This week:

- Continue with your photo essay
- Final draft of MacBeth essay due
- Write blogs for the introduction, Part I V-VI, Part III Chapter 1
- Read these three feature articles on compare them in a blog:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/24/magazine/24Conan-t.html?_r=1&ref=magazine
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/06/01/090601fa_fact_gawande
This one's an old one, but I really liked it when I was fifteen (originally published when I was 15 pre-internet:
http://www.graffiti.org/dj/ja.html There were pictures

What is wordle?

http://www.wordle.net/

Pynchon's New Preface to 1984

http://www.themodernword.com/Pynchon/pynchon_essays_1984.html

Feel free to leave your comments on Pynchon's brief essay here.

This week:

- analytic essay second draft due Wednesday
- journalism first draft due next Wednesday
- write two media blogs (from op-ed articles in the New York Times)
- write two illustration blog entries (pages Chapter I-II, Chapters III-IV)-from Gulliver's Travels

Download Jonathan Swift's Guillver's Travels here:
http://www.asiaing.com/gullivers-travels-free-ebook.html

You can find Polanski here:

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_type=&search_query=MacBeth+Polanski&aq=f

Wikipedia Wins!

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Irish-student-hoaxes-worlds-apf-15201451.html?.v=1

Leave comments about the post here.

This week:

- Spelling quizzes
- Rehearse MacBeth
- First draft of analytic film essay due this Wednesday
- Literary groups to be assigned
- Write two blogs on one of these pieces:

Or choose a piece from the Dieter Roth retrospective, alluded to in this blog:

http://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2004/dieterroth/flash.htm

Finally, here's the Chuck Close retrospective I mentioned:

http://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/1998/close/