Alas, writers, it is the third week. Here are the freewrites I promised. Please write on each topic during the week (before class on Thursday); give yourselves time as these might help dislodge what you'll want to write about in your personal research essays. You may write on these as many times as you'd like, but please try each at least once. (The dark chocolate one is my favorite.) Enjoy.
1. Use an essay you read in class this week (2nd or 3rd week) as a jumping point to discuss and explore an aspect of your own experience. (Ex. knowledge, education, travel, spirituality, men/women, outsider/insider, etc.)
2. Anzaldua says, "I am my language. Until I can take pride in my language, I cannot take pride in myself" (81), and continues, "I will overcome the tradition of silence" (82). In this, she is speaking not only about her culture and the limits of language, she is also, perhaps, talking about her craft as a writer as a means to vocalize and eliminate this silence. Write about your "tradition of silence."
3. Anzaldua writes, "There are more subtle ways that we internalize identification, especially in the forms of images and emotions" (83). Freewrite on ways in which you internalize identification.
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