Day 11

• Interview
• Research
• Looking for details/subtext
• How to make an idea smaller

http://www.imdb.com/find?ref_=nv_sr_fn&q=happy+feet&s=all

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2017/09/22/frank-lawnmower-boy-still-has-liberals-all-worked-up-lets-cut-crap-folks.html



There is no class Monday, 10/2 but there is homework Due Tuesday (10/3) at midnight.

• Read Chapter 9 (The Lead and the Ending--p. 54-66) in On Writing Well
  • Write 1/2 a page summary and what you find useful for your writing
• Read One of the following and write a 1/2 page summary and what you find useful:
  • Chapter 13 Writing About Places
  • Chapter 14 Writing About Yourself
  • Chapter 15 Science and Technology
  • Chapter 16 Business Writing
  • Chapter 17 Sports
  • Chapter 18 Writing About the Arts
  • Chapter 19 Humor
• Post your topic idea under your group's discussion forum include the following:
  • Ideas you plan on doing
  • Problems you might have
  • Questions you might have
  • Then, Reply to each person in your group answers, ideas, questions, thoughts and in general, be helpful.  Replies must be submitted before class on Wednesday.
• Discussion Leader Readings for Wednesday 10/4

Day 10

• Discussion Leader

Homework: 

• Work on zine

Read Chapter 12, page 100-115 from On Writing Well

Day 9

Groups 5-7

Homework: Discussion leader readings, work on zine

Day 8

• Group 1-4

Day 7

• Discussion Leader date changes
• Groups will be assigned this evening.  Check which group you are in so that you know when to come to the group meeting.  You will attend Monday OR Wednesday, but not both
• Guest Speaker! 

Homework: get started on those zines!

Meet the Filmmaker
THE SAFE SIDE OF THE FENCE

 
Bonus: Attend for 2 Bonus Passes 

Should be Free for students (say you are with the class)
 
Screening & Discussion
Saturday, September 16 - 11:00am
WWII's Manhattan Project required the refinement of massive amounts of uranium, and St. Louis-based Mallinckrodt Chemical Works took on the job. As a result, the chemical company’s employees would become some of the most contaminated nuclear workers in history. This documentary explores legacy and the fallout of what the men and women went through inside these plants, and how decisions made in the past, effect us all today.

Director Tony West will introduce his film and offer an Audience Q&A following.

Sponsored by United Energy Workers Healthcare

http://www.tivolikc.com/earlyindex.html

Day 6

• Reading difficult things results
• Quiz
• Reading Leaders

Homework: 

• Submit proposal to Bb by midnight
• Read p. 3-11 from On Writing Well and answer the following questions on Bb Forum BEFORE CLASS (3:59 p.m.)
• What did you think of the writer's opinion on writing?  How did it match with your views?  What do you fear most about writing?  What do you like about writing?  What do you want to learn about writing? 
• Guest speaker next class--bring in questions you might have about zines in general
• You will be working in groups for the zines.  You will each be responsible for your individual zine, but you will get advice and reviews from your peers.  If you have someone specific you would like to work with, decide by Wednesday.  I will try to accommodate everyone, but ultimately I will make the final decision.  

Day 5

• Quiz!
• Rhetoric and about Jacques Derrida

Jacques Derrida (/ʒɑːk ˈdɛrɪdə/; French: [ʒak dɛʁida]; born Jackie Élie Derrida;^[1] July 15, 1930 – October 9, 2004) was a French philosopher best known for developing a form of semiotic analysis known as deconstruction, which he discussed in numerous texts, and developed in the context of phenomenology.^[4][5][6] He is one of the major figures associated with post-structuralism and postmodern philosophy.<sup>[7][8][9]

During his career Derrida published more than 40 books, together with hundreds of essays and public presentations. He had a significant influence upon the humanities and social sciences, including—in addition to philosophy and literature—law,[10][11][12] anthropology,[13] historiography,[14] applied linguistics,[15] sociolinguistics,[16] psychoanalysis, political theory, religious studies, feminism, and gay and lesbian studies.</sup> 

Modernism: 

 

 ^{Deconstruction:}
"Whenever deconstruction finds a nutshell—a secure axiom or a pithy maxim—the very idea is to crack it open and disturb this tranquility. Indeed, that is a good rule of thumb in deconstruction. That is what deconstruction is all about, its very meaning and mission, if it has any. One might even say that cracking nutshells is what deconstruction is. In a nutshell. ...Have we not run up against a paradox and an aporia [something contradictory]...the paralysis and impossibility of an aporia is just what impels deconstruction, what rouses it out of bed in the morning..." (Caputo 1997, p.32)

^{Post Modern:}

^Homework: 

• Make-up Homework and Quiz close at midnight tonight

• ^{Readings for next time (see Discussion Leader Tab)}

• ^{Proposal for Zine (1 page, include topic, article ideas, why you want to write about it, who your target audience is, what you hope the reader will get out of it, who you will interview, the form (layout, tone) you hope it will take).  Post to BB}