Part 1 of Project #1 is due today on our site so that we can give each other feedback. I’ve gotten many questions about when exactly the drafts are due. I had said Monday on our syllabus, and since we need time to read them and comment on at least two classmates’ retellings, please post them by what would be the end of our class time today (if we met on Mondays), 2:15pm.
For your post:
- title: the title you’re giving your retelling
- paste your retelling into the post
- category: choose Week 6 under Homework AND draft under Project #1
- tags: choose the tag for the story you’re retelling, plus any others you think are appropriate
When you choose the two retellings you want to comment on, address the post’s author to let them know:
- what shift in narrator did the retelling’s author make?
- what do you understand are the changes the shift in narrator necessitated?
- what effect do these changes have on your experience reading the story?
- anything else you want to recommend?
- as always, we’re respectful of our classmates, even if we disagree. Please be sure your comments treat your classmates and their work with resepect. Please also understand that when you read comments on your retelling, critiques are intended to help you improve your work, not to personally attack.
- feel free to reply to the comments with follow-up questions, like you would do in class if you were working together face-to-face.
- as with homework in general, these comments are due by end-of-day Tuesday.
Please bring a printed copy of your retelling to class on Wednesday. so we can continue this peer review activity and discuss the retelling process.
