NEXT CLASS: THURSDAY, APRIL 9
FIRST MANDATORY
IN-CLASS DRAFTING SESSION
BRING PAPER COPIES OF
MAUS II, YOUR SKELETON OUTLINE (including "quotes" from research documents),
IN-CLASS ESSAY DRAFTING: APRIL 9 & 13
An outline is a structured set of keywords or very short phrases (3-4 words) that provides a framework for your essay, like a skeleton structure. It cannot include complete sentences (except your thesis, topic sentence, and exact quotes from the interview or video on Nazism). In class, you will put flesh on this skeleton and turn these keywords into complete sentences.
Your outline and essay must align and engage with: (1) the individual notes you took as you completed the worksheet, (2) group and class discussions, (3) class notes, (4) the author's interview, and (5) the video on the Nazi ideology.
The use of other external sources or assistance is not permitted.
The language and voice of your outline must be your own. The presence of writing in your outline that does not align with your own voice due to its different style, vagueness, wordiness, or extreme sophistication or pretentiousness may result in a rejection of your final copy.
- Secondary sources: Your essay must include at least one reference to a very specific point from the video on the Nazi ideology or Art Spiegelman's interview.
Integrate this very specific point at the right place into your outline (a direct "quote" may be a complete sentence). This point can help you confirm or develop one specific point in your analysis.
Include a parenthetical reference indicating the specific time, such as (1:34), or page number in the interview documents.
- Submit to LEA a digital copy of your outline & bring a paper copy to the first drafting session. This is a process task.
Begin to brainstorm a list of three personal anecdotes for your alternative story. Do NOT use AI to generate these initial ideas as this would go against the very essence of alternative comics; these three ideas must be based on real anecdotes in your life.
Make sure that (1) these ideas correspond to the alternative movement as discussed in class, and (2) they would not be too difficult to illustrate graphically. In other words, keep it simple, ordinary, with an emphasis on words, not actions or unique environments.
For your information, some of you will be using Storyboard That to illustrate your panels. You may also draw, use Google's AI Gemini, or take photos. Your pick!
Take care.
