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ENGLISH 145Discussion on Social ClassBrainstroming/Drafting Multigenre/multimodal work

+Bonus Point: University Event

Wellness and Environmental Fair: Healthy you, healthy earth.

Great event for those of you who are doing research on mental and physical health. You can use this as part of your data!

November 17th Brown Ballroom10 AM TO 3:00 PM.

+Reminders

Continue your data collection. For next class, bring hard-copy and electronic versions of all your data with you. On Thursday, we will do some preliminary data analysis with those who have some data. Even though it’s only one interview, bring it with you. If you don’t have any data yet, bring all the electronic sections of your SAPs.

Movie Reviews are due on November 18. Make your decision and report back on Thursday.

Still Having trouble collecting data? See me in my office hours ASAP. I’m here to help.

Readings for next Tuesday’s discussion will be on the impact of globalization. They are posted in the digital reserve of English department. If you have not presented yet, come and see me after-class.

Next Thursday (Nov. 13th)-- No Class-- Extra time for your data collection

+Agenda

Updates from the field. Sharing data collection experiences in your blogs.

Class Discussion on Social Class

What’s multigenre? What’s multimodal text?

Brainstroming/drafting possible multigenre assignments

+Wealth disparity in the U.S

Focus: Racial Differences in Wealth accumulation in the U.S.

Questions: Why do the wealth portfolios of blacks and whites vary so drastically?

What type of obstacles and challenges do college students from different class background experience? Are they disconnected to the college environment? Are there any discouragement and a sense of inadequacy due to language and cultural differences?

+Let’s do the social class questionnaire together and conduct some data analysis Answer the Social class questionnaire of our Discussion

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Exchange your answers with one of your classmates. Read and analyze the answers carefully. If there are any questions you have, ask your classmate to elaborate for you.

Write one paragraph about the main themes that emerge from your classmates social class questionnaire? What are some of your findings of the survey questionnaire?

+Blogging/Free writing on Social Class and wealth disparities

What are the three racial differences in wealth accumulation in the U.S. the author mentioned in the article?

Who did they interview to explore the wealth disparities in races?

What were the authors findings article? What themes emerged from this study?

What solution in regard to policies do the authors recommend to eradicate racial inequality in wealth between races?

Based on what you read in “Working-class students speak out”, What’s your story of coming to college? What obstacles, incentives, and challenges do you experience in college? Which speaker did you most relate to?

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CONVERTING YOUR SAPs TO A MULTIGENRE PRESENTATION

+What is a genre?

Genre (noun)

1: a kind of literary or artistic work

2: a style of expressing yourself in writing [syn: writing style, literary genre]

3: a class of artistic endeavor having a characteristic form or technique.”

+Multigenre writing: A creative component of your SAPs

A multi-genre project is a project that will use a mix of genres to create your own work based on your SAPs.

The main aim of this project is to help you explore a social action issue that you care and more importantly expand your understanding of genre and academic writing. You will be given a chance to use a wide range of genres in your own creative projects.

Remember that your presentation must contain at least two “genres”

+REMEMBER THAT YOU ARE LIMITED ONLY BY YOUR IMAGINATIONS!

+A list of genres

1. Picture book/Comic Strip

2. Poetry/song lyrics

3. Chart or Diagram with Explanation and Analysis

4. Brochure or Newsletter

5. Time Line or Chain of Events

6. Magazine or TV Advertisement or Infomercial

7. Leaflet/Poster Brochure Description

8. Short Story

9. Pop-up book

10. Newspaper article

+More Genres you can try

Poems for two voices

Photograph poem

Haiku

Third person narrative

Interior Monolog

Dialog (written in play format)

feature stories

Dear Abby

Comic strip

Labyrinthine sentences

Lists

Repetitions

Memos

Business letters

Friendly letters

+Derek’s multi-genre project on Post-traumatic Stress Disorder

+Mick’s Multi-genre project on DUI experience

+Working on your multigenre presentation

Use more than one genre. Make your decision soon so you can get started.

Make sure that your multi-genre assignment is both text-heavy and visual-heavy.

Have a logical order between slides, parts, sections if you have any.

Make sure you include your Research Focus.

Inform and persuade your audience ( I would encourage you to use your lit/ review, interview quotes, survey results, and an “action plan”)

+What is multimodal?

Multimodal assignments take advantage of Web 2.0 technologies that include social networking sites such as MySpace, Facebook, file sharing sites such as Flickr, and an emphasis on immediate, content-driven publication rather than a knowledge of programming skills (Peek 17).

Gaining successful communication skills in paper and electronic environments.

For the presentation of your SAP, you can also make use of various social networking sites (facebook, twitter, wikis, blogs)

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Videos: Imovies, youtube.

Making your graphic videos:

http://www.xtranormal.com/

Wordpress:

http://wordpress.com/

Blogger

Blogger.com

Powerpoint

Use of microsoft powerpoint slides

For multimodal presentations, you will find your own sources. Here are some you can use:

+Multigenre/multimodal writing

Similar to standard research papers Select a topic/interest Conduct research using

standard methods Collect information Process information Analyze data Present your findings

with an academic language.

Different than standard research papers Writings of different

genres/creative pieces Writer is personally

engaged Inclusion of visual

elements Includes audio-video

text, podcasts. Powerpoint

presentations

+Planning Through Mapping

Make a semantic map of your plan for your multigenre report. (Feel free to use google to see what genres are used to explore the social issue you’re working on)

Place your topic in the center.

Surround your topic with the genre writings you plan on using.

+ Researching and becoming experts on the features of your selected genres

1) How is this genre used? What are the main features of it?

2) What is an example of your genre?

3) Find a visual of the format

4) Why do you think this genre (or the collection of genres) will be a good way to promote your SAPs?

+Blog about your plans in multigenre/multimodal component of your SAP

A project on: WWI

“There are many genres I could use to show my information. I will use brochures to show which countries were involved in World War I, a timeline to illustrate the causes of World War I, a catalog to show the variety of equipment used in the war, a poem and an editor’s column to portray people’s reactions to the war and how it affected them, and an obituary to show those who died. I can place them all in a poster with some photos and laminate the whole poster”

+Blogging about your SAP multigenre/multimodal plans

What genres do you plan on using for your SAP?

How are you planning to compose them?

What sources can you use to compose your SAP? Do you plan on using any multimedia?

What information will you be sharing in your musltigenre SAP?

+Assignment

Bring your data to class.

Work on a draft of your multigenre/multimodal presentation.

Check the movie list from your syllabus and decide what movie you would like to see