Author: Professor Sean Scanlan (Page 2 of 2)

 New Office Hours: I need to change the time from 1-3 to 3-5 on Tuesdays due to overlapping meetings. Sorry for the change.

UPDATE: I changed the category for Wednesday’s homework to “Virtual Coffeehouse #1”

Hopefully it is easy to find in the category section.

Hi Class,

Here’s our agenda:

1–Freewrite

2–Discuss Homework (Email)

3–Diagnostic using the Reading Photos Form (in-class writing assignment)

4–Photography Terms (1-10)

5–Practice Posting to OpenLab. Students can watch a video on how to do so by going to the Video menu tab.

6–Homework

Diagnostic Day (15 minutes in class writing; not graded; 10 points awarded)

Prompt: Beginning Questions, Type, Observation, Close Reading

Title: The abandoned farmhouse at the Kelvin A. Lewis Farmstead in Creeds, Virginia Beach, Virginia

Source: Wikimedia Commons

URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Farmhouse_at_Kelvin_A._Lewis_farm_in_Creeds_13.jpg

Photographer: PumpkinSky

Date 16, Dec 2017

***If time, let’s discuss how to read this photo and one photo in the Readings menu tab

Photography Terms (Eventually, we will learn 28 photography terms)

1. Portrait Photo
2. Documentary Photo
3. Commercial Photo
4. Art Photo
5. Photograph
6. Photography
7. Photo Essay
8. Story (and Narrative)
9. Dominant Impression: The most important, dominant, powerful element in a photograph. It is what the viewer notices first.
10. Decisive Moment:

“To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as of a precise organization of forms which give that event its proper expression” (1952, from the preface of The Decisive Moment).

A more precise definition is from a Washington Post interview from 1957: “Photography is not like painting,” Cartier-Bresson told the Washington Post in 1957. “There is a creative fraction of a second when you are taking a picture. Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life itself offers you, and you must know with intuition when to click the camera. That is the moment the photographer is creative”, he said. “Oop! The Moment! Once you miss it, it is gone forever.” Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Cartier-Bresson#cite_note-26

How to post to OpenLab:

https://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/blog/help/writing-a-post-block-editor/

Homework:

Homework due Wednesday, Sept 11 (before class):

Read Teju Coles’ essay “Perfect and Unrehearsed,” and write a 200 word reflection on your favorite photo from his essay. In your reflection, use at least two of the terms we covered in class (we covered 10). For example, what type of photo is it? Does it tell a story? If so, what is the story (this may be subjective, but that is okay). What is the dominant impresssion? If you want to discuss the decisive moment, great! What is the moment? Describe what is happening. Post this reflection to Virtual Coffeehouse #1. Make sure to use the correct Category before publishing. And make sure to proofread and spellcheck your work. 

Hello Class! Here’s our agenda for today:

1–Freewrite

2–Attendance

3–Finish OpenLab tour

4– Cornell Note Taking System

5–Discuss the photography timeline

6–Reading Photos Form (Readings menu tab)

7–Text and Image: Rebecca Norris Webb (Readings menu tab) (helpful beginning image: https://www.neaq.org/)

HOMEWORK DUE MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 9 (before class)

1–Read Portwood-Stacer:

Portwood-Stacer, L. (2016, April 26). How to email your professor (without being annoying af). Medium. Retrieved from https://medium.com/@lportwoodstacer/how-to-email-your-professor-without-being-annoying-af-cf64ae0e4087#.1m6lc0rkd

2. Before class on Monday, send me an email (worth 10 homework points) using your City Tech email that includes:

1–Clear Subject Line

2–Greeting

3–Humanity Line

4–Body: the body of your email should explore one of the photos that we discussed during Wednesday’s class. Make sure to identify the photo with the relevant source information (title, date, photographer, source).  By explore, I mean to use our Reading Photos Form to write about type, observation, and close reading. Approximately 200 words. This is a formal writing assignment, so please take care to proofread and edit your work.

5–Closing

6–Signature

Welcome to Composition 2

ENG1121 Section D536

Homework assignments, readings, reflections, and helpful links will be posted here. In general, I will post the lesson agenda and homework right before class. I will put the homework in a gray box, and it will usually be at the bottom of the post.

Right now, the site is in its infancy, but it will grow throughout the first few weeks of class.

Agenda for Wednesday, August 28, 2024:

NOTE: WE DO NOT HAVE CLASS ON MONDAY (LABOR DAY)

1–Introduction and how are you doing?

2–What are your expectations for this course? grammar, vocabulary, reading skills, explore different genres, creativity, improve writing, how to use OpenLab, improve communication skills, time management, be engaged.

3–Attendance

4–OpenLab Tour: Syllabus and Main Menu Tabs

5–Text and Image: Rebecca Norris Webb (Readings menu tab)

*If time: Cornell Note Taking System

Homework due Wednesday, September 4. Be prepared to read from your answers

1–Spend 5-10 minutes looking around our website. What do you think of the links? The videos? The readings?

2–Sign up for OpenLab if you have not already done so. Register for my class. The videos may help.

3–Read “History of Photography Timeline” in the Readings menu tab…scroll to the bottom. And in your notes (either a physical notebook or on your digital device) write down: two ideas that were surprising to you; two ideas that you already knew; and two questions that you have about the reading. Students will not turn in this homework; it is meant for discussion. I will call on each student to contribute.