a lack of understanding. A place to get started with my educational narrative would be finding a topic to talk about. It has to be something that I learned from, but I had a challenging time throughout the time in which I was attempting to find an answer. Most educational narratives also show the narrator’s maturity by the end of the story and how they’re preventing the issues that were happening before they matured. My only concerns about writing an education narrative of my own are that 1, I’ve never written an education narrative, and 2, I’m not sure I have any good experiences that I could use that resonate with the reader.