Indie Read
Quickwrite #23: Smell?
STUDY: Writing w/ Sensory Detail – read excerpts from Tom Romano’s Write What Matters (find them attached to today’s GClassroom stream) & then work to find and label the sensory images in an excerpt from Violent Ends (ed. Shaun David Hutchinson)
TO-DO: Work on anything past due that you haven’t completed & read something awesome. (Grades update at the end of the week….)
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:
Book Trailers & Indie Read w/ Padlet update
NOTES: Features of a Review – notes based on our look at reviews this week
TO-DO: Work on anything past due that you haven’t completed & read something awesome.
UPCOMING: Work on improving sensory details – DRAFT #4 assignment & planning.
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
Book Talk & Indie Read
Quickwrite #22: Your style/brand/fashion – describe it (or the lack of it)
READ/STUDY: Review of Windex by Ted Wilson (read it like a writer for notices & features)
BONUS REVIEW: Read & annotate Billboard’s review of Sam Hunt’s Montevallo album. Bring all 4 reviews we’ve looked at this week to class tomorrow.
TO-DO: Work on anything past due that you haven’t completed & read something awesome.
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:
Indie Read
Quickwrite #21: Your favorite food – what’s yummy?
READ/STUDY: Review of M. Wells Steakhouse by Pete Wells (read it like a writer for notices & features)
TO-DO: Work on anything past due that you haven’t completed & read something awesome.
Reading Day 🙂
ASSIGNMENTS/DEADLINES:
Indie Read
Quickwrite #20: Best movie EVER (or at least your favorite movie right now. . . )
READ/STUDY: Review of The Fault in Our Stars by A.O. Scott (read it like a writer for notices & features)
TO-DO: Work on anything past due that you haven’t completed & read something awesome.
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:
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