Assignments for the rest of this week

After reading and discussing the Poets Theater pieces by Baraka and Shange, do some further reading and viewing on the web (see links below) and then write an extended blog response on their work for this Friday. Also, take some time this week to challenge yourself in your blogging. For example, if you have generally posted creative "responses" to the reading on your blog, try posting a more academic/analytical response this time. If you have been responding in more academic ways, try writing a more creative response.

Links (watch all of Baraka's Dutchman if you can, and look at the short clips on Shange to give you a better sense of her range of work, etc) :

 Shange:
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/147
http://www.sfweekly.com/2010-11-03/film/for-colored-girls-tyler-perry-mangles-ntozake-shange-s-play/
http://www.videosurf.com/ntozake-shange-176591
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBWnUjw2Bbg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vDmVwOI-0Q&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCZmvCsE-d4&feature=related

Baraka:
http://www.colorfultimes.com/2009/11/culture/film/dutchman-the-movie-55-mins/
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/amiri-baraka

And for next week :

Monday, 3/12: Please find me in/near the Starbucks on the 2nd floor of the student center between  2-4pm where I will be available to meet informally in lieu of meeting as a whole group in class. I will send a sign up sheet via email so you can have a time slot, or you can stop by anytime to talk if I am free.