Thursday, 2/21:
Goal: Continue I Am
First Step: Hand out "I Am" Response Sheets. Return to movie.
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Tuesday 2/19:
Goal: Begin to address/wrap up some of the fundamentals of the poetry unit.
First Step: Sweet Like a Crow Poems. Where are they? Why has this assignment been difficult? (I got some emails over the weekend, and it seems that many of you have not bothered to do it.)
Share a couple from people who get it.
For the rest of today and Thursday, we’ll watch the movie “I Am.”
Get a lap top. There will be a back channel discussion during the movie. This means that you should post at least two times during the movie. You can ask a question, respond to a question, make a point, respond to a point, express confusion, clarify a point, etc. Just make sure that you post three times, and don't be anywhere on the internet besides our Edmodo page.
As a six-week culminating assignment, you are going to write an essay based on the movie of about 300-400 words (which means about a page or two, typed, double-spaced, normal-sized font and margins). Here’s your prompt:
Is Tom Shadyac a poet? Why or why not? This question sounds simple. It is not.
In answering this question, you must address specific topics that we've covered in class. The more specific you are with examples, and the more interestingly and sophisticatedly you compare our class work to ideas and events in the movie, the better you’ll do.
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