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Due for July 30

1.  re-do Poetics paper
2.  list 3 favorite "buddies" or "couples" movies
3.  Set up "Act I" of American Beauty
4.  continue (start) Morning Pages
5.  continue Accountability Partners

300 WORDS - on a critical reading of .

Aristotle Poetics  (2ndary source)...  Capture what Aristotle says about these components of drama:

• action
• structure:  beginning middle end - later, the 5 parts
• episodic moments
• revolution
• discovery
• conditions turning into their opposite
• the hierarchy of development of tragic plot:  what's best, second  best, and worst 

What do YOU "get" from reading this piece?

1. What is the outstanding bit that inspires or frightens YOU?
2. Does he have "sources"?  What?  From where does he "get" this?
3. What seems to be his purpose or motive in this instruction on writing?

350 400 words  (1.5 - 2 pages)  300 WORDS - Due July 17
This is to be a minimum of three paragraphs.  Why?
This is to have a compelling title, i.e., not "Aristotle Poetics"

Becket: bare bones

The story:
A man who believes in nothing, a man who has "a void" inside, a man who has been given all kinds of unexpected rewards finds something to believe in. Another man who has everything has nothing.  Their fates knit together - can you describe "the sweater" their yarns create?
This is a story of politics and the soul.  Can you imagine a story so profound be told of those who rule our world today?

Do you love Amy Winehouse?

films about values and thinking

• Star Wars
• The Godfather (I)
• Full Metal Jacket
• Natural Born Killers
• 2001 - thinking is mechanical, imposed by something outside, not innate
• Lion King
• Bambi
• Becket
• American Psycho
• Kill Bill
• Masculine Feminine

Action is action; action comes from ideas
Ideas and thinking come from values

Characters (forces) in Wall Street

1. Father
2. Son: Bud Fox
3. Son's boss
4. Son's co-workers
5. Son's college buddy: (Spader)
6. Hal Holbrick (God figure)
7. "the girl"
8. Gekko
9. Sir Larry
10. The union folks
11. The U.S. Attorney's Office

you want to pick two and state their objectives How did their objectives get whirled around by the two plot points?

the target of opinon

When we give an opinion, sometimes we say more about ourselves that that about which we express the opinion.   We may think we are assessing the thing or the idea or the target, but we say something about ourselves.  Hence we want to take care when we analyse a film that we take the film on its own terms and assess it according to whether it succeeded in its own terms.

No problem with the emotional responses to the film we saw.  That's part of it, too.  It is just that we do not want to stop there.

Good group!  Lively!

Alas! The five actions for our writing assignment are:

1. Phone rings
2. Running for your life
3. Scavenging for food
4. Trying to understand
5. Writing on the board

Agenda Week 2

R E V E L A T I O N
One Word Improvisations - assignment (no more than 2 pages)
Blog - show and tell
cartoon
love
MP - questions

Business Letter:  assignment
Read 1st three chapters of Zissner book.

4:45  "Is this movie good?"  why? why not?  how? what didn't it do or couldn't it do or could it have done?

NEXT WEEK

Grammar exercises (fun ones)
Quads - and an assignment

Agenda Week 1

Introduction:  Vonnegut

Table of writing (syllabus and this blog:  the table)  Stages of the writing process

Yourself as a writer (no name)  - 7 groups of 2:   Feedback (names) then return to creator for revisions- due next weekVideo - two posts down:  on revising.   Hand in next week.   around 300 words.
"Research" and "critical thinking":   Aristotle assignment
Map writing
Blog sign ups

Morning pages assignment - and test it here

Syllabus

Assumptions Predictions

what is your position - your belief, your position, your knowledge - on capitalism, efficiency, and automation?

250 words  . . .  then