week 10: Kwon and essay 3

TWO OPTIONS FOR BLOG THIS WEEK!

Each option requires that you read pages 100-120 in Kwon for Monday's class. In this passage, she describes an exhibit called "Culture in Action" in Chicago that featured the following projects:
-Daniel Martinez, VinZula Kara, and the West Side Three-Point Marchers: Consequences of a Gesture and 100 Victories/10,000 Tears
-Simon Grennan and Christopher Sperandio and the Bakery, Confectionary and Tobacco Workers' International Union of America Local No. 552: We Got It!
-Haha and Flood: A Volunteer Network for Active Participation in Healthcare: Flood
-Inigo Manglano-Ovalle and Street-Level Video: Tele Vecindario
-Mark Dion and the Chicago Urban Ecology Action Group: The Chicago Urban Ecology Action Group
-Kate Ericson, Mel Ziegler, and Ogden Court Apartments: Eminent Domain
-Robert Peters and Mushroom Pickers, Ghosts, Frogs and other “Others“: Naming Others: Manufacturing Yourself
I have purposefully not included Suzanne Lacey's Full Circle.

OPTION 1 BLOG, DUE AT 6 pm SUNDAY:
Choose one of these projects and do some brief research so that you have a better idea about it. You may need to find an article in an art journal database or a book in the library. You will need to use an ART database, as you won't have much luck with the history or science databases we used for the last essay. HINT: Kwon also discusses these projects more in her text so you can look into them there.

Then choose a ONE SENTENCE QUOTE from the Kwon reading and use it as a lens for analysis of the project. Remember the strategies we have reviewed from the last Writing Analytically reading. How can you create a conversation between the quote and the project you have chosen? Paraphrase the quote and, if appropriate, use your source to ask a question about the project.

OPTION 2 BLOG, DUE 12 noon THURSDAY:
Attend the Mary Jane Jacob lecture on Tuesday. TAKE NOTES! Write about it in your blog as it relates to a ONE SENTENCE QUOTE from the Kwon reading. You will still need to have the reading completed for Monday's class, but you will have until Thursday to blog about it as it relates to the Tuesday lecture

Monday 29 October:
screening of Couple in a Cage & discussion about "Culture in Action". Bring one question and one comment in your notebook.

Tuesday 30 October 7pm:
Mary Jane Jacob lecture in Arnold M. Grant Auditorium

Wednesday 31 October:
HW: study for Grammar Slammer test
BLOG: Post your subject matter for essay 3 with the following components:
1-CHOOSE the art project your essay will be about
2-TWO questions you have about the project
3-LIST of 4 books or articles (no internet resources) about your subject. You may edit this list later, but for now, you want to investigate the range of possibilities. You don't need to read or print them yet, but you do need to indicate title of the article, journal title, and author.

Thursday 1 November, 12 noon:
OPTION 2 BLOG DUE

Friday 2 November:
BLOG HW: Post an outline for your essay with:
1-TOPIC SENTENCE for each paragraph, in order of appearance. Before you write your topic sentence, make sure you have decided WHAT QUESTION IS THE PARAGRAPH ADDRESSING? Note that each paragraph doesn't need to literally ask a question (you may not have a question mark in sight), nor does it need to literally answer a question, but a question, conundrum, dilemma, or complexity should be at the heart of each paragraph. Can you work with the questions from your last blog entry?
2-2 versions of the THESIS, for beginning and end of your essay. Don't just reword it. HOW WILL IT EVOLVE?
3-ONE QUOTE from 2 of the journals and the 2 textbooks that you plan to use. By this point you should have started reading and reviewing your sources for the essay.