Blog #8: (200-300 words) Julie Beck covers a lot of ground as she explores narrative’s potentially powerful influence on our lives. Identify at least three notable assertions or other moments in Beck’s text that caused you to sit up straighter and take note. Explain what exactly caught your eye. Did you react as a believer or doubter? Did you build a connection between the text and the world or the text and your self? Julie Beck covers an interesting topic…
Blog# 7: List 4 areas from the rubric that provide you with the greatest learning opportunity. Feel free to include areas that confuse or confound you. Spend a few sentences elaborating on each choice. #1- The first area from the rubric is the “conversation.” The conversation is a bit harder for me to nail down then other things. It is hard for me to tie everything together and engage the texts and use enough quotes in the correct places. #2-…
Part 1: After reading Anne Lamott’s “Shitty First Drafts” (est. time: 15 minutes), take a minute to compare and contrast your own first draft (and the experience of writing it) with Lamott’s descriptions. What did you notice? Did anything surprise you about this short essay? Did anything offend you? (100-150 words) (est. time: 20 minutes) Part 2: At the bottom of your post, please type/include your REVISION PLAN STRATEGY (est. time 40 minutes) Part 1: After reading Anne Lamott’s “Shitty First Drafts,” I…
Overall the text was organized. You made sure to add the topic of mental health in right away and introduced the writers that we talked about. I noticed that you could add in some more “they say” “I say” statements if you wanted to go in that direction. In the second paragraph you could spit it up into two separate paragraphs and tack on some more information to the second half, maybe use a writing example from the They Say…
James Geary says that metaphor lives a secret life all around us, I say I have mixed feelings about that. On the one hand, metaphors are woven into our everyday lives and many people don’t realize it. On the other hand, I still insist that metaphors are not hidden enough to be called a secret. Michael Erard and Dhruv Khullar would probably agree with Geary. They would also say that when a metaphor is apt, people are more likely to…
For Blog #4: STEP 1: Choose at least 3 quotes from Khullar’s text. Beneath each quote, write a brief passage that either SUPPORTS, DEVELOPS, COMPLICATES, and or DISAGREES WITH the quote. Please clearly lable each response. STEP 3: Finally, choose 2 more quotes–one from Geary and one from Erard. Choose quotes that strike you as relevant to the conversation. After identifying the source use 1-2 sentences to explain why you chose each quote. (est. time: 45 minutes) Don’t forget to categorize your blog post as…
Reread Erard’s essay. Use a different color pen or pencil to layer your active reading notes, one on the other. Write Blog #2 (200-400 words) comparing your second reading experience with your first. Did you notice something new? Did you react differently to one of the author’s claims? Did you read something critically when, at first, you read it as a believer or vice versa? Continue to “clear the fog.” Look up at least two more terms or references that…
Blog 3: After you have read and marked Erard’s text, please choose two places that sparked your interest and engage those moments in conversation. In other words: choose two to three marginal comments that you make and “Follow The Thread.” Please incorporate an image of your annotated text into your blog (3-5 pages). You may choose to handwrite or type your exploratory writing. The important thing is that your brainstorming session is legible as it appears on your blog. Don’t forget to categorize…
Annotate Geary’s transcript and upload an image of your annotations. Compare your first experience with Geary with your second experience. did you notice something new while reading? Did you build new text-to-self or text-to-world connections? Highlight a moment in your “conversation” with Geary that stands out to you. Please explain why. (approx. time: 30-60 minutes) My first experience with Gary’s transcript was confusing at times, but for the most part it pretty simple to understand. Gary explained everything very well in…
