Posted in in-class journal entry, tagged der spiegel, metroland, momus, pedagogy, reading, the royal family, thinking, william vollmann, writing on January 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Journal #2
On Reading.
Some of my biggest frustrations come to me in daily life when I perceive myself as not reading enough. I’m currently reading William Vollmann’s The Royal Family about a private investigator in San Francisco that falls in love with “The Queen of the Whores,” the grand-madam of a ring of [...]
Posted in reading, tagged huh, reading on January 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
For COMP I, the topic is reading. The first essay will be on reading. And we’re going to be reading any sort of “text” you’ve brought in to class this week–could be a traditional “text,” or it could be any sort of advertisement or image, and we’re going to try and make sense of it [...]
Posted in lesson plans, tagged "price chopper", reading, writing on January 15, 2008 | 6 Comments »
COMP I
WEEK 1
80 minutes
WOTD
Ergasiophobia
1. fear of difficult tasks, aversion to hard work
How-to-read-and-write-a-thon day one
(Please prepare yourself for today’s field trip)
I cannot teach you how to write or read
You can only teach yourself and we [...]
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