Month: April 2022

For Tuesday, let’s finish talking about The Reapers Are the Angels.  And, if you get a chance, take a look at this episode of The Walking Dead.  We can take the opportunity of a little slack in our syllabus to talk about zombies and PA monsters more generally.

In the meantime, you should have transferred your Wikipedia article drafts from your sandbox to a “live” Wikipedia page.  Now that your article is published, take some time between now and Tuesday to continue improving the article.  After you’ve improved things, you’ll be ready to write your reflective essay – – which will be due by the end of next week.  (More details on this in class on Tuesday.)

For Tuesday (4/19), let’s read up to the end of Part 1 (Chapter 7) in Alden Bell’s The Reapers Are the Angels.  It’s a zombie novel!  (Or, is it?)

Don’t forget: your peer reviews of Wikipedia draft articles should be complete.  Read the peer feedback you’ve received on your draft and revise accordingly.  The final first draft of your Wikipedia article is due by Saturday (4/16) at noon.

And, finally, a writing event.  See below for a writing event on Station Eleven (password: Hanley).  Complete the writing event by Monday (4/18) morning – – say 8 a.m. or thereabouts.

For Tuesday, try to read up to the end of Section 4 of Station Eleven – – “The Starship.”

To keep things moving and on time – – we have to establish some hard deadlines for our Wikipedia Project: 1) You must have a serious draft of your article – – new or improved – – in your sandbox by midnight tonight (Thursday, April 7); 2) You must have completed two peer reviews of drafts composed by your comrades by Tuesday (April 12) at 9:30 a.m.  (If you have not been assigned any peer reviews, this is because you don’t have a draft to be peer-reviewed.  Sam and I will do a final sweep through sandboxes by Saturday morning and – – if you have a draft – -will assign you peer reviews by noon or so on Saturday.)  These are final deadlines.  As the semester moves toward its conclusion, we must move into the final phases of the Wikipedia Project as swiftly as we can.

You’ll find a writing event on Ling Ma’s Severance below.  (Password: Hanley). Complete the writing event by noon on Saturday (April 9).