Extra Credit Assignment

This Saturday, 03.31.07 at 4:00PM, Noah Eli Gordon will read from his new collection of poems entitled A Fiddle Pulled from the Throat of a Sparrow. The reading will take place at Cameron Church which is located at 1600 South Pearl Street at the East Iowa intersection. This event is free to the public. Afterwards, there will be a reception & book signing at Book Buffs.

As always, to receive extra credit for this assignment, you must attend the event & write a 500 word response on the reading which is to be turned in no later that 1 week after the event.

This would also be a good time to remind you of two other upcoming events that have been previously mentioned. Tomorrow, 03.27.07, Joshua Poteat & Allison Titus will read at the King Center for the Performing Arts at 7:00PM. On Monday, 04.02.07, Danielle Dutton & Stephanie Young will read in the Turnhalle of the Tivoli Student Union at 8:00PM.

Also, please do not forget to read the post immediately after this one, as it contains this week's homework assignments.

Assignments for Week Beginning 03.26.07

1) Section 01: Read "Envision1.pdf" for 03.29.07 & "Envision2.pdf" for 04.02.07. Section 10: Read "Envision1.pdf" for 03.28.07 & "Envision2.pdf" for 04.01.07. Both files are now up on Blackboard.

2) Select a photographer from the list of artists at the Foley Gallery & write a 250 word observation on one of their pieces.

3) Write a 250 reflection on the photograph you chose.

4) Write a 250 word analysis of the elements of the photograph: color, alignment, repetition, patterns, size, perspective, balance, contrast, choice of material, characters, action, etc. Then ask yourself: what persuasive statement does the image convey? What is its arguement? What is the message for the reader?

REMEMBER: The new guidelines for weekly posts have a minimum criteria of 1 hyperlink & 1 multi-media element. It may be helpful to embed the image file of the photograph you choose into the first post.

5) 4 comments: you cannot post these for students in your section. All 4 comments must be for students in the section you are not part of.

6) Alter your blog's sub-heading to: "English 1020 at UCDHSC."

Reminder for the week beginning 03.12.07

Have 2 completed copies of your rough draft for next week; we will be peer-reviewing them in class. Also, I will upload the peer-review form for the reflective essay to Blackboard by Sunday night. Please, download 2 copies & bring them to class.

To prepare for this assignment, please read the remainder of the invention & drafting sections in "RCWW5b.pdf." These can be found on pages 214-20.

Assignment for Week 03.05.07

In addition to working on your the rough draft of your Reflective Essay, your assignment for this week will be to create hyperlinks for the ENGL 1020 section you are not in. As such, those in Section 01 will create hyperlinks to the blogs of students in Section 10, & Section 1o will create hyperlinks to the blogs of students in Section 01. For those of you who have already done this, you will not have an additional assignment.