Today, our freewrite looked at the chapter in Alice Walker's We Are the One's We've Been Waiting For, "Childhood" (31-37). Homework is to complete the meditation. Students were asked to reflect on the chapter. I read it aloud in the first class. In the second class, only one student completed the Pidd exams in time to work on it.
Three students in the early class did peer reviews. In the second class only one student had an essay, so she emailed me.
What else? We will complete the Pidd work tomorrow, so be in class on time for the Grammar Quiz and Essay Exam 3. There is no make up Thursday. The Social Entrepreneur essays are due tomorrow; this is an extension from last week. All the outstanding revisions are also due this week.
We will have a final peer review tomorrow as well.
On the SE essay, the only revisions will be for those students who do not write a passing essay and if you are a lucky winner of this dubious prize, then you will have to identify all the errors and write a correction essay as well.
We will practice writing portfolio essays Thursday. I will pull up portfolios for students to see. We will have a portfolio assembly session next week for those students who are finished with everything and during finals week. We have to figure out when.
It is my normal times: MW 10-12 A-232 and W 3-5 PM A-205. Your writing should have gotten better. Give me your best work, not rough drafts. Everyone only gets one, line by line edited copy. I don't think it helps writers when I do this too often. You should be able to do this yourself.
Three students in the early class did peer reviews. In the second class only one student had an essay, so she emailed me.
What else? We will complete the Pidd work tomorrow, so be in class on time for the Grammar Quiz and Essay Exam 3. There is no make up Thursday. The Social Entrepreneur essays are due tomorrow; this is an extension from last week. All the outstanding revisions are also due this week.
We will have a final peer review tomorrow as well.
On the SE essay, the only revisions will be for those students who do not write a passing essay and if you are a lucky winner of this dubious prize, then you will have to identify all the errors and write a correction essay as well.
We will practice writing portfolio essays Thursday. I will pull up portfolios for students to see. We will have a portfolio assembly session next week for those students who are finished with everything and during finals week. We have to figure out when.
It is my normal times: MW 10-12 A-232 and W 3-5 PM A-205. Your writing should have gotten better. Give me your best work, not rough drafts. Everyone only gets one, line by line edited copy. I don't think it helps writers when I do this too often. You should be able to do this yourself.
posted by Professor Wanda's Posse at 4:03 PM
2 Comments:
Zinaida Dzhilavdaryan
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1 A 8-8.50
11 May 2011
Every person has a moment in his life when he feels empty. Alice Walker defines this moment as a “pause.” She encourages her readers not to fear it. Emily Walker shares her experience. The “pause” moment for her was menopause. She felt that she is not a “girl” anymore. During this time she wrote two poems Until I Was Nearly Fifty and Loss of Vitality. She used this moment of silence and emptiness to look closer on herself, to find herself in this new stage of life. She encourages her readers to overcome the fear of emptiness, try to enjoy the silence, and benefit from it. Most people are afraid of silence, because in the silence they can see who they really are. Everyone has something that he or she is trying to forget and hide deep inside. In the moment of silence and “pause” people can see who they really are, and most of them are terrified by this. But if a person can overcome this fear, he will be able to start a new page in his life and start enjoying it.
Adrieanna Williams
Professor Sabir
English 1A/8 o'clock
27 May, 2011
While reading Alice Walker's story about her childhood it made me think of my Papa. He grew up growing his own food. I can tell farming was one of the best memories of her childhood. She really enjoyed working with her family and planting her own crops.
She uses very descriptive words to describe her experience on her farm. While reading it you can tactually picture her and her family tending to the crops. Her childhood was full of memories form her families farm. She is so fond of her memories that she even said " When I think of my childhood at its best it is of the magic that I think of".
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