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…

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,…

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…

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…

When writing…

Don’t think about the direction, the structure or properness, or even what you’re writing. Just move with words. Something will materialize. Fixate in the act, the presence of you on page. The more we think about writing and the order of it being one way, especially to pin some grade, we self-block. There’s poison introduced….

English 5 – 1/20/21, Wednesday

5-5;20pm: Introductions, site familiarity, syllabus. -Tell us a little about yourself, and your relationship with reading, writing. -What did you do today? What stories are there? 5:20-5:40: Who are you, beyond what you’ve already told us? What do you want? How will YOU get it?? NOTE FOR YOUR NOTES: Everything that you want is attainable….