Action List for Monday, April 26

• Read "Fashioning Race for the Free Market on America’s Next Top Model" by Amy Adele Hasinoff.
• Complete DWA #13.
• Decide which of the first three opinion essays you want to revise and start revising; do not forget the instructions in the prompt.
• Decide if you are going to attend the final extra credit opportunities next week or not.

Links for Class on Wednesday, April 21

Wikipedia entry on Barbie.
Wikipedia entry on Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story.













Here is a photo that one of my students sent to me that shows what Barbie would look like at her proportions if she were a living woman.  I do not know who holds the copyright to this image or from where it comes.

Action List for Wednesday, April 21

• Read "Barbie-Q" by Sandra Cisneros, "Soft Targets" by Essex Hemphill, "Call Me Barbie" by Gregg Shapiro, "Barbie Hunts through Medical Books Looking for What is Wrong with Her When She Sees Her Birth Date in a Book, Knows She's over 30" by Lyn Lifshin, and "Barbie Wonders about Buying a Coffin" by Lyn Lifshin.
• Prepare for Reading Quiz #10 (the last reading quiz of the course!).
• Decide which of the first three opinion essays you want to revise and start revising.
• Decide if you are going to attend the final extra credit opportunities next week or not.

Links for Class on Monday, April 19

Clip from The Sopranos

Action List for Monday, April 19

• Email Opinion Essay Four to me by noon on Friday, April 16.
• Read "Men with a Message" by Alessandra Stanley and "Masculinity in a Spray Can" by Jan Hoffman.
• Prepare for Reading Quiz #9.

Links for Class on Wednesday, April 14

J.L. King's Official Website

Action List for Wednesday, April 14

• Read "A Down Low Dirty Shame" by Joshunda Sanders and Chapter One from Beyond the Down Low: Sex, Lies, and Denial in Black America by Keith Boykin. 
• Prepare for Reading Quiz #8.
• Find the article you plan to use for Opinion Essay Four (due this Friday).