Block 1: Picture of crayon writing
Block 2: Screencast of typewriting
Block 3: Video of remediation
- All of these examples are of the same thing; quote/poem from Sylvia Plath
- One of these, or something else
- “Some things are hard to write about. After something happens to you, you go to write it down, and either you over dramatize it, or underplay it, exaggerate the wrong parts or ignore the important ones. At any rate, you never write it quite the way you want to.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath - “I must learn more about these people―try to understand them, put myself in their place. No, instead I am so busy keeping my head above water that I scarcely know who I am, much less who anyone else is.”
― Sylvia Plath - “I must be lean & write & make worlds beside this to live in.”
― Sylvia Plath
- “Some things are hard to write about. After something happens to you, you go to write it down, and either you over dramatize it, or underplay it, exaggerate the wrong parts or ignore the important ones. At any rate, you never write it quite the way you want to.”
- One of these, or something else
Block 4: Explanation
Writing is ever changing, ever evolving. It can be from handwritten, typed, and something else completely. Either physical/tangible to digital/on-screen. Writing is nonverbal. Something that is not spoken. Yet the words before they were spoken could be considered writing. If they were written down beforehand.
Block 5: Pinker
A writer of classic prose must stimulate two experiences: showing the reader something in the world, and engaging her in conversation. The nature of each experience shapes the way that classic prose is written. The metaphor of showing implies that there is something to see. The things in the world the writer is pointing to, then, are concrete: people (or other animate beings) who move around in the world and interact with objects. The metaphor of conversation implies that the reader is cooperative. The writer can count on her to read between the lines, catch his drift, connect the dots, without his having to spell out every step in his train of thought. (Pinker 29)
Insert response to Pinker
Block 6: John Mcwhorter
“One of hardest notions for a human being to shake is that a language is something that is, when it is actually something always becoming. They tell you a word is a thing, when it’s actually something going on” (Mcwhorter 3).
“Language changes because its very structure makes transformation inevitable” (3).
“Permanent aspects of human anatomy and cognition are why language is as changeable as clouds are” (4).
“The way we are taught to process language is as antique as our ancestors’ sense of how nature worked” (8).
Write response to Mcwhorter and insert here
