This ended up being a great class. Honestly, I find the Dillard essay a bit dull, but the students did a great job with it. This class has been really vocal. I'm not sure how much is just the luck of the draw and how much is my decision to have them in a horseshoe and stand at the board and write down what they say every class.
Here is my class plan:
QW (15): What struck you in what Dillard said about seeing? Why does she care about this? Have you had experiences that relate to hers? Pick a place in the text where we could go in discussion.
- Discuss Qw
- Reading as a writer
- · This is an essay
o How similar or different from what you know about essays?
§ Project versus thesis
§ Uses other texts
- · Why open the essay the way she does?
o What work does it do?
o How does it relate to what comes later?
o Why”sadly”?
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