FebrUary 11
I. Name Game & General Announcements
II. Overview of Project Point-Spread (click here for PDF)
- Congratulations to all who have already received their name game point!
- Today's Go Around: Give Your Name, Your Major and Minor(s)... and then tell us about your career aspirations--- where do you want to be 10 years from now?
II. Overview of Project Point-Spread (click here for PDF)
"Your opening lines are your first chance to hook your reader — but also to lose them."
Introducing a key character
My mother is standing in front of the bathroom mirror smelling polished and ready; like Jean Nate, Dippity Do and the waxy sweetness of lipstick. ~Augusten Burroughs’ Running With Scissors |
Introducing a BIG moment
I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January of 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of 1974. |
Introducing a key place
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth, or maybe he didn’t, but either way vast ribbons of peat came to rest under what became the foothills of Tennessee’s Cumberland Plateau, and in time the peat became coal, and later the railroads arrived, along with mines and coke ovens, and near one lazy arc of the Tennessee River workers built homes to return to after their long days of burrowing and burning, and the homes became a town, and the town was called Dayton. ~Rachel Maddux |
Offering a sense of your personality
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you’ll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don’t feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth. |
IV. Writing Groups/Sharing
V. Whole Class Sharing
Please note: no blue books/drafts are collected today. You will get credit for this work on Wednesday when your whole project has been completed.
- PART ONE: Provide feedback to your colleagues' introductions and ideas. What would make this work stronger or clearer?
- PART TWO: Together, as a group, define in your words the term "digital literacies." Think back on last week's readings. Choose one person who will write this out on paper and read it out loud to the whole class. Please submit this group text at the end of the class.
V. Whole Class Sharing
Please note: no blue books/drafts are collected today. You will get credit for this work on Wednesday when your whole project has been completed.