This week we are continuing to move forward with our Analytical Research Papers and Creative Re-Mix Projects:
1. Peer Review – Please complete your review of your partners’ drafts by Saturday, April 24th. You can find the Peer Review Worksheet in our class Google Docs Folder or use this LINK to access it. Please copy and paste it to the bottom of the document that you are reviewing. Read the note the author wrote in class on Wednesday and be sure to take it into consideration in giving feedback. Each of you must complete two reviews by Saturday to earn full credit for this assignment. Please let me know if you do not have two drafts to review.
2. Individual Conferences – Instead of our regular Monday Zoom, you will each be meeting with me individually to discuss your draft. The sign-up sheet for those conferences is HERE. These sessions are mandatory. Please read over all the feedback on your drafts carefully, make sure you’ve shared the latest version of your work with me, and come to the conference prepared with specific ideas and questions about how to develop and revise your paper. These conferences will also be an opportunity to discuss your Creative Re-Mix, so come prepared to share your ideas.
3. Creative Re-Mix – Before our class on Wednesday, please settle on a plan for your Creative Re-Mix. We will be sharing these plans during our Zoom Call. Please post your “plan” in a blog post before Wednesday’s class. Your “plan” does not need to be elaborate. Please do the following:
- Describe what you are planning to do
- Explain how it connects to your research question
- Map out the steps you would need to undertake to execute your plan
- Anticipate any obstacles or pitfalls that you are concerned about
- Request any specific problem solving help or advice that might assist you with thinking through and executing this project.
4. Media Review – Continue to offer feedback on your classmates’ reviews. Your second review should be posted by April 28th. Remember to use this as an opportunity to explore and share things that you genuinely enjoy and are interested in!
I will be doing a video of myself: being vegan for a day…
This creative re-mix connects to my research question because my topic relates to veganism and throughout the video, I will be discussing why some people choose to become vegan. First, to be able to do this video for one day I will be cooking vegan recipes. This will totally be a new experience for me. Though to be honest, I am already excited about this project without even starting. Throughout that day I will also be taking pictures of myself with the vegan food. Now, a question that I have for myself is will I be able to handle being vegan for JUST ONE DAY.
I am sure you can handle one day of being a vegan!
I will be doing a timeline and a poem about my research topic. My research topic is about when restaurants are going to recover from the pandemic. In my timeline and poem, I will be discussing about how restaurants are going to recover. Initially, I will do the timeline showing before and after photos and descriptions about how the pandemic affected the restaurant industry. In the timeline, I will be using photos of restaurants in New York City. In my poem, I will be using descriptive and figurative language to talk about how the optimism of people and owners in restaurants before the pandemic and then describing the sadness of restaurants going out of business and the struggles of the surviving restaurants trying to stay open.
Brian, As I said during our zoom call, I am wondering how the timeline and the poem go together. They seem like two totally different ways of addressing your subject. Think about which approach would allow you to explore your ideas more fully and which approach best complements your research topic.