What do you think of when you see this picture?

farm securities film

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXJ3NZr-2MU

Unit 2 Schedule and Assignments

Writing and Photography Unit 2: Let Us Now Praise Famous Men the Farm Security Administration

In this unit we will consider how photos and writing can be used to document people and place. In many ways, in this unit we will continue to question:

*What is the relationship between photography and “the truth”?

*How do these “documentary” photos, and the writing that goes with them, construct the place and the

people they document?

*What assumptions, both aesthetic and cultural, underlie the photos of Walker Evans and Dorothea Lange,

and others of the Farm Security Administration?

*How do the photos function symbolically, and how do we read them?

*Note: Let Us Now Praise Famous Men is on reserve at the library.

Works Cited Page Link / Westfield Reading and Writing Center

click here for info on making your works cited page

click here for info about making an appointment at the Westfield State Reading and Writing Center

Class Fri. 2/25: Peer Editing

1. self-reflection: what was your plan for revision after the conference? how did you implement that advice? what questions do you have?
2. announce Writing and Reading Center
3. Peer Editing:
* read your classmates' paper and answer the following questions (you may write directly on the paper, and also attach a sheet of notebook paper for the longer questions)
4. go over Works Cited page

HW: final draft due Monday. Bring Let Us Now Praise Famous Men to class Monday (you'll have reading from that book next week)

Class Fri. Feb 18

1. Five minutes writing and reflecting on William Eggleston essay assignment.
2. Discuss Questions related to William Eggleston essay.
3. Share Susan Sontag photos
4. Discuss answers to thought questions for Wednesday.
5. Share Friday Papers
6. Time-permitting: Share source summaries

HW:
Complete initial draft due Tues / Wed.
Revised draft due Fri.
Final due Mon. 2/28

*Let Us Now Praise Famous Men* by James Agee is next -- you'll need that book by 2/28

Conference Times Tues and Wed 2/22 and 2/23

Tues
IN ELY, NEXT TO SUBWAY
10:30: Kelsey, Cate S, Cara
11:15: Kelly, David
12:00: Bonita
12:45: Cait G

IN THE CLASSROOM
1:40 Joe, Bianca, Samantha


Wed.
IN ELY, NEXT TO SUBWAY
10:30: Gregg, Gabriela
12:00: Rebecca, Cassinda
12:45: Ashley, Jenn, Tori

IN THE CLASSROOM
1:40: Lindsey, Amber