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Enthusiasm blended with presence is a finder, fixer, healer, and holder.

English 5 – 2/10/21, Wednesday

5-5:10pm:  How are you?  Tell us some TRUTH from your day… 5:10-5:30pm:  What singular idea are you consistently feeling in Lawson’s work?  Could you write a 3 to 4-page essay on it?  How would you start? 5:30-5:50pm:  Open discussion on happiness… how do we get it.  And more than that, what do you recommend someone…

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5:48pm

Thoughts grabbing me aggressively.

English 5 Prompt for 2-page paper … 2/3/21

BEFORE I TELL YOU WHAT THE PROMPT IS, BE SURE TO EMAIL IT TO ME BEFORE OUR ZOOM MEETING ON MONDAY, 2/8/21 Respond to the following, in two FULL pages: How would you describe Jenny Lawson’s strength? Write your opinion, and support it. That simple. Don’t think of this as some English class paper. KNOW,…

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English 5 – 2/1/21, Monday

5-5:10pm:  Tell us a story from today….  Be sure to react to each other. 5:10-5:30pm:  Parts where Lawson connects to and speaks to you. 5:30-5:50pm:  How could this book help with an idea for the final essay this semester? 5:50-6pm:  Close… now what?  What do you want from Lawson?  What do you hope to see?…

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notes

The more we think about writing the less we write and the less plausible steps there are in the bridge we seek to compose.  Another idea, just keep writing.  Especially when you don’t want to.  The other day I was trying to write a letter, was convinced it wouldn’t happen, so I told the person…

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English 5 – 1/27/21, Wednesday

5-5:20pm:  What were some thoughts that went through your head today?  What did you do with them?  Are you going to do anything with them?  What do they mean? Think of your life as literature.  It IS. It’s a story.  You’re writing even when you’re not writing.  So… what did you write today? FYN (For…

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Realizing…

That imaginative sequences are more tangible than the actual.

English 5 – 1/25/21, Monday

5-5:10pm:  Introduction, settle in.  How’s the writing going?  Have you touched your journal? 5:10-5:30pm:  Questions about last class, the semester, the syllabus? FOR TONIGHT’S PAGE:  This experience in English 5 will decline for you if you excessively deliberate, rather than ACTUATE.  Just move and create, contribute… 5:30-5:55pm:  What did you choose to write about, and…

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