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The following stories are presented in groups. For example, our first collection of stories, from the first-year writing program at California State University, Los Angeles, presents stories written in response to prompts provided by five faculty members in the program.
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The First-Year Writing Program at California State University, Los Angeles serves one of the most diverse student populations in the country. 85% of our Cal State LA students identify as persons of color, and many are bi- or multi-lingual. Another 77% identify as first-generation college, and a majority come from working-class and low-income backgrounds.1 The stay-at-home orders issued in response to the Coronavirus pandemic have impacted our students in complicated ways. As faculty, we have witnessed the challenges our students must negotiate as a result of closures to their university campus and their places of employment. While they worry for the health and safety of loved ones and the world at large, they also struggle with issues like increased work and family responsibilities, lack of access to technology and study spaces, food and housing insecurities, and general anxiety and confusion about the future. We work with a unique population of learners, and we wanted to provide a forum for the students in our classes to express their experiences with the pandemic alongside their culturally diverse identities and interactions with the urban metropolis they call home.
COVID in the Home
Voicing a Crisis: Rhetoric and Reflection
Sometimes the hardest part is knowing that so many stories don
Student Stories LA
I was teaching English 2600 this spring, Literary Los Angeles, and when I created a blog for students to post, most of my submissions came from this class. I have selected the contributions here because I these students agreed to participate. In the class we had been discussing Los Angeles as a paradox, Los Angeles light or dark, and what I found from the student poems was an incredible sense of love for the city, and yes, even of hop . . .
The following is a collection of short narratives, journals, and creative/poetry pieces that were written by my English 1010: Accelerated College Writing students. These students proved to be a highly motivated and dedicated group
Each Student is a Story: Captured Voices in a Topsy-Turvy Time
From the beginning of the beginning, humans lived and then told narratives about tragedy and triumph. Themes of birthing and themes of dying
