Learning at home

Read, watched and discussed media here . Wrote once sentence summaries of favorite movies (movie only  - no episodic stuff).    Composed 300 words using voice to text via google on what we read.   Grew bean sprouts in a tea pot and wrote a how to (process analysis) doc with pictures. Writing this has become tedious.  Will  autopsy in podcast.   NOTE: one week later School Started up online only and I paused home-school assignments. 

I (as well as several others in my department) assign a natural narrative as one of the first assignments in my comp. classes.  It has to be true, It has to have started in the past and finished in the past, and it has to detail the event from the writer's perspective.  I recommend choosing events of a limited or discreet timeframe (a few hours, or days works much better than something that drags on for weeks or months).  Here is a handout taken from Labov , and here is the rubric as I use it in one of my classes.  It was used in training for Teaching Assistants at KU in the late 90's to early 2000's - which is where I codified my use of personal narratives. This assignment doesn't require research, and students truly enjoy and appreciate telling and reading each others stories.  The natural narrative may actually have first gained recognition or cachet through ice-breaking and team building.  Natural narratives also provide opportunities to discover i...