Yes! The weekend!

And...it looks like a thoroughly excellent one, according to the latest weather reports!

Happy happy joy joy!!!

And in case you missed REM the other day:



And now, some weekend stuff and nonsense:

E2CP:  Write an essay exploring the thesis that you began with your homework last night in that first  you sent me.  Those I have yet to get back to you will be finished this afternoon before I leave school.  The parameters: it should be 1-1.5 pages, double-spaced, Times New Roman or similar, one inch margins.  Put your name, the date, and a title in a header.  Email this to me by the end of the day on Sunday if at all possible.  Bring a draft of it on Tuesday.


E3H:  As it will (shortly) say on the blog, the assignment is to write a 2-page essay on the same topic that the pieces from last night explored: What is art? In this essay, you should answer this question as yourself; i.e. you should use as a thesis your own opinion on the matter, but as you develop your points you should make liberal use of the materials we have been discussing and reading for the past week.  Quote from them as often as you need to and cite them using in-text (parenthetical) citations.

Since I am not aware of any MLA guideline for in-text citation of online secondary or tertiary embedded source material, please use the following guidelines:

·         For Art Quotes:  “Quote A-M, Topham, WIWA” (with the appropriate letter, of course) 

·         For quotes by artists on the “What is a Work of Art?” page: “Artist, in Topham, WIWA.”

·         In either case, I will allow you to use WIWA for “What Is a Work of Art?”

This draft is due on Tuesday.  I would like it emailed as a Word file and brought in as a hard copy. Parameters: 2 pages, double spaced, 12-point Times New Roman or similar font, one inch margins.  Place your name, the date, and the title in a header.

CW: There are two assignments.

1. Write a new draft of a piece that you have had some opportunity to get feedback on already.  This would be, if a second draft, a red draft, and if a third draft, a blue draft.  Please do this early in the weekend if possible and send it to me by email; I would like the opportunity to provide FB so that, next week, you might if you choose move to even further drafts.
2. The new prompt for this weekend is a Name piece: write a piece--I called it an "essay" but it could be anything; heck, it could even be a poem, I suppose--about your name.  You've been wearing this thing like an invisible necklace since you were born and perhaps you've never given it much thought; well, it's time to do so.  Write your piece about what your name means to you: give the piece some attitude.  You may take any tactic you'd like: explore the sound of the name, as I did in my example; think of the history of your name, as one girl did in an IATE Best of Illinois piece a couple of years ago; reveal your comic side through the silliness of your name, as a young man did several years ago in another IATE winning piece; make metaphors out of your name; find ways in which your name reflects you as a person; show how your name doesn't fit you at all; think about the derivative forms of your name or the fact that it lacks any; focus on your last name only or your first name only or all of your names...there are just so many possibilities.  Anyway, see what you can do with this, and bring it in on Tuesday.

And, oh yes, GO SCOUTS!

(And have a great weekend, folks!)