I. Blog URLs

Please post your name and the URL of the homepage of your blog in this Google document.

II. Reading Anzaldua rhetorically

Get into groups of three. Take a look at the questions Lessner and Craig pose on pp. 130-131. Think back to your reading of Anzaldua, and answer the questions.

III. Focused freewriting – What’s Your Problem?

Lessner and Craig list “focused freewriting” as one of their writing exercises for invention (or for coming up with ideas). For these authors, focused freeqwriting is freewriting with a specific idea or goal that we head towards. So get out a piece of paper, or open a Google doc in your in class writing folder. We’re going to freewrite for about 15 minutes (that means no stopping to think or rewrite – just keep going). Think about the following questions:

• What problems am I thinking about right now?
• What is going on in the world at the moment that is bothering me? How am I connected to that issue – directly or indirectly?
• What issues matter to me? What communities do I feel closest to?
• Why do those issues or communities matter to me?
• What issues within those communities are manageable for me to tackle in this class?
• What do I want my composing to do about this issue?