San Francisco Chronicle

Working with your blog group members, describe what you know at this point about any partners or spouses for each of the daughters, Jing-mei, Rose, Lena, and Waverly. Do you notice any patterns that are similar between some or all four? What possible explanation can you find between their relationship with their mother and what you know about their partner(s) or lack thereof?

Devote 10 minutes to a collective response and compose a single post on your group blog. Try to find a relevant image to accompany your post.

The Joy Luck Club

If you are interested in producing a response to The Joy Luck Club, please submit your proposal for how you would like to respond as a reply to this post before class on Tuesday, October 29.

Your working thesis should be in the form of a concise, clear, and specific claim. Examples:

1. Elite gymnasts develop increased spatial awareness due to the importance of balance in performing routines.
2. Our brains can be manipulated, without our awareness, to think or act a certain way through subtle changes in our environment.
3. Our unconscious body language can influence the way others perceive us.
4. Intense musical training from a young age can can enhance apparently unrelated cognitive functions like verbal memory.
5. Please submit your working thesis before you go to bed Monday, October 7.

If you did not present in class on Tuesday, October 1, please respond to this post by selecting one of the time slots to present next week. Please plan to attend for the full time slot:

Tuesday, October 1, 5:00 – 5:45 p.m.

Wednesday, October 2 11:30 – 12:00 p.m.  or 1:30 – 2:00 p.m.

Monday, October 7 9:30 – 10:00 a.m.

Monday, October 7 1:30 – 2:00 p.m.

Tuesday, October 8 10:30 – 11:00 a.m.

DC Studio

In a response to this post, include the abbreviated title (i.e. WWR or Brain), chapter number and lead author’s name for the study you want to use for your pecha-kucha presentation. You can find pdfs of these sources in Google Drive under “Composition #2.” Make sure someone else has not already selected your study by examining the responses before yours. Submit your response no later than the end of class on Thursday, September 19, 2022.

writers.com

Most of you will be at least somewhat familiar with the Japanese haiku tradition. A haiku is a short, resonant, lyrical three-line poem. The first and third lines usually have five syllables; the second has seven. Compose a haiku that captures the main feeling of your essay in this form and submit it as a reply to this post.

1. 

   HUMAN

   Select one of these speakers—other than Leonard, the first—whose message resonates with you in a particularly deep, personal way. Compose a letter of approximately 300 words that you might send to that person. There is no specific agenda for your message: You might affirm what the speaker says, offer comfort to someone in their suffering, or challenge ideas you feel are short-sighted in some way.

2. Select two other speakers whose messages are very different from one another and try to place yourself within the experience of one of them. Then compose a brief (about 250 words) dialogue in which you occupy one person’s identity in a conversation (in English) with the other.

Human transcript, Vol 1 Part 1–Love

Paladino

After reading the assignment for Composition #1, submit a working thesis for your essay as a reply to this post before noon Thursday, August 29.

gamesradar.com

In storytelling, we are always interpreting. We attach personal meaning to some details and ignore others. We have to do this; we couldn’t possibly take in everything that happens around us and we couldn’t make sense of our lives if we tried to remember all the details. For one thing, storytelling requires a reduction from the original event; for another, we typically relate our experience from our own first-person perspective.

For this exercise, choose one of your two memory narratives and reformulate it from the perspective of a third-person observer. Think about how a screenwriter might compose a script to guide a cinematographer in shooting this account of your experience as a scene in a movie. Include as much objective, sensory detail as you can in 500 words or less.

Submit your response before midnight Wednesday. August 28. Before class, post a brief, substantive response to the person who posts immediately after you.

Relate a memory that is at least two years later than your first post. Try to think of one that reflects a different aspect of your life but can still be connected to the earlier account in some meaningful way.

Submit your response as a reply to this post no later than midnight, Monday, August 26. Post a substantive comment to the individual who submitted theirs immediately before yours in the chronological queue.