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The Google Tour Project, Colton Saylor
The Google Tour Project, Colton Saylor
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Context: This assignment helps culminate our class theme, “Reading and Writing the City,” in which we explore representations of urban life from a variety of perspectives and academic disciplines. Our final unit takes on the issue of gentrification; more specifically, we explore how the issue revolves around stories of either progress or subjugation (depending on who is telling the story). After scaffolding some background on the issue and what it means, students form into groups and create these digital tours that serve as visual essays. In creating their own arguments either for or against gentrification, they take on their own …
Pandemic Diaries, Sally Ashton
Pandemic Diaries, Sally Ashton
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Through a series of teacher-led, generative, timed, in-class writing prompts, students will be guided toward the creation of a short narrative that reflects on losses and insights they’ve experienced during the pandemic by (1) considering the time before “now,” (2) the time when disruption was experienced most intensely, and (3) what is experienced differently in the indefinite and ever-morphing “new now.”
Writing Diagnostic: Personal Freedom Vs. Public Health, Avantika Rohatgi
Writing Diagnostic: Personal Freedom Vs. Public Health, Avantika Rohatgi
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