My Annotations of Elbow's 1st and 2nd Order Thinking Article

Hi everybody!  Here's an example of what my annotation practices look like!

Horror Movies! More Practice with Genre and Conventions

Scenario: all of a sudden, you're sitting in the middle of a movie theater, watching a horror movie.  How do you know you're watching a horror movie?  What features/things about this movie make it a horror movie?

 After you jot down your predictions, let's put our hypotheses to the test!

The Shining

Psycho

It

Paranormal Activity

Thinking About Genre (and Conventions) Through Country Music

I wanted to post these videos to help you (re)consider the following questions which can, hopefully, help you to think about the relationship between genres and their conventions:

• what's the "glue" that binds these songs together? 
• what about them makes them fall into the “country music” category?
• at what points do they bend/blend into other genres (such as folk, blues, and bluegrass)?

"Your Cheating Heart"

Lyrics

"Coal Miner’s Daughter"

Lyrics

"Whiskey River"

Lyrics

Post Your Blog Links Here! (Below!)

Penn Staters,

Once you've set up your Gmail account and your blog, click this link to share that information with me.  I need to so that I can put your blog info up on my/this blog.  Why is that necessary?  This will give us access to each other's work, and that's important because it'll help us (1) revisit our course content and (2) practice giving each other feedback, which will be important for your work throughout the semester.

Thanks,

Z

Campus Map, Our Class, and My Office

Our class meets in Woodland 347; my office is in Sutherland 214.