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Mat Wenzel

Nov 16, 20181 min read

Schedule Change

Due to projected low attendance, Tuesday will be a "craft day." We'll do some writing prompts, sharing, exercises, sentence patterns,...

Mat Wenzel

Oct 30, 20181 min read

Final Selfie -- The WN "abroad"

Send us a final selfie of your WN "away from home," "on holiday," "on public transportation," "vacationing," you know, "abroad."

Mat Wenzel

Oct 30, 20181 min read

*W9 The Erotic as Power

Comment below with your response to Audre Lorde's "Uses of the Erotic." Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power by Audre Lorde...

Mat Wenzel

Oct 28, 20181 min read

W9 - Discussion

Upload a brief summary/response of your discussion text here. Freaks and the American Ideal of Manhood by James Baldwin...

Mat Wenzel

Oct 23, 20181 min read

*W8 - The Weight

Post your response below! The Weight by Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah

Mat Wenzel

Oct 22, 20181 min read

W8 - Discussion

Post your brief summary/thoughts below! Notes from a Trip to Russia by Audre Lorde https://www.mpba.mp.br/sites/default/files/biblioteca/...

Mat Wenzel

Oct 8, 20181 min read

Hurricane

Hello students. Your first priority is your own safety and well-being. Please take appropriate steps now to prepare for the storm. Course...

Mat Wenzel

Oct 8, 20181 min read

*W7 (postponed until the 15th)

Please upload your response to the discussion text you selected. We will use this discussion to make meaning with our common text "How it...

Mat Wenzel

Oct 2, 20181 min read

W6 Discussion

Post a brief summary/response on the discussion texts below. The Shadow of Young Girls in Flower from Fun Home by Alison Bechdel...

Mat Wenzel

Oct 1, 20181 min read

Selfie 4 - Nature!

Upload a WN selfie in the wild wild.

Mat Wenzel

Oct 1, 20181 min read

*W6 - Two Essays about home

Read these two essays about home, and post your response below. In Wyoming by Mark Spragg https://commons.wvc.edu/ashank/engl201/ENGL%202...

Mat Wenzel

Sep 23, 20181 min read

*W5 - The View

Read and respond to Orhan Pamuk's "The View" (it has two parts). Post your response (minimum 200 words) in the comments below.

Mat Wenzel

Sep 22, 20181 min read

W5 - Discussion

Comment below with some brief thoughts about your assigned or selected text. Spider Woman by Burkhard Bilger https://www.newyorker.com/ma...

Mat Wenzel

Sep 16, 20181 min read

Selfie #3

Post a picture of a page from your WN

Mat Wenzel

Sep 16, 20181 min read

*W4 - Dying Together

Comment below with your response/analysis of Edwidge Danticat's "Dying Together." https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/a78aa5_d3ca20be025844238...

Mat Wenzel

Sep 15, 20181 min read

W4 - Discussion

Post a brief comment about the text you selected. We will discuss these texts in class. King by Matthew Dickman...

Mat Wenzel

Sep 12, 20181 min read

WN Selfie #2 - Writing Exercise

Post a pic of a writing exercise here :)

Mat Wenzel

Sep 7, 20181 min read

W3* On Conflict

Read Dinty Moore's chapter from Crafting the Personal Essay, "Of Conflict" and the example that follows in the next chapter (10). Your...

Mat Wenzel

Sep 1, 20181 min read

WN selfie #1 -

Upload a photo of your notebook "in the wild"-- ie. not at home or school--in the comments below.

Mat Wenzel

Aug 30, 20181 min read

W2* Death of Moth(s)

Comment below with your insights on these two essays with similar titles. Death of a Moth by Annie Dillard Death of the Moth by Virginia...