Writing/Research Assignment for week of October 23-27
1. What is the American media saying about the Iraqi elections and the current democracy? Read two articles about Iraqi government pre and post-elections. Utilize the College of Alameda database, Newsweek (English 201)and/or, Al-Jazeerah, indymedia sources to find them. Write summaries of both. Bring the articles into class. The summaries are due, Friday, October 27 or Monday, October 30.
2. Watch My Country, My Country on Channel 9, Wednesday, Oct. 25, 10 p.m., or tape it. What is the thesis? What evidence does the director use to support her thesis? Are there any solutions given?
3. What surprised you most when watching this film about the elections in Iraq? Respond in 250 words. Due Monday/Tuesday, October 30-31.
My Country, My Country
by Laura Poitras
Working alone in Iraq over eight months, filmmaker Laura Poitras creates an extraordinarily intimate portrait of Iraqis living under U.S. occupation. Her principal focus is Dr. Riyadh, an Iraqi medical doctor, father of six and Sunni political candidate. An outspoken critic of the occupation, he is equally passionate about the need to establish democracy in Iraq, arguing that Sunni participation in the January 2005 elections is essential. Yet all around him, Dr. Riyadh sees only chaos, as his waiting room fills each day with patients suffering the physical and mental effects of ever-increasing violence. Poitras gained remarkable access to the Sunni community, U.S. military and the U.N., resulting in "My Country, My Country," a powerful mosaic of daily life in Iraq not seen in the mainstream media. A co-production with the Independent Television Service (ITVS), produced in association with American Documentary | P.O.V.
Broadcast Date:
Wednesday, October 25, 2006 at 10 p.m. (90 minutes)
On-going
English Writing Classes Monday, Oct. 23-Oct.30 (we hope)
We are reading The Tempest for the next two weeks. I will give you a study guide Monday, and leave copies outside my office for students to pick up. We will use these study questions as the basis of our freewrites, for in class writing, homework essay responses, perhaps even the midterm essay.
I am still looking for the film: Shakespeare Behind Bars.
The questions are from the Barrows edition. If you have it, you have the activities section I speak of here.
www.pbs.org/pov/pov2006/mycountry/preview.html
http://english.aljazeera.net/HomePage
http://www.indymedia.org/en/index.shtml
1. What is the American media saying about the Iraqi elections and the current democracy? Read two articles about Iraqi government pre and post-elections. Utilize the College of Alameda database, Newsweek (English 201)and/or, Al-Jazeerah, indymedia sources to find them. Write summaries of both. Bring the articles into class. The summaries are due, Friday, October 27 or Monday, October 30.
2. Watch My Country, My Country on Channel 9, Wednesday, Oct. 25, 10 p.m., or tape it. What is the thesis? What evidence does the director use to support her thesis? Are there any solutions given?
3. What surprised you most when watching this film about the elections in Iraq? Respond in 250 words. Due Monday/Tuesday, October 30-31.
My Country, My Country
by Laura Poitras
Working alone in Iraq over eight months, filmmaker Laura Poitras creates an extraordinarily intimate portrait of Iraqis living under U.S. occupation. Her principal focus is Dr. Riyadh, an Iraqi medical doctor, father of six and Sunni political candidate. An outspoken critic of the occupation, he is equally passionate about the need to establish democracy in Iraq, arguing that Sunni participation in the January 2005 elections is essential. Yet all around him, Dr. Riyadh sees only chaos, as his waiting room fills each day with patients suffering the physical and mental effects of ever-increasing violence. Poitras gained remarkable access to the Sunni community, U.S. military and the U.N., resulting in "My Country, My Country," a powerful mosaic of daily life in Iraq not seen in the mainstream media. A co-production with the Independent Television Service (ITVS), produced in association with American Documentary | P.O.V.
Broadcast Date:
Wednesday, October 25, 2006 at 10 p.m. (90 minutes)
On-going
English Writing Classes Monday, Oct. 23-Oct.30 (we hope)
We are reading The Tempest for the next two weeks. I will give you a study guide Monday, and leave copies outside my office for students to pick up. We will use these study questions as the basis of our freewrites, for in class writing, homework essay responses, perhaps even the midterm essay.
I am still looking for the film: Shakespeare Behind Bars.
The questions are from the Barrows edition. If you have it, you have the activities section I speak of here.
www.pbs.org/pov/pov2006/mycountry/preview.html
http://english.aljazeera.net/HomePage
http://www.indymedia.org/en/index.shtml
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