intro to project 1
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Intro to Project 1. WRA 150 9.5.2012. Today’s Goals. Discuss literacy Introduce project 1 Discuss memoirs. A few words about blogs…. To summarize. You should: Blog Make sure you follow the prompt (2-3 examples means 2-3 examples. Comment on your classmates blogs (it’s fun!). - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
TO SUMMARIZE
You should:
• Blog• Make sure you follow the prompt (2-3 examples means 2-3
examples.• Comment on your classmates blogs (it’s fun!)
MORE INTERESTING
Competence or knowledge in a specified area.
So what does that mean? Can we be literate in things other than reading and writing?
Yes.
LITERACY MEMOIR
So with a broader defection of literacy let’s look at the first project.
• Information about assignments will always be on the website on the “assignments” tab.
• To the website!
SO WHAT’S A MEMOIR?
Memoirs are structured differently from formal
autobiographies (which tend to encompass the writer's entire life
span), focusing rather on the development of his or her
personality. The chronological scope of a memoir is determined
by the work's context and is therefore more focused and flexible
than the traditional arc of birth to old age as found in an
autobiography.
(source Wikipedia, emphasis mine)
SO WHAT’S A MEMOIR?
A memoir really is an opportunity to reflect -- to look inside
yourself and to say, "It’s not just all these external things that have
happened to me. It’s really, how has something changed me?
Why am I the person I am today? What were the big turning
points in my life? What has caused me to have the outlook I
have?”
(Source, http://www.creative-writing-now.com/what-is-a-memoir.html, Emphasis
Mine)
CLASS ACTIVITY & IN-CLASS BLOG
First we are going to listen to Mike Birbiglia. Think about these questions as you listen.
• How does he tell his story?• How does it start his story?• How does it end?• Is there a theme?
IN-CLASS BLOGLITERACY & MEMOIRSIn a blog I want to reflect on the story that we just heard. Here are some questions that might help with that process:
• What did you like about this example? • What didn't you like? • How is this an example of a literacy memoir? Or maybe
how isn't it? • How does this make you think more broadly about literacy? • Do you better understand memoirs after listening?
You don't have to answer all these questions, but pick a few that make sense to you are write about those. After I want you to think about project 1. Pick some ideas for your memoir and brainstorm. This should require a good deal of writing: 300-400 words.