Class, Wed, 11/13

Thoughts on Westover

Fastwrite

So you now know a little more about Tara Westover as a person. How does that add to or change your response to her memoir, Educated?

Citing Articles and Web Sites

Author Date Title Publication Info
Who? When? What? Where?
Westover, Tara 2018 Educated: A Memoir New York: Random
Rodriguez, Richard 1978 “The Achievement of Desire: Personal Reflections on Learning ‘Basics.’” College English (40): 239–54.
Bocci, Goali Saedi 2018 “A Psychologist’s Take on Tara Westover’s Memoir, Educated.” Psychology Today. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/millennial-media/201804/psychologists-take-tara-westovers-memoir-educated.

Westover, Tara. 2018. Educated: A Memoir. New York: Random.

Rodriguez, Richard. 1978. “The Achievement of Desire: Personal Reflections on Learning ‘Basics.’” College English (40): 239–54.

Bocci, Goali Saedi. 2018. “A Psychologist’s Take on Tara Westover’s Memoir, Educated.” Psychology Today. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/millennial-media/201804/psychologists-take-tara-westovers-memoir-educated.

Citations are laboriously-coded, extremely slow hyperlinks.

Barbara Fister, “Decode Academy”, 2013

To Do

  1. Fri, 11/15, class: Bring a print copy of your all-but-final draft of your second essay to class. Make sure this draft includes a list of References or Works Cited. We will do some work on these pieces.
  2. Mon, 11/18, class: Bring a print copy of the final version of your second essay to class, and post an electronic version of it to Google Drive. We will discuss digitizing texts.
  3. Wed, 11/20, class: Studio time: Work on creating a version of your first or second essay to post on Medium.com.
  4. Fri, 11/22 through Fri, 11/29: No class: Thanksgiving Break!
  5. Mon, 12/02, class: Post the digitized version of your essay to Medium.com. We will construct an Arcade that allows us to view and discuss your work.
  6. Wed, 12/04, class: Closing thoughts. Evaluations.
  7. Mon, 12/09, 11:00 pm: Email me your revision of either Essay One or Essay Two (optional).
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