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I've gotten complaints that I haven't posted anything since last week. Okay, so here's what's going on: today we did document searches in the 9-10 AM class. Students need to have 10 varied sources-- books, articles, multimedia, etc.
Students should already have developed an Initial Planning Sheet. After you do the document search begin reading, so you can develop an outline for the essay. Remember the main rhetorical form is problem solution. You can ask the same questions of your topic that you asked when viewing the Frontline World programs.
In both classes we have been reading Alice Walker's The Color Purple. This is not homework, so you don't have to read it at home. You can choose Walker as your artist/activist.
Annoucenments
Barack Obama will be in downtown Oakland, Saturday, April 19, 12 noon to 2 p.m. If I can get reserved seating I'll post it here. Otherwise, arrive early, he packs the arena.
I passed out programs for the San Francisco International Film Festival beginning April 24. Screenings are in San Francisco and at UC Berkeley's Pacific Film Archive. I highly recommend the festival. Directors come and audiences have an opportunity to engage them in conversation, which adds a nice dimension to the entire cinematic experience.
You can visit the webiste for the SFIFF. There, you can read about the various programs and watch short segments of films you are interested in. I went to see a film last night, The Body of War, which was excellent.
This weekend it opens in San Francisco at the Clay and in Berkeley at the Shattuck (I think). The directors will be present after the first screenings at both. The film is about a Iraq war veteran who returns home paralyzed from the chest down. He is 25. It is a great story.
You can read about it at their website: www.bodyofwar.com
I've gotten complaints that I haven't posted anything since last week. Okay, so here's what's going on: today we did document searches in the 9-10 AM class. Students need to have 10 varied sources-- books, articles, multimedia, etc.
Students should already have developed an Initial Planning Sheet. After you do the document search begin reading, so you can develop an outline for the essay. Remember the main rhetorical form is problem solution. You can ask the same questions of your topic that you asked when viewing the Frontline World programs.
In both classes we have been reading Alice Walker's The Color Purple. This is not homework, so you don't have to read it at home. You can choose Walker as your artist/activist.
Annoucenments
Barack Obama will be in downtown Oakland, Saturday, April 19, 12 noon to 2 p.m. If I can get reserved seating I'll post it here. Otherwise, arrive early, he packs the arena.
I passed out programs for the San Francisco International Film Festival beginning April 24. Screenings are in San Francisco and at UC Berkeley's Pacific Film Archive. I highly recommend the festival. Directors come and audiences have an opportunity to engage them in conversation, which adds a nice dimension to the entire cinematic experience.
You can visit the webiste for the SFIFF. There, you can read about the various programs and watch short segments of films you are interested in. I went to see a film last night, The Body of War, which was excellent.
This weekend it opens in San Francisco at the Clay and in Berkeley at the Shattuck (I think). The directors will be present after the first screenings at both. The film is about a Iraq war veteran who returns home paralyzed from the chest down. He is 25. It is a great story.
You can read about it at their website: www.bodyofwar.com
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