Class Notes 3-13: Orders of Business

I'm going to combine class notes from Wednesday, March 8th and Monday, March 13th because those two classes worked together. In those classes, we viewed a sequence of film clips, reacted to the clips in writing, and then discussed our notes together.

Thank you for your feedback on the class survey I handed out yesterday. Your answers provided me a new concept about how class will run over the long term; you can feel assured that your suggestions and ideas will have a direct effect on how we use our class time together.

I can say this already: we're going plan a peer review around our second film essay, we're going to continue with regular class writing and writing instruction, and we're going to find ways to work in groups more often. All of these ideas seem good.

I want to remind you that if you want me to re-read your Slavery Exhibition papers, you should revise and turn those in by next week. I should add that my expectations for any writing you produce for this course will always revolve around a few eternal ideas: the writing should have an interesting focus, it should analyze the observations it records, and the writing should have a basic organization and polish. You should always go beyond reporting observations, and you should regularly reflect on why certain ideas or details draw your attention.

Remember, on Monday we'll meet on the Student Union's 4th Floor to catch the second half of the "Women and Iraq" lecture. I'll try to be there by 10:30. If you can get there earlier, too, I encourage it. And remember, we should try to keep our entrance quiet.