1. WA4, introduction and example
Interviewing Tips
Explore Storycorp
WA4 in sound? Try it!
WA4 video?
2. Groundwork Activity on page 299 (FW)
3. The Cultural Translator: body language and culture, words and culture, ethnopoetics (?), insider language, verbal performances (+ groundwork activity on page 351)
4. East Caney (again)–watch and listen
http://picasaweb.google.com/totosunnyday/EastCaneyChurch#
EAST CANEY CEMETERY (Black) Hopkins Co
http://www.cemeteries-of-tx.com/Etx/Hopkins/cemetery/eastcaney.htm
Direction: East Caney cemetery located just off I 30 about half between Sulphur Springs and Weaver exit. From I 30,turn south on FM Road 2341, turn left on 3338, right on3345. The old section will be on the left and the new section on the right of the road.
*** Some interesting information about East Caney. ***
The Alsobrooks Organization of East Caney
http://www.thealsobrooks.org/home
Who Are The Alsobrooks?
The Alsobrooks Organization is a prominent multi-cultural family in Hopkins County in the state of Texas. Some family members still reside in the East Caney Community out side of Sulphur Springs, Texas
EAST CANEY, TEXAS.
http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/EE/hrera.html
East Caney, a farming community off Interstate Highway 30 and just west of East Caney Creek nine miles east of Sulphur Springs in eastern Hopkins County, was settled before 1900. In the mid-1930s East Caney had a church, a school, a cemetery, and a number of scattered houses. After World War II most of its residents moved away. Its school was consolidated with the Saltillo school district, and by theearly 1960s only a church and two cemeteries remained in the area. In the early 1990s East Caney was a dispersed ruralcommunity.
(From The Handbook of Texas Online)
East Caney Populated Place Profile / Hopkins County
East Caney is a populated place located in Hopkins County…
http://texas.hometownlocator.com/tx/hopkins/east-caney.cfm
Hopkins County TXGenWeb
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~txhopkin/photos.html
Alsobrooks of East Caney – A historical picture of Timothy
Alsobrooks of East Caney. Picture was taken around Spring of 1925 on Berry Hill in Hopkins County (Alsobrooks Property)
Image link :
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~txhopkin/Photos/People/alsobrookseastcaney.jpg
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East Caney Baptist Church
Route 1, Box 272-A
Sulphur Springs, TX 75482
(903)488-3219
Dr. M. Lavelle Hendricks, Pastor
Guest Lecture: Holly Stevens, Special Collections Archivist, Gee Library Special Collections
–Follow up–
1. Did you ready your blog for visitors? The blogs needed by to ready by midnight Friday, September 18.
2. Did you read all the blogs posted by at least four of your classmates and post a synopsis of them (and response) at the “Week in Review” tab above? You were to review Weeks 1-3, which means you should cover all of the readings we’ve done thus far and all of their reflections and other details. Those posts were due before class today.
3. Did you post your images to Flickr, Photobucket, or some other online sharing site? Did you post a link to them from your blog? You MUST do that asap so we can review them together on 9/24 and further prepare for WA2, which is due Tuesday, 9/29.
4. Did you read the first chapter of Fieldworking? You will need to blog about this and something form the Special Collections before next time.
5. Have questions? Check the “FAQ” tab for information on Frequently Asked Questions. Still have questions, shoot me an email at shannon_carter@tamu-commerce.edu or pop by during my office hours.
HW for next time: See “deadlines” tab for what’s expected.
1. Stop and take a breath. What questions do you have for me? What concerns? We’ve been running fast, fast, fast from the very beginning of the term. Let’s stop, and look around. Q&A about it. Ready ourselves for WA2 some more. Push the deadline for WA2 to 9/29. That means we won’t have time for a peer review, but we that’s okay. Take advantage of one another for this and the incredible resource that is our Writing Center. We’ll step down there later, if there is time. It’s free and these folks are smart and fun! So take advantage.
Another bonus: This lightly revised schedule allows us to bring in an outside speaker from the Gee Library Special Collections. Gold used these when writing his article and book. You’ll get a chance to hear some oral histories from the collection and make use of other varieties of these very rich resource.
2. A word or two about research teams.
3. Let’s look at some pictures together. FIRST, let’s post images to Flickr. (volunteers?) THEN, let’s analyze them together. What did you find? What does it mean? (consider Resnick, but also Mayo) What historical significance might it offer? What its significance for the Commerce Writes Research Project? Beyond articulating local instances of different kinds of literacy, what are we learning about literacy via these photos? How might one make use of images in the development of WA2?
4. Blogging English 102–Week 3 in Review. Your RJ6 will be your Week 3 in Review post. See more at the “Blogging English 102” post and the “Week in Review” tab above. Share a few choice posts.
5. WA2 and history (Mayo, early years of Texas A&M-Commerce)
HOMEWORK: Between now and class next time Tuesday: READ Chapter 1 in Fieldworking. Continue taking pictures and analyzing them in ways that might serve your final project. Blog about your findings and experiences (I won’t grade these but it is a REALLY good idea to keep all this stuff together and use these blogs in ways that directly inform your writing and research and solicit feedback and conversation).
Before midnight Friday (9/18), make sure your blog contains all the RJs (save RJ3, if you only have it handwritten since I still have those) and consider shaping it in ways that might be most beneficial to you and the research you are doing this semester. Don’t forget about that important profile! Offer them something that tells you what you are interested in and might be researching for readers who will be scouting for good research team members and collaborators.
Before class Tuesday, 9/20, respond to at least four of your classmates posts since the beginning of class and generate a post to your own blog (RJ6) that summarizes the recurring themes and draws them into conversation with your own project and your own readings thus far.
Do I have all your blog addresses? I need those before you leave today.
1. WA1 to be returned 9/17 or the following Tuesday. Reading, reading, reading! We’ll talk some about what I’m seeing in these and what lessons we may bring into WA2 and your major research projects.
2. Discuss WA2, then Resnick (especially through the Found Project). JP Sloop’s Found Project will be featured at the Commerce Week on Writing and in the weeks leading up to it. See
project description and video and check out Found Magazine (and Found Magazine creator, interview with David Letterman). Featured at and before the Commerce Week on Writing. Lots of research opportunities here! And perhaps you want to set up a Found Board at your dorm and/or some of the local places you frequent? Come to the Commerce Week on Writing planning meeting (Wednesday, 9/16, in room 203 of this building at 1:00) and lets talk about how you might get involved.
3. Discuss Yancey, especially as her work informs WA2 and our exploration of Found Literacies in Commerce.
4. Look at maps of Commerce over the years. Venture onto the campus to begin collecting images of writing and writers and texts and contexts. If you know what your major research project will likely cover, you should consider ways to collect those images at a relevant site so they will easily feed into your major project. If not, no problem. There is much to be learned from this project.
5. Assign first team of Discussion Leaders (see “Week in Review” tab and/or “Blogging English 102” post below for more).
Before Next Time:
Read Mayo’s essay (see “Resources” for link) and blog about it. Use general questions offered for your reading of Yancey’s article. Begin looking at possible major research projects through lenses offering a more historical perspective on the Commerce Writes Research Project.
English 102-Honors 