reminder

• Final Project due tomorrow!
• Includes

1. 5 page paper (academic paper relating an idea gathered from the text to a global perspective).  This must be in MLA format (heading, numbered pages, citations from the text) and Times New Roman, size 12 font, double spaced.
2. Artistic Translation (the visual (can also be sound) that you'll present to the class that describes the idea you gathered from the book).
3. Artist's statement: 450-750 words describing the work of art in your own voice.  Play up your voice, your patterns, your process, etc.  This is your statement

* Note:  You MUST let me know, today, if you need any technical support for your presentation.  Presentations should be 7-ish minutes.

In class, we'll present our visuals and read, out loud, our statements.  If time permits, we'll discuss what we saw in each other's work.  

You have one more lecture to attend.  

In class on Thursday, you'll have time for some closure:  we'll finish any presentations we didn't finish; we'll have a little party; and you have the OPPORTUNITY to ask any remaining questions you might have about college, writing, or Kyle's preferences in ice cream.  

Is there anything you need?

another source

Many of you are writing about freedom, speech, and communities representation.  I've asked a lot of you, who controls who lives where?  Who decides/changes/impacts a community and how it is stereotyped?  

Relate this article to those questions, to your texts, maybe even to your essays.  Start to see how world events are relevant to the ideas you are writing about.

this is mostly for blake, but good to read

blake, this article complicates your paper huh?  it presumes that this disatisfcation with government is more global and it also suggests that choice--implied in your paper--might not be an option in any government.  plus, it seems like the kind of article you might like.  

interesting commentary

http://www.osaarchivum.org/galeria/the_divide/chapter02.html

write a response to this quote

Imaginary Places

For some of your five page papers, you might want to consider the process and act of reading--how reading effects the writing of the paper, the thinking through of larger ideas, etc.  Here's a quote to consider and respond to:

Reading, we are allowed to follow someone else’s train of thought as it starts off for an imaginary place. This train has been produced for usÑor rather materialized and extended until it is almost nothing like the ephemeral realizations with which we’re familiar. To see words pulled one by one into existence is to intrude on a privacy of sorts. But we are familiar with the contract between spectator and performer. Now the text isn’t a train but an actress/ model who takes off her school uniform piece by piece alone with the cameraman. She’s a good girl playing at being bad, all the time knowing better. She invites us to join her in that knowledge. But this is getting us nowhere.   

—Rae Armantrout

What does this quote mean? 

What does it say about both the reader and writer?  About the act of reading?

Relate this to reading in this class.

TODAY

After reading the introductions, some of us had "unfocused" or unclear thesis statements.  Take the time, during the blog session, to carefully write your thesis statement out.  After writing your thesis, write another sentence that says what your paper will do (this is called the "intention statement")--if you have these two sentences, the paper has a logical flow (it will do what the intention says and refer back to the thesis).  

Let's have a talk if you feel confused about thesis statements or introductions in general.  

this made me think of our conversation

about consumerism and the economy:  here's a cool art project