For Monday, March 2nd: Critical Introduction is due.
Critical Introduction, 3-4 pages
For this project, you will be engaging in a conversation with other members in this discourse community. Therefore, you will be in a position where the decisions you make in creating this conversation need to have your audience in mind. The critical introduction to your video blog should outline the observations you made from your examination of other video blogs, the specific decisions that you made in the composition of your video blog, and comprehensive reflection on those decisions. I also want you to examine, in depth, one of the learning objectives for the course (writing, reading, researching and reflecting) and how you specifically evolved in this area. Use the specific language for the objective you choose!
Let’s take a minute and brainstorm, get some ideas on the board.
For Wednesday, March 4th:
- Comment on three people’s video blogs
- Read the first chapter of your chosen graphic novel
Feedback Responses (3 responses of at least 200 words each)
In a discourse community, it is important that members share information and receive feedback from other members. For this portion of the assignment, you will engage in a conversation (through the comment section of Youtube) with 3 other students’ videos. For this portion, choose one student from each sect of the class (environmental politics, gender and sexuality, and race and identity). Here you can voice support, offer alternative viewpoints, and challenge interpretations. Especially for the sub-field that you are a contributor of, you should be able to compare or contrast specific readings in a meaningful way. You comment should be addressing the CONTENT and NOT the presentation.
Why do we call some comics graphic novels and some superhero comics??
- Can we come up with what a novel is? Talk a few minutes and try to brainstorm 5 elements of what makes a novel a novel…
- We kind of get the “graphic” part…since we’ve been reading comics all semester…
- Maus, Pulitzer Prize early 1990s, no coincidence this is really when academic discussions of graphic narratives started to balloon. Today, comics studies are a huge field in literary and cultural studies.
Ok, let’s talk our way through a few things:
- What is a continuous serial narrative?
- The novel as memento mori, Walter Benjamin…
- What is literariness? Syuzhet vs. Fabula
- Why does all of this matter? All together having these ways of thinking about how to unlock a conversation about society, gender, race, mental health etc.
MIDSEMESTER FEEDBACK
- Have the lead-up assignments been helping you feel like you can be successful on the major projects?
- Does the overall trajectory of the course make sense to you? What questions do you have about why we are doing what we are doing?
- Does the workload seem: too hard, hard, moderate, easy, too easy?
- How do you feel about the way content is being delivered: group work, teaching style, etc.?
- What is one thing you have really enjoyed about the class that I should keep doing this semester/next time I teach ENG 1020?
Introduction to College Writing 