Unit 6

Week 12

Thursday 11/15
Begin discussing Kobek, I Hate the Internet, chapters 1-5 (pgs. 2-26). Look at GIF poems.

Homework: Continue reading I Hate the Internet, chapters 6-14 (pg. 27-114). Identify a passage you’d like to discuss in class and add a question to your reading journal.

Week 13

Tuesday 11/19
Continue discussing I Hate the Internet (pg. 27-114).

Homework: Continue reading I Hate the Internet, chapters 15-21 (pg. 115-166). Identify a passage you’d like to discuss in class and add a question to your reading journal.

Thursday 11/21
Continue discussing I Hate the Internet (pg. 115-166).

Homework: Finish reading I Hate the Internet, chapters 22-33 (pg. 167-280). Identify a passage you’d like to discuss in class and add a question to your reading journal.

Week 14

***Thanksgiving observed November 28 & 29.

Tuesday 11/26
No class meeting. Read Goldsmith, “The Writer as Meme Machine” and begin working on Blogpost 6.

Thursday 11/28
Thanksgiving observed.

Week 15

***Dead days begin Wednesday, December 4 (at 8pm).

Tuesday 12/3
Finish discussing I Hate the Internet (pg. 231-280) and Goldsmith. Watch The Artist Leaving the Googleplex.

Homework: Finish Blogpost 6 and post it by 5pm on Wednesday (12/4).

Thursday 12/5
Review for exam. To prepare, see prompt and Goldsmith, “Our Browser History is the New Memoir.”

Week 16

Final Exam schedule Monday, December 9 from 8:00am to 10:30am.

Blogpost 6: Due Wednesday (12/4) by 5pm.