This semester, I am teaching a literature and composition course centered around short stories collections. For this course, I chose writers specific to the region where we are located in Appalachia, with one obvious outlier from Louisiana. Students read Frank Yerby, Ernest Gaines, Crystal Wilkinson, Dorothy Allison, and Ron Rash. As I worked on the syllabus for this course, I kept thinking about the … Read More Short Story Anthology Assignment
Every semester I debate what types of assignments I want to incorporate into my courses. Over the years, I have moved away from strictly written essays, choosing instead to provide students with a space to use their talents and passion in the creation of projects to convey an argument. This usually takes the form of an Unessay Project where students create anything based on … Read More “Is this what you’re afraid of?”: Banned Books Comics Project
Over the past couple of posts, I’ve written about the Graphic Narrative/Script assignment in I assigned in my “Monsters, Race, and Comics” course and on two of the student created products in that class. Today, I want to continue by looking at a final student created product, one that, again, draws heavily on Pornask Pichetshote and Aaron Campbell’s Infidel and Carmen Maria Machado and Dan’s The Low, Low Woods as well as … Read More “I am not a ‘thing’”: Student Project for Graphic Narrative/Script Assignment Part III
Over the past couple of posts, I’ve been writing about the Graphic Narrative/Script assignment I did in my “Monsters, Race, and Comics” class this semester. Today, I want to continue that topic by looking at another student crated project. Like the previous project that I wrote about last post, this project floored me. When I initially read it, I saw the influence of Rodney Barnes and Jason … Read More “The day I chose humanity over religion”: Student Project for Graphic Narrative/Script Assignment Part II
In my previous post, I wrote about the graphic narrative/script assignment in my “Monsters, Race, and Comics” course this semester. Today, I want to look at one of the products that students created for this assignment. Specifically, I want to look at the finished product and how it relates to themes we discussed during the course but also how it interacts within a broader context of … Read More “My first victim was a woman”: Student Project for Graphic Narrative/Script Assignment
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