APELC Class Notes
Second and fourth APELCers, we did the same as your peers yesterday. Again, discussion was robust and interesting. Really phenomenal effort with plenty of strained brains at the end of the short hour.
I looked for clips from Spike Lee’s Macolm X, which I mentioned was on BET the other night, and I found this dance scene from the beginning of the film. It’s wild and acrobatic; think back to our reading of Langston Hughes and Malcolm’s description of life in Harlem
And here’s an authentic piece of text from Malcolm X’s time, a clip from 1941’s Hellzapoppin’ with a groovy swing dance.
Dig!
Once again, 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.
Finish The Autobiography of Malcolm X for next week. Otherwise, enjoy your weekend.
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