We are now in the home stretch for the fall semester. You should have a good sense of your course grade up to this point (please check the Gradebook). Speak with me after class about any questions or concerns. All final work for the class will be due by 12/19. This includes the  course reflection post on OpenLab the final week, plus revisions to Units 1, 2, 3.

In-Class

•  Read Annie Correal’s “Love and Black Lives, in Pictures Found on a Brooklyn Street.”
• Listen to the  Podcast,  FOUND: “To My Darling Etta Mae
• Discuss:
  • 1. What do you notice about the way Correal begins and ends her essay? What effect does this approach have on the reader?
  • 2. What are some main ideas in the article? What do you find interesting about the story?
  • 3. Choose 2 photos to discuss. Describe what is in the photograph, and explain what why you think it was included in the article (what ideas does it illustrate?).
  • 4. How does the podcast differ from the NYT article?  What does the podcast genre offer us that the newspaper article does not/ what does the article offer us that the podcast does not?

Final Assignment:

• Continue working on Unit 3!  We will review different genre guides together. Google Doc Template to copy and paste into our Class Unit 3 Google Drive folder
• Unit 3  is due in the Google Drive 12/10.   Remember you can access the Drive under MAJOR ASSIGNMENTS.

Everyone,

Happy Wampanoag Day. This week I am not assigning any new work. Let us take this time for resting, catching up, and/or beginning to think further about Unit 3.  I will post our next assignment at week’s end.

Things you can catch up on:

1. Finish or revise Unit 2 RAB and upload to Google Drive Unit 2 Folder; email me if you want me to review your revision in Google Drive or discuss how to approach the revision
2. Revise Unit 1 and upload to Google Drive Unit 1 Folder; email me if you want me to review your revision in Google Drive or discuss how to approach the revision
3. Complete any missing OpenLab posts, including Weeks 12/13 (note: Gradebook not yet updated; please get your posts in!)
4. Review your grades in the OpenLab Gradebook; contact me with any questions
5. Schedule Writing Center appointments in advance, as we are nearing the end of the semester!
6.  Call or text me with any questions or concerns

•   Read:  NYT article: Kyle Spencer, “The Memory-Keeper of SoHo” (2015) Class Google Doc Annotation
•   Watch: Documentary (14 min):  Or Szyflingier and Jonathan Baez, “The SoHo Memory Project” (2020)
• Comment:
  • 1. Below, write a 1-paragraph response to the article and the film. You may focus on anything that interests you– ideas from either work that you found interesting, connections you can make to your own neighborhood or experience of New York or another place,  something you noticed about the writing or filmmaking, images from the film that you found important, how different genres (newspaper profile of Yuki Ohta vs. documentary) affect our understanding of a story, or any other topic.
  • 2. After considering genre with this new material, think about your Unit 3 project.  Re-read the assignment (under MAJOR ASSIGNMENTS). What is your topic, and what genre have you chosen?  Has your thinking changed about what genre you’d like to work in for your project, after our discussion of genre with the SoHo Memory Project?  How will your choice of genre help tell your story and get the word out?
  • 3. EXTRA CREDIT OFFERED for writing a 1-paragraph response to the event, below. If you were unable to attend you can watch the event here