Monday April 30th
Minutes: Michael J., Daniel K.
SAT Words: Penurious, Destitute
Reading Assignment: Read Chapters One and Two N&D
Homework Assignment: Contact three people for an interview
Tuesday May 1st
Minutes: Caroline Kim, Young
SAT Words: Glacial, Egregious
Reading Assignment: Read Chapters Three and Four N&D
Homework Assignment: Who would Ehrenreich interview to discover the truths she uncovers in her research? Please come up with three different “hypothetical” people and explain why you would select each. What does each person bring to the discussion?
Wednesday May 2nd
Minutes: Emlyn, David
SAT Words: Pervasive, Gratis
Reading Assignment:
Homework Assignment: Postpones
Thursday May 3rd
Minutes: Konrad, Jessica
SAT Words: Truculent, Insolent
Reading Assignment: Introduction section and print source due today. You will be expected to defend the legitimacy of your source’s authority. Please be aware of the article’s author and his/her qualifications as an expert commentator for your paper.
Friday May 4th
Minutes: Andrew, Lawrence
SAT Words: Blatant, Mediocre
Reading Assignment: N/A
Homework Assignment: Draft of iSearch research section due today for peer editing. Whole draft due Wednesday. This is not a big deal. Just get started on that draft.
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ReplyDeleteSo, about my minutes gift, "Where Are the Stars":
The song is based on Knite, a comic by Wenqing Yan (yuumei), a recent graduate from UC Berkeley.
yuumei FB: http://www.facebook.com/YuumeiArt
yuumei DA: http://yuumei.deviantart.com/
She started Knite in 2010 and it's been slowly worked on. I suppose the best way to describe it would be a statement about how we're slowly destroying the environment with industry, as represented by the missing stars outshined by city lights, though it goes deeper than that and explores a couple of other themes: family and introspection come to mind. So far, it has four chapters and a handful of extra shorts and one-shot drawings.
Knite Ch1: http://yuumei.deviantart.com/gallery/24250483#/d2hzam9
At some point, a fan of Knite, geo1992, created and played the instrumental for the song and wrote the original lyrics, but he didn't sing them at all. I'm pretty sure he didn't write a vocal melody either.
geo1992: http://geo1992.deviantart.com/
Original lyrics: http://geo1992.deviantart.com/#/d2vhz5z
Another fan of Knite, KEIreland, found geo1992's instrumental and lyrics, adapted the lyrics and created her own melody for the vocals. Then she sang it, of course, and that's what I presented today.
KEIreland: http://keireland.deviantart.com/
Song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3M8ujcmmYRg
I also considered playing "The New Millenium" sung by Kagamine Len, a Vocaloid, or computer-generated singer. I decided against it since you really need the video to get the whole message of the song and hauling my laptop to school would be too much of a pain and it would take too much class time. The fact that it's in Japanese doesn't help much either. Still, it's worth listening too, as long as you have annotations on so you can read the subtitles. It makes a great statement about the selfishness and lack of compassion of mankind.
Other song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkbZhVRytzQ
tl;dr links
Knite:
http://yuumei.deviantart.com/gallery/24250483#/d2hzam9
Where Are the Stars:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3M8ujcmmYRg