Life Map stage: I decided to use a foldable booklet that is had my students experiment with for my life map (a single useful leftover from an incredibly useless course). This narrowed me down to 8 life plot points, so to speak. I decided to start with being born in London as that's something that shaped me the most. It's especially highlighted now that I have been so removed from it and my perspective allows me to notice these things. From there it was tough to chose which moments to illustrate. I knew that the major things I wanted to include were those that were most impacting on me as a person and my life path, so naturally moves to different places were at the forefront of mind. But outside of those 3 pages, how could I summarize my life in 5 more moments? Choosing things that happened before I was really an adult seemed overly nostalgic and silly, while focusing only on the past few years seemed short sighted. I also found when I got the page that I decided to dedicate to teaching at the high school I currently work at, I did not know how to fill it. I put the name and the pillars that surround the entrance to our main office but had no idea how to summarize any of the elements involved. Some of the pages spoke for themselves to me like this and so stayed simple.
Writing Stage: Considering how to move ahead on this writing and where to expand and/ or revise: in the style of multigenre...
-include a conversation of phone dialogue
-use a journal entry with dramatic irony as though the narrator (me) doesn't know what will happen next in the relationship
-a letter form the National Student Exchange notifying Rutgers exchange
-a one way plane ticket
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