South America: Argentina
Today we will start our exploration of other cultures and voices starting with the continent of South America (students overall voted S. America as one of their top 3 choices on the survey).
Let's start with a little knowledge. Take the map test on the countries in South America. How did you do? Do you know, for example, where Bolivia is, or Brazil, or Peru?
Today we will start our world tour with Argentina. After the quiz (this is not graded), please take a moment or two and read the notes handed out to you with a partner. Find at least one item on these notes that you find interesting or valuable. Consider what you know about the life and culture in Argentina, if anything. Share your ideas or opinions.
Then let's get cracking reading some contemporary Argentinian writers. We will read these stories and collection of poems out loud together as a class. After each story or collection of poems, please respond to what you have read. Your response should be a creative one. If you have an idea for a story, start writing. If you have a comment about the story, start writing. If you have an idea for a character or a setting or a theme or a style, start writing. If it reminds you of something in your own experience, start writing. Start writing.
Comic Book Script Project: please keep working on this on your own time. We're going to be spending more time in class in class, not so much in the lab working on the portfolio, so find a way to keep working on your script, if you have not finished it yet. The comic book script and 1 page of design is due when I collect the portfolio.
HOMEWORK: None, but you may want to continue working on your project or start a new poem, story, play, essay, etc. from what you wrote today. All drafts should be collected in your portfolio.
Let's start with a little knowledge. Take the map test on the countries in South America. How did you do? Do you know, for example, where Bolivia is, or Brazil, or Peru?
Today we will start our world tour with Argentina. After the quiz (this is not graded), please take a moment or two and read the notes handed out to you with a partner. Find at least one item on these notes that you find interesting or valuable. Consider what you know about the life and culture in Argentina, if anything. Share your ideas or opinions.
Then let's get cracking reading some contemporary Argentinian writers. We will read these stories and collection of poems out loud together as a class. After each story or collection of poems, please respond to what you have read. Your response should be a creative one. If you have an idea for a story, start writing. If you have a comment about the story, start writing. If you have an idea for a character or a setting or a theme or a style, start writing. If it reminds you of something in your own experience, start writing. Start writing.
Comic Book Script Project: please keep working on this on your own time. We're going to be spending more time in class in class, not so much in the lab working on the portfolio, so find a way to keep working on your script, if you have not finished it yet. The comic book script and 1 page of design is due when I collect the portfolio.
HOMEWORK: None, but you may want to continue working on your project or start a new poem, story, play, essay, etc. from what you wrote today. All drafts should be collected in your portfolio.
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