Just reflecting back here that I got great feedback from our group about making a model text that is a little less ambitiously annotated to not make it too intimidating for students, which I think is a great idea. I also need to update this handout to add advice about how to add annotations so that they show up in Brightspace (this has been a logistical hassle this semester).

I think because my background is in TESOL, I have been really hesitant to get students to read their work out loud. When you get TESOL training, it tends to emphasize reading out loud as an exercise in pronunciation practice. But this reading (and our discussion about it) really challenged my thinking, especially because I reflected a bit more on my own process as a writer. I read my own work out loud constantly. And I saw the value of doing this with students I was consulting in the Writing Center when I worked as a tutor. I want to incorporate this a bit more in low-stakes ways (maybe as part of student conferences?) to just see how it goes.

Hi! Just showing you what an annotation looks like in context and also explaining what this is a bit more.

The FYW Committee is a committee comprised of full-timers at QC who teach in the first-year writing program and / or are experts in Writing Studies. We make decisions about stuff that happens in the FYW program. Formerly, we've also done things like review three-year contract materials.

Me again: just reminding you to sign in to your account and to annotate within the class group instead of here in the public group.

Hi! If you're seeing this message, you need to sign in to Hypothes.is. Click on the top right-hand corner where it says log in/sign in. The click on where it says "Public" at the top left-hand side of this window. Choose "English110Sp22" to put yourself in the right group.

A quick reminder: if you're seeing this message, you should log into your Hypothes.is account at the top of the page by clicking on "log in / sign in," and then go to the class group. To get there, click at the top of the page where it says "public," and select English110Sp22.

Hi! If you're annotating here, you're not yet in the right place. Click on the top right-hand corner where it says "sign in," sign into your account, and then select "English110Sp22" at the top of the Hypothes.is frame where it says "Public" to find the annotations.

This reminds me of an episode of the Saved By the Bell reboot where a character who is a Dominicana tries to speak Spanish in Spanish class, and her (white) Spanish teacher tells her that the way that she's speaking it is "wrong," even though it's not "wrong," it's just different than the way that Spanish speakers from Spain would say it.

(This is a good annotation because it makes a relevant connection to the course material from outside of the class to extend the point and make it more concrete. It would be great to also include a link to the clip if you have one!)

He kept using this term, and I wasn't sure what it meant, so I looked it up. I think it means something to do with the movement across languages? So, like, you're not just using English or Spanish, but you're using both and moving across them at all times.

(This is a good annotation because it offers some clarification on a point that the student found confusing, and it shows that the student did a little research to understand the meaning of this term.)

I see Alvarez's point here, but I struggle with understanding how we actually can put this view to rest when we still have to pass the Regents exam and the SAT and other kinds of things in English. To believe Alvarez, I'd like to see him address these kinds of contexts.

(This is a good annotation because it pushes back on the author and asks for specific information from him to clarify the point that he's making rather than JUST criticizing him.)

It is so important to value other people's languages and cultures. (This is not a good annotation because it's just restating the point without adding anything new, and the picture doesn't add anything new either. It's just a picture of the word "value.")

This is not realistic.

(This is a bad annotation because it criticizes the point without really telling us why.)

I agree that all students should be plurilingual learners. (This is a bad annotation because it doesn't really tell us anything about why this person has the opinion that they have. We know you agree with the author, but we don't know why you came to the conclusion that you did.

This means that people should stop thinking that English-only policies are the best model for teaching people to read and write.

(This is a bad annotation because it just repeats what the text says without adding anything new.)