Month: March 2021

ENGLISH 5 – 3/31/21

5-5:10pm:  How was your day?  What did you see?  Where were you?  What did you do? *For tonight’s page:  There is always instruction right next to you and all around you.  Always.  Invariably. Also, if you’re ever “bored”, or blocked with writing, YOUR writing, make it not so.  And yes, it’s that easy. 5:10-5:35pm:  How…

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English 5 – 3/17/21, Wednesday

Quick meeting tonight…. 5-5:10pm:  Intro…..  How was/is your day?? 5:10-5:35pm:  Irby….  Where are you in the book?  (Don’t worry about spoiling…. Even if you know what happens, you still have to read and for your own opinions and reactions.) What is in your reactions?  How is Irby narrating her days versus Lawson? 5:35-5:50pm:  What do…

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10:08am

You teach yourself by loving yourself. Start now.

English 5 – Monday 3/15/21

March’s Ides…. 5:5:10pm:  First ten words that come to mind….  Just write them down, let us respond.  Could take any form. ME: Not rushing. Don’t want that. Ease is what me frees. 5:10-5:40pm:  Self-talk in writing.  Why.  What does it do.  Is that what our authors are doing?  Why do it at all?   A…

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English 5 – 3/8/21, Monday

5-5:10pm:  Hello!!  Tell us about your journal and journal writing lately.  Any stories?  Anything you could turn into a longer work?  Say 4-5 pages, ABOUT YOU? 5:10-5:40pm:  Samantha Irby’s essay flavor…..  tell us about it. 5:40-6pm:  What writing does for a reader, for the one writing.  But more than that… LIFE.  What we want from…

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English 5 – Monday 3/1//20

5-5:10pm:  HI!  Tell us about your weekend, and day so far?  TELL US A STORY… we as readers will decide what it means… 5:10-5:35pm:  Telling a story… nothing is boring.  Why do people think of themselves as boring?  EVER?  As a narrator, the only thing you decide is whether to write or not.  that’s it….

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