Week 10 Homework Due:

Reminder: Our class will not have a regular meeting on Tuesday, March 16. Instead, the work you must accomplish is outside research, and is explained below. You must e-mail me your article by the end of class Tuesday. Also, Thursday's work is also provided below. No Late Work!

For Tuesday, Outside Research Assignment

1. E-mail me by Tuesday at 2pm an article that you are going to use within your Final Essay. The article must be one that explores a connection between a media and its culture. I suggest searching on-line library databases with the terms: culture, media, portray. This is simple, but it is just a start.

Another search route might be to look up: advertisement (since that is the media we’re going for), and culture (or “hip hop” or “country” or …)

Those terms are generic, so know that you can find (and use) an article that is written on a specific cultural aspect or a specific culture, and that deals with a specific medium (TV, Internet, Radio, Billboards, Ads and Flyers, etc.).

What kind of words are part of your research Word Bank?

Urban, Press, Youth, TV (television), Radio, Politics, Internet, Christianity, Teens, Violence

Muslim, commercials, Ads, escape, nature, marketing, Female, Gender

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For Thursday, March 18:

1. You need to have chosen, and bring in, a copy of your ad so that we can work on an activity.

2. You need to have a working thesis for final AND at least three sub-topics for analysis. Here are a couple of topics that you can make analytical statements on (there are more than these examples):

- Color scheme used in advertisement, and how scheme is to appeal to a certain audience

- Tag lines, copy --> how does the language clarify the basic emotional appeal?

- Who do the people in the ad seem to represent?

- What does the background / place represent?

Cancellation of Class, March 3

Dear Students,

I apologize for the last minute cancellation. I have e-mailed your East-West accounts and notified the school that I am feeling ill today, and therefore we cannot have class.

The homework is to make sure to have read Jib Fowles article, "Advertising's Fifteen Basic Appeals," found on pages 657-67 of our course text. If you have already done so, I suggest reading ahead the two essays that follow Fowles'.

Lastly, the Bonus assignment is now due on Thursday, at the beginning of class.

bests,

Christopher

Homework for Tuesday, 2/9:

- I want you to write a Rough Draft of your Midterm’s Introduction, including a thesis statement. Underline/highlight your thesis statement. Include in your thesis:

o Define folktales in two to four sentences. Work in a quote from Stith Thompson’s article read in class.

§ Historical perspective?

§ Transformation of meaning

o Provide a thesis à Why do folktales exist; what are they used for; by whom?

o Introduce your Topics that will be your topic sentence

- Also, separately, have at least two Topic Sentences that you feel help develop your thesis statement. Keep “folktales” as the subject of sentence!

o Example ways to start:

§ “One of the values folktales teach …”

§ “How do folktales teach children to be ...?”

- Lastly, read Bruno Bettelheim’s “’Cinderella’: A Story of Sibling Rivalry and Oedipal Conflicts” (627-634).

Homework Reminder: for Thursday, 1/28

To be handed in!

o Read David Guterson’s “The Mall as Prison” (pages 450-457).
o On a sheet of paper, practice quotation techniques using the article. Provide two (2) examples for each of the three techniques discussed in class:

1. Appositives before a quote
2. Use of ellipses to reduce a quote down to essential language
3. Use brackets to clarify an otherwise vague pronoun

Also, Response 2 will be handed out on Thursday, and Response 1 is to be handed back!