English 505

"Hotel Rwanda" spurred some very interesting class discussions. Confronted with a subject they knew little about, the students were unable to rely of pre-formed opinions handed down from Ma-and-Pa or Fox News or high school classmates, and instead had to grapple with forming their own ideas. There was real critical thinking going on in my classroom ... I was near-giddy with excitement!

This week, they begin work on their Visual Rhetoric Projects, the structure and content of which they will then justify in Essay #2. As always, assignment sheets will be posted on my child page of "106 Materials".