9/1/20
5-510: Check-in… how’s your day, week? Narrate your day…..
510-530: Before we get into Sedaris, talk to us about your reading methods….
530-550: Sedaris, the four essays we read. Observations? How did the reading feel? What insight do you have on this author?
550-610: What parts/quotes did you like most? Why?
610-630: Does he have you thinking about writing a different way, possibly telling your own story from a funnier form?
630-650: Thoughts, and close…..
ASSIGNMENT: Read the next three essays, take notes on them IN YOUR JOURNAL. Post pictures of your journal writings on Sedaris, on your class’s assignment post. Any questions, send me a text.
#professormikey 
How is everyone??
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I’m alright, just very tired. How’re you
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Busy as heck. I just got home from doing a pre-construction meeting at Willits Airport. Also that airport is occupied by CDF for the fires in the area. So even though I got to see some really cool aircrafts we have to balance out construction and the needs for CDF. I still have a ton of homework to do on top of all the work I need to do for this project.
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Thanks for coming!
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Busy day, but excited for this new month, and reading Sedaris with you all!!
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Anyone here??
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Hi, everyone
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Hi Harmanpreet! How are you!!
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Good evening professor mike
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Good evening!
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Hey Professor and class ! Hope y’all are doing fine today
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Hi Jake!! Welcome!!
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Good, how are you
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Doing well.
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Anyone do some freewriting for themselves, today?
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I plan to later tonight. I had work all day and then I HAD to take my car to get washed from all the smoke and dirt within the last few weeks
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not yet. Planning to do a free writing tonight. Maybe after class.
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My day was just filled with a lot of schoolwork for the most part. Went for a walk with my dogs and it was really smokey like ashes falling from the sky. But honestly today was a good day.
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Where do you live?
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Novato
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And there were ashes? Yikes! Be safe!
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Good evening English 1A, my day has been really good I worked at my grandparents ranch all day today which I love.
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Awesome! Good to see you, Shantel!!
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Hello! How is everyone doing? Very busy day. Had math class this morning and worked the entire afternoon. But I am definitely feeling productive.
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Hey Debra! Good to feel like you’re getting done what you need to!
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No, but I am on chapter 4th of how to explore diabetes and I really like it so far.
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What’s appealing or useful to you about his style?
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Good afternoon!! how everyone is having a easier day than I’ve been having!
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Hey Nina!!! What’s going on?
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Just all around LA trying to make sure Ciana feels better. She had surgery so my mom and I are taking care of her but she has to be the WORST patient lol
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Hey… be nice!! lolzzz
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Oh, professor Mikey. If you had to take care of her, you’d say the same!
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Ha ha….
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Hi how’s everyone doing? I had a slow boring day today Spanish this morning then the dmv. Excited to talk about Sedaris just got the book in the mail today and I loved the first 4 essays. I hope I don’t get a fat tumor and I’m glad I don’t have a Greg Sakas in my life.
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Glad you’re liking the reading!
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I had my ASL class earlier, and it is so difficult
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My week has been generally pretty boring. Ive just been trying to relax lately with school getting more intense. Working on homework and sleeping. Today i did my math homework for the next couple days so i can relax more between classes and gives me more time to work on other assignments.
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Hey everyone! Glad to be here.
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Hey Giovanni… welcome.
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Hey everyone, my day has been a little intense. Taking my sister to an iron infusion turned into a trip to the emergency room. She’s out now and doing better so I’m happy about that.
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Glad she’s doing better.
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glad to hear that!
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glad that she is feeling better and I hope you have a better and more relaxing day tomorrow 🙂
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I’m doing alright today except I woke up a bit later than I intended and almost missed my marketing class. I ate some lunch and did some more work. Not too eventful
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Thanks for being here.
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I think thing which is appealing to me how personal the stories are and how in such a simple way stories are being told.
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Yes, very approachable..
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my day has been very realxing and productive, got some school work and chores done around the house. Just a little concerned about the reading on my part. I sent you an email regarding my issue if you would like to read it I am in great need of some help.
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hi everyone, my day was great. rough morning though, I had to do tons of homework. D:
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Whats up guys. My day has been good Im at the skate park today chillin.
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Thanks for being here.
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what skate park were you chilling at?
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Im chillin at my favorite one its on west ave in santa rosa
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Hey professor Mikey! Todays going good so far.. Had two classes earlier. Political science and Spanish. Ate a taco salad for early dinner but without the chips. my Personal Trainer said I need to slow down on carbs and red meats 😦 how are you?
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Doing well!
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Hi! My day has been productive. I’m looking forward to this month as well!
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Your reading methods with this first reading assignment… how’d you approach the text?
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I was really excited, so I just dove right
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only 60 days till Halloween !!!!
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Whats the costume ?
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Me… I’m underlining a lot, notably any lines that give me more understanding of who Sedaris is. HIS character.
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My reading method consists of reading through the text twice. The first is to get a broad idea of the novel while the second is to pull out more details and write notes. From there i read it a 3rd of 4th time if i dont feel i have enough notes.
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I like that!! Gotta stay with it, and sometimes that means doing it a few times.
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Same but I just read it 2 times at most I feel like if I read more than 2 times I’ll lose interest in it and I can’t put my most effort into it.
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well my reading methods are really just reading the chapter and getting a hold of what the author was talking about. I then just summarize what happen and think of notes or quotes i will used for my notes. Its also helps kind of gathering everything and know exactly what im reading or whats happening in the book
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I have no reading method in general, I’m too busy trying to just simply reading the words properly. I struggle a lot with reading so it takes me multiple reads to even start to comprehend what the first sentence was really trying to say. I’m hoping reading a book like this will help me to develop a reading method
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It will, if you take your time, and if you take notes along the way, and study your own notes. It takes commitment and consistency. 🙂
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I tend to do the same a lot too. I just really try to not distract myself and just focus on the reading.
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I had the same trouble until I began listening to someone else read and just following along. Maybe try that….it might work, but who knows everyone is different.
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Very true. We all have our own remedies and approaches.
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Yes ! I seen they have an audio book of it on soundcloud, maybe that will be my method
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I tend to focus better when I listen to the book rather than getting sidetracked just reading the book without listening and reading along.
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Hey, we all have own ways of doing things!
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Well I haven’t taken any physical notes about the reading, more mental. But I have learn quit a bit of things about him that are really interesting. I’ll probably start taking little notes on sticky notes, just to try it out and see if I like that method. But I’ve already found myself laughing at things in the reading! Which I love!
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I feel like I’ve just jumped straight into the text without a method because of how much I liked it, For the most part I’ve just been devoting my attention to just reading
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hello sorry it took me a minute to on my days was good just class after class.
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A note for your notes….. Look for Sedaris’ intentions, his mood, what he wants us to do.
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Hi all! Today has been a long day. We’ve been having some internet issues recently (old home=faulty wiring and connection) so I’ve been dealing with that. Happy to be here tonight though, and excited to discuss with everyone!
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Thanks for being here..
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I was really excited when I started reading the book. I didn’t want to put it down. I was trying to be ahead of the game but now I’m finding I have to go back and reread the essays to get more out of them. I think that I might be slowing down with my reading process going forward
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I love it! Any parts that really got you?
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I know that in the first chapter I felt a little personally attacked for also being an American who wants bigger names for things, and perfectly aligned teeth. It didn’t occur to me that this mentality does add a lot of unnecessary stress to things that are very far from life threatening
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Attacked?
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I generally read each chapter two times. First to get the big picture he is talking about and then to get more details I may have missed and to write my notes and quotes.
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Same approach here ! .. and with reading in general. Not the best analyzer, so going over things twice is a big help.
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Try taking notes and looking into your own notes as well!
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yeah! I also like this method because I can keep it fresh in my mind considering I have been reading 3 books at the same time haha. But I will try writing some notes and then rereading my notes
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Hi Professor Mikey! Glad to be back to class, and ready to tackle this next reading! Pretty productive Tuesday over here, work, homework and the gym all got checked off today ! I hope you had a pretty productive day yourself 🙂
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Welcome back! Light it up!
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I approached this book how I approached most of my work in general and found a way to implement it. I would read sections at a time then write down in my notes how I deciphered them in my head and how I feel about them. Reading like this can be tedious at time but in the end it gives me a better understanding of the text and if I have any issues reading it back I can read my first interpretation in my notes.
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I liked your method! Definitely will try doing that.
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Ill read it typically fast if it is for personal choice. if it is for school or educational purposes I have to slow down a lot to be able to really comprehend everything I am reading to my fullest extent.
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I completely relate to this! I found that I enjoyed the essays quite a bit and found myself needing to remind myself to slow down and reflect on each!
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The way I read stories is from question-answer point of view like, who is that character, why is he doing that, etc.It helps create mystery while reading stories otherwise I find it very boring to read linearly.
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Interesting. I like that, like a constant conversation with yourself while you read!
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yes, I also read story many times to understand it.
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Personally I like to take mental notes rather than physical just because my preferences. Unless it’s a direct quote, then I gotta write it down
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Sounds good! Long as you put something on paper. Really helps, trust me. Try doing it a little more!
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I wouldn’t say I’ve had a particular method of reading. I just jumped in with the first one and kept reading. I found that each essay drew me in in it’s own way. When I’d transition from one essay to another I tried to stop and take notes and reflect because I figured trying to ready them like chapters of the same book might be a little awkward to adjust to because they are all their own narrative.
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The way I like reading is annotating as I go to remind me what happens where because it helps me not over look things when i go back and look for a certain part.
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Nice!! Like notes to self!!
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A note for your notes….. Read SLOW. Study your own notes. Be open to all ideas, and play with new approaches to the reading! And more importantly.. make it your own!! ENJOY YOUR WORK.
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sorry about last class my connection was dropping I couldn’t respond.
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You’re here now. That’s what matters!! Light it up!!!
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I purchased the audio book Lets explore diabetes with owls so im listening to it right now again!
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where did you get the audiobook?
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how much did that cost you?
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on my iPhone I just looked it up on the book app.
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Thanks for helping one of your colleagues, Victor. Good job.
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I think it was $16.99
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Thank you for this! I’m a big audio listener, this is very helpful. Buying now!
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