1. Analytical Research Paper – Deadline Extended to Monday, May 3rd: I am giving you an extra day to complete your research paper. Place your completed paper in your personal Google Doc folder by midnight. Please use the extra time wisely. Be sure to:
- Proofread carefully
- Read your paper aloud to catch any mistakes
- Revise your introduction to be sure that it includes your research question and a “road map” to the rest of the essay.
- Check to be sure that you have punctuated your quotations correctly and included parenthetical citations
- Create a Works Cited page that conforms to the MLA 8 guidelines
- Anticipate a reader who asks “so what?” and build an answer into your paper. What is the significance of the information you are exploring in your essay? What do we learn from it?
- Give your essay a title
2.No Zoom on Monday – In light of this extension, we will NOT be having our regular Zoom call on Monday. Use that time to work on the checklist posted above. You might want to connect with your Writing Group and set up a group proofreading session to read one another’s work one last time. I will be holding drop-in Office Hours during our regular class time.
3. Dear Reader Letter – Please compose a “Dear Reader” letter reflecting on your experience of writing the “Analytical Research Paper”. Please add your letter to your Google Doc folder no later than Wed., May 5th. You might want to consider the following:
- How did this process go for you?
- What was the smoothest part of the process?
- What caused the most difficulty?
- How did you arrive at your topic?
- How do you feel about the work you submitted? What are its strengths and weaknesses?
- What’s the most important thing you learned about your topic?
- What’s the most important thing you learned about yourself?
- What did you learn from reviewing your peers’ work?
- What skills did you work on through the process of completing this assignment
- What is on your mind as you turn to the Creative Re-Mix? How will it further develop the ideas of your essay? What challenges are you anticipating?
- What else would you like your reader to know?
4. Creative Re-Mix – On Wednesday, we will be sharing an update on our Creative Re-Mix projects. In a comment on this post, share one step that you are committed to taking on that project between now and Wednesday. It can be something very small and manageable! During Wednesday’s Zoom call, we will be determining the schedule for your Creative Re-Mix presentations that will take place on May 12th and 17th.
5. Food Media Reviews – Your second round of reviews have been posted! You have chosen some great items to review. For this week, please choose one of your peer’s reviews, check out the text being reviewed, and then add your thoughts in the form of a comment on the review. You can choose from anything that was shared in the first two sets of reviews. Please complete this by Sunday, May 9th. Your third and final review should be posted by May 12th.
For my creative remix I am going to be taking picture of my neighborhood so I can start doing my interactive map.
Great – Think about what you mean by “interactive map.” Will you need to take notes so that you’ll have information to accompany the photos? Enjoy the photo taking!
I will be checking on what kind of recipes I will be doing.
I will need to see the recipes so that I can have a list of food choices on what I would be eating on my first veganism day.
For my recreative remix I will begin writing the small captions that go along with the pictures I chose for my photo essay.
For my Creative Re-mix, something that I have been working on is creating my menu and deciding what food meals/options to include.
For my Creative Remix, I will be looking to different poems as sources of inspiration and exploring different writing styles that I can incorporate in my poem.
For my creative remix i will start gathering all of the specific order info so I can start formatting it into an interactive map.
For my creative remix, I plan to set up a date and time to interview a restaurant worker
For my creative remix, I am developing drafts of my poem to describe what restaurant life was before and after the pandemic. I am gathering specific writing styles that I would put in my poem.
For my creative re-mix, I will be starting to put together some of the photos I have already gathered to put together in the collage.
For my Creative Re-Mix, I have started looking at examples and started gathering images and phrases to include in my ad.
For my Creative Re-Mix I came up with questions and started interviewing people
For my Creative Re-mix I will be finding a recipe for my edible gold review that would be aesthetically pleasing with the gold flakes I just ordered on Amazon.