Memorandum Recap

I knew this assignment would be difficult because I enjoyed the readings, so I couldn't exactly pick two and consider my work done. Furthermore, I cared, which usually makes anything I do take twice as long due to pickiness, etc. Not that I' m complaining...even though it sounds like I am. I enjoyed the assignment because it made me think about the material, rather than just read it. I find that any work that I can identify with is easier to remember, so viewing the articles as a teacher, I was able to distinguish which ones I felt I would like to use.
First, I read all of the annotated bibliographies of my group, jotting down ideas that I felt were important to teaching as well as new forms of teaching that I felt could change-up a classroom rather than continue with mundane vocab sheets and handouts. Second, I decided on three central issues that I felt were important, 1.) Topics that students could relate to/encorporating originality and flair into assignments 2.) Genre practice 3.) Writing as a social practice. I decided which of the three categories my notes could fit into and found that many of the articles had similar steps toward an overall goal. So, simple, sort of.
The writing proved to be much more difficult. To keep a memorandum about changing teaching practices was a challenge. Mostly because I'm wordy, but also because I felt that I could write a twenty page memorandum on such a topic. Not an option, or rather, not an option that I wanted to take. I had to condense my ideas and really focus on the main issues in the articles, removing any excess information and avoiding jumping from one central idea to eight sub-topics.