Cion Project Groups

Group 1: Corey

Ben
Brittany
Melissa
Sacha

Group 2: Tom
Nick
Mackenzie
Nicole Benzinger
Ricardo

Group 3: Ryan
Nicole Bersani
Ashley
Liz
Melanie

Group 4: Jordan
Harrison
Abie
Paige
Derek

The Kilvert Community - Group 4
Magic Realism in Literature - Group 3
The Ridges - Group 2
Quilting - Group 1

Please let me know if I got your groups' topic wrong via blog comment.

Cion Blog #3 - Fugitive Slaves

Apologies for the late posting of this. If you can, post tonight; if not, I understand. Post it tomorrow afternoon.

First of all, as I mentioned, I'd like you to post on THIS blog post (as a comment) which of the topics for Essay #3 you'd like to write on and why (briefly, it doesn't have to be a terribly academic reason right now). I've uploaded the extra articles for the topics on blackboard, if you want to look over those first. If you don't make this comment, I won't give you credit for the Cion blog post.

For this blog post, I'm going to have you recreate a Fugitive Slave Poster for Nicodemus and Abednegro. Based on the following examples, make a post in the style of the fugitive slave posters, offering a reward for their capture, their suspected location, physical description, what they had on them, etc. This forces you to use some information from Cion while still exercising some creativity.

Samples:

Blog Post #4 - It Tastes Like Book-Burning

In your Exploring Language reader, read the essay "The Freedom to Read" by the American Library Association on page 446; afterwards read Jeff Jacoby's essay "Book-Banning, Real and Imaginary" on page 451. After reading these two essays and pondering deeply about the situation, respond to the first writing assignment on page 453:

"Is censorship of written materials ever permissible? If so, under what conditions? If not, why not?" Write out your response to this as a comment on this blog post OR respond to a comment somebody else has already made. However, if you do respond to a comment, make sure you're not just saying "Yeah I agree". Either point to specific points you disagree with and why, or support the points being made with your own examples. Try and comment by Sunday afternoon so that people have time to comment. Also, feel free to comment more than once if you really have something to say. As you work on this, think about how the authors make and support their arguments. We'll be working out of Exploring Language for Essay #3, the classical argument, and we'll be talking a lot about what makes a good argument.

Cion Blog Post #2

In the early chapters of Cion, Toloki frequently makes reference to a "sciolist", a shady, mystical character. A sciolist is defined as something of a charlatan, a pretender to knowledge - which I read to be a self-deprecating jab by the author at himself. Toloki mentions that he was conjured up by this sciolist. What does he mean by this? Describe a character that you or somebody in your family conjured. If you can't remember ever doing so, make one up now. Describe your character and also describe his or her (or it's) purpose.