Writing Seminar Quint III Cover Letter
Rolling Deadline through Monday, February 8th
Part I: Course Content: As you know, much of the content this quint is new to Writing
Seminar (or at least rearranged to be together). Please put a check mark in the column of
whether or not we should keep each reading and assignment, adding comments wherever
you think would be useful for me in shaping the unit for next year. Thanks!
Keep?
“Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing,” James Weldon Johnson
Excerpt from Race Matters, Cornel West
Overview of African America Literature, Amy Nickell Taylor
“I, Too” Langston Hughes
“Incident” Countee Cullen
“We Real Cool” Gwendolyn Brooks
“An Interview with Gwendolyn Brooks” Interview by Stavros
“Between the World and Me” Richard Wright
“Incident” Amiri Baraka
“The House Slave” Rita Dove
“Reflections on the Inauguration of Obama” Natasha Trethewey
“My Mother Dreams Another Country” Natasha Trethewey
“Blond” Natasha Trethewey
“Incident” Natasha Trethewey
Excerpt from Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison
The New Jim Crow, Introduction and Chapter, Michelle Alexander
“The Condition of Black Life is One of Mourning” Claudia Rankine
“You are in the dark, in the car” from Citizen, Claudia Rankine
“The Fire Next Time” James Baldwin
Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates
Yes!
Maybe
Mm…No
Keep?
Yes!
Maybe
Mm…No
“Ta-Nehisi Coates’s ‘Between the World and Me’” NYT Review
“Between the World and Me: Baldwin’s Heir?” Atlantic Review
“Between the World and Me Review” The Guardian Review
“Ta-Nehisi Coates defines a new race beat” Columbia Review
“The Distorted World of Ta-Nehisi Coates” National Review
“Listening to Ta-Nehisi Coates While White” David Brooks
“The Toxic World of Ta-Nehisi Coates” Politico
Epistle Creating Writing Assignment: Please write comments about what worked and/or would be
useful for next year.
Activism Project: Please write comments about what worked and/or would be useful for next year.
Part II: Your effort/learning: Reflect on your strengths and areas of challenge this quint.
 In what areas did you particularly shine? Areas that remained a challenge for you?
Please reference specific skills and assignments.
 Looking ahead, what are your goals for next quint and beyond? What is your specific
plan to make those improvements and changes?
 Any topics or readings you’d like us to explore this year? Skills you’d like us to
review and/or learn?
 Consider your performance and effort this quint. Based on all you’ve written here,
my expectations, your participation, and the work you produced this quint, what
grade do you feel you have earned and why? Be sure to offer specifics to support
this.
Part III: February break: What are you up to over the break? Anything in particular that
you’re looking forward to (not) doing? Thanks for writing this section. You all give me
joy—and nice break from writing evals!—when I get to read this part of your cover letter.
Thanks!