For Tuesday 4/24

Take your notes from the meal-story "interview" and write it up. Frame the "story" of the meal with the "story" of the telling. Turn this into your blog post. Include pictures you can find online that seem resonant with the story. You can frame the story-telling with your own meal story too. Make sure you are including as much detail as possible about the telling and the stories.

Reading: In WRA, read Tateshi's oral history (comes right after Terkel's). Write a dialogue journal.

For Wed 4/18

Re-read hooks "Killing Rage" and journal:

When have you felt "rage"? Was it justified? What did you do with the rage? What could you have done?

If your group did not finish a dialogue, email each other to work on this for sharing in class tomorrow.

TGIF

No formal class meeting on Friday. Please do the following:

Re-read Villanueva and write a blog response in which you rewrite the first three paragraphs of his essay in a more academic voice. Then try this:

Find something written in "academic" tone and rewrite it in a casual tone (1 paragraph).

Finally post your reactions to the exercise and to Villanueva in general.

For Monday read hooks, "Killing Rage" and write a dialogue journal.

Email me your blog address!!!

Schedule this week and next, as we prepare the first essay assignment

So, now you all have the first essay assignment, please feel free to post anonymous questions here, if you don't feel like bringing them up in class.

Here is the schedule for the coming two weeks:
W 4/4: We discuss Tompkins, "Me and My Shadow." You should have done a dialogue journal for this reading, which you will exchange in class. In class we will also spend some more time discussing private versus public writing and the forms we are all required to write in.

• HW: Reread Tompkins and look at how she is using other writers in her writing. Considering Harris's Introduction chapter, how would you characterize her use of others' writing? Is she "coming to terms," "forwarding," "countering" or "taking an approach"? Or is she doing something different? Now, spend 1 page writing in which you "come to terms" with Tompkins' essay: (see p. 24 in Harris) 1. Begin by restating Tompkins' project in your own words. Work from memory; don't look at the essay; 2. List her "key terms": which words in her essay carry particular and important meanings for her project?; 3. Now incorporate one direct quote into your summary.

TH 4/5: We will share our writing about Tompkins and discuss Harris so far. We will also do some in-class writing to get started on your essay.

• HW: Draft your essay. Perhaps you need to begin with notes or a cluster map of ideas. Do whatever you need to get started.

F 4/6: We will not meet as a class: Please use this time to write your draft. In addition,  

• BLOG:  Write a blog entry in which you post an image of "writing" (any image is okay; this is open to interpretation) and then write about that image in two different voices (also open  to interpretation).
• You may want to start reading Villanueva's essay (p. 191). We will be working with it Tuesday and Wed next week, and it is potentially difficult, so might take some time to read through.

M 4/9: Drafts of Essay One are due today. We will work in pairs on a revision exercise. Please bring scissors and tape, and heavy paper if you have it.

• HW: Revise your essay and bring a new copy tomorrow.  Finish Villanueva if you haven't.

T 4/10: New Draft today: We will do more work as a class on your drafts incorporating Villanueva into the discussion.

• HW: Revise again. Re-read Viallnueva.

W 4/11: Another new draft today. In class exercises and Villanueva.

•  HW: Revise one last time. Place typed (double-spaced, 1 in. margins) essay in pocket folder, with essay on one side and informal writing you think relate to it on the other. Please include a cover letter to me about what you hope your essay does and says.

TH 4/12: ESSAY ONE DUE. Work in class.

Homework due Tuesday April 3

For Tuesday, please re-read (if you have had a chance to read in the first place) The Introduction and first chapter of Harris's Rewriting. If you haven't yet, make a list of key terms in his book so far.

Writing: Take any piece you have begun (in journal of in class writing) and expand it. You could just continue where you left off, or you could add detail in various parts. You could rethink it from another point of view.

Bring to class Tuesday:

1. the discussion question and writing from class today (Monday)
2. the writing you expanded on
3. both books

I will post the rest of this week's schedule tomorrow with your first assignment description.