Read Dunn & Norton’s “Hello, Stranger” (the last reading in Packet II), including the essay prompts (this is a sample final exam to prepare you to take the actual final exam). Continue to write, re-write, and revise Essays 1, 2, and 3. Prepare to present if you haven’t yet.
Category: HW (prompts)
HW for Mon 5/6
HW: 1. Ensure you are ready to present your group’s Essay 2.
2. Read Gloria Naylor’s essay in Packet 2.
3. A reminder that your revised Essay 1s are due at the final. Grades will be based on how significantly you have revised (simply correcting small typos and grammar mistakes is not an example of significant revision; rewriting and reorganizing paragraphs IS an example of significant revision).
HW for Wed (4/10)
HW: Finish reading Caraminica’s text on Drake and memes. Read the first half of Imp Kerr’s “Feasts Under the Bridge” (on trolling), pp. 58-68.
HW for Monday 4/8
HW: Finish reading Crawford’s “The Anxieties of Big Data.” Read Caraminica’s “Drake: Rapper, Actor, Meme.”
With your Essay 2 group: search for new articles on your Essay 2 word, make a list of them, decide on 1 of them to read. Read this article and arrive in class next week prepared to write about 2+ quotations from it that feature your Essay 2 word.
HW for Mon (4/1)
HW: Finish typing your midterm summary into your group’s Google Doc. Read “Youth Mode” by K-Hole as well as Michelle Nijhuis’ “The Pocket Guide to Bullshit Prevention” (both in Packet 2).
HW for Wed (3/13)
HW for Wed: Read Lauren Duca’s “The Viral Virus.” If you haven’t yet, finish reading Graf’s “Yes, No, OK, But…” Disregard the “Grammar Test” on the schedule. (We’ll do something else instead.) Essay 1 final due next Wed!
Library & HW for Mon (3/11)
Hi everyone,
We meet at the entrance to the library today, on the 4th floor of the Atrium; please don’t go to our regular classroom!
Before leaving the library, remember to see the librarian at the front desk to activate your ID/library card. You need an activated card to do research on Essay 2 from home/off-campus.
For Monday: Read Graf, “Yes, No, OK, but…” If you haven’t yet, read Griffiths’ and Martin’s texts that were assigned for this week. Continue revising Essay 1.
See you,
M
HW for Mon (3/4)
HW for Mon: Begin revising your Essay 1 and complete any missing blog posts. Read Dawn Lundry Martin’s “When a Person Goes Missing” (available online here).
HW for Wed (2/27)
Hi all,
Please remember to bring 2 print copies of Essay 1 to Wednesday’s class. In addition, please submit your draft online as a Google Doc.
Lastly, please complete a brief blog post on the film, following the prompt below.
Watch Kriegman and Steinberg’s Weiner (2016). ( <– This is a download link that will only work for 7 days; the film can be streamed—for a fee—here.) Make notes during the film and, at the end, write a paragraph about something in it that connects to something you’re writing about in your Essay 1.
On Wed, I will continue checking in with students wanting help with essays or other work assigned this semester.
Thanks,
Monroe
HW for Mon
1. Inverse outlining an essay to see connections within its many ideas. Re-read Adrian Chen’s “Don’t Be a Stranger” (pp. 61-66). Make a numbered list of notes describing the main idea in each of the essay’s 29 paragraphs. Each of your notes needn’t be longer than a phrase.
When finished, look over your list. What do you notice about the overall form of this essay? What is the main topic it seems to be about? Where and how is the main topic introduced? Where and how does the essay meander away from this main idea?
Post your list and a couple sentences responding to 1 or more of these questions.
2. Finish a rough draft of Essay 1 and bring in 2 hard copies of it next week. By Monday night, please turn in a digital copy of your draft as a Google Doc (instructions for how to do so are here).
HW for Wed (no class next Mon)
- In the packet, read Chen’s “Don’t Be a Stranger.”
- Revise your “Media Analysis” post so that you are asking two specific questions about an enigma or conflict in the media you have shared.
Essay 1 Assignment Posted…
Direct link to assignment sheet.
Also, check the “Essays” page and click on “Essay Assignments” to watch for updates on this and other assignments.
HW for Mon
HW: Finish reading Salz (1-10). Read “Planting a Naysayer” (p. 27 onward).
