Today, after learning how easy it is to cite and how hard it is to plagiarize, we discussed our assignment for Tuesday's class. (Happy President's Day, everyone! Enjoy your long weekend!) For Tuesday, we will discuss Toni Cade Bambara's "The Lesson" (on page 270 in Rereading America) alongside our own Credo essays. The Credo essay is inspired by the project I mentioned in class called This I Believe.
I handed out an essay written by a guy named Dylan. Dylan is some average bloke from San Anselmo, CA who decided to contribute to the project by writing his own Credo essay. By reading an essay written by a random guy in California who is unpublished in the academic world, we can start to think about how our essays can actually mean something to someone.
After reading Dylan's essay, The Bird Who Broke Through The Window, consider your own approach to sharing a particular belief of yours with the class. Our Credos will be written in class on Tuesday and may be used in your portfolio at the end of the semester. You might even attempt to write a journal in response to Dylan's question at the end of his essay:
"Who do you want to be and what is keeping you from being that person?"
If any one in the class takes up this challenge, two things have happened:
a.) You have engaged in a conversation with the reading by writing a response
b.) Dylan has achieved his goal: he has made a difference. This achievement of his means that you too can achieve the same thing. Contribute your essays to the project and you could be the next voice to inspire, change or provoke another's mind.
What I found most inspirational in Dylan's piece was when he mentioned that "There are no limitations except the ones we place on ourselves. However, if we replace those limitations with possibilities, imagine what’s capable of the world and humanity".
Imagine. That is what I want you to do. And share your beliefs with the class.
Enjoy Bambara!
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