Due for Wednesday You have a work day for your profiles! If you plan on spending time outside of our room for an interview, please let me know by sending me an email.
Due for Friday 1. Fill out this Google Sheet if you plan on being in class for our Holiday Party and Gift Exchange! Please remember to bring in something that you don't want in your life anymore (but not actual trash) wrapped for our Yankee Swap (if you must spend money, spend no more than $5). 2. Pop quiz on this article!
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Due for Wednesday: Follow the first four steps of understanding poetry for Sonnets 18 and 29.
1. Read it aloud twice. 2. Summarize/ Paraphrase it 3. Make a list of observations 4. Write a one sentence interpretation Remember, your one sentence interpretation should answer the question "what does this poem reveal about the nature or dynamic of love?" or "what does this poem try to say?" Due for Thursday Remember that we are having our gift exchange and party in class! Bring in something that you don't want in your life anymore (that's not actual trash) wrapped for our gift exchange, and - if you feel so compelled - bring in something to eat or drink to share with your classmates. Due for Monday, January 8th Have your copy of Romeo and Juliet! Here's an Amazon link to the edition we will be using in class this year. Due Wednesday Follow the first four steps of understanding poetry for Whitman's "When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer": 1. Read it twice 2. Summarize it 3. Make a list of ten observations 4. Come up with a one sentence interpretation. I will be checking steps 3 and 4.
Due Thursday Write a body paragraph breaking down how you are forming your interpretation of Frost's "The Aim was Song" Due for Monday Complete your one page explication on Frost's "The Aim was Song" or Whitman's "When I heard..." Bring this in for submission as well as submit it onto Turn It In Due for Wednesday Read Rick Bragg Quits articles (found on our resources page). Blog Post: Is what Rick Bragg did actually all that bad? What are the ethical questions or standards that are raised/violated by the practice of extensively using stringers and simply "flying by" a city for the dateline? Is this offensive in any way to a reader? Does this effectively damage the reputation of a writer or of a publication?
Due for Friday Respond to this blurb from The New Yorker's 2014 article "Reporting on Rape" - Is what Erdely did acceptable? What does it say about us as a society that this was the story that was chosen to be told? Did this article and its subsequent recanting help or hurt the cause for awareness and addressing of rape culture? What responsibilities should reporters have when it comes to reporting on such sensitive crimes or topics? There are people who will argue that if Jackie was assaulted at a fraternity that night, it doesn’t matter if the specific details are wrong, or uncertain. Erdely herself seemed to be gravitating toward that point when she said, on Slate’s DoubleX podcast, “Given the degree of her trauma, there’s no doubt in my mind that something happened to her that night. What exactly happened—I don’t know. I wasn’t in that room. I don’t know.” As Rosin and Benedikt point out, that’s the nature of reporting: the reporter is almost never in the room. But the specific details of an accusation do matter. Erdely must have chosen this case, among all the other campus sexual assaults she could have reported, precisely because its details were so horrible that she knew it would get our attention. Due for Monday Read Susan Orlean's "American Man, Age Ten." Due for Friday Read the Chapter "Colors" Blog Post: Pick a passage from one of the articles (but you cannot pick one that someone else has already written about!) and pair it with a lyric from a song or with another article (perhaps current events or a thinkpiece about another cultural artifact) to examine whether or not the thought, sentiment, or consideration posed by the passage of your choice still resonates with our current day and age.
Due for Monday 1. Read "Dirty Red" 2. Submit your final draft of your observation piece onto Turn It In by Monday 11th 11:59 PM. I was absent on Monday! Sad face.
Due for Thursday Listen to either of these episodes of Switched on Pop: I Don't Want to Live Forever or Sorry Not Sorry and take notes on the process that the podcast takes on trying to break down how the music works. What do they discuss first? How do they try to prove their point? What sort of evidence do they bring in, and how do they use it? What are the movements that the podcast makes? Due for Friday 1. Turn in your silent film project! 2. I will be checking your notes from the podcast! 3. Define all the poetic terms you received in class. |
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