due Friday 1/22

More portraits

how to communicate about Facebook research

Hi class, When you've researched someone on Facebook and found three or four specific nouns, please comment on this post, and then check back at this blog often throughout the night. Thanks!

due Tuesday 1/19

Reflections assignment

due Wednesday: claim re Africa poems and supporting quotations for each of the four poems.

due Friday 1/15

Please do some reading about Haiti at "The Help that Haiti Needs," by The Editors, at http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/14/the-help-that-haiti-needs/?hp. (NYTimes website). Various experts give their opinions; just look around, see what interests you.

Three journal entries due this week.

Reflection assignment due Tuesday.

due Thursday 1/14

Re-read the Africa poems.

Do two more rows. You should now have done six rows, spread out over the four poems.

Three journal entries this week.

Reflection assignment due Tuesday.

due Wed. 1/13

Write a "row" of a chart for the other two Africa poems. By tomorrow's class you should have a row for each of the four poems.

Don't forget your journal entries for this week, and your reflection due Tuesday.

due Tues. 1/12

Find two examples from each of the four Africa poems that might bear on your guiding question (eight examples); do one row of a chart for two of the poems. (Two rows in total.)

The guiding question: each of the poems is in part about the relationship between Africa and the United States. Which poem is the happiest about that relationship? Which poem is the least happy?

Three journal entries this week.