DALN Questions: Brainstorming for the Reader's Autobiography

To help you start thinking about your own life experiences in terms of a story that might make a good reflective essay, the prompts provided for participants in the Digital Archive of Literacy Narratives can be helpful to jump-start the brainstorming process. For your first prompted entry in your class Notebook, please select three or four of the DALN questions and write a paragraph or two in response to each before our class meeting on Thursday, August 21. 

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 if necessary)

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 few minutes to fill out this survey, so I can do my best to address you with your preferred proper name and pronouns:

https://forms.gle/awd5HNDvxCPmhxxy9 

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!