EWRT1A-25: essay 1 due tomorrow

Remember that you need to hand in two different drafts, a first draft and a final draft.

If you want a bit more background about Gloria Anzaldúa, this is a nice write-up.

hard work is the inspiration

This quotation has been floating around the blogosphere for the past two days. I thought it was applicable.

"The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who’ll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work. All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself. Things occur to you. If you’re sitting around trying to dream up a great art idea, you can sit there a long time before anything happens. But if you just get to work, something will occur to you and something else will occur to you and something else that you reject will push you in another direction. Inspiration is absolutely unnecessary and somehow deceptive. You feel like you need this great idea before you can get down to work, and I find that’s almost never the case."
-Chuck Close

EWRT1A-25: agreement exercise and reading response 3

Both of the following assignments are due this Thursday.

Here is the agreement exercise.

Here are the prompts for reading response 3.
Reading Response 3- Alice Walker “In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens”
Choose one or come up with your own focus.

• According to what Walker shows in this essay, what are some of the forces that hinder people from finding their own voice? Use specific examples to demonstrate a larger theme.
• What does Walker’s essay show us about how people are able to find their own voices? What do people need? Use specific examples to demonstrate a larger theme.
• According to Walker’s essay, what effects are there when people are able to find their own voices? In other words, what is the benefit of artists finding ways to be artists? Use specific examples to demonstrate a larger theme.

EWRT1A-25: pronouns exercise

Here is the pronouns exercise.

EWRT1A-25: January 18th reminder

This is just a quick reminder that we'll be going over MLA citation today so bring your Longman Pocket Writer's Companion. If you don't have one, try the used bookstore across Stevens Creek from De Anza.

Martin Luther King Jr. responding to Malcolm X

For MLK Day I thought I'd post this video of Martin Luther King Jr. responding to some of the criticisms leveled against him by Malcolm X.

EWRT1A-25: run-ons exercise

Here is the run-ons exercise.

EWRT1A-25: fragments exercise

Here is the link to the fragments exercise. Remember that if you are unable to print this out, you can simply write the corrected sentences on another piece of paper. Just number the sentences accordingly.

EWRT1A-25: essay 1

Here is a pdf of the essay 1 prompt.

problem-posing education

When students read Freire's "The 'Banking' Concept of Education" for the first time, some of them have trouble seeing how problem-posing education would work in a classroom setting. So let me offer a few examples. The Montessori Method of education lets kids 3-6 (this is the usual range) observe and experiment on their own as a way of learning. Also, the newer push for Project-Based Learning reflects an emphasis on problem-posing by asking students to take on a project that requires them to put their education to practical use– in other words, praxis.