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
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 [...]
Mar
26
Optional draft
March 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment
of Crash essay due: Monday 4/14
Feb
20
essay assignment #2
February 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment
This film is (*really*) about…
That is your prompt for this essay.
Find (at least) one source (a “they say”) that has something to say about this film (or something to say about film in general that you can apply to a reading of this film). Introduce what your source says into your essay. [...]
Feb
18
Components of mid-term portfolio
February 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Please compile your mid-term portfolio in the following order. Each individual draft should be stapled separately. The entirety of all the drafts, writing prompts, and any brainstorming (aka your portfolio) should be bound with a large binder clip (please no folders, binders, envelopes, rubber bands, etc. — one simple binder clip will suffice). [...]
Feb
17
Draft #2 of essay #1
February 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Your second draft of your personal narrative essay will be the same idea, topic, story, event, etc., but it will use all new language! In other words, I don’t want to recognize the second draft immediately upon seeing it; I don’t want to be reading the same draft that I did the first time [...]
Jan
28
essay assignment #1
January 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Paper #1: Autobiographical narrative essay
3-5 pages
due: Wednesay 2/6
(Examples (from class) of this type of narrative: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, “Love Letters”, “My Popeye, My Home”, “A Most Unlikely Influence”, “One Bad Apple” and “On Keeping a Notebook”)
Write an essay about an event and/or series of events that have occurred [...]
