111 Kroeber Hall

3-6 Mondays and Wednesdays

This is my classroom for my College Writing R1A class this semester. It is in Kroeber Hall [right off of Bancroft at College]. It is a very nice classroom. Lots of windows facing east. Moveable chairs for conferencing and small group work. And a real chalkboard. I like it.

My students will read To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee and Shrunk and White's Elements of Style to commemorate their publications 50 years ago. And to learn about important ideas and good good writing. [Of course, my students will read other texts as well.] They will read To Kill a Mockingbird to explore Lee's ideas about racism, dignity in the face of oppression, ethics, and how Atticus and his family live their lives with moral integrity and learn [each of them] about justice and trust. My students will read Elements of Style chapter by chapter and write logs about the concepts presented in each of them and how the authors go about explaining their notions regarding form, structure and correctness. E.B. White wrote the "Introduction" and the last chapter entitled "An Approach to Style [With some reminders]". I am excited to see what my students think about both of these texts, and most especially, what they choose to write about in relation to these authors' ideas and their own ideas. I wonder how this will all come to look.