On Thursday, we'll take a brief pause in what's been a beautifully busy term and spend one class period tackling two important tasks:
- We'll start class with a brief discussion of the requirements for the final projects and answer any questions students might have about the assignment. The guidelines will have been up for a little while — it's my intention to post them this week — so you should take the time to digest them and come to class with a preliminary sense of what you'd like to work on.
- Our four(!) student respondents will be responsible for starting our discussions of texts from the second half of the semester (i.e. from Projective Verse all the way through Tuesday's class on Poets Theater and Indigenous Poetics) that didn't get enough attention during our regular class discussions. Please take advantage of the class Facebook group to post what you're doing to be talking about in advance of that day's class so everyone can brush up on the texts under consideration. Ideally we'll make each of these four sessions relatively brief (roughly 15 minutes each) so we'll have twenty minutes to talk about the final.
With so much forward momentum this term, I think this retrospective look back will be a useful way for everyone to take stock of how much we've covered, provide another opportunity to make connections between texts, and start thinking seriously about the ideas and topics they want to cover in their final projects. After today, we'll just have three classes left until the end of the semester, and I've saved some of the wildest and wooliest texts for last!
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