Your assignment for blog 8 is to post your personal essay (unless you have made other arrangements with me).
Your assignment for the extra credit blog is to read at least ten of your classmates' personal essays and write a response that is approximately 400 words.
Thursday, May 26, 2011
Monday, May 23, 2011
Blog 8 and 8.5
For blog 8 you will post your personal essay to your blog. For bog 8.5 *(extra credit) you will read and respond to at least ten other classmates' personal essays on your blog. This extra credit blog will be similar to earlier blogs when you read and responded to classmates' blogs.
The 8.5 blog will be worth 12.5 points. Any points you earn will first be applied to the overall blog points, then (if there are extra points) to another area of the class where you are missing points.
Let me know if you have questions.
The 8.5 blog will be worth 12.5 points. Any points you earn will first be applied to the overall blog points, then (if there are extra points) to another area of the class where you are missing points.
Let me know if you have questions.
Monday, May 9, 2011
Blog 7
For this week's blog, please list a series of possible personal essay subjects. You should write about 5-7 subjects, and they should each be about a paragraph (75-100 words) long. Please reference your class notes from Monday, May 9 for more information.
Monday, May 2, 2011
Blog 6
For this blog, I want you to write about the peer review (workshop) process. Write about being reviewed and being a reviewer, about the good and the bad.
The due date for this blog isn't until Wednesday, May 11 at midnight, since some of you won't be workshopped until Wednesday.
The due date for this blog isn't until Wednesday, May 11 at midnight, since some of you won't be workshopped until Wednesday.
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Blog 5
First, go view many (if not all) of your classmate's Blog 4s. Then write a blog commenting upon what you find...
First, I have to say that the Blog 4s were my absolute favorite blogs this term, and possibly the best thing that's happened to me in weeks... OK, months. I live a sad life, ok?
What's really interesting is that you can immediately tell the difference between those who are analyzing their primary source and those who are trying to do a reenactment of their entire topic. See the difference? If, as, for instance, Jeremy did, you are actually taking your primary source and twisting it, interpreting it, reimagining it, you probably have a good primary source. If, instead, you are trying to create a collage of a topic, you know you don't have a primary source yet.
I'm excited to read Blog 5s and see if you all are making this connection. I want you to choose primary sources that put YOU in the driver's seat. You have this thing, this artifact (possibly a text, possibly not), and YOU have to analyze it, and see the things the average person won't see, and pull them out for us. This is exciting work, once you figure out your approach.
First, I have to say that the Blog 4s were my absolute favorite blogs this term, and possibly the best thing that's happened to me in weeks... OK, months. I live a sad life, ok?
What's really interesting is that you can immediately tell the difference between those who are analyzing their primary source and those who are trying to do a reenactment of their entire topic. See the difference? If, as, for instance, Jeremy did, you are actually taking your primary source and twisting it, interpreting it, reimagining it, you probably have a good primary source. If, instead, you are trying to create a collage of a topic, you know you don't have a primary source yet.
I'm excited to read Blog 5s and see if you all are making this connection. I want you to choose primary sources that put YOU in the driver's seat. You have this thing, this artifact (possibly a text, possibly not), and YOU have to analyze it, and see the things the average person won't see, and pull them out for us. This is exciting work, once you figure out your approach.
Monday, April 18, 2011
Blog Four
Overview:
Part of a really close analysis of your primary source means understanding it on many levels. The assumption of this assignment is that what is important to you, the analyzer, about your primary source will translate to other forms of your primary source that you create. Therefore, your reenactment will help you to understand what is important to your primary source, but also what its essential rhetoric is.
Assignment
Please create a reenactment of your primary source. Your results are limited only by your own creativity. A reenactment is really, on many levels, an interpretation (think Civil War reenactments—what is important to the scene? It’s not really just like it was during the Civil War). Some possibilities include: drawing a cartoon, creating a video of a reenactment of a scene from your source, creating an audio file of you reading your source (or a portion of it), writing a poem or short story, a drawing that re-imagines your primary source, a website that details the important aspects of your primary source. These are just examples, not directions. Please think carefully of your own creative response.
Lastly, please write a two paragraph response to your reenactment in which you think about the choices you made in your interpretation. What was brought to the forefront? What was lost?
Steps to Success:
ü Create a reenactment of your primary source
ü Post your reenactment to your blog
ü Quickly communicate to me any difficulties you are having.
Monday, April 11, 2011
Blog 3
For blog 3, please do the following.
First, make sure you are following everyone's blogs. The list is on our Carmen page.
Secondly, read a good sample of those blogs (5-10) and comment on at least four of your classmates' blogs (either one or two). Please note, comment does not mean "Good job, buddy!" I mean for you to engage with the ideas, perhaps ask a question or two.
Third, after you have done all of this, write your own blog about that which you found. What are your responses to your classmates? What do you make of this "community" of 110 you are suddenly a part of? Do you fit? What's your place? What do you make of the ideas you've read?
First, make sure you are following everyone's blogs. The list is on our Carmen page.
Secondly, read a good sample of those blogs (5-10) and comment on at least four of your classmates' blogs (either one or two). Please note, comment does not mean "Good job, buddy!" I mean for you to engage with the ideas, perhaps ask a question or two.
Third, after you have done all of this, write your own blog about that which you found. What are your responses to your classmates? What do you make of this "community" of 110 you are suddenly a part of? Do you fit? What's your place? What do you make of the ideas you've read?
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