Rhetoric & Comp – Monday, March 1st / Wednesday, March 3rd

WRITE:  Quickwrite #13 – Watch the animated short “Umbrella” and consider how you might view it from a Marxist / economic lens. Spend 3 minutes thinking on the page in your writer’s notebook.

STUDY:  Thinking about Marx and how economic theory operates, take a closer look with Crash Course Sociology

VIDEO EXTRA:  Chrystia Freeland “The Rise of the New Global Super-rich”  TEd talk – note that it’s from 2013 but still relevant in so many ways.

RESEARCH STUDY:  As part of English 102 / Rhetoric & Composition II – an overview of how to conduct academic research. The PDF of these slides is available below & on the GClassroom stream today.

CONDUCTING ACADEMIC RESEARCH PDF

READ: Your BOOK CLUB book 🙂

DEADLINES & REMINDERS:

  • Target #2 for BOOK CLUB – Tuesday 3/2 TOMORROW (see slides on GClassroom for target page #s) & prepare Notebook Page #2 for class 3/2 (3/4 for 4th hour ONLY)
  • Memory Book Short #3 window is now open.  Due in Dropbox no later than end of day Friday 3/5 (that’s THIS Friday)

 

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