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• Please read and annotate Anne Lamott’s essay “Shitty First Drafts”. You can find this assignment and the link to the essay on Perusall. Please add a minimum of three notes to Lamott’s essay. These could be reactions, questions, definitions, or alternate strategies.
• Also read George Dila, “Rethinking the Shitty First Draft”, which you can find here on the blog, under the “Texts” tab above. In a comment on this post, please share your reactions to these two essays. Which approach more closely aligns with your own draft-writing style?How has that served you? Which essay did you find more convincing? Why? Your response should be 200-300 words and should be posted to the blog by 12:00 on Wednesday.

Hey, my name is Yasmarlin Morel (pronounced Yas-mar-leen). I don’t really have any nicknames, so just call me by my name. My birthday is on September 6 and I use she/her pronouns. I’m majoring in Real estate. I was born and raised in The Bronx, and I have never lived anywhere else. Both of my parents were born in the Dominican Republic and they moved to this city to give me and my older sister a better life. I have 8 birds! I know that’s crazy, and if anyone is asking, no, they don’t make any noise at night. In my free time I love to crochet, read, or listen to music. My favorite artists at the moment are Brent Faiyaz, Lauryn Hill, and Jhene Aiko. Whenever I meet someone new, I’m pretty shy, but once I get comfortable, I’m outgoing. I’m excited to get to know you all this semester:)

Here is a picture of one of my parrots. His name is Coco.

An observation I have noticed while reading the table of context would be the organization of different texts and how these use different components of English literature to be unique. For example, it starts with writing at Baruch leading to breaking down and analyzing text then researching and the process needed to create an essay.

Hi! My name is Leilani, you can also call me lei, either name is fine. I am Ecuadorian, Puerto Rican, and Salvadorian but I was born and raised in Brooklyn, NY. I’m Majoring in Finance in hopes to become a real estate agent. I love all the aspects of architecture and interior design. I am currently working at a Personal Injury Attorney Office in Downtown Manhattan. This job has taught me a lot about communication, understanding people, how to compromise agreement, and work countless amounts of different programs. On my free time I like to explore the city, explore fashion/beauty, play volleyball, listen to music, and read/journal. Some fun facts about me are that I love the fall season, I love Harry Potter, I’m always taking pictures of views (especially sunrises, sunsets, and the moon), my favorite colors are pink, beige, and black and my favorite flowers are pink lilies. I hope to get to know you all more throughout the semester!

Just a reminder that your assignment for Monday is to read Richard Rodriguez, Aria: A Memoir of a Bilingual Childhood (excerpt) and Sherman Alexie, “Superman and Me.” You can find these readings under the “Texts” tab here on the blog. Please bring hard copies of the readings (printouts) with you to class and be prepared to discuss them.

Introduction

Hello Everyone! My name is Christian Joel Champagne. my nicknames are Chris, Cj, and champagne. I am a first generation Haitian American college student at Baruch and I am majoring in finance. in the future I want to be a financial advisor and hopefully land a good financial analyst job at google. I grew up in Brooklyn,Ny. I am a catholic and grew up in a religious and spiritual household. I used to work as a tutor for Brooklyn united and I was a camp counselor at genius lab in bay ridge. I also was an athletic director/ manager for uncommon schools during my senior year of high school. I ran track and field and played football. my main interests outside of school is weightlifting occasionally, listening to the Bible, self care, and working on my relationship with god. my favorite colors are black, brown, pink, green, white, yellow, red, blue and beige. my goals in life is to build generational wealth, raise healthy children, put god first always and follow his will, and live a good successful life. I hope to know more about all of you soon! Can’t wait for the good things that are to come!

Observation on “join the conversation”

An observation about “Join The Conversation” is the fact that we are not focused on one genre; there are a diverse number of articles that are interesting to read and analyze for this semester. Also they provide more information from other articles and excerpts which is less biased and fake because it backs up what is to be proven.
(Ex: “with selected chapters from”).

“Learning to read” excerpt

The excerpt “preparing to read” from the autobiography of Malcom x really changes perspective on the process of learning. Malcolm x stands out because he didn’t grow up with a traditional learning curriculum. For Malcolm, learned through letters and it gave him “a kind of education”. he always expressed how he felt on his concerns but never knew how to do the same on a piece of paper. he didn’t have a lot of education in school but rather in prisons. he looked up to people like Bimbi who had always had authority and took charge. however, he barely reads books unless he had motivation and skipped challenging words that were hard to read. to face this problem, he began his Homemade Education by writing words from the dictionary and made it a habit. he did this to improve his vocabulary and writing given the fact that he couldn’t write in a straight line. he found passion in his writing later on. with effort and using his resources for writing skills, it made him more better at knowing and remembering words. when he left prison, he never wanted to stop learning and reading. in fact, the prison that he was in was his way of being an encyclopedia because of the way he devoured literature. given the nuance of racial discrimination and many problems faced due to the color of his skin, he hid his ability to read from the guards in prison. he had written and disagreed on the white history that was written in schools and learned the truth about slavery. he also had attention on religion and his beliefs. as he grew into his reading journey, the best thing to take away is that not only did he learn from a different environment, but there is never gonna be an obstacle on getting a good education. also, there are many ways that others can learn and obtain knowledge that is effective and unique in their own way and wakes one up to be a more better, wiser, and educated person than they were before.

One thing I found interesting in the text “Mother Tongue” is the author’s initial words, “ I was keenly made aware of the different Englishes I do use.” She then goes on to explain her mother’s “broken version” of English and how she is able to understand her mother but others would judge her limited English. This is something that most children of immigrants can easily relate to and have an idea of.

• Read and annotate Amy Tan, “Mother Tongue”. You can find Tan’s essay in our electronic textbook, Join the Conversation, which you can access at Perusall.com, following the instructions provided on the syllabus. Your annotations are due by 12:00 pm on Wednesday, Sept. 6th.
• Please spend some time reading your classmates’ introduction posts here on the blog. Please comment on at least three posts. Share your comments by Friday, September 8th.