Sunday, November 2, 2008
cha cha cha
I'm starting a new unit on autobiography/memoir for comp 1 and need your favorites/best ideas for short nonfiction, documentaries, music, whatever that either move you or simply work well in the classroom. We just read Sarah Vowell's "Shooting Dad" and then I read them a profile from the Texas Monthly about a professional trapper out in west Texas. Not really sure why I read them the trapper piece other than finding it oddly beautiful and full of voice. Gimme yer guns! And this time we're gonna play a game called Whoever comments last is a rotten egg.
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Maybe Chuck Klosterman's Esquire piece on stereotyping and his trip to Germany?
http://www.esquire.com/features/chuck-klostermans-america/ESQ0307klosterman
Or this great piece by Starlee Kine from "This American Life" about writing a love song to recover from a breakup (includes an interview with Phil Collins)
http://www.thislife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?episode=339
Also check out Benjamin Alire Saenz - his autobiographical stuff is heavy on the influence of place/setting and circumstance. Dean might have some stuff he can email to you.
Oh, and Max Wolf Valerio's introduction to his book "The Testosterone Files" is gorgeously written.
If I think of any more, I'll email you.
This is a good example of "my expertise/suffering/memories/whatever can be turned into a how-to manual.
http://www.newsweek.com/id/34598/output/print
I'm teaching jack's klosterman piece on Wednesday. I needed something easy, and by easy I mean something they would talk about on their own without too much poking from me. I'm not going to be able to sleep or be 100 percent sober on Tuesday night.
This
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200811/andrew-sullivan-why-i-blog
might be a good paring with this
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/25/magazine/25internet-t.html
Re: documentaries, I miss having a smart classroom because I used to love showing episodes of 30 Days.
Muslims & America was a particularly popular offering: http://www.hulu.com/watch/5276/30-days-muslims-and-america
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