Loving the Limitations: iPads, Paper, and Creativity

We all know how useful and ubiquitous our digital devices are.  Paper is said often said to be too expensive, clunky, and limited.  We don't return to the typewriter; why keep paper around now that we can replace it?  I'd like to consider whether or not paper-based reading and writing are worth encouraging, and, if-so, why? 

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Week 32: Tuesday, 3/22

* Open

• Read Your Poem to the Class 
• Last Class Day to Sign Up for the AP Test or Opt Out

* Conrad :

• Get Heart of Darkness on paper if you plan to switch to this text after today (though you may start with this .pdf)
•  Annotations for Heart of Darkness:
  • Titles can be important, this one is key: annotate for physical, emotional, spiritual, and social darkness.  How many hearts of darkness do we find in this novella?
  • Kurtz is the mysterious character Marlow will have to find in the heart of the Congo River, Africa.  Annotate for the developing understanding that Marlow and you (the reader) have of Kurtz.  How does Kurtz relate to the heart of darkness? 
   

*  Out of Class Possibility: Submit Your Poem to Poetry Santa Cruz TODAY Following These Instructions: Poetry Contest Entry Form

 HW: 

Annotate and finish your outside reading novel, on paper.

Week 32: Monday, 3/21

* Open

• Sign Up for the AP Test or Opt Out, Today, Please
• Absent on Block Day: Please write your essay today during class in the hall
• Read Your Poem to the Class

Work On Annotations (Due Tomorrow)

HW: Five Correctly Formatted Annotations

• Put a normal MLA heading on the first page, please
• You should end up with five pages (no entry longer than one page)
• Do not include any sources that do not have annotations (you only have to annotate five, two of which need to be scholarly sources)
• Be sure that your scholarly sources treat credibility in their annotations (and in serious detail, not "She has a degree in the subject," or merely "this is a credible source.")

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