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Onward with Station Eleven!  Let's read Sections 5 - 7 (up to the end of Chapter 47).  As you read, let's think about how all the different narrative strands in the novel (Arthur, Kirsten, Jeevan) might or might not tie together.

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For Thursday, finish reading Paolo Bacigalupi's The Water Knife.

Let's do two things with Bacigalupi's narrative for Thursday:

  • first, if you had a chance to ask Bacigalupi two questions about his novel, what would they be?  Write these questions down and bring them to class.
  • second, what connections do you see between The Water Knife and our other post-apocalyptic narratives?  Think about this and write a couple of paragraphs on the flip side of your question sheet (see above).

Finally, we'll do an ultimate check-in for your movie club reviews.  Let's make them due on Friday, October 18, at noon.

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For Thursday, read up to the end of Chapter 16 in Paolo Bacigalupi's The Water Knife.

We'll take some time out in class to tend to our movie clubs.  (Be sure to revise your current reviews by Thursday at noon!)

[The "Northern California Power Authority," aka PG&E, is shutting electricity to my region in T minus 53 minutes.  This could have significant effects.  Check your sfsu.edu email tonight/tomorrow morning for updates etc.]

 

 

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Let's finish reading and chatting about Ben Winters' The Last Policeman.  Keep your eyes peeled on Thursday for Maia!

Don't forget: post the final draft of your review on our post-apocalyptic movie zine by midnight Thursday.  (Don't publish it.  Save it as a draft.)  We'll take about 10 or 15 minutes in class for the movie clubs to do a final check-in.

If you've got candidates for movie reviews, post them to our google doc by inserting a "comment" with the title and date of the movie.

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Okay . . . let's get back on schedule.

For Tuesday - - let's read to the end of Part 3 of Ben Winters' The Last Policeman.

And, you should have made your next movie club selection and organized a viewing.  On Tuesday, the movie clubs will meet to talk about the movie and drafting the movie review.  Same process as before: use the book club forums on our movie club site to organize and draft the reviews.  The reviews will be due on Thursday, October 3.

Let's move the due date for the "Omega Men" assignment to Tuesday, October 8.

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Let's start Ben Winters' novel - - The Last Policeman.  Read up to the end of Part One (the end of chapter 5).  This is an interesting "post-apocalyptic" story in part because it's actually "pre-apocalyptic."  It's also - -  as the title implies - - a mystery narrative.

Almost all of your movie club reviews are published!  They look great.  Check my editorial comments appended to each of your posts.  If your review hasn't been published, that's because I want your club to spend a little more time on it.  (Again, check my feedback in the editorial comments.)

I've posted the rubric for our "Omega Men" assignment.  Check it out and bring any questions to class on Tuesday when we'll review it.

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