Indie Read

CRITICAL LIT. ANALYSIS: Time for design & plan. Work in your group to think about your approach for this piece. Check in with Mrs. C about the trajectory for your paper. Where do you think it’s headed?

ASSIGNMENTS/DEADLINES:

• G-Form examining your prospective topic/focus & how you will make this work in a group due Friday 3/11 (this assignment will post tomorrow)
• Critical Lit. Group Paper due no later than end of day Wednesday 3/23 (in Dropbox Drafts folder of just ONE group member)

Indie Read

CRITICAL LIT. ANALYSIS: Time for design & plan. Work in your group to think about your approach for this piece. Check out the example analysis posted in GClassroom & be ready to discuss the direction your group’s paper hopes to go on Wednesday.

ASSIGNMENTS/DEADLINES:

• Group Paper Check-In IN CLASS on Wednesday 3/9
• Critical Lit. Group Paper due no later than end of day 3/23 (in Dropbox Drafts folder of just ONE group member)

Indie Read

OVERVIEW: Critical Lit. Analysis Group Paper Assignment – check out the assignment sheet, slides, and tips for writing collaboratively (also the supplemental textbook source) on GClassroom attached to the assignment.

TIME FOR TALKING: Start discussing what you noticed in your novel that might make for interesting/intriguing paper topics and what representative example you might zoom in on.

ASSIGNMENTS/DEADLINES:

• Group Paper Check-In IN CLASS on Wednesday 3/9
• Critical Lit. Group Paper due no later than end of day 3/23 (in Dropbox Drafts folder of just ONE group member)

Book Trailers & Indie Read w/ Padlet update

STUDY/READ: Writing Analytically chapter 5 – Linking Evidence & Claims (read & annotate) (find an additional PDF of this chapter posted as an assignment on GClassroom)

ASSIGNMENTS/DEADLINES:

• Memory Book Short (3rd submission – any chapter you haven’t written) is due no later than end of day Sunday 3/6
• Annotations for Writing Analytically Chapter 5 by end of Sunday 3/6

Indie Read / Notebook Time

Quickwrite #25: How does race &/or gender affect/influence the story or characters in your BOOK CLUB read? (A look through post-colonial &/or feminist lenses.)

BOOK CLUB: Target #3 *endgame* – discuss and share notebook pages & thoughts on today’s quickwrite

ASSIGNMENT/DEADLINE: Memory Book Short (3rd submission – any chapter you haven’t written) is due no later than end of day Sunday 3/6

Quickwrite #24: Pixar films short “Purl”

STUDY:  Thinking about how Feminist/Gender Theory operates, take a closer look with Crash Course Sociology’s look at Harriet Martineau & Gender Conflict

VIDEO EXTRAS: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s TEd Talk / published essay ”We Should All Be Feminists” for perspective on what feminism is really about.

And for more focus of gender but not necessarily feminism, check out Crash Course’s video on Theories of Gender (the one on Sex & Sexuality is interesting too)

ASSIGNMENTS/DEADLINES:

• BOOK CLUB Target #3 – the end – this Thursday 3/3 (w/ completed Notepage #3) TOMORROW
• Memory Book Short (3rd submission – any chapter you haven’t written) is due no later than end of day Sunday 3/6

Reading Day 🙂

ASSIGNMENTS/DEADLINES:

• BOOK CLUB Target #3 – the end – this Thursday 3/3 (w/ completed Notepage #3)
• Memory Book Short (3rd submission – any chapter you haven’t written) is due no later than end of day Sunday 3/6

Indie Read

Quickwrite #23: “Hair Love” Sony Films short

STUDY:  Thinking about how Post-Colonial/Multicultural/Race Theory operates, take a closer look with Crash Course Sociology’s look at W.E.B. DuBois & Race Conflict

REVISIT – Quickwrite #23 – Rethink “Hair Love” & add some thoughts on how race plays a role or is part of the theoretical commentary of this piece. (Rewatch if needed.)

VIDEO EXTRA: Farish Ahmad-Noor’s TEd Talk ” Why is Colonialism (Still) Romanticized?” for perspective on why these stories persist.

ASSIGNMENTS/DEADLINES:

• BOOK CLUB Target #3 – the end – this Thursday 3/3 (w/ completed Notepage #3)
• Memory Book Short (3rd submission – any chapter you haven’t written) is due no later than end of day Sunday 3/6

Indie Read with Padlet update/check-in.

Quickwrite #22: How does class or $ affect/influence the story or characters in your BOOK CLUB read? (Yep, this is looking at your book with a Marxist lens.)

BOOK CLUB: Target #2 – discuss and share notebook pages & thoughts on today’s quickwrite

ASSIGNMENTS/DEADLINES:

• Watch & create a notepage about “Conducting Academic Research” (video on YouTube & pdf on GClassroom) due no later than end of day Sunday 2/27
• Memory Book Short (3rd submission – any chapter you haven’t written) is due no later than end of day Sunday 3/6

E-Learning Day!!

ATTENDANCE: answer the attendance question on GClassroom.

ASSIGNMENTS/DEADLINES:

• PAST DUE – Memory Book Short (2nd submission)
• Next BOOK CLUB target Thursday 2/24 Friday 2/25– read & create Notebook Page #2
• Memory Book Short (3rd submission – any chapter you haven’t written) is due no later than end of day Sunday 3/6