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Realizing you and what you let through…

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The fear you have of writing is accepted, by you.  Just put something on page… write how you hate to write, how you’re scared of the blank page.. find fearlessness and a more fervent frame of you and your aims in what you write.  Make it ALL about you.  Some say selfishness is rude.. okay,…

1A – 7PM

7-8:15pm Intro….. Essays  Freewriting Samantha Irby…. Essay defiance, in Irby’s work…. Life and when it’s written What’s on your night’s page? FROM ME:  Essays are an opportunity to not just express and idea but convey conviction, tell stories… and if it’s an assignment a chance for your to develop an original idea, to offer your…

1A – 5PM

5-6:15pm Intro….. Essays  Freewriting Samantha Irby…. Essay defiance, in Irby’s work…. Life and when it’s written What’s on your night’s page? FROM ME:  Essays are an opportunity to not just express and idea but convey conviction, tell stories… and if it’s an assignment a chance for your to develop an original idea, to offer your…

Learning that

patience is one thing, but commitment to your own beat and movement is something that realizes what you want realized.  People say put your mind to it, I respond “Make a manuscript of it.” There is nothing that’s a definitive block, or obstruction.  Patience is a boon, but persistence and unusual passion should be more…

ENGLISH 1A – 7PM

7-7:10pm:  Check in, narrate your day…. 7:10-7:30pm: Samantha Irby, comedy…. Real.  Aggressive.  Different than Sedaris…. Do a quick search on her… what do you find?  What do you notice? 7:30-7:50pm:  What have you been writing for YOU?  What are some of the observations you have been recording in your journal?  Tell your colleagues about what…

ENGLISH 1A – 5PM

5-5:10pm:  Check in, narrate your day…. 5:10-5:30pm: Samantha Irby, comedy…. Real.  Aggressive.  Different than Sedaris…. Do a quick search on her… what do you find?  What do you notice? 5:30-5:50pm:  What have you been writing for YOU?  What are some of the observations you have been recording in your journal?  Tell your colleagues about what…

ENGLISH 1A – 7PM

10/6/20 7-7:10pm:  How are you?  What have you been writing?  How are you going to approach the rest of the semester?  And yes, it’s time to start thinking that way, already. 7:10-7:30pm:  Your life as Literature..  Your moments are manuscripts.  What does this mean to you? 7:30-7:50pm:  Do you see your life as Literary?  Why…

ENGLISH 1A – 5PM

10/6/20 5-5:10pm:  How are you?  What have you been writing?  How are you going to approach the rest of the semester?  And yes, it’s time to start thinking that way, already. 5:10-5:30pm:  Your life as Literature..  Your moments are manuscripts.  What does this mean to you? 5:30-5:50pm:  Do you see your life as Literary?  Why…

ENGLISH 1A – BOTH SECTIONS

Hope you all enjoyed Sedaris’ book, and have some ideas prepped and partially developed for your first longer essay of the semester. There will be no rough draft required. You will work on this essay collaboratively with me up until its due date. If you want feedback, you must let me know and have specific…

ENGLISH 1A – 7PM

Time to use your own life as literature. Start writing!! About what….. About a time in your life that taught you about happiness. Take this in any way you want. You’re the author, you’re in charge. Just write. Tell a story. It could be about an unhappy time that made you wish for better day,…