Essay 2: The Novel

Essay 2 is due by 12 midnight, Friday, July 1, 2011. Be sure to attach and paste the entire portfolio which includes: The first draft written in class today, the completed draft with peer comments and the final draft with planning (Initial Planning Sheet and Outline). It is okay if the planning changed between today's draft and the final draft. Write a note for me.

Everyone should also have a bibliography including your book review and author profile.

The essay should be about 750 words or three pages. The fourth page is the works cited and the fifth page is the bibliography.

For this essay I will be looking at how will you integrate the text into your analysis. We have been looking at motifs and symbols, myths and characters who are bigger than the contemporary story that houses them. Kim we agreed is a heroine. She is flawed, but a heroine nonetheless.

Several students were concerned about their thesis sentences. Don't worry. Write the paper, sometimes the act of composition helps the writer clarify his or her thoughts.

Events this weekend:
Visual Word: Poetry through Photography, curated by TaSin Sabir, at Joyce Gordon Gallery, 406 14th Street, Downtown Oakland, CA, (510) 465-8928. The reception Friday, July 1, 2011, 5:30 to 9 p.m. is free. The exhibit is up through August 29, 2011.

SF Mime Troupe at Delores Park in San Francisco this weekend. Visit http://www.sfmt.org/index.php

The Tony Award-winning SF Mime Troupe opens July 4th in Dolores Park with its 52nd season premiering "2012 - The Musical!"

A small political theater company, Theater BAM!, finds itself at a crossroads: should they keep telling the stories they feel can change the world (and starve while telling them), or feed at the corporate trough, sell out, and be the mouthpiece for The Man. Tough decision. But before having to make it, they are offered an artistic commission that may save the company; all they have to do is create a new play, "2012 - The Musical!" But is it political? Will it keep with the company's original mission? What's the true purpose of this frivolous production, and who's really bankrolling the thing?

July 15, 2011
Persepolis, Texas
Maryam Farnaz Rostami

Presented as part of CounterPULSE’s Summer Special
http://counterpulse.org/category/events/upcoming/

JUL 15-17, FRI-SUN at 8PM
$20 General Admission ($15 CounterPULSE Members)

Persepolis, Texas is the story of how a little girl born to Iranian parents and raised in the suburbs of Texas came to become a drag queen in San Francisco, California. Using narrative, devised movement and drag, Maryam Farnaz Rostami will take us to the Wild West, a nouveau-traditional Iranian living room, a suburban public school, and at Persepolis itself and explore how where we’re from makes who we are.


Next week at the San Francisco International Arts Festival:
http://www.sfiaf.org/

Their is more theatre at Marsh Theatre in both Berkeley and San Francisco. Visit http://www.themarsh.org/

I have seen Don Reed's E-14th, Brian Copeland's Not a Genuine Black Man, and Dan Hoyle's The Real Americans. I want to see Dan's father's piece, Old Geezer ,the Marsh Youth and Marga Gomez. I also want to see Tales of the City at ACT-SF.