Required Blog Post Topics

Please blog at least ONE of these topics in your journal.
This will be due by your class time during WEEK 3.


(choose one)

1. Pick a story from timesunion.com and write a brief review of it. Please don't forget to include the link to the story online.

2. Make up 8 strategies/rules/ideas that you use to write ESSAYS in the same way Kurt Vonnegut has written these 8 rules about creative writing.

3. Describe, in detail, how you have acted as an autodidact, similarly to the way Malcolm X has. Describe the importance of what you taught yourself.

4. Write out the essay structure of Ehrenreich's essay (SPR pages 194-198). Identify the main argument, the supporting information, any contesting arguments, and the conclusion.

5. Using similar reality-based foreshadowing techniques, like those demonstrated in the US Department of Defense piece (SPR 204-205), write out a short scenario of what would happen were there to be no gravity at Hudson Valley Community College. (Think: what kind of classes would there be, how would you get around, what sort of attention would this raise in the Pentagon, would major celebrities show up at HVCC, why is there no gravity all of a sudden?) Explain these "unreal" things with realtiy-based arguments. Maybe supply sources for further research.