Family stories
The writing journal prompt for today was to document + think about some of the stories your family tells -about you or each other. Family stories that come up at particular occasions (holidays, birthdays, when you bring home new friends, when you go to particular places), in response to certain kinds of interactions, or that seem to accompany specific, recurring events or conversations (when you leave home or come home, when you mention your car, your choice of career, your current significant other) - can be emblematic. They can stand for both how the storyteller thinks about the person in the story, and they can represent unstated family relationship and patterns for relating to one another. They can connect to fears, jealousies, unfilled wishes, and a host of other assumptions & feelings that are only partially conscious - or that might never be talked about directly. Good material for figuring out relationships.
Workshop your ideas
Some of are still at the brainstorming stage - some of you have written your whole essay. Today's workshop was about getting some feedback from peers in terms of what to do next with your text.
Blog 6: Do some more writing for Essay 1. Write about what every you talked about with your group - or - if they said it was wonderful and there is nothing left to work on => take a look at the model essays (in your text) or the assignment sheet and think about how you can make your essay more focused, more artful, or more like the kind of CNF we have been reading.
Read: Luis Rodriquez will be speaking on October 4 and we will attend his talk. In class Thursday we will talk about his work - and spend some time thinking about what kinds of questions you might like to hear him address.
Forward to Always Running
Excerpt from Always Running
Good class today - sorry we did not get to the Nye (108).
In class on Thursday we will talk about Rodriguez, you will sign up for conferences on Essay 1, and we will talk some more about the reading on October 20.
See you Thursday!
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