Read this for Friday
You know what to do.

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9:20 = glenn almond
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Read this for Thursday
and comment

Read this for Wednesday
Etc., etc.

Read this for Tuesday
You know the drill. If you don’t, refer to yesterday’s post.

Read this for Monday (click this link, then click the page icon that appears and the PDF will open).
Then post one 150 word comment here. What do you like best about this paper? What stands out most in your mind? What are the strongest parts of the argument? Are there any ideas or strategies you’d like [...]

Step 1: In your journal, do a ten minute freewrite in which you summarize the peer-reviewed secondary source you found this week.
Step 2: Choose a quote from the source that you might want to use in your final paper. Record it in your journal. Then, spend five minutes “talking back” to the quote. Pretend you [...]

A scene from Barton Fink
Ever seen Twin Peaks? Blue Velvet? The Straight Story? They were all directed by David Lynch, one of Hollywood’s weirdest camera geeks. He’s notorious for incorporating shots like this one, when the camera pans left and then pushes into the bathroom and down the sink- so famous, in fact, that Coen [...]

Click here for the sample paper
As the title of this post promises, that link just above is a sample paper to give you a better idea of what I want for Friday. You don’t have to format it exactly as I have, but I do want to see three articles, reviews, or webpostings about your [...]

My focusing question is “why is Barton’s play named ‘Bare Ruined Choirs’?”
BRCs is a phrase from Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 73″, and the use of it as the title of the main character’s play in Barton Fink caught my eye because it’s got to be a colossal Coen-style joke on Barton. All through the movie, Barton [...]