Discussion Board Posting 7, due 11/17, by 11pm, est.In preparation for your final project, in your seventh posting you will assert a thesis in your seventh posting regarding Never Let Me Go that you will support by analyzing evidence, including least one quotation from the second third of the novel one quotation or point from a scholarly journal article that you select on your own. Your response can continue along similar lines as those you explored in Posting 6, addressing different examples.
You will respond to one of the following questions: 1.) How is Never Let Me Go relevant in today's world? What in them should readers know about? What in the text allows us to better understand our world and what light does our world shed on that of the text? 2.) What is the role of power in Never Let Me Go? How is it similar to or differ from the ways we have seen power function in at least one other text we have read this term? Why is this similarity or difference significant? 3.) How does Never Let Me Go allow us to better understand technology, art, or the intersection of the two? What does it teach us? You can select a journal article from the folder in our Google Drive. Your posting will be 250 words and can take the shape of one paragraph or a short introduction and a body paragraph. As you write about your secondary source, use at least one template from They Say, I Say. Take a look at the sample essay in the chapter devoted to revising for examples of ways to incorporate and analyze secondary sources. You might ask yourself what you were able to see in Woolf’s essay as a result of what you learned in the secondary source, or what you agreed or disagreed with in the article and why this matters. Make sure to cite all sources you consult, use quotations appropriately, and cite page numbers in parentheses when referring to or paraphrasing an idea. Depending on the form your final project takes, you might incorporate analysis of a similar kind in it (or incorporate the contents of this posting if it fits), or revise it as a dialogue. If you work on a different text or writer or text, you will take a similar approach, investigating what has been written in journals and considering ideas and concepts that are related to what you would like to discuss (there is also a folder of articles on Frankenstein and film adaptations, for instance, in our Google Drive folder). Check out the sample script in our Google Drive folder for an example. You can add your posting to the Discussion Board by clicking 'create thread.' The postings will be graded using the Discussion Board Posting Rubric.
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Discussion Board Posting 6 due 11/10, by 11pm, est.In preparation for your final projects, you will each make three to five minute screencasts using Screencastomatic. In your video, you will answer one of the following questions, analyzing at least two quotations from the first third of Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go to support your point, and showing passages, highlighting words, and explaining how the text makes meaning as you analyze them in your video.
It may help to pair passages that address different facets of a concept or show the progression of a theme. Remember to draw conclusions and begin by stating them. You can also include typed passages or images or media as you explain your points. Get creative!
You can either share your video to the discussion board, clicking ‘create new thread,’ or if the file is too large, share it to our folder on google drive and put a link to it on the discussion board. On Google Drive, go to Advanced and under sharing options, you should limit access to 'certain members,' which makes it accessible to those who already are added to the folder. Remember to cite all sources you consult, including a works cited page in your video. This list should include sources and links for images or media you include. You will be graded using the Discussion Board Posting Rubric from the Posting 1 assignment. You should comment on at least one of your classmates' videos within 48 hours of the deadline. Discussion Board Posting 5 - Due 10/26, by 11pm, est.2018 marked the two hundredth anniversary of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, a pioneering novel that draws our attention to the ethical complexities of technology and humanity. This novel has also inspired innumerable film adaptations that reshape and revisit issues at stake in the novel. This recent video addressing the impact of these adaptations is useful for considering the impact of these ideas and is a great example of the type of format that you might take on in your final projects this term, though your projects will be on a smaller scale.
For this discussion board posting, you will view one film adaptation of the novel, such as Mel Brooks’s comedy, Young Frankenstein or the early film, Frankenstein (1931). Responding to the following prompt in at least 250 words, your discussion board posting will assert a thesis that analyzes evidence to support it. Make sure to identify what film you selected. Laura Mulvey argued that films depict women through the male gaze. How is this or is this not present in the film? Select one moment on which to focus. How is this made more complex by the fact that the novel the film adapts is by a female writer? Note: Your response need not focus on a female character. How do you think, in light of Mulvey's view, we see Dr. Frankenstein or his creation, the monster, differently? Do you think the text or its adaptations reflects the fact that it is by a woman writer? How might the film adaptation complicate the perspective of the novel? Analyze at least one quotation from and one moment in the film, including a screenshot (Jing may be helpful for this). Use the strategies from They Say/I Say for incorporating quotations and introducing sources. The sample essay in chapter 11 devoted to revising your work may be helpful. You will be graded using the discussion board posting rubric. You are also required to comment on at least one of your classmates' postings within 48 hours of the deadline for this assignment. Remember to use your own words, quote appropriately, and cite all sources you consult. |