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WRITE: In your own words, summarize the main points made in the introduction of Opening Conversations

OPENING CONVERSATIONS

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OPENING CONVERSATIONS

CONTEXTS

CONTEXTS IN “SPLINTERED LITERACIES”What contexts shape Amanda Hayes’ writing? What different audiences does she write for, and how does that change how she writes?

What does she define as a text, or as literacy? In her life, what kinds of literacies are valued where, and why?

What does her story help you understand about your own contexts and experiences with writing and literacy?

UNIT 1: SELF AS WRITERYour first essay will explore the ways you have been and currently are a writer. By working through a series of generative writing exercises, you will produce an essay targeted toward a personal audience—our class—that is focused on one or two moments illustrating the ways you have been a writer in one or more contexts. You should write a personal, descriptive essay exploring a central idea about who you are as a writer, asking yourself: how does the specific writing situation or context shape and influence what we write and how we define ourselves as writers?

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CONTEXTS List all the contexts that shape your writing (personal, cultural, familial, spiritual, academic, etc.)

MOMENTS List specific moments of writing you remember from your past

PLACES

List places where you write or have written

AUDIENCES

List audiences you have written for

• Look at your list of contexts, moments, places, audiences

• Choose one item on your list to write about in more detail

• Free-write about it for five minutes

GENERATIVE WRITING

GENERATIVE WRITINGShare what you wrote about in groups of 2-3. Discuss strategies for drafting Unit 1:• What elements of your generative writing stand

out to you? • What do you plan to use, or expand upon?• Did you write about anything that you could use as

inspiration for your homework? Do you still possess any of the actual pieces of past writing that you listed during generative writing?

• Where will you go from here?