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Class, Fri, 9/13

Responses and Grades

  • Working with a text
  • Revising as developing

Developing: Some Texts to Work With

How might the writer go on to:

  • Say more about this scene from Educated?
  • Say more about the process of learning?

(With thanks to Hayley, AJ, Maddie, and Sydney)

To Do

  1. Mon, 9/16, class: Finish reading Educating Rita. In what ways are Rita’s obstacles to learning similar to Tara’s in Educated? In what ways do they differ? How does Rita bring up new issues in learning?

Class, Wed, 9/11

Responding to 9/11

Workshopping X1

Special Bonus Question

How might the writer talk more about not only what Tara learns but how she learns it? (And how Westover represents that learning?)

Grades

To Do

  1. Fri, 9/13, class: Read Act One of Willy Russell’s Educating Rita (pp. 3–56).
  2. Mon, 9/16, class: Read Act Two of Educating Rita (pp. 57–84).
  3. Wed, 9/18, class: Watch Educating Rita (directed by Lewis Gilbert, 1983).

Class, Mon, 9/09

Checklist

In Groups of Three

Exchange your pieces. Readers should review the two pieces they’ve been given according to the checklist. (Just mark each item on the list as done or as still needing work.) This is a free-pass day; writers will be given the opportunity to correct any mistakes before officially submitting their piece to me. So be particular, exacting. Call me over if you have questions. Help everybody get this stuff right.

checklistDownload

Work-in-Progress Memo

Please write an email to your readers and me in which you address the following questions:

  • Which sections of your piece are you most pleased with so far? What do you like about them? Please identify at least two sections.
  • Which sections of your piece worry you at this point? Why? Please identify at least two sections you’d like to discuss more.

We will use your comments and questions in offering you feedback on your work.

GRADES

To Do

  1. Wed, 9/11, class: Please read the two pieces by your classmates with their Work-in-Progress memos in mind. You don’t have to write anything yet, but if you want to jot down some notes on their print-outs, that’s fine. Please bring the print copies of their pieces (and your own) to class with you Wednesday. We will use them in our workshop.
  2. Fri.9/13, class: Please read Act One of Educating Rita (pp. 3–56).
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