Week 3 Agenda [Tentative]
Tuesday, September 12th
- Matthew Betancourt:
- Moore, “A Closer Look: ‘Ah Wilderness!’ by Dinty Moore” (113-131) & Shteyngart, “Behind Closed Doors at Hotels” (available under READINGS)
- Discuss Essay #: Nature/Travel Essay
- Homework
- start drafting your Nature/Travel Essay in Google Drive
- create a new file in your Google Drive shared folder and name it NatureEssay-YourFullName or TravelEssay-YourFullName (Ex. TravelEssay-AndrewZimmern)
- for the full guidelines to this assignment, visit ESSAY #1: NATURE/TRAVEL ESSAY
- read/print/bring the following for discussion to class on Thursday:
- Hessler, “Tales of the Trash” (available under READINGS)
- Moore, “Of Conflict” (99-112)
- post Reading Response #4 on our course blog by midnight on Wednesday, 9/13
Thursday, September 14th
- Quiz #3
- Claudia Anzaldua: Hessler, “Tales of the Trash” (available under READINGS) & Moore, “Of Conflict” (99-112)
- Homework
- continue drafting your Nature/Travel Essay
- read/print/bring the following for discussion to class on Thursday:
- Marx, “A Tale of a Tub” (available under READINGS)
- Moore, “Writing the Humorous Essay” (159-165)
- post Reading Response #5 on our course blog by midnight on Monday, 9/18
