Assignment for Wednesday, March 22, Thursday, March 23, and Friday, March 24

First, if you missed Monday's or Tuesday's class, watch this TEDx talk by Brene Brown. While watching, pay attention to and reflect on the following: 1) her use of humor, especially self-deprecation, 2) the images and the ways they figuratively reinforce her points, 3) the way she brings together personal, argumentative, and analytical writing, 4) her insight (what is it?).

For Wednesday: Read and annotate pp. 269-308 in Nineteen Eighty-Four. Come prepared to work on the research paper.

For Thursday and Friday: Read and annotate Thomas Pynchon's foreword to Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four (pp. vii-xxvi). Also, make some progress on either the research paper or the presentation.