Odyssey Logs: Due Friday by 11:59PM

Yes, they will be checked for originality. Your grading rubric is view-able from turnitin.com a week after submission. 

The login:

Class ID: 13767112
Password: shakey

Remember, most of you already have a name and password. If you forgot it, Turniitn will email you a new one.

If you REALLY can't figure it out, upload it to classroom/email it, and I will put it on there myself.

TLP Essay

Remember, TLP Planet Project is due on Monday.

The author of, “The Big Lesson of The Little Prince” says, “we lose sight of the effortless ability to take in the world in full. The very experience that helps us become successful threatens to limit our imagination and our sense of the possible.”  This is exemplified by the text of TLP.  It is also true that if we think back to childhood, our memories are child-like.  Our adulthood is stripped away, and we revert to our perhaps truer self.

You are going to write a narrative essay.  It should be a recollection of some aspect of childhood: a memory, a person, a class, a parent, a creative high, your childhood home.  You are restricted by only one thing: you must write it in the voice of younger you.  The memory must feel like a child has written it.  It should include the details a child would remember, the feelings, and the thoughts.

Minimum word count: 500

Points: 50

Due date: Wednesday, February 15th by 11:59PM

Read this article

There was a very interesting set of articles published in the NYTimes a few years ago.  For homework, you are going to read Part I, found here.

You are also going to make a list of 10 things you learned about or surprised you about the article.

Don't be offended by the title; it's meant to engage.

Biomed peeps..and anyone else

Here's what we did Friday in class:

Journal: Go back to 1/3/17 and reflect.

We discussed the rest of The Little Prince questions.

We read TLP through chapter 7.  You can catch up on the side; I posted a link to the whole book.

Your homework:

You are going to write a 2 paragraph blurb about a friend.  (This should be someone you actually like).  You should describe them AND describe why you like them, but you cannot use facts.

As the Little Prince himself says: "When you tell them you have made a new friend, they never ask you any questions about essential matters.  They never say to you, 'What does his voice sound like?' 'What game does he love best?' 'Does he collect butterflies?'"

Basically, The Little Prince recognizes that we care more about the "facts" than we do the essential part of humans.  You should describe your friend AND why you like them, but may only discuss the essential parts.

I was illin'

and you were asked to read this.

Yup, it is a real story I read regularly. It wasn't filler. AND I woke up and drove to school, sick, to assign it at 5:30am.

Make sure you have it lol done by tomorrow.

Things I don't know...

This weekend, you have a big task.

You must choose something from popular culture that you know NOTHING about.  You will write a 400 word or more essay, expressing, like Chuck Klosterman in this article, why you know nothing and why you don't care you know nothing.

You should write in the style of your chosen author.  If that author is a poet or songwriter, you may write a shorter version of this assignment.

The whole point is not perfection; it is to try a different style, and by doing so, understand your own style more.

Oh, and here is mine.


Good luck!

<3,

Rock

Slam Poetry

Yesterday and today, we viewed some slam poetry that is pretty popular.

We also decided that the differences between traditional poetry and slam poetry are:
-rawer emotion
-more "performance" and character
-more emotion
-audience participation
-topics we connect with
-political and social commentary
-the intention of being read aloud
-often memorized

Here are the links to the videos:

Alix Olson
Taylor Mali
Prentice Powell
Rachel Rostad
Harvard Grad.


Here is the link to the assignment, writing your own poem.  These are due tomorrow.