Humanities Homework Help

First Assignment : The world is moving through an unprecedented time as we navigate the realities of COVID-19. The virus has changed many parts of our lives. For this journal entry, in at least 500 words, tell me about your experience in the pandemic. How have you coped with the uncertainties and “new normals”? What do you think about how others are coping and what sorts of regulations are (or have been) in place? How are the regulations helpful or harmful? As always, the more specific details, examples, and anecdotes, the better.

Second home work: Each of the chapters you’ve read for this week has a section subtitled “A Flash Nonfiction Exercise” or “A Flash Nonfiction Prompt.” Choose one of these exercises/prompts as a jumping-off point for a flash nonfiction essay of no more than 500 words. This should not be a first draft but instead should be the culmination of a number of drafts as you craft the best essay you can by the due date. You will receive feedback on this draft from me and from other students in the class. Do the best job you can on it so that our feedback helps you further hone your writing. If you turn in a crappy draft that you haven’t spent time on, and we just tell you things you already know and would have changed if you’d taken the time to revise, then the feedback portion of the course is of little use. Write the author and chapter title of the exercise/prompt you chose in italics at the end of the essay.

Note that journals have to be at least 500 words and essays have to be no more than 500 words. This is to encourage a free-flow of ideas on the journal assignment (a first draft) and more careful editing on the essay.

Third one : Craft Group Responses (four per week) should be substantive and thoughtful, but they need not be formal. They should be in standard written English, though, not text-speak. Responses should expand on a point, disagree with a point, compare or contrast to another passage or text, or explore a new way to look at the craft point.

Each of your four responses for the week may be to a different prompt, or you may double-up or triple-up or quadruple-up your responses by engaging in a discussion with other students on one prompt.

The earlier you start responding to the prompts in a given week, the more likely that the discussion group will foster lively back-and-forth discussions among students instead of perfunctory answers to four different prompts just before the deadline.