Given our own tracing assignment and what we learned about Alison Bechdel’s meticulous drawing process, I thought you’d find this recent post by Kyle Baker (remember Nat Turner?) about learning and copying from photographs.
Author: Professor Sample
Weekly Roundup on “Swallow Me Whole” (April 5-7)
If you’re in group 1, you’re responsible for this week’s weekly roundup. Each student in the group will highlight one key moment from the previous week’s online and in-class discussions. To recall the syllabus:
Follow this formula for the highlights: describe the moment (provide the context and the facts about what you saw, read, or heard), interpret the meaning of the moment (what does it mean?), and evaluate its significance (in other words, why was the moment important?).
You can post your highlight in the comments below (or in a separate post).
Weekly Roundup on Fun Home (March 22-24)
If you’re in group 5, you’re responsible for this week’s weekly roundup. Each student in the group will highlight one key moment from the previous week’s online and in-class discussions. To recall the syllabus:
Follow this formula for the highlights: describe the moment (provide the context and the facts about what you saw, read, or heard), interpret the meaning of the moment (what does it mean?), and evaluate its significance (in other words, why was the moment important?).
You can post your highlight in the comments below (or in a separate post).
Weekly Roundup on Maus II (March 8-10)
If you’re in group 4, you’re responsible for this week’s weekly roundup. Each student in the group will highlight one key moment from the previous week’s online and in-class discussions. To recall the syllabus:
Follow this formula for the highlights: describe the moment (provide the context and the facts about what you saw, read, or heard), interpret the meaning of the moment (what does it mean?), and evaluate its significance (in other words, why was the moment important?).
You can post your highlight in the comments below (or in a separate post).
Maus and the Problem of Taxonomy
I mentioned in class on Tuesday that the New York Times originally listed Maus II as a nonfiction bestseller. Here’s the letter to the editor that Art Spiegelman wrote in response.
Weekly Roundup on Maus I (March 1-3)
If you’re in group 3, you’re responsible for this week’s weekly roundup. Each student in the group will highlight one key moment from the previous week’s online and in-class discussions. To recall the syllabus:
Follow this formula for the highlights: describe the moment (provide the context and the facts about what you saw, read, or heard), interpret the meaning of the moment (what does it mean?), and evaluate its significance (in other words, why was the moment important?).
You can post your highlight in the comments below (or in a separate post).
Weekly Roundup on We3 (February 22-24)
If you’re in group 2, you’re responsible for this week’s weekly roundup. Each student in the group will highlight one key moment from the previous week’s online and in-class discussions. To recall the syllabus:
Follow this formula for the highlights: describe the moment (provide the context and the facts about what you saw, read, or heard), interpret the meaning of the moment (what does it mean?), and evaluate its significance (in other words, why was the moment important?).
You can post your highlight in the comments below.
Weekly Roundup on Nat Turner (February 15-17)
If you’re in group 1, you’re responsible for this week’s weekly roundup. Each student in the group will highlight one key moment from the previous week’s online and in-class discussions. To recall the syllabus:
Follow this formula for the highlights: describe the moment (provide the context and the facts about what you saw, read, or heard), interpret the meaning of the moment (what does it mean?), and evaluate its significance (in other words, why was the moment important?).
You can post your highlight in the comments below.
History and Graphic Novels
As I mentioned in class, a group of people are editing an annotated list of graphic novels explicitly dealing with historical events or themes. Everyone in ENGL 300 is welcome to edit the document as well: Historical Graphical Novels.
Weekly Roundup (February 8-10)
If you’re in group 6, you’re responsible for this week’s weekly roundup. Each student in the group will highlight one key moment from the previous week’s online and in-class discussions. To recall the syllabus:
Follow this formula for the highlights: describe the moment (provide the context and the facts about what you saw, read, or heard), interpret the meaning of the moment (what does it mean?), and evaluate its significance (in other words, why was the moment important?).
You can post your highlight in the comments below.
Weekly Roundup (February 1-3)
If you’re in group 5, you’re responsible for this week’s weekly roundup. Each student in the group will highlight one key moment from the previous week’s online and in-class discussions. To recall the syllabus:
Follow this formula for the highlights: describe the moment (provide the context and the facts about what you saw, read, or heard), interpret the meaning of the moment (what does it mean?), and evaluate its significance (in other words, why was the moment important?).
You can post your highlight in the comments below.
Welcome to ENGL 300
Welcome to the class blog for ENGL 300 (Spring 2011), at George Mason University. This site will be an essential component of the course…as you will soon discover.
If you are a student in ENGL 300, you can go ahead and register for the blog. You may also browse the class guidelines and calendar. And I’ll see you at noon on Tuesday, January 25, in 215G Innovation Hall!