The document provides an agenda for an English class that includes a presentation on terms related to social identity and literary devices, an in-class writing workshop for essay #2, and a lecture on author Leslie Feinberg who wrote the novel Stone Butch Blues and was influential in LGBTQ rights movements. Students are assigned to read more of the novel for homework and post responses online, and to bring a revised draft of their essay to class.

1. Class 10
EWRT 1B

2. AGENDA
O Presentation: Terms
O In-class writing: Global Revision Writing
Workshop: Essay #2
O Author Lecture: Leslie Feinberg

3. Terms
O Social Identity: Social groups O . Climax: the moment in a play,
that people belong to regarding novel, short story, or narrative
poem at which the crisis comes
race, gender, sex, class, age, to its point of greatest intensity
sexual orientation, religion, and is resolved. It is also the
ability, and national origin. peak of emotional response
from a reader or spectator, and
it usually represents the turning
O Voyeurism: when those with point in the action.
privilege find elements of
entertainment in the lives of O Essay: a short literary
people that are different or less composition on a particular
theme or topic, usually in prose
privileged than their own; the and generally thoughtful and
act of being an onlooker to interpretative. This type of
another’s life that is less writing is devoted to the
powerful without relating to it presentation of the writer’s own
ideas and generally addresses
a particular aspect of the
subject.

4. Peer Review – ARGUMENTATIVE
ESSAY: Passing
On another sheet of paper, or on the
back of the essay you are reviewing,
include the following information
Evaluator:
Author:
Title of paper being reviewed:

5. Instructions: Read all three papers aloud BEFORE
WRITING. As you are reading along, quickly mark any
obvious errors or typos in the text. Do not offer advice about
how to fix the issues; just identify them for now. After you
have read all three, read silently, looking for the parts of the
essay we discussed in class. Make questions or comments
on the writing in the margins. Then, please answer the
following questions as completely as possible (on the back
of the essay or on another sheet of paper). Do not just give
the paper and writer the stamp of approval, or a “yes” or
“no” answer—you will be doing your partners a disservice.
When you are done, return the essay and your comments
to the writer; when you turn in your final draft, you will also
turn in the copies of your peer-reviewed essays. You will be
awarded points on thoroughness of your responses

6. Get into Groups of Three
O Remember, read all three essays aloud
first!
O Answer all questions thoughtfully.
O Do not edit the papers you are reading (no
grammar or punctuation).
O We will work about an hour and a half, so
plan your time accordingly.

7. Leslie Feinberg
O Leslie Feinberg came of age
as a young butch lesbian in
the factories and gay bars of
Buffalo, N.Y. in the 1960s.
Since that time, Feinberg has
been a grass roots activist and
a journalist. Ze is known in the
lesbian, gay, bisexual and
transgender movements in the
U.S. and countries around the
world. The lesbian magazine
Curve named Feinberg one of
the “15 Most Influential” in the
battle for gay and lesbian
rights.

8. Feinberg is an outspoken opponent of traditional Western
concepts about how a “real man” or “real woman” should look
and act. Feinberg supports the use of gender-neutral
pronouns such as “ze” instead of he or she, and “hir” instead
of him or her.
Feinberg is well-known for forging a strong bond between the
lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities, and
other oppressed minorities. “Everyone who is under the gun
of reaction and economic violence is a potential ally,”
Feinberg says.
Stone Butch Blues (1993), Feinberg’s widely acclaimed first
book, is a semi-autobiographical novel about a lesbian
questioning her gender identity. It received an American
Literary Association Award for Gay and Lesbian Literature
and the Lambda Small Press Literary Award.

9. HOMEWORK
O Reading: Stone Butch Blues (131-195)
O Post #14: Finish and post essay #2
O Post #15: Choose a few lines from Stone
Butch Blues and explain how and why they
stood out to you. Be sure to post your
quotation above your response
O Bring: One clean, revised copy of your draft
O Studying: Terms