Good Luck!!

Today is the last day for revisions and submissions.  If you did not attend class you will have to wait until your grade is posted on 12/17 (I will no longer be taking electronic submissions).

It was a pleasure having you for class.  Good luck on your future en-devours. Here are some words of encouragement from the great Maya Angelou:

  

Final Class Date 12/8 Update

We will be meeting in Room J 2-406 (8:00AM - 11:15AM)

• We will be using the computer lab to do our final edits, revisions, and rewrites.
• If you have your essays stored in a pin drive, make sure to bring it with you

Final Due Date & Schedule

Final Essay Due: 11/24/18

• Send by electronic submission
• Send to: jreyna_4342@southtexascollege.edu

No class meeting: 12/1/18

• I will be attending graduation ceremonies 
• Make the most of your time and work on revision during the break

I will see everyone on 12/8/18

Note: please continue to check blogger for any updates

Final Essay Prompt

Final Research Paper Options

1.       Write a 3-4 page paper on any subject related to PEDAGOGY. The essay can be off an academic article you find on JSTOR or EBSCOhost. Subjects can be related to the following:

·         Education

·         ESL

·         Critical Pedagogy

·         Art

2.       Write a 3-4 paper on one short story, or essay that we have read this semester.  Don’t just summarize; Provide your own insight and response to each work. Choose from the following:

·         Never Marry A Mexican – Sandra Cisneros

·         Eleven – Sandra Cisneros

·         Indian Camp – Ernest Hemingway

·         Three Day Blow – Ernest Hemingway

·         The End of Something – Ernest Hemingway

·         Movimientos de rebeldía y las culturas que traicionan – Gloria Anzaldúa

·         How to Tame a Wild Tongue – Gloria Anzaldúa

3.       Using a film studies approach, write a 3-4 page feminist critique on The Little Mermaid.

Essay Instructions:

-          3-4 pages

-          APA Style

-          Works Cited

-          12 pt. font

-          Times Roman

-          1 Sources (Must be from JSTOR or EBSCOhost)

MLA/APA LAB 1

Question 1:

JSTOR

Key Word: film studies

Find: Introducing Film Studies

p. 94

Cite the following APA:

“They get an introduction to film history from a point of view reflective of and grounded in my published research”

Question 2:

EBSCOhost

Key Word: film studies an introduction

Find: Irish Film and Media Studies Publication. Introduction

Cite the following in APA:

“Irish cinema has tended to be read this way too – as reflecting and reflecting on national and social concerns”

Question 3:

Book, pg. 81

Borderland / La Frontera: The New Mestiza by Gloria Anzaldúa

Cite the following in APA:

“Until I can take pride in my language, I cannot take pride in myself. Until I can accept as legitimate Chicano Texas Spanish, Tex-Mex and all the other languages I speak, I cannot accept the legitimacy of myself”

In the above passage, Anzaldúa questions her legitimacy as a person through her language and culture.

In the above passage, the author questions her legitimacy as a person through her language and culture.

JSTOR LAB 1

JSTOR & EBSCO LAB 2

Using JSTOR

Keywords: Cisneros, colonialism, Malinche

·         How many search results do you get?

·         Locate the article: “Los Milagros de la Virgen de Guadalupe: Transcion al Nuevo/Nuevo Mundos

·         Who wrote the article?

·         What journal does it appear?

·         What hear was it published

Using JSTOR

Keywords: Hemingway, Michigan, The End of Something

·         How many search results do you get?

·         Who wrote “Ernest Hemingway’s West”?

·         What journal does it appear?

·         What volume and issue?

·         How many pages is it?

Using EBSCO

Keywords: Hemingway, Michigan

·         How many search results appear?

·         Locate “Hemingway’s Michigan Landscapes” journal article

·         Who wrote it?

·         What year was it published?

·         What is the article about?

·         Where did you get the information?

Using EBSCO

Keywords: Anzaldua, Language

·         How many search results appear

·         What is “Collapsing the Binary in Gloria Anzaldua’s “Borderlands” about?

·         Who wrote it?

UPDATE

Please check previous BLOG POST.  I will see you next week.