Koyaanisqatsi Blog

Please write for 5 minutes about what you saw/liked/interpreted in/about/from Godfrey Reggio's film, Koyaanisqatsi.

Please leave your initials at the end of your post. Thank you!

"Love, Your Only Mother" Blog

After reading "Love, Your Only Mother," you should consider what makes the letters from the narrator's mother so haunting and so difficult to bear.

Using what you believe to be the voice of the mother, please write a letter to the daughter/narrator.

At the top, please indicate where you are by city/location, and please date the letter. Dating this letter could bring about some interesting historical events that you may or may not want to mention.

Try to stay consistent with the clues/textual details we are given in the story, and make this as interesting as you can.

Sign it with a salutation similar to "Love, Your Only Mother." You can be as creative as you want here.

Be sure to leave your initials at the end of your entry. Thank you!

Objective Correlative Blog

After checking under SF Documents, reading the Objective Correlative Writing Assignment, and typing the assignment; please copy and paste your Word document on the blog.

Leave your initials at the end.

Thank you!

"January 13" Inspirational Blog

Rick Bass directs his readers to think about life's burning questions in his story, "January 13."

Please choose one of the following questions about which you will comment:

1. How might you "remember to look at [life] like a child?" (224). What does this mean to you?

2. After reading Bass' advice, "Take nothing for granted," please consider the things in your life that you have absolutely taken for granted. How will you make a concerted effort to live your life to the fullest?

After choosing one of the previous questions, please write an entry that would equal one page on a Word document. Deeply consider these questions before beginning your entry.

Remember to leave your initials at the end. Please email me your entry if it doesn't post.

Thank you all!

Tone Vocabulary Blog

Please pick 3 tone words from the Tone Vocabulary List under SF Documents on the class web page. If you do not know the meanings of these words, then you need to look them up.

Please write the 3 words as the first part of your entry. Then, without telling, please write a passage--no fewer than 10 lines--that exhibits ONE of the tone words.

Try to be grammatically correct and creative, and please write your initials at the end of the entry.

We will use your entries as part of an in-class game/activity involving tone.

Thank you!

San Francisco Blog

After reading your email, reading the story, and discussing the story as a group, your group should be ready to analyze Richard Brautigan's "The Weather in San Francisco" for tone.

Using DIDLS, please pick quotations from the story that prove each letter of DIDLS. Write the letter represented from DIDLS, write your quote, and then explain how the quote applies to that aspect of DIDLS/Tone. At the end of your DIDLS, please write a short synopsis of your group's overall reaction to the story. Be as detailed as possible.

Due at the end of class on Friday, 4/1

Thank you!

"Vernon, Florida" Blog

Please respond responsibly to each of these questions.

Questions to consider:

1. Why did Errol Morris make this film?

2. What does the film say about our world/the world around us?

3. What did you find interesting in this film?

4. With what do you empathize in this film?

5. With what do you sympathize in this film?

6. Who was the most fascinating person to you and why?

7. If you had a camera pointed at you right now, what story would you tell?

After answering each of the questions, please respond to the documentary with anything you haven't written/said yet. Please leave your initials at the end of your entry. Thank you!