Through unlearning, the goal of my class is to set you up on a path at SF State working towards aprocess of educational healing.

a new direction in education throughstudent-driven dialogue

Your opinions and voices matter to me

I try mybest to operate on a golden rule of respect and kindness for all living things

I’ve always exposed myself to various cultural traditions

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self-assessment

a new direction in education throughstudent-driven dialogue.

I try mybest to operate on a golden rule of respect and kindness

I’ve always exposed myself to various cultural traditions

Practice and experiment with the experience of your the writing process,

Chunking and close reading are inter-related reading strategies that allow readers to “zero-in” on one or two passages that are especially difficult to understand

SFSU Professor Paul Morris describes annotation as dialogue, where the reader is able to engage in a written conversation with the author’s ideas

Using reading as a way into writing helps you make connections, solve problems, and make texts meaningful for you and others around you.

Being able to recognize certain genres as a reader

For example, annotating on screen as opposed to taking notes by hand, or writing certain symbols in the margins that make sense to you.

Your experiences matter, because who you are as a learner matters. Your identity is shaped by your experiences

Still, some of our students come into our classes every semester and proclaim that “Reading and writing is not for them,” or “Literature is not my thing.”

The next premise of this textbook is that learning must be challenging

Everybody Learns Differently

In Freire’s critical pedagogy, or radically progressive way of teaching, the curriculum is framed around the students’ worlds, involves their real issues, desires, and needs, and the teacher can learn from the multiple literacies of the students’ worlds even as they teach them more traditional lit

This is called constructivist learning, where the knowledge in the classroom is constructed from below (which requires that students are collaborating with teachers)—as opposed to knowledge or information delivered from the top (where teachers deliver a lecture).

In fact, one premise of this book is that all meaningful reading and writing is personally motivated in some way: motivated by your connections, motivated by your passions and interests as students

Responsibility, Metacognition: To reflect on your own learning styles and build strategies for reading and writing based on your individual learning process.