Welcome back! I hope you're ready for the home stretch! We're going to spend April writing and researching and reading Alice Walker's The Color Purple. We started this morning. Angel and I read up to page 11 maybe? In the later class we read up to page 21. In the early class we sprinkled our reading with references to Alice Walker: A Life. It was a great discussion. Most students brought their books. Homework is to find references to share Tuesday. Students were also told to look up The Color Purple on http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/purple/and read about the characters and plot. We will be responding to the study guide questions on Thursdays in the Writing Center. We will also respond to questions in the freewrites and in groups.
Research Paper
We will talk about this in class; however, the research paper will be on a Social Entrepreneur, an artist, who uses his or her work for social change. The person has to be alive and has to have been practicing his or her craft for minimally 10 years, though more would be great. This requirement is negotiable if you can present a convincing argument. The person has to be alive and in Northern California.
Students need to do a library search for potential prospects, then complete an initial research plan. Locate 10 sources both primary and secondary. Students are expected to locate material from at least three genres: print, web, multimedia such as radio, TV. I'd like students to visit the artist's gallery and arrange an interview, if possible.
Alice Walker is an example of a social entrepreneur. She uses her work as a vehicle for social change. I got a really great essay she wrote on the first day of spring. I have pasted in the comment section. I will give you a schedule for the research components this week. Do not procrastinate!
Fences and other field trips
I mentioned the play, Fences, as our next outing, but I have a conflict next 4/11. I want to suggest an event at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts 4/12. It is a collaboration between two fabulous women led dance companies. Saturday there will be an artist talk with one of the directors, Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, of Urban Bush Women, at 6:30 p.m. Saturday. The publicist told me she can give us a 2 for 1, or tickets at $15. The theatre is at 700 Howard at Third Street in San Francisco. We can still take BART and get off at the Montgomery Street Station. (It is the same evening that Sweet Honey in the Rock are performing at UC Berkeley Zellerbach Hall.)
It's going to sell out. Let me know in class by Wednesday, April 2, if you'd like to attend. I might have to buy the tickets in advance and you can reimburse me. I'll let you know.
Description from the website:
This unique project is setting the performance world abuzz for bringing together African and African-American dance companies—one all-male and one all-female—and two powerhouse choreographers. Germaine Acogny, the "mother of contemporary African dance," explores community and identity with Brooklyn-based, Bessie Award–winning choreographer Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, of Urban Bush Women. Acogny’s all-male troupe, Jant-Bi, performed Fagaala at YBCA in 2005 to widespread acclaim and Urban Bush Women has, since 1984, brought the stories of disenfranchised people to light through dance inspired by African-American traditions. Don’t miss the premiere of this new piece in which artists from Africa collaborate with the children of the Diaspora on a work that explores the crossroads between culture and ethnicity, history and modernity.
If we arrive early we can visit the art exhibit: The Way We Rhyme before going to the theatre performance. Visit http://www.ybca.org/tickets/production.aspx?performanceNumber=4024 for the details about the exhibit. I can probably get free tickets for the gallery exhibit for interested students.
There are some other interesting theatre events happening. I'll get the details and let you know. Re: Fences at Lorraine Hansberry Theatre in San Francisco, I don't see any time in my schedule presently and the play closes April 20. I could do a 2 p.m. on Sunday, April 20. Let me know if you're interested. It's a great production.
Research Paper
We will talk about this in class; however, the research paper will be on a Social Entrepreneur, an artist, who uses his or her work for social change. The person has to be alive and has to have been practicing his or her craft for minimally 10 years, though more would be great. This requirement is negotiable if you can present a convincing argument. The person has to be alive and in Northern California.
Students need to do a library search for potential prospects, then complete an initial research plan. Locate 10 sources both primary and secondary. Students are expected to locate material from at least three genres: print, web, multimedia such as radio, TV. I'd like students to visit the artist's gallery and arrange an interview, if possible.
Alice Walker is an example of a social entrepreneur. She uses her work as a vehicle for social change. I got a really great essay she wrote on the first day of spring. I have pasted in the comment section. I will give you a schedule for the research components this week. Do not procrastinate!
Fences and other field trips
I mentioned the play, Fences, as our next outing, but I have a conflict next 4/11. I want to suggest an event at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts 4/12. It is a collaboration between two fabulous women led dance companies. Saturday there will be an artist talk with one of the directors, Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, of Urban Bush Women, at 6:30 p.m. Saturday. The publicist told me she can give us a 2 for 1, or tickets at $15. The theatre is at 700 Howard at Third Street in San Francisco. We can still take BART and get off at the Montgomery Street Station. (It is the same evening that Sweet Honey in the Rock are performing at UC Berkeley Zellerbach Hall.)
It's going to sell out. Let me know in class by Wednesday, April 2, if you'd like to attend. I might have to buy the tickets in advance and you can reimburse me. I'll let you know.
Description from the website:
This unique project is setting the performance world abuzz for bringing together African and African-American dance companies—one all-male and one all-female—and two powerhouse choreographers. Germaine Acogny, the "mother of contemporary African dance," explores community and identity with Brooklyn-based, Bessie Award–winning choreographer Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, of Urban Bush Women. Acogny’s all-male troupe, Jant-Bi, performed Fagaala at YBCA in 2005 to widespread acclaim and Urban Bush Women has, since 1984, brought the stories of disenfranchised people to light through dance inspired by African-American traditions. Don’t miss the premiere of this new piece in which artists from Africa collaborate with the children of the Diaspora on a work that explores the crossroads between culture and ethnicity, history and modernity.
If we arrive early we can visit the art exhibit: The Way We Rhyme before going to the theatre performance. Visit http://www.ybca.org/tickets/production.aspx?performanceNumber=4024 for the details about the exhibit. I can probably get free tickets for the gallery exhibit for interested students.
There are some other interesting theatre events happening. I'll get the details and let you know. Re: Fences at Lorraine Hansberry Theatre in San Francisco, I don't see any time in my schedule presently and the play closes April 20. I could do a 2 p.m. on Sunday, April 20. Let me know if you're interested. It's a great production.
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