Above are a pair of assignments that I assigned for our 'Reading Culture' class. I've not a whole lot to say about them, other than the fact that, as this was a one-day a week night class, the one page responses could best be described by a bell curve, a few great ones, a few weak ones, and a number of 'could-be-better' ones. The class being on Monday did not help the environment of 'coming prepared,' that I hoped this assignment would foster (about 1/3 of the way through the semester we switched to using texts read for the upcoming week). That being said, the final papers on the whole turned out quite well. I put most of the failure of the weekly prompt on my shoulders, as I only really pecked at it from week to week, and probably should have spent more time in class discussing it--My view at the time was that what we were doing in class was representative of how one could go about writing. I do have to say that I think the most useful part of asking them to pick their own cultural object did help to get some idea about what parts of culture they were most concerned about--Politics/Comedy (The Onion) and negative representations of women's bodies were the two biggest--though the latter could also be clumped into the framework of advertising. Were I to do this again, I think I would have them write to each other throughout the semester, rather than to an abstract audience.
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