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Seek Summer Program 2023

Instructor: Yolande Brener

Seek Summer Program 2023
  • Syllabus
  • Schedule
  • Readings
    • James Baldwin-Autobiographical Notes
    • Sherman Alexie-“Superman and Me”
    • Plato-Excerpt from “Phaedrus”
    • Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie-“The Danger of a Single Story”
    • Amanda Gorman “Earthrise” (video)
    • James Baldwin-“Fifth Avenue, Uptown”
    • Nicholas Carr-Excerpt from “Is Google Making Us Stupid? What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains”
    • Annie Dillard-“Seeing”
    • Morgan Jerkins-“On Mourning Your Former Selves”
    • Franz Kafka-“Before the Law”
    • Amanda Gorman “Earthrise” (transcript)
    • Zadie Smith- “Joy”
    • David Zinczenko-“Don’t Blame the Eater”
    • “We Real Cool” by Gwendolyn Brooks
    • “It Does Not Matter Any Longer Where You Live” by Alexandra Huynh
    • “Can We Autocorrect Humanity” by Prince Ea
    • “Do Schools Kill Creativity?” by Sir Ken Robinson
    • “This is Water” by David Foster Wallace
    • “The Art of Being Yourself” by Caroline McHugh
  • Activities
    • Template Exercise
    • Quotation Sandwich Exercise
    • Communications
    • Sensory Details
    • MLA Poster
    • English Vocabulary Builder
    • Leading Class Discussions
    • Quotation Sandwich Exercise
    • Reading Journal
    • Commonly Used Transitions
    • Essay
    • Establishing Why One’s Claim Matters
    • Sentence Combining
    • Quotation Sheet
    • Quotes on Writing and Reading
    • Summary Paragraph Outline
    • Templates from They Say I Say
    • What We Do When We Write And Revise
    • 8 Sentence Paragraph Structure
    • Mini Zine Reflection
  • Assignments
    • Literacy Narrative Assignment
    • Ad Assignment
    • Literary Presentation (Group Project)
    • Vocabulary Builder Journal
    • Literacy Journals
    • On Campus Creative Writing Walk
    • Literacy Narrative Outline Homework
    • Where I’m From Assignment/Discussion Board

Schedule

The daily schedule is subject to change.

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