Two Assignments

FOR THURSDAY 10/23:
Please submit to me the name of the text you have chosen for the subject of your essay. You don't need to know yet exactly what you're going to say about this text, but I want you to pick something and stick with it. Here are some examples of what you might give me (this doesn't need to be typed):

• The novel, A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan.
• John Oliver's September 7 segment on student debt.
• Apple's "Everything, Everywhere" iPhone 6 TV commercial.
• Roger Ebert's October 15, 1999 review of David Lynch's The Straight Story, "Cowboy Plays It Straight."
• Louis C.K.'s tweets about the Ebola epidemic.

Bring a copy of your text (if possible) to Thursday's class, along with whatever notes you have.

FOR TUESDAY 10/28:
Read the article "Big Box Stores Are Bad for Main Street" (p. 69) and the student textual analysis paper "Rethinking Big Box Stores" (pp. 75-76). Be sure to bring your handbook to class on this day for our discussion.