Response to Arrival and Story of your Life

Please post your response to Arrival and Story of Your Life here by Sunday night. Your response should be no less than 250 words and can approach the topic from any substantive angle you wish. You might wish to discuss the way the story differs from the film, and how each reflects upon their medium. You might also want to address the use of science fiction as a genre, and how it is subverting and adhering to some of those conventions.

Remix Narrative

Please post your remixed narrative here; this should be no less than 500 words.

Event based vignette

Please post your event-centric vignette here. The minimum word count for this is 350 words.

Chronological Vignette

Please post your chronological vignette here. The minimum word count is 350 words.

Response to "All the reasons why zoos should be banned"

In your post, you should first and foremost reflect on the way it is synthesizing and presenting research and information. How does it make an argument, is it effective? After addressing the genre of this piece as a research essay, you can feel free to respond holistically to the content: do you agree/disagree and why?

Your response should be no less than 200 words. You do not need to comment on a peers' post, but you most certainly can.

Here is the link again:

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/why-we-should-close-all-zoos-778

Discussion of "I Once Was Miss America"

Please post your response to Roxane Gay's short essay here. It can be pretty open ended, but some things you may want to address are the overall structure or language of the piece; the way Gay inserts herself into the narrative; the comment on race; the comment on genre (various genres really); the way this essay complicates or engages with ideology/pop culture; etc.

Your response should be no less than 150 words.

Chapter 2 Discussion

Please post your two questions and response to your peers' questions about chapter 2 of the Bedford Book of Genres by commenting on this post!

Please include your full name as well.

Questions should be posted by 10PM the night before our next class meeting, and comments should be finished by the time we meet in class.