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Your grade on the discussion board depends on closely reading then writing about the assigned texts that go with the question each week. The assigned texts are short, but they are in addition to the required reading in the Interactive Lecture.

Working on the assigned texts in discussions is meant to give you practice in taking what you learn about literature and applying it—before you write a paper for a grade on your thoughts. Take this opportunity and try out your ideas in the discussions, where you can talk about literature and see how other people write about it.

Rules of engagement for writing about literature (discussions and papers)

1. Using “I” and “me” (first-person) is permitted in discussions.
It is not permitted in papers. In papers, write only about the literature without including “I” and “me.”
2. To do well with literature, make a point, explain your interpretation, tell us your idea, and then—crucially—bring in a direct quotation from the text that made you have that thought or that supports your thought. Do this in discussions and in papers.
3. In discussions, you do not have to cite your source because we have all read the literature.
In papers, you must cite everything that you paraphrase or quote or state as fact. Citing requires an in-text citation and a reference citation on a References page, and everything must conform to APA guidelines in the CSU Global Writing Center (Links to an external site.).

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Many people have read Cheryl Strayed’s Wild or watched the movie. Strayed’s work is one of the most popular works of creative nonfiction ever published, and if you know Strayed’s work, you already know one of the defining characteristics of creative nonfiction: it relies on the storyteller’s memory about his or her own life experience as story material.

Read this short work of creative nonfiction: “I survived the blizzard of ’79” by Beth Ann Fennelly:
http://www.creativenonfiction.org/online-reading/i-survived-blizzard-%E2%80%9979 (Links to an external site.)

How does Fennelly’s understanding of her father’s actions change over time? What does the scarf symbolize in Fennelly’s story about the stories that we tell ourselves about our families of origin–and how those stories define and shape who we are as people?