Week 5: Interviewing/Profile

Monday, Febraury 4th

  • Homework for today: Write ten interview questions you have for your profilee. Bring your printed list to class.

    Here's a link to the printed text and audio version of "A Day in the Life of a Tireless Imam."

  • Writing assignment for Wednesday: IF your proposal has been approved, you may make official contact with your selected profilee. Bring a printed copy of your contact correspondence to class on Wednesday.
  • Write at least ten more interview questions based on today's discussion/activity.
  • Reading assignment for Wednesday: Pages 445-464 in cda. Be prepared to discuss this essay in class. Pay close attention to the material before and after the actual essay "Higher Education."

    Conferences: Tuesday, February 5th & Thursday, February 7th

    Bring your Little, Brown Handbook to conferences. You will receive your evaluated Literacy Narrative and Reflection at the end of your conference.

    Wednesday, February 6th
    Today: Discussion of "Higher Education."

  • Reading assignment for Friday: pages 347-359 in cda, "analyzing documentary photography."
  • Writing assignment for Friday: using ideas and vocabulary you learned in your reading in cda, write a one-page (single-spaced) analysis of one of the photographs used in "Higher Education." How does the photograph add to the story? This assignment is worth 10 points. You will need to hand it in at the beginning of the hour.

    Computer Lab: Friday, February 8th
    Hand in your one-page analysis of one of the photographs in "Higher Education."

    Researching/interviewing activity
    Looking for/at publication venues.

  • Reading assignment for Monday: In cda, read Sarah Vowell's "The Partly Cloudy Patriot," pages 134-140 and "the pleasures of writing" and "The Declaration of Independence," pages 182-187. Don't be surprised if there's a quiz.
  • Writing assignment for Monday: Be preparing for your interview.

    Blog prompt (due by Monday, 2pm): By now you have been a member of the Purdue community for at least a semester. Describe the best place you have found in which to study. Try to use all of your senses to make this place real for the other blogger/readers. Why is this an ideal place to study? If you have not found an ideal place to study, describe the place in which you do study (and why it's not so ideal). Again, use your powers of observation. Listen. Sniff. Look around. Feel.