1. Congratulations to Jessica Martin (for her play) and Rachel Bailey (for her forthcoming publication!)
2. Opportunities–Telling Stories (competition) and NCoW (submit reviews!). See CWoW reviews.
3. Interviews –WA4 will offer portrait of one of your research participants, offered via extensive interviews, recorded oral history, or other means. More about this very soon. Your draft is due 11/9.
4. Interviews–East Caney and the Norris Community
Take a look at the updated schedule and other details at www.convergingliteraciescenter.wordpress.com (or “commerce week on writing” at blogroll)
For literacy scholars, the Commerce Week on Writing is a research paradise! The artifacts, interviews, and other notables are coming to US!
Take advantage. Here’s a review by our own Caroline. Should provide a good model for you. As you prepare your reviews, please post them to your blogs. And let me know if you have one you feel is well formed for larger audiences. I’d like to circulate those throughout the Commerce Week on Writing. And after.
Here’s Caroline on the songwriter’s night at Cowhill (10/15/09): http://convergingliteraciescenter.wordpress.com/reviewing-cwow-photos-video-reviews/
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 