I’ve been wanting to teach
a semester-long first year composition class that has a class theme/inquiry about
“Place and Identity” or maybe “Place, Space and Identity.”
Unit one: Personal Narrative Essay (a place that has
some significance for you)
Unit two: Analysis/Personal Response (analyze a
book-length memoir for the role of place AND respond using your own experience
of a place that impacted you)
Unit three: Book Club (group presentation of a
group-chosen novel, memoir or story collection that includes themes of place
and identity AND a synthesis essay on the role of place in the chosen book and
other readings from class)
Unit four: Proposal (research assignment, propose a
revitalization project or other new use of a space in your community; support
your proposal with research about the space, the community, and
cognitive/psychological studies about community spaces)
Unit five: Definition/Semester Synthesis (Synthesize
semester readings and your own deep thinking about place and identity. What is
your understanding of the role of place in the formation of your own identity?
Can this be extended into a universal understanding or definition of the
significance of place?)
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