APELC Class Notes
Objective: APELCers analyzed and evaluated concepts of identity.
Period 1 and 3 APELCers, we engaged the text from The Star today, and I asked you to focus on what the commentators had to say about Malcolm X and identity. First period was quite lively with numerous voices arguing various ideas with many questions unasked and comments unheard because we ran out of time.
Below’s the billboard we discussed at the beginning of class and the accompanying report from ABC News I referenced: “Abortion Billboards: Strong Words Spark Debate in Atlanta’s Black Neighborhoods”.
The Endangered Species Project (as it’s called TooManyAborted.com) is sponsored by The Radiance Foundation. It’s opposed by SisterSong, a group that promotes what it calls reproductive justice for women of color; this unrelated critical commentary appeared in the Indiana Daily Student: “Pro-lifers co-opt race”. You might read the following article from The New York Times with more stat data: “Anti-Abortion Ads Split Atlanta”.
What more do you think? Is the project racist? Sexist? How would our current subject of study react to this effort? (I’ll get Comments working again. I didn’t realize they were off.)
Don’t forget: Your revisions for timed-writing 6 and cover sheets are due Monday by 3:30 pm.
- Writers must have conferred with me over their initial paper to submit a revision;
- Papers must be accompanied by a cover sheet detailing its writer’s revision process (under Class Materials)—no cop-outs;
- Papers must be typed and formatted according to MLA style guidelines (I mean it)—use the template (under Class Materials)—and should be no less than two and half pages and no more than three pages long;
- Cover sheets are to be attached to the revision, former on top of the latter, with one staple, horizontally, in the upper-left hand corner;
- Papers containing more than four obvious errors in conventions and usage for formal, written, academic English or that deviate from MLA style (including not embedding quotations) will lose 7% from the final grade (I have several style books you can reference.);
- Writers who did not confer with me over their initial drafts or who chose not to revise their essays must still submit a cover sheet, blank except for name, date, title, and initial score and “I choose not to revise timed-writing X” in number 4, signed;
- Revision scores will replace initial in-class scores if merited.
We’ll complete The Autobiography of Malcolm X next week, so please read on over the long weekend.
Enjoy the Fiesta de los Vaqueros!
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