Cold-Blooded Reading

This week we'll be reading Truman Capote's In Cold Blood. Between each class (through next week) I'd like you to read 15-20 pages of the book and write a blog entry about it. You may wish to review what a reading blog is.

What's This About Revolution?

Some background for The Revolution Will Not Be Televised:

Check out the wikipedia page and also this song as labeled in Rap Genius (it explains all of the allusions.)

Documentaries

Let´s be clear about this. For next Writers Workshop have a documentary idea and a plan for shoooting it. We´ll be storyboarding in class. Your raw footage is due December 6th.

You will be graded on your use of rhetoric and understanding of visual media, and, as always, grammar and mechanics. The final project is due December 12th.


Here are some examples of what I´m hoping for.

New Bathroom Initiative

As per new school initiatives, bathroom will be limited to use once a marking period. Sorry, but those are the rules.

Find the Fallacy

This week we'll be focusing exclusively on fallacies. I'd like you to read each of the following essays and in a blog entry identify as many fallacies as you can. You should have completed at least one by Friday. The rest are due Monday.

Listen and read this speech by Gandhi.

Read this speech by Winston Churchill.

Finally, listen and read George Orwell's "Shooting an Elephant".

You might want to think about what these speakers have in common, what they disagree about, what they most fear. (Wow - did you peep this parallel structure?)

Learning Self-Defense

I expect a blog entry for Chapter 15 by Friday, and one blog entry for both Chapter 16 and 17. I would like you to insert video clips and respond to at least three other blogs in our class.

Hand in personal essays tomorrow, Thursday, November 8th. Just place them in box.