Just a friendly reminder that we are having class today in the library — instead of reporting to our classroom, please come to the library’s 4th floor entrance (in the Namm building).  If you arrive late and do not see our class, please ask a reference librarian to point you in the direction of the 5th floor classroom/learning lab.
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Literary Arts Festival (& Mary Gaitskill Reading): Extra Credit
City Tech’s 35th Annual Literary Arts Festival is being held between 5:30 – 7:30 pm on Thursday, March 24 in the Voorhees Theater (186 Jay Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201).  As the Festival’s OpenLab page denotes, the event will include readings from students, faculty, and writer Mary Gaitskill (best known to most of us as the author of “The Other Place”).
I will offer extra credit (a letter grade bump on your lowest response paper…a D becomes a C, a C becomes a B and so forth) to anyone who attends and writes a coherent, thoughtful response paper that addresses the following points:
- Summary of the entire event (beyond what I could learn from a playbill/lineup)
- Critique of the evening
- Short musing on the weirdest part of the Festival (something that surprised you, made you pause, had you laughing/grimacing, etc.)
Extra credit response papers should be emailed to me by 3PM on Sunday, March 27.
Response Paper 4: State Your Claim
As discussed in class today, to prepare for response paper 4, during our Wednesday class we will engage in a debate relevant to the following two claims:
a) A fiction writer does not need to have personally experienced a topic in order to write authentically about it.
b) A fiction writer does need to have personally experienced a topic in order to write authentically about it.
If you know which claim you are going to prove in your paper, please comment to this post indicating as such by 5:15 PM on Tuesday, March 15 and I will do my best to assign you to a debate team accordingly.
Publication Information for Bolaño’s “Beach”
To assist you in preparing a Works Cited page for response paper 3, below please find the publication information for “Beach” — you’ll need to format it according to MLA standards for your Works Cited:
- author:  Roberto Bolaño
- short story title:  “Beach”
- published in: Between Parenthesis, 2011, New Directions Publishing (NYC)
How to Create a Post
For folks who are experiencing difficulty creating a post, please check out this  OpenLab resource designed to walk users through the process of writing a post.
To create a post:
- Open OpenLab and navigate to our ENG1121 page.  Once you are on our Course Profile page, please click on “Visit Course Site” in order to gain access to our site’s resources and content.
- Select the “create” icon, located at the top perimeter of the OpenLab interface, which looks like a plus sign inside of a white circle. Â Below the “create” icon is located to the left of the greeting, “Hi, Kara Hughes”:
- Choose “Post”
- Title the post — for our Feb 24 homework, please label as follows — [your full name]:  Shawn summary
- Compose the body — for our Feb 24 homework, your post should contain a brief summary of “An ‘American’ Publishes a Magazine”
- Assign your post the appropriate category — for our Feb 24 homework, choose “HW due Feb 24″ from the “Category” box located in the right-most column of the screen
7. Use the blue “Publish” tab to finalize and publish your post before 4PM on Feb 24
There are No Classes on Monday, February 15
This is just a reminder that we will not be meeting on Monday, February 15, as the school is closed for Presidents’ Day.
Should you wish to access the Spring 2016 academic calendar or class meeting grid, please visit our “Useful Links” page.
See you on the 17th!
Getting Started
Aha! I’m so glad that you’ve found your way to our OpenLab site.  I will update this resource after each class; it will contain the most accurate, up-to-date information regarding coursework, assignments, texts that have been distributed, and section-specific announcements.
Take a look around and familiarize yourself with the page — feel free, too, to make suggestions if you see opportunities for our site to be more helpful.
