ENGLISH 1A – 7PM

7-7:10pm: Introduction – What are you writing? What are you thinking as this unusual year comes to its concluding set of pages? 7:10-7:20: On Essays, Essay Writing: Use paragraphs!! 7-9 sentences per paragraph is what I suggest. What is a paragraph to you? How do you know when to end one? Feel free to share…

ENGLISH 1A – 5PM

5-5:10pm: Introduction – What are you writing? What are you thinking as this unusual year comes to its concluding set of pages? 5:10-5:20: On Essays, Essay Writing: Use paragraphs!! 7-9 sentences per paragraph is what I suggest. What is a paragraph to you? How do you know when to end one? Feel free to share…

ENGLISH 1A – 7PM

7-7:25pm:  Extended narration of day.  One story from the past however-many hours… 7:25-7:50pm:  Irby, how it ended.  SPECIFIC EXAMPLES!!!!  Please. 7:50-8pm:  Close…. ASSIGNMENT:  Start planning an Irby essay.  Could be on your relationship with her, her writing, how she communicates with you.  OR…. An opinion on her.  Come to class next week with as many…

ENGLISH 1A – 5PM

5-5:25pm:  Extended narration of day.  One story from the past however-many hours… 5:25-5:50pm:  Irby, how it ended.  SPECIFIC EXAMPLES!!!!  Please. 5:50-6pm:  Close…. ASSIGNMENT:  Start planning an Irby essay.  Could be on your relationship with her, her writing, how she communicates with you.  OR…. An opinion on her.  Come to class next week with as many…

Note

Realizing you and what you let through…

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…