Apr
23
A couple of announcements:
April 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment
1) I have to change my online office hour this week from Friday at 10-11 to Thursday from 10-11.
2) This week (4/25) will be the last Friday for posting blog entries. This includes any make-up entries you might need to do. So, Friday at midnight, you can say goodbye [...]
Apr
21
Reminder
April 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment
For Wednesday 4/23: Bring a copy of either essay #2 (Crash) or essay #3 (blog topic) to class with you. Also, be sure to have your journals, as I’ll be collecting them.
Apr
21
Final Portfolio
April 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Due: Monday, 4/28
Please compile your end-of-the-year portfolio in the following order. Each individual draft should be stapled separately. The entirety of all the drafts and reflections and writing prompts (aka your portfolio) should be bound with a large binder clip (please no folders, binders, envelopes, rubber bands, etc. — one simple binder [...]
Apr
21
Presentation
April 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment
due: Monday 4/28 and Wednesday 4/30
5 – 7 minutes
Next week you will be presenting one of your three papers to the class in the form of an oral presentation. You can choose any of the three papers. You won’t be reading word-for-word, but rather presenting the class with a summary of [...]
Apr
12
Reminder
April 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Don’t forget to bring to class on Monday one of the sources you are working with for essay #3 (as well as any writing you’ve done toward this essay). Bring your They Say/I Say books too.
Also, if you are doing a draft #2 of your “Crash”essay, be sure to attach draft 1 [...]
Apr
7
essay assignment #3
April 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Essay #3: Cultural Criticism/Commentary/Academic Essay
3-5pp.
due: Wednesday 4/16
(E.g. Nickel and Dimed, “Virtual Gangstas Coming to a Suburban House Near You”, “The Empire of Images in Our World of Bodies”, “Essential Play”)
Your topic (taken from the blogging you’ve done this semester) must be a “thorny” one–one that is complex and for which there is no easy [...]
