Tuesday September 16 2008

Today’s Agenda

•1)      For today you were to read and annotate 46-88 in Tuesdays with Morrie.

•2)      Get out a sheet of paper, these are notes for yourself. Review your annotations, and put down brief notes and page numbers for yourself on the sheet.

•3)      Get into groups and discuss what you found to be the most interesting, or about those sections of the text that you have the most questions.

•4)      Class discussion

•5)      Our Project for the next two weeks:

•a.       Last time I said that writing is a process.

•b.      We have begun that process, the early writing, with the work you have produced so far.

• i.      Journal  entries in which you have reflected on your culture

• ii.      A presentation on your culture

• iii.      A two page essay on what Morrie’s statement “We are teaching the wrong things.”

•6)       We need to make CERTAIN that we are keeping these items in our files.

•a.        From now on, bring you JOURNAL, BOOK, AND FILE to class, each and every time.

•7)      The name of this essay is “Literacy Autobiography”

• i.      What does the word Literacy mean? What does the word “Autobiography” mean?

• ii.      We will be working on this project both in and out of class over the next few weeks. You must ALWAYS have the work with you in class, and you must ALWAYS have done the homework. If you do not, you will be marked absent.

•8)      Here is how we are going to begin:

•a.       First draft of literacy autobiography: using the work you have done so far, describe in a first draft (a minimum of two pages) one influential person who has taught you something significant:

• i.      how to think differently about something important

• ii.      how to do something you couldn’t do before

• iii.      or who somehow influenced your “literacy” (academic, social, emotional, cultural) to this point.

•b.      You are to bring THREE COPIES of the first TWO pages to class on Wednesday.

•9)      I would take the next five or so minutes to review your own writing to see if there is any information in there that you will be able to use, maybe something that you will be able to take out and place directly within the paper.

Optional Lecture Videos

Video One

Video Two

Video Three

Will be posted soon

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