Below please find your group assignments, at long last! (Blame your peers for the delay – not me!) Just to reiterate, your group is responsible for creating some kind of creative supplement to our reading and class discussion. It should be something that can exist electronically, either through direct posting or a link on our blog. It should NOT be a powerpoint about the author’s biography or an analysis of a particular work. Instead, think in terms of amplifying our discussion by exploring some aspect of the context or subject matter explored in your text. Don’t be afraid to be creative in your thinking! This shouldn’t be a stressful assignment; nor does it need to be very ambitious. (For example, if I were in a group that was presenting this week about William Blake, I might collect some examples of how Blake’s poetry has been set to music and share them with some commentary on the blog. If I had done my presentation last week, perhaps I would have prepared a timeline about women’s suffrage to chart when women won the right to vote in various parts of the world. Or perhaps I might have explored something related to contemporary feminism. What are the most pressing issues that political feminists are concerned with today? These are just ideas….)
Start the process off by connecting with your partners and figuring out how and when to communicate with one another and to meet virtually. You will need to familiarize yourself with your assigned text and author before you can brainstorm about your project. Each group must schedule a meeting with me a minimum of one week ahead of the presentation. I am happy to use my zoom account to set up zoom meetings for your group and to act as a resource if your get stuck. (If you are in the Frederick Douglass group, don’t worry. You are working within a tight timeline, but you will do a great job! You should be meeting with me ASAP!)
Frederick Douglass – March 22nd: Zijie Lu, Yessenia Guerra, Sadia Laskar
Leo Tolstoy – April 12th: Jean Joseph, Kaicy Gaynor, Zain Rehman
Rabindranath Tagore – April 19th: Md Asif, Minahil Imtiaz, Simran Sharif
Franz Kafka – April 26th: Quinton Lee, Sangey Lama, Fiona Persaud
Tadeusz Borowski – May 3rd: Matthew Critelli, Tianhui Lei, Jiayang Li
