Agenda: Week 10

Week 10: Introducing Unit 3

Monday, 4/1

• Come to class prepared to work on your Op-Eds. Have your research and other materials on hand. And if you feel comfortable doing so, bring a device for writing on. This is the last day we will workshop the Op-Eds in class.

Wednesday, 4/3 

• Come to class prepared to write an in-class reflective essay about Unit 2 
• Come to class prepared to discuss multimodal composing 
  • Sample multimodal texts for class: 
    • Chelsea Harrison, “College Students and Social Media.” 
    • Annie Correal, “Love and Black Lives, in Pictures Found on a Brooklyn Street” 
    • Sophia Glock, “A Father, and a Childhood, Cloaked in Secrets”
    • Zachary Small and Rumsey Taylor, “How the Legend of Zelda Changed the Game” 
    • Mike Baker, Malika Khurana, K.K. Rebecca Lai, Riley Mellen, Natalie Reneau, Bedel Saget, Elena Shao, Anjali Singhvi and Charlie Smart, Inside the Deadly Maui Inferno, Hour by Hour 
    • 1619 Project 
  • For more examples explore the following links:  
    • https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/27/briefing/innovative-storytelling-from-2023.html 
    • https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/us/2023-year-in-graphics.html 

Friday, 4/5

• Unit 2 Due today.
• To submit the assignment you should write a post that includes your a link to your Unit 2 work. Make sure the Google or Microsoft document link is set so that anyone with the link can edit.
• Before publishing your post, make sure you title it “Unit 2: Op-Ed Assignment” and pick “Unit 2 Work” as a category.
• If you prefer, you can pick the private setting for your post so that only I see the final version of your narrative.
• See here to learn how to write a post.