Book of Eli

Eco-Narrative Response  - A short minute and a half video I made with the help of my younger brother who is five years old. I had a thought this morning, March 28th, an epiphany some would say. But when we discuss issues relating to climate and the ecosystem, they are always so serious. And I understand that the issue is very serious, do not get that mixed up, but I wanted to make a reaction of my "younger brother" telling his viewers about what he believes climate change is according to the movie Wall-E and from his older brother, me, telling him about the multimodal project he just finished the other day. My main concern is that I do not dive deep enough into the eco-narratives, but this is from the perspective of a five-year-old so I wasn't sure. My intention was to be comical and I took inspiration from a content creator named iamsammielol. A link to his Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/iamsammielol?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet&igsh=ZDNlZDc0MzIxNw== ...

 Reflecting what from what we have read for class, two texts have been really helpful and inspirational regarding my feedback analysis, Spandel's The 9 Rights of Every Writer and specifically the 5th chapter "Write Badly" and McAndrew and Reigstad's chapter 6 "What Tutoring Is -- Models and Strategies." Those two have been instrumental in my feedback process. Speaking from those two texts and my own experiences, I personally feel like honesty and giving students the confidence to keep writing are the two most instrumental. Lacking self-esteem makes writing and life in general such a hassle. Everything becomes increasingly more difficult and seems so more stressful than what we initially thought. Writing is a terrifying experience for students because of high expectations placed onto them by us and their teachers. We want them to always try their best, but in reality this task cannot always be attainable. Supporting them in matter their writing style or abili...