Assignments: Week Ten

Monday March 10
Reading: Pierre Levy
Writing: Peer Review; Blog Post JJ (pick one of the critical terms she does use, comment on one of the images posted)
**study questions: 5, 6, 13, 18, 20

Wednesday March 12
Reading: Pierre Levy
Writing: Continue to Revise; blog post Levy

Friday March 14
Reading: Final Exam Study Guide
Writing: Final Draft Essay #6 due

Assignments Week Nine

photo: Rebecca Bowden. sidewalk, Temple and Glendale Intersection, Echo Park Los Angeles.

Monday March 3
Reading: Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Writing: Ideas Draft--please write a paragraph describing your intention/approach in the program notes, and then draw up some of your ideas for the program notes, making reference to the various *outside* research material, as you use it. Remember to force yourself to try and focus on musical details--in other words, you may want to talk about a song in general, but remember that you are supposed to deal with and analyze "salient" details of the music/musical "text."
**Remember to bring sample program notes, if you can!

Wednesday March 5
Reading: Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Writing: Email me Julia Lupton's challenge #1 (take a photo of some urban/suburban thing (attach in email) and write a caption for it, using some concept/idea that you find interesting in the Jane Jacobs reading). keep on keeping on.

Friday March 7
Reading: HCC Writer's Guide, chapter on "Analyzing Design"
Writing: Working Draft Essay #6 (bring 3 copies)
***Group "Design" Presentation (the final one!!)

Assignments: Week Eight

***Please view Porgy and Bess over the weekend! Also, in blog links, there is a collection of utube versions of "Summertime," which might be of interest!

Monday February 25
Reading: view Porgy and Bess
Writing: Final Draft Essay #5 due--upload to http://www.turnitin.com/, make sure to turn in ALL versions/drafts of Essay, including peer emails.

Wednesday February 27
Reading: prompt Essay #5, reviews of Porgy and Bess from Discovery Task
Writing: Discovery Task #4 due, post a comment to one of Porgy and Bess blog questions

Friday February 29
Reading: biographies of George Gershwin from Grove Music Online and Encyclopedia Brittanica; read "Music" chapter and opera and music terms (on blog); sample program notes (Shostakovich, on blog)
Writing: Pre-writing for Essay #6; comment on one more blog post (total: 2, for Porgy and Bess (there are 5 different choices) AND POST A COMMENT/s to the latest post called "musical notes" identifying a/some musical terms.
***Group Music Presentation Today! (please refer to revised chapter on humcore student website)

Assignments: Week Seven

Monday February 11
Conferences Scheduled; read peer drafts

Wednesday February 13
Reading: see syllabus
Writing: Discovery Task #3, Study Questions (Degenerate Art)

Friday February 15
Reading: Shostakovich Script; "Chaos..." article from Pravda (HCC Reader 134-183)
Writing: Working Draft Essay #5
Forum: 9:00-9:50 and 11:00-11:50 in Crystal Cove (with Professor Moeller and film excerpts from Lady MacBeth)

****office hours Friday changed: 12:00-1:00 in HIB 192

Assignments Week Six

for Sunday by midnight: Ideas Draft, email to me at etrapp@uci.edu and to your peer group.
for your conference: print out and read (make comments) your peers' drafts. Prepare the drafts to discuss during the conference (refer to Ideas Draft handout/blog). Conferences located at Cyber-A Cafe.

Mandatory viewing: Dmitry Shostakovich, Lady MacBeth of Mtsenk (contact me if none work).
Scheduled showings of Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District :
Mon, Feb 11, 2:00-5:00 HH 262 (max cap 82)
Mon, Feb 11, 4:00-7:00 HH 178 (max cap 139)
Tue, Feb 12, 3:00-6:00 HH 254 (max cap 50)
Tue, Feb 12, 7:30-10:20pm HH 254 (max cap 50)
Wed, Feb 13, 2:00-5:00, HSLH 100A (max cap 343)
Thu, Feb 14, 2:00-5:00, HH 108 (max cap 25)
Fri, Feb 15, 2:00-5:00, HSLH 100A (max cap 343)

Also this Week: FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15: FORUM ON NAZI FILMS WITH PROF. MOELLER IN CRYSTAL COVE AUDITORIUM: 9:00-9:50 AND 11:00-11:50

Monday February 11
Reading: Review HCC Reader 85-133\

Writing: BLog post on "Entartete"

Wednesday February 13
Reading: HCC Reader 134-183 (Lady MacBeth of Mtsenk); Writer's Handbook, Chapter 16 "Analyzing Images"
Writing: Study Questions on Degenerate Art (posted on week six of the syllabus); Discovery Task #3
Also Today: Group "Images" Presentation

Friday February 15
Reading: Writer's Handbook, Chapter 15 "Primary Sources"
Writing: Working Draft due today (please bring 4 copies)
Also Today: Group "Primary Sources" Presentation

Ideas Draft: Essay Five

1. Overall Selection—write a good page that describes how you are thinking about your overall selection. Consult the #4 of the “5 on Essay Five” Handout. Please include questions/problems. This can be more brainstorm-y in nature, or you can use it to try and generate some material for the “topic sentence” aspect of each headnote (consult #5 of the “5 on Essay Five” Handout).

2. List for the five images as you are considering:

• links to images or titles of images (whatever even minimal form of citation you have, and please note difficulties you are having with citation).
  
• The passage (with page number) of the HCC Reader that this most closely relates to (it might be several places or a paragraph, so just include where it is most strongly connected.
  
• Aspects/concepts you are considering focusing on in your headnote (i.e. remember the discussion of the Hoch/Brugman photo which included more info on the “new woman” rather than Hoch as a person or her art or her relationship with Brugman—this is the type of choice you will have to make with your image. In other words, think about what you want the image to represent).

3. For two of your images, include rough drafts of your headnotes/captions. Experiment with the rough draft—it might help you to write more and have your peers and I read it and make suggestions about what is necessary. It might help you to write out the 6 C’s more formally (i.e. to do the chart for each image). Whatever you decide, this part of the process should help you to generate material (i.e. things to say) about the images. If you are not formally using the 6 C’s (content, citation, context, connections, communication, conclusions), remember that they should be “intimately involved” in your headnote writing, but that they should also not simply be listed, and should be included as you see fit in the headnote. Read over the information on Primary Sources, #1 of “5 on Essay Five” Handout, the Writer’s Handbook (112-115), and the information on Professor Moeller’s website on primary sources. This will help you determine what is fit to print.

*******Email this to me and to your peer group by 12 midnight Sunday, February 10. Due to the fact that I will not have easy access to a computer, it is absolutely necessary that I receive the email by the deadline. Please try to cut and paste in the email rather than sending as an attachment. I realize certain typographical details won’t transfer, but I’ll be aware of this. Please print out your peers’ email drafts and spend some time reading them, making helpful comments or questions, before the peer conference on Tuesday and Wednesday.

Schedule of conferences (Location: Cyber-A Cafe)--please be considering which time works for you (these will be done in groups of three or four):
Tuesday February 12
11:00-12:00
12:00-1:00
1:00-2:00
2:00-3:00

Wednesday February 13
10:00-11:00
12:00-1:00

Assignments: Week Five

Monday February 4
Reading: see Syllabus
Writing: post comment on each of sample captions (Hoch and Schwitters) by 9 pm Sunday night & post response on the brecht blog post, "Who owns the world?"; Begin document searching--email me to ask questions about essay and images.
**turn in Study Questions (optional)

Wednesday February 6
Reading: see Syllabus, Midterm Review Sheet
Writing: study study study

Friday February 8
Midterm Exam (in Discussion Section)

Assignments Week Four

Monday January 28
Reading: HCC Reader (the Blue One) pages 35-84
Writing: Final Draft due (with Pre-writing Grid, Ideas Draft, Working Drafts, Peer Reviews & Writer's Note/Acknowledgments); please upload to http://www.turnitin.com/ (check email for course number and password)

Wednesday January 30
Reading: continue and reread HCC Reader (the Blue) pages 35-84
Writing: POST TO BLOG: 6 C's for Art Scab + one document from reader OR any of the images/artworks anywhere + mAnifestoRT? post, begin glossary work

Friday February 1
Reading: Print out and Read Essay 5 Prompt; Moeller Glossary, Blog Posts (on 3 art blogs)
Writing: Post Blog Question, Post 3 Responses to other comments, Continue to add to Moeller Glossary
***In-class: Painting Presentation (Sarah, Shannan, Rani, Jill)

Also this week: Scheduled showings of Kuhle Wampe (optional)

Mon, Jan 28: 2:00-3:20, HH 262 (max cap 82)

Tue, Jan 29, 2:00-3:20, HH 108 (max cap 25)

Thu, Jan 31, 2:30-3:50, HH 108 (max cap 25)

Fri, Feb 1, 1:00-2:20, HH 242 (max cap 25)

COMING NEXT WEEK: MIDTERM FRIDAY feb 8 2008.

Assignments Week Three

Monday January 21
Writing: email to peer (identify their concept/idea and proceed to object to their interpretation) cc to me: etrapp@uci.edu

Wednesday January 23
Reading: Alberti, chapter 3
Writing: WD due (Bring 3 copies to class), post response to one (1) of the artworks and provide an explanation of Alberti's criteria for painting and evaluate how well this painting works with it (or say why it's a good thing it doesn't)
***optional: post thesis to "Beyond Five Paragraph Essay" blog

Friday January 25
Reading: Peer drafts
Writing: Peer Review

ALSO THIS WEEK: CONFERENCES!?

Week Two: Assignments

Monday January 14
Reading: reread MSND
Writing: Ideas Draft Essay #4

Wednesday January 16
Reading: Alberti, from On Painting (39-40, 63-85)
Writing: Continue to work on Group Stagings and your own staging/essay ideas
**Group Presentations/Stagings In class

Friday January 18
Reading: Continue Alberti, review Reader Chapter 11 (Genre)
Writing: What you have so far Draft of Essay #4 due

Week One: Assignments

Monday January 7, 2008
Reading: Syllabus; Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream (Acts I & II)
Writing: Making Associations

Wednesday January 9, 2008
Reading: Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream (Acts III, IV, V); Reader chapter 12 (The Active Reading Process) 98-102; Reader Chapter 14 (Analyzing Drama) 105-111.
Writing: In-Class Diagnostic; post question to Noteboard; eee Information Literacy Quiz

Friday January 11, 2008
Reading: Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream; Essay #4 prompt; Reader chapters 11-14 (genre, the active reading process, textual analysis, analyzing drama)
Writing: Study Questions (A Midsummer Night's Dream); Pre-writing Grid and post your "Staging a Keyword" Outline to Blog