MLK Weekend assignments

Writing 20 Assignment for this weekend February 11-17

1. February 11th Thursday night at 7pm
Go to the Martin Luther King Convocation at the Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium on Church Street near the City Hall and the downtown library
The event will feature a talk by TV Actor (West Wing, The Practice, Nurse Jackie) and Poet/Playwright (Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992) Anna Devere Smith. It’s free.Please check with your activities office for free shuttles. They usually leave the bookstore about 6. But check. Please write a page or so about what Smith says and what the event is like for you.

2. If you cannot attend the convocation then please write a two-page reflection on King based on his writings in our textbook—the “I Have a Dream” speech and the “Letter from Birmingham Jail.” Is King’s m,essage still important, the messages of “not waiting” and “non-violence” for example.
Everyone should read these pieces. Only write if you do not go to the convocation.
We will talk about them on Wednesday next week.

3.February 12th Friday No class. Essay is due by five-o’clock. Please put it under my door at Crown College room 111. It is on the floor below our classroom.

4. February 15th Monday President’s Day Holiday No class.

5. Read Tuesdays with Morrie this weekend—to page 100. And write a personal story or observation of education when it works and educations when it doesn’t work and why—no more than two pages.

6. Read the first chapter of Ainsworth 75 Arguments. Pay special attention to Anzaldua, Tannen and Nilsen’s essays. Choose an essay and tell me what the theme/purpose of the essay is and how it works. Write a paragraph.

7. And it’s time to start revising your second essay. It’s due Friday the 17th.

It is a lot to do, but it is almost a week. So don’t save all the work for next Tuesday. Good Luck.