Greetings and welcome back after a (somewhat extended) spring break!
For this week's posting, we are going to try a new experiment for our class discussion this Monday and Wednesday, which will be based on the film you are seeing this weekend, Habana Blues.
Please post two discussion questions about Habana Blues; these questions should be appropriate for generating lively discussion in our actual course this week. We will use your own questions as a basis for our conversation about the film.
If you are able to post by 8 p.m. as usual, please try to do so. Several of you have seen the film already. For those of you seeing the film later this evening, however, this may obviously mean that you post sometime after 8 p.m. Please just try to post your questions at your earliest convenience so that your classmates have a chance to look at them by class time. We will continue our discussion for a second day.
There is no specific limit on the scope of the questions. You may post discussion questions that address any topic pertinent to the content of the film and/or its relation to the rest of our course content.
Sunday, March 30, 2008
Saturday, March 8, 2008
Looking Back on Looking Back
Since we are exactly halfway through the semester, I'd like us to look back on looking back, as it were. I suppose we could get nostalgic about the books that have already gone by...
What I'd like you to do is to choose two works that we have read or seen in this class so far. You may use film or text or both. In a nicely developed paragraph, compare and contrast these works. What do these works have to say about the (Cuban) revolution, (Cuban) exile, nostalgia, or other concepts? Compare and contrast the author's and/or the director's presentation of these ideas. Make sure you choose a logical pair to juxtapose.
What I'd like you to do is to choose two works that we have read or seen in this class so far. You may use film or text or both. In a nicely developed paragraph, compare and contrast these works. What do these works have to say about the (Cuban) revolution, (Cuban) exile, nostalgia, or other concepts? Compare and contrast the author's and/or the director's presentation of these ideas. Make sure you choose a logical pair to juxtapose.
Saturday, March 1, 2008
Tentative Theses
¡Hola!
Hope you're enjoying the snow outside! Spring will be here soon...
For this week's posting, please post your two tentative theses about In Cuba I Was a German Shepherd which you will be bringing in to class on Monday. You may use a revised version of your argument from your literary analysis paragraph you are working on; remember that you might use one of these thesis statements for your upcoming paper.
Also, if you like, one of your theses can be about Next Year in Cuba.
Step 1: Please post your 2 theses.
Step 2: Please take a careful look at the theses of the person before and after you on the list of comments. Come prepared with suggestions for revising the theses for both of these people for Monday. Type out your suggestions so that you can hand them to your classmates in class.
Hope you're enjoying the snow outside! Spring will be here soon...
For this week's posting, please post your two tentative theses about In Cuba I Was a German Shepherd which you will be bringing in to class on Monday. You may use a revised version of your argument from your literary analysis paragraph you are working on; remember that you might use one of these thesis statements for your upcoming paper.
Also, if you like, one of your theses can be about Next Year in Cuba.
Step 1: Please post your 2 theses.
Step 2: Please take a careful look at the theses of the person before and after you on the list of comments. Come prepared with suggestions for revising the theses for both of these people for Monday. Type out your suggestions so that you can hand them to your classmates in class.
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