Writing for Yourself and Strangers: March 2, 2017

Focus: How do we write for ourselves and for strangers?

Tribe: Shortened Class

1. Warming up with a sample exposition

• What important information did it share in the span of five minutes?
• How did it go about sharing this information?

2. Developing your expositions and rising action: Click here for the tribute memoir slides.

3. Sharing turning points, small successes, and big successes in writing for yourself and writing for strangers

Tomorrow is the BIG EDIT! 

Get your draft as complete as you can. Click here if you'd like to see whom your peer editing partners will be. No matter where you are in your draft, you will spend the majority of class tomorrow giving feedback to your partner. 

The edit will be worth 30 points. If you're absent tomorrow, you need to complete the editing sheet for your own draft (or find a kind soul to do it for you).

HW:
1. The rough draft of your memoir is due this Friday, March 3. It should be 2-3 pages at that point and will receive and attempt and completion grade + feedback.

2. If you fell behind on your Color of Water journals, or you need to make up a blog from a missed discussion, please take care of that this week (before we start Gatsby). Please turn in your books when you're done.

3. Open-note, open-neighbor "quiz" on redundancy tomorrow.

4. The final draft of your memoir and our coffeehouse reading will take place Thursday, March 9.