The Assignment

Genealogy Project Pt. 1: Personal Reflection on Book Reports

Assignment: Write a personal reflection on your experiences as a student with a taken-for-granted practice in the teaching of writing (e.g. book reports). You many choose the genre or genres that seem most appropriate for the meaning you wish to convey. Regardless of the genre(s) you choose, you have three goals:

1. to critically re-visit your own experiences with this taken-for-granted practice so that you can compare and contrast them with your classmates' experiences
2. to consider how the taken-for-granted practice has shaped your development as a writer
3. to explore how those experiences inform your current views on this practice and to speculate about the effect they will have on your teaching of writing as a future English teacher