Anthology post 2 (Creative piece 1)

I can hear them. They’re coming for you and they’re coming for me. The rumbling is in the ground. I can feel their presence from miles away. The winds shift to the north and the air stands still. They’re on the move when it’s light outside and I can breathe. It makes me nervous. I talk to my friends about it. It’s like our version of news.

    Bill thinks it’s a phase and that they’ll disappear like the last time. He says they’ll never reach us. I don’t share the sentiment. Last time they came so close that I could smell their pungent odor. They smelled like rubber and the souls of my ancestors.

 When I was four years old, I watched my mother’s brutal murder. I wasn’t allowed to turn away. I watched as they killed her and as they chopped up her still-living parts. I don't really want to think about it now. I would try to forget it, but I still live in the place where she died. I just can’t seem to leave.

    They came to our homes in Amani when I was little. I was too young; I wasn’t ready. I’m old enough now and I can only hope that They don’t return. They left a few of us alone destined to be orphaned forever. I wish I started off as an orphan like my buddy, Bill.

    The ground is still a wasteland. Desolate.

Anthology Blog Post 1

     Writing centers are WAC. Writing across the curriculum, that is. Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) is a growing movement that encourages writing in a variety of subjects, not just literature or composition English courses. Writing is now being acknowledged as important in science classes, history classes, and even math classes. A scientist needs to share his or her ideas with others to be acknowledged and a math whiz needs to be able to communicate what she's doing with the numbers to reach conclusions. Writing isn’t just essential to an English course, but essential to life.

     WAC stems from the 1980's when the movement began to make more waves and generate more publicity (Purdue OWL). It began with the importance of writing. Purdue OWL wrote, "When students write reactions to information received in class or in reading, they often comprehend and retain the information better." Writing is not only useful for communication, but it teaches and helps with memory. A student can learn and retain more information about the Crusades, for instance, but that retainment of the information can be solidified by writing notes. A student can further prove his understanding by analyzing and writing more about that.

Anthology Ideas

Ideas

Creative writing

Tell a story of deforestation from a tree's perspective

Rewrite my idea for my nanowrimo: Josh is in New york and finds his father - the end

Xs vs Os

Fanfiction idea

A story told through love letters

A story told through dating profiles

Tutoring

How we can effect our clients: Exploring the repurcussions of our work
How can we measure out effectiveness? 
What can we do to improve ourselves 
Expanding ourselves across different subjects like history/science and how that differs in a college and high school 
Where should writing centers be and how can they be started?