Assignments for Monday May 3rd

For Monday's class, please bring 3 copies of Essay #2: Analysis of a Song (Draft 1). We'll be engaging in a peer assessment of each other's work, so come prepared to talk shop!

See you then.

Extra Credit Opportunity

Wednesday, May 5th, 7:00pm

Close Observations: The Poetics of Flora and Fauna

A Reading and Conversation with Diane Ackerman and Kimiko Hahn

$7 for students

(Poets House is located at 10 River Terrace in Battery Park City)

Conferences

Next week we will have midterm conferences instead of our normally scheduled class. Thanks in advance for arriving on time, and be sure to bring your weekly moments journal as well as your song for Essay #2.

Schedule:

Monday
8:00 - 8:10: Harrison
8:10 - 8:20: Johnnie
8:20 - 8:30: Chris
8:30 - 8:40: Martin
8:40 - 8:50: Mercy
8:50 - 9:00: Bobby
9:00 - 9:10: Hamida
9:10 - 9:20: Abdoulaye
9:20 - 9:30: Michael
9:30 - 9:40: Nisha
9:40 - 9:50: Matonya
9:50 - 10:00: Lucy
10:00 - 10:10: Robert

Wednesday
8:10 - 8:20: Rafelina
8:20 - 8:30: Leonard
8:30 - 8:40: Esmeralda
8:40 - 8:50: Jinrong
8:50 - 9:00: Daniel
9:00 - 9:10: Klaudia
9:10 - 9:20: Hector
9:20 - 9:30: Maciej
9:30 - 9:40: Victoria
9:40 - 9:50: Luis
9:50 - 10:00:
10:00 - 10:10: Sabrina

Assignments for Monday April 19th

For Monday's class, please read the following:

• Analysis of a Subject (pgs. 474-507)

Also, please add your comment to the discussion board for April 14th's class. (If you do this by Monday, you will receive full credit).

Speaking of credit, I will be offering extra credit to anyone who attends the poetry reading being held at John Jay College tomorrow (Thursday April 15th) at 6:30pm. Details below:

APRIL 15th, 2010 TURNSTYLE READING SERIES Turnstyle, a cross-genre MFA reading series, features the faculty and students of four CUNY graduate creative writing programs. Each evening, two faculty readers and eight second-year MFA creative writing students will read a mix of non-fiction, plays, fiction, andpoems.

FEATURING: Faculty readers: Pamela Laskin, Julie Agoos, Adam Berlin MFA student readers: Curtis Jensen, Danielle Davidson, Deonne Kahler,Stefanie Lipsey, Sunil Yapa, Maria Dilorenzo, Kevin MacDonald, Mardi Jaskot

LOCATION: John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Room 630, 899 Tenth Avenue (at 60th Street). Readings start at 6:30pm and are free and open to the public.

Co-sponsored by the Office of Academic Affairs, MFA in CreativeWriting Affiliation Group and Center for the Humanities.

Assignments for Wednesday April 14th

In connection to our class discussions of late, Luis alerted me to this article in the New York Times: Researchers Report Progress on E. Coli Test. Check it out!

For Wednesday's class, please read the following articles from your textbook:

1. Race Is a Four-Letter Word by Teja Arboleda (120-124)
2. An Identity Reduced to a Burka by Semeen Issa and Laila Al-Marayati (124-128)
3. Three Ways of Meeting Oppression by Martin Luther King Jr. (279-282)
4. Comparison and Contrast (454-460)

Discussion Board:
How would you describe Teja Arboleda's racial ethnic identity? How is this different from his cultural identity? How does he distinguish between the two? Finally, how would you describe your own racial ethnic identity, and does this identity differ from your cultural identity? In what ways?

Assignments for Monday April 12th

For Monday's class, please read the following:

• Chapter 12: Analysis (pgs. 468 - 474)
• "Why Does Monsanto Patent Seeds?" by E. Freeman
• "As Patent Ends, a Seed's Use Will Survive" by Andrew Pollack

Discussion Board:

After reading the chapter on analysis and the two articles from the Web, post a comment in which you discuss your opinion on the issue of seed patenting. Is it fair for a company like Monsanto to declare ownership over a seed in the way that a company like Microsoft declares ownership over software? Is that a logical analogy? Why or why not?

Assignments for Wednesday April 7th

For Wednesday's class, please read the following:

• Chapter 10: Writing to Persuade (pgs. 404 - 422)

Discussion Board

Peter Singer believes that all animals--non-human and human--should be treated with equal consideration. Post a comment in which you compare and contrast your own definition of equality with Peter Singer's.