due Friday 1/22

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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.

due Mon. 1/11

1. Hand in or email in, typed,

your original claim about the jealousy pieces,

your improved claim about the jealousy pieces (after re-examining the evidence)

and

your informal essay exploring your claim, written in twenty-five minutes.

2. Read "Making College Relevant," by Kate Zernike

3. Read the four "Africa" poems--CANCELLED--we'll read them in class.

4. Optional: work on your Reflection assignment.

due Friday 1/8/10

Go back to the excerpt called "Jealousy" by Anne Lamott. As you did for "The Book of My Friend Has Been Remaindered," find five places where you see irony, quote them, and write a sentence or two of explanation in each case. If you're having trouble, email me please.

Bring your irony examples for both items to class with you on Friday.

due Thursday 1/7/10

Read "The Book of My Enemy Has Benn Remaindered"

Observe (in writing) five places in the poem where irony is present and briefly explain.

Three journal entries due this week.

Optional: work on Reflection assignment.