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I have e-mailed everyone with the information for our class on Friday. If you did not receive the information please e-mail me or respond here. I am still inviting the idea of another possible location. If you think of something please respond here.
The quiz was too big to put here so I am giving it to you as a pdf that you can download, but you can make the comments here. scribe-quiz
For one of your short writings for the class you may want to write a type of literacy narrative or autobiography that sums who you are as a reader and writer and how you became what you are. You may want to think back on your earliest recollections with print and reading and writing. You could come up with a sort of time line for your literacy in English and Spanish, or your bi-lingual literacy development. You may have positive and negative stories about learning to read and write with certain people, be they family, teachers or friends that helped to shape you as who you you are as a writer and reader. This is a personal essay and will require you to seriously reflect upon who you have become as a writer. I have tried to find a few readings that might serve as models for this type of work and came up with this link to Orwell,s Why I write
Enjoy the assignment and have fun with it!
Blanca Doreste Martin
‘Scribe’ I for English 6030
Dr. Ellen Pratt
August 11, 2008
The Love Song of English Majors
Today’s class is an introduction
Many women are there
Thanks to the absence of men
Us, girls don’t have to worry about what to wear
We choose a class scribe,
Surprise! It is me
Next week there will be a new one
I wonder who it will be
Dr. Pratt introduces herself
And the students pay attention
We are to write about our names
And we all know what is the intention
The intention is to write
As much as we possibly can
Then we sit in the author’s seat
And read what we have at hand
Funny stories come alive
About the origin of people’s names
We all laugh at the different anecdotes
It all seems like a really fun game
Sandra is a health insurance
Gerardo is a brave spear
Wilmarie is a rebellious one
But aren’t we all dear?
Lidsay’s name is difficult to pronounce
Mariel comes from Cuban revolution
Jessica is the Puerto Rican ‘gringa’
And all these crazies are part of a prestigious institution
We discuss the syllabus
And get a little scared
There is plenty of work to be done
To flunk we do not dare
We have to create a blog
In order to write and respond
It’s a bit overwhelming
But I’m sure it will be bunches of fun!
I hope you liked my poem
I hope you liked my tune
Hope you have a nice weekend
And I will see you all very soon!
Just to let you all know that the readings are here only until the books come in. The readings for your second class will be taken off the page this week.
When we think about writing and how we learn to write, one of the groups that has been most helpful in our understanding of these issues is NCTE, the National Council of Teachers of English. You might want to consider belonging to this group.Tthey have made writing a priority and have written an important piece that gives us important information about writing. Check out their Beliefs about Writing, it is the basis for this course. We will discuss this document as part of the course.
