The Mackerel Wrapper

A weblog for Pete Ellertsen's mass communications students at Benedictine University Springfield.

Thursday, March 08, 2012

COMM 353: Week of March 13-15

BY THE WAY: I've been expecting to get emails from some of you with your completed midterms and links to your blogs. (You know who you are.) In fact I have been pining ,sad and lonely, by my inbox all weekend, and I am getting impatient. Federal law does not permit me to discuss the grades of individual students in public, but I believe I am allowed to discuss certain mathematical truths. One of them is the concept of zero (0). If I don't have your midterm, your grade is a zero. A zero is not a grade you want to have. DO I MAKE MY MEANING CLEAR?

Notes from class - edit board ... Thursday, March
 supermemoryman at gmail dot com for 2nd edits by Tuesday morning, march __
 pix at same time email articles


Keep your edits.

In class Tuesday, March 13:

Find out as much as you can about the Roaring Twenties and the literary scene in New York City. Here are some good starting places:



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Springfield (Ill.), United States
I'm a retired English, journalism and cultural studies teacher at Springfield College in Illinois (acquired by Benedictine University and subsequently closed). I coordinate jam sessions for the "Clayville Pioneer Academy of Music" at Clayville Historic Site and the Prairieland Strings dulcimer club, and I sing in the choir and the contemporary praise team at Peace Lutheran Church in Springfield. On Hogfiddle I post links and video clips for our sessions and workshops on the mountain dulcimer (a.k.a. "hog fiddle"), as well as research notes on folklore and cultural studies, hymnody and traditional Anglo-Celtic and Scandinavian music. I also posted assignments and readings in my interdisciplinary humanities classes. The Mackerel Wrapper (now on hiatus), carried assignments and readings for my mass comm. students. I started teaching b/log when I chaired SCI-Benedictine's assessment committee, and reopened it as the privatization of public schools grew increasingly troubling and closer to home.