Bring: Five copies of your revised personal reported essay; this draft should have begun to incorporate research and reporting. We will distribute these into groups for workshop on April 4.

We will also begin our next unit on arts writing. To prepare:

Read in Tell It Slant: “Chapter 5, Writing the Arts”

Read: “Orange is the new face of women’s television” (Pulitzer winner for arts criticism Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times)

Review: “Falling in Love While Taking Antidepressants” (New York Times)

Criticism and Review: “Selfies and Trans Culture” (first place, AAN awards, Liz Cook)

Interview: “Portraying David Bowie” (NY Times)

We will also have an in-class arts writing assignment.