Welcome to the class blog for E344L: The
American South in Literature, Film and Other Media. Here, we will post
our responses to the readings for the day. Each student has to post at
least six times in the course of the semester, and will have signed up
for posting dates early on. When it is your posting date, do one of two
things:
Option 1: Create a new post. In that post, consider one "moment" in the reading that strikes you as particularly significant, and that you think illustrates what the author or creator is getting at by showing us what he or she is showing us. Think about what the "point" of the story, novel, film, or other text is, or what "argument" the author is making about a given theme with this text.
Quote that moment, and then then write a short paragraph in which you explain why you chose it and why you think it is so significant for the author's argument.
Finally, write a short discussion question that this moment leads you to think about. What does this moment make you speculate about that you'd like the whole class to think consider?
Option 2: Comment on someone else's post. If,
when you login to the blog, someone else has already chosen the moment
that you were going to choose, you don't have to create a new post (or
choose a different moment). Instead, you can add a comment to someone
else's post. In a short paragraph, explain how and why you agree or
disagree with the previous poster's interpretation, and explain how you
would expand on it (or alter it). Your comment should not be an answer
to the previous poster's discussion question; it should be a reaction to
their interpretation of the quote.
Following your comment, add your own discussion question--again, one that you'd like the whole class to consider.
Following your comment, add your own discussion question--again, one that you'd like the whole class to consider.
We'll go over your posts, comments, and
questions in class.
In addition to your required posts, you are welcome to add videos, music
files, images, and anything else that you think we should bring into
our class discussion of a text. I'm looking forward to seeing what you
come up with!
