Student: Aileen-Ann Patoc
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Mapping Home project
- Final portfolio that includes the following materials:
Throughout the semester you will produce 10 poems: “I remember” poem, two epistolary
poems (Letter to Home, Letter from Home), sonnet, villanelle, instructions poem,
walking poem, prose poem, and two documentary poems.
- You will select a poem from this semester’s readings and embody the spirit of the work in a performance mid-March. Memorize the poem and commit to your performance.
- You will select and perform one of your own mapping poems on the final day of class.
Mapping Home project
- Final portfolio that includes the following materials:
- Poetics of place (4-5 pages, double-spaced)
- Revisions of 10 poems
- One “How to Write a Poem”
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ItemStudent interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in English, clip 16 of 16( 2015)Brief excerpt from interview: Even though [English 100] was kind of hard... I think it really helped my writing. [Last semester I took a course in Filipino drama] and it was really cool because I didn't even know that they had a drama scene over there. I have never taken a disability course before and I didn't know that it existed.
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ItemStudent interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in English, clip 15 of 16( 2015)Brief excerpt from interview: [My suggestion for freshman is to] take a bunch of random [classes] because you never know what you will like. Random classes... gives me a different sense of what I like to write about. Sometimes easy is really difficult because those classes are really boring.
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ItemStudent interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in English, clip 14 of 16( 2015)Brief excerpt from interview: Look at your options [if you are looking into a Writing Intensive course] and see what you really want to do. Try different classes, and see what you like before you actually go with Writing Intensives.
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ItemStudent interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in English, clip 13 of 16( 2015)Brief excerpt from interview: Emotions are a big part [of writing]. It took me maybe a day or two days [to write this poem]. It was kind of hard to write about my father and brother's relationship... I didn't know if I wanted to talk about that, but I did eventually.
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ItemStudent interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in English, clip 12 of 16( 2015)Brief excerpt from interview: A lot of things in this class really resonated [with me].
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ItemStudent interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in English, clip 11 of 16( 2015)Brief excerpt from interview: [I am not sure if I would want to move out of Hawaiʻi]. I kind of know everything here, but I also want to learn more about here. But, I also want to move so I have more freedom to look at more things.
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ItemStudent interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in English, clip 10 of 16( 2015)Brief excerpt from interview: I feel like writing is pretty important [to my future]. [After taking this class I have learned that]... if I am really stressed about something, [then] I just write [a] poetry piece and let my ideas out.
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ItemStudent interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in English, clip 9 of 16( 2015)Brief excerpt from interview: Even though I have lived [in Hawaiʻi] all my life... There are all different perspectives on things. I learned that... there are all different places on Oʻahu that I really like... There are all these different places ...that I would consider home... There are all different parts of home that aren't necessarily my home. It's just different parts of one cohesive place.
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ItemStudent interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in English, clip 8 of 16( 2015)Brief excerpt from interview: I did learn about old Hawaiʻi.
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ItemStudent interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in English, clip 7 of 16( 2015)Brief excerpt from interview: [This class] changed me to have a different perspective on things. Orienting towards home was really interesting because now I can think about one thing in my life and talk about how things go into ...that part. I feel like I can be more focused [as a writer]. [This class made me have] a greater appreciation of things, [for instance] for people who [write] poetry.