Assignments – Week #1

Posted on February 1, 2021 by JSylvor
  • For Wednesday’s class, please read the short story “Du Tenth Sinks the Jewel Box in Anger” by Feng Menglong.  If you already have the books, you can find it in volume D of your Norton Anthology.  Otherwise, you can find a link to the text under the “Readings” tab at the top of our blog.  In a separate  blog post, you will find questions about the text together with instructions about how to respond to them on the blog.
  • Please complete a short questionnaire about your technology access and distance learning experience. Your responses will help me to meet your needs more successfully over the course of the semester. You can access the questionnaire HERE  
  • Compose a short (300-400 word) introduction to yourself and post it to our course blog. Be sure to create this as a “new post” rather than posting your introduction as a comment on this assignment. Please tag your post by selecting the category “introductions.”  It’s up to you to decide what you wish to share with the class about your background, academic interests, hobbies, etc…,  but please also respond to the following questions:  Describe a text that made a lasting impression on you. What was it about this text that stuck with you? Has this or any other text ever changed your perspective about some aspect of the world or your own life? How?  (You can understand the word “text” here to include written texts, movies, plays, songs, videos, or photographs.)  This could be something from your childhood or something you encountered very recently.  Don’t worry about choosing something “academic”; focus instead on choosing an example that is meaningful to you.  Please add a photograph to your post, if possible.  This can be a photograph of you or some other image that complements your post.   In order to create a new post, look for the button “Add New” under the “Posts” option.     Before you post your introduction, please select the category “introductions” on the right hand side of your screen.  Please share your post by Friday, February 5th.
  • In order to be sure that you understand the rules of academic integrity, particularly as they relate to using sources in academic writing, please go to https://plagiarism.arts.cornell.edu/tutorial/index.cfm. There you will find a guide to understanding plagiarism and a short quiz prepared by Cornell University.  When you have completed the quiz, please take a quick selfie of yourself with the quiz in the background, and share the photo on our Slack channel.  Click HERE to access our Slack workspace.  When you get to Slack, you should see a tag that reads #plagiarismquiz. That’s where you should post your selfie. While you are on Slack, feel free to add any comments or questions you have for your peers or for your professors. Imagine Slack as a multi- conversation group chat set up for this class.  Please take the quiz and post your selfie by Sunday, February 7th.

 

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