Hi everyone! Don’t forget to submit your Portfolio + Reflection on 5/18 by 11:59 pm on Blackboard).
Check out your impressive work at the new Museum of Wisdom… Read More
- Monday, 5/16: Unit 3 Writing Due (in class or emailed)
- Monday, 5/16: Unit 3 final Draft Due (11:59 pm on Blackboard)
- Wednesday, 5/18: Portfolio + Reflection Due (11:59 pm on
- Unit 3 Writing due (in class or emailed)
- Unit 3 Final Draft due (parts 1 AND 2) by 11:59 pm on Blackboard
- Wednesday is our last peer review workshop! Bring in two copies of your complete rough draft of Unit 3 (that includes parts 1 and 2–writing in the genre +
Hi everyone, it is time to go back to the classroom! We will be meeting in our regular classroom (Namm 523A) at our regular time (12:00-1:40 pm) on Monday, 5/9. … Read More
The sign-ups for conferences this week are now closed. If you didn’t sign up yet, email me for an appointment. Here is the schedule:
Tuesday, 5/2
10:00 am: paulina guadalupe… Read More
Instead of Wednesday’s synchronous Zoom class, you will prepare for and attend a 15 minute Zoom conference with me. Please sign up for your (required) 15 minute Zoom conference on … Read More
Our class on Monday will be on Zoom again. Meet me in our Zoom room at noon (https://us02web.zoom.us/j/2540700526). Your only homework is to catch up on whatever you … Read More
Wednesday’s class will be held in our online Zoom room again! Join me at noon here: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/2540700526. Remember, if you are on campus, you can go to Namm 321 … Read More
Hi everyone! I hope you had a restful and stress-free spring break!
On Monday, we will have an online class. You do not have to turn on your cameras, but … Read More
Hello everyone! Spring Break begins tomorrow, 4/15 and goes until Friday, 4/22. Thanks to those who attended class on Wednesday, I have been convinced to NOT assign any homework for … Read More
- Submit you Reflective Annotated Bibliography final draft to Blackboard by 11:59 pm on Monday, 4/11
- email me if you have any trouble with the submission
- Email me your Unit 2
- The final draft of your Unit 2: Reflective Annotated Bibliography is due on Monday, 4/11 by 11:59 pm! Like last time, you will submit the essay on Blackboard.
- Your Unit
Wednesday is our Unit 2 Peer Review Workshop! To get credit for the workshop, you should bring in TWO copies of a complete rough draft of your Reflective Annotated Bibliography. … Read More
- At this point, you should have already found and read your three annotated bibliography sources. For Monday, complete Unit 2 Writing #5. Citations: Write out the complete citations for each
- Find, read, annotate, and bring to class at least 2 more sources for your annotated bibliography (you should have three total)
- Check Blackboard for your midsemester grade
- P= Passing (C
- Extra credit opportunity! Go to the Literary Arts Festival on Thursday, 3/24 at 4:30 pm (virtual). Register to get the Zoom link.
- To get 20 points extra credit: Take a
It was wonderful to see all of you today in person! For Wednesday,
- Print/download, read, annotate:
- Randy Barnett, The Declaration of Independence Annotated
- Read, annotate, and bring to class Layli
I was just cleared to return to campus, so we will have in-person class today. See you soon.
Prof. Westengard… Read More
Hi all,
I have finally tested negative for COVID! I plan to have class today, but I have not yet been cleared by City Tech to come to campus. I’m … Read More
Hi everyone, I have not been cleared to return to campus tomorrow, so class is canceled. You should still complete the following:
- Submit Unit 1 Essay Final Draft by 11:59
Unit 1 Essay and Unit 1 Writing Packet are due on Wednesday, 3/16 by 11:59 pm
- Submit Unit 1 Essay Final Draft by 11:59 pm
- Upload to Blackboard
- File types
I hope you are all doing well! Today’s class will be held in the Library, so please meet in front of the Library entrance (4th floor, Library Building) at noon. Prof. Leonard … Read More
Hi everyone, I have tested positive for COVID, so class is cancelled entirely (there will be no in person or virtual class session). Since we were in a classroom together … Read More
- The final draft of your Unit 1 essay is due by 11:59 pm on 3/9! That means you still have a chance to ask final questions in class on Wednesday.
Review the instructions for the Unit 1 essay and the lecture on Narrative Basic Features then write a shitty first draft of your narrative essay.
Use MLA format if you … Read More
- Print/download, read, annotate, and bring to class:
- Anne Lamott, “Shitty First Drafts”
AND
Complete any Unit 1 Writing assignments that you have not done yet:
- Jiang Technique: Choose
- Don’t read “Shitty First Drafts” yet. We will read that later.
- In Unit 1 Writing document, complete the following:
- 5. Narrative Arc:
- Write out the parts of your
- 5. Narrative Arc:
There is no class on Monday, 2/21!
For Wednesday, 2/23:
- Print/download, read, annotate, and bring to class:
- Audre Lorde, “The Fourth of July“
- Review your brainstorming notes and
Read Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave” again. This time, look specifically for moments where Plato emphasizes the physical and concrete details that the prisoners experience. For example, annotate your text … Read More
Print, read, annotate, and bring to class:
- Plato, The Republic, Book VII, “Allegory of the Cave” (Note: this starts on page 6!)
If you were not in class … Read More
- Print, read, annotate, and bring to class:
- Frederick Douglass, “Chapter 7” from the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
- Malcolm X, “Learning to Read”
- If
- If you typed your writing on ”core values,” then email it to lwestengard@citytech.cuny.edu
- Download/print, read, annotate, and bring to class: Mike Bunn, “How to Read like a Writer,”
