Time will prolong time, and life will serve life. – Albert Camus
Using the format of a blog, comment at the end of each reading session on both the substance of your reading and its effects on you.
Record pages or sections on which you are commenting. Record your impressions of characters, events, conflicts, descriptions. Record responses to your own questions. Record questions about the novel as [...]
Read a Novel from the Reading List:
focus your responses on a course focus question
think “creatively” about your response
connect to characters you’ve already studied
extend your response to include symbol and archetype
consider “Critical Questions“
emphasize “Voice” and/or “Structure” in your responses
consider “Writing About Literature”(page 9-14) in Heath
considered other essay writing strategies
prepare at least 8 posts in your “body [...]
Choose from the following:
(Partner up if/where necessary)
Write a folk song.
Create a dialogue in the forums between any 2(or more) authors.
Create a dialogue in the forums b etween any 2 or more characters
Create a new scene to be inserted into a text synthesizing a character(or 2) from outside the text.
Trackback. Then rewrite the quiz on Steinbeck’s [...]
For those in the midst, or looking ahead at finals in my LA classes(9, 10-1, 20-1, 20-2, 30-1, 30-2).
Consider the outcomes we’ve tried to achieve.
Enhancing the artistry of communication has been a strong technical focus. Skills mastered include using online blogging tools, Word Processing, Spreadsheets, even graphical enhancements using Photoshop or audio/video podcasting tools have [...]
The life which is unexamined is not worth living.
- Plato
Write a story in which a protagonist undergoes a transformation in the search for self. Have your character encounter basic questions about his/her identity.
Consider using the following images:
This exercise is simple: write a poem about a family member meeting a famous person. All of us have such incidents embedded in family history or folklore: the day Dad shook hands with Ike in France; the time Mom spilled coffee on Elizabeth Taylor in a pizza parlour in San Mateo; the night Aunt Dottie [...]
Today we asked if there was something all humans strive for after all needs have been met. Of course, only a philosopher can imagine a world in which all needs could be met.
But there must be something to the question asked of Sophie: Is there something else that all humans, all times and all places, [...]
What will be the next global catastrophe?
What is the next step for human evolution?
What future communication technology would amaze you?
What do you believe?
Who are you?
Why are you here?
Where is here?
Why is there evil in the world?
Sophie has begun a journey to discover these, and many other, questions. What questions is she asking, what questions have been asked of her?
What questions trouble you?
Search the net, search blogs, search your mind. Synthesize, hyperlink, blockquote, and trackback.
Your writing should be a synthesis of the 5 paragraph essay AND a blog post.
Refer to one or any texts from your course: Macbeth, BNW, Can. Lit., Film, News, or other online media.
Your question:
What does it mean to be human in an engineered [...]
