Notebook Prompt: DALN questions

The Digital Archive of Literacy Narratives is a project coordinated by Ohio State University and Georgia State University that compiles a diverse range of people's stories about their formative experiences with reading and writing. The DALN has assembled a list of questions to help spur the memories and ideas of participants as they begin to formulate their personal story. Not all of these questions will apply to you. For this first notebook prompt, select 3 or 4 of these questions and use each as the starting point for some exploratory free-writing. You're not simply trying to "answer" each question with facts and information; use these as a starting point for thinking about your own experiences as a story. Take each question as a point of departure, and dig into it for a paragraph or two.

Please complete your responses to this prompt by Thursday, August 20.

Index Cards

 As we start off this new school year together, I'd like to start to get a sense of the students who are populating my classroom. On the index card provided, please reply to the following prompts:

1. Your name / pronouns / preferred form of address in class (with advice on pronunciation)

2. What did you read this summer?

3. What was your favorite thing about subbie English (or your eighth-grade English class)?

4. What is something that you've learned recently?

Proper Nouns and Pronouns

Please take a minute to fill out this survey, so I can do my best to address you with your preferred proper name and pronouns:

SECOND PERIOD 

SIXTH PERIOD

You can update this information at any point in the school year by following the link and entering a new date. I will not receive notifications for any changes or updates, however, so please send me a quick note via email to let me know.

Thank you!