Writing Across Cultures

 After our viewing of the Crash Course video and completing the slideshow on Quizezz, we'll workshop a couple student poems and then take about 20 minutes of class to write (or continue writing) your MCAAD American Dream response (a poem, story, essay of 1,000 words or less).  With whatever time we have left in class, we will begin reading and discussing the "myth" of the American Dream. The materials we do not get to in class should be read and "responded to" in a creative way that might be incorporated into your creative draft, or they may simply be used as models for your own writing, or they may be discussion points as we examine this topic.  [A reminder that the MCAAD contest has a quick turnaround deadline: September 21st by 3:00. The problem here is that without drafts to revise, many of you will not risk submitting your draft to the contest. The delay of school this year has caused some issues, alas. To help, anyone who wishes to enter the contest Monday

Welcome, Class of 2021! Well met by moonlight...or distance learning rather.  Please use this blog, our Google Classroom, and the various websites (you can find them on the pages in the header...) to help you find and keep track of your assignments this year.  Welcome to Writing Across Cultures, your senior capstone course!  The fundamental idea of this course is to use our research, reading, and discussion or responses to a variety of important topics to inspire our artistic and academic impulses. Secondly, it is a course that urges the artist to depict him or herself in relation to or as  the other . We will be examining power structures and hegemonies, cultural groups, and cultural artifacts and ideas in relation to each other. We will use this topic to reach a more universal and engaged POV about our own selves, our own cultures, and the world audience itself. This course is a literature course, a course in ideas, as well as a practice fr om which to write and capture authentic voi

The District has  adjusted the start of our school year to include four Superintendent’s Conference Days from Tuesday, September 8 through Friday, September 11. Students will begin their classes online on Monday, September 14.  See you then!