Reading and Writing Texts

Here’s your final project & paper assignment. The first draft of the project only is due for peer editing on Tuesday, 5/1.

Here are six options for earning extra points for your semester grade. Option 3 requires this sheet, which we used earlier in the semester.

After watching this video featuring artist Kara Walker, study the selection of her silhouette pieces posted on e-reserves. Choose one silhouette and explain how its form conveys its content. You may draw on the video, but be sure to also identify and discuss specific aspects of your chosen piece.

In case you missed class on 4/12, here is the peer-editing worksheet geared toward improving the argumentation of your third major paper.

This sheet has all the details about your third major paper. Please read it carefully and contact Mary Catherine or myself if you have questions.

Remember to meet on Tuesday in the Library Instruction Room. Atttendance will be taken!

What events or social changes do Wieviorka’s second and third chapter titles, “The Advent of the Witness” and “The Era of the Witness,” refer to?  What challenges do they pose for the historian?

How is historian Peter Ripley’s approach to Douglass’s Narrative different from that of the literary scholars we have studied (Andrews and/or McBride)?  Which of the assumptions discussed in Appleby, Hunt, and Jacob’s chapter “Scientific History and the Idea of Modernity” can you identify as informing Ripley’s study?

This one  has advice for interpreting your peer’s feedback on it.

The first draft of this paper is due 3/8 and the final 3/20.

How does Andrews argue that Douglass’s narration was shaped to fit particular literary forms?