TCC 9th Annual Literary Festival - Extra Credit Opportunity - Updated 4 April

Tidewater Community College is proud to present the 9th Annual Literary Festival.

keynote event
Address by Kay Ryan,
U.S. Poet Laureate
Monday, April 5 · 7 p.m.
TCC Roper Performing Arts Center
Norfolk Campus
Reception and book signing following

Performance Poetry
by Taylor Mali
Tuesday, April 6 • 7 p.m.
TCC Roper Performing Arts Center
Norfolk Campus

Campus Readings by
Students and Faculty
Tuesday, April 6 • 12:30 p.m.
Building A, The Forum
NEW Portsmouth Campus

Campus Readings by
Students and Faculty
Tuesday, April 6 • 12:30 p.m.
Martin Building, Room 2505
Norfolk Campus

Campus Readings by
Students and Faculty
Tuesday, April 6 • 12:30 p.m.
Room F-133
Virginia Beach Campus

Readings by Charles Wright
Wednesday, April 7 • 7 p.m.
Whitehurst Building, Room 2057
Chesapeake Campus

Campus Readings by
Students and Faculty
Wednesday, April 7 • 2:00 p.m.
Pass Building, Studio Theatre, Room 157
Chesapeake Campus

An Evening with Nikki Giovanni
Thursday, April 8 • 12:30 p.m.
Advanced Technology Center
Virginia Beach Campus

Thursday, April 8 • 7 p.m.
Building A, The Forum
NEW Portsmouth Campus

Free and open to the public

And now the extra credit for my students:

You can earn up to 50 extra points, ten each for the main speakers, and ten if you attend and write about the student readings.

Requirements: Your extra credit assignment, should you choose to complete it, requires you to attend any or all of the speakers' presentations and then for each presentation attended and viewed write a response in which you should consider addressing at least one or several of these bullets:

• Do not summarize.
• Use specific details, painting a picture for your audience: What was the tone of the presentation, the mood, what were the audiences' responses?
  
• How did the speakers make you feel?
  
• What did it make you think?
• What did you learn?
• Praise it or critique it, or both.
• What did you like most and/or least?
  
• What does it tell us about how we construct identity and/or culture?
• What other unique response can you give?
  

I suggest taking some notes and I also suggest sticking around for any question and answer sessions as they can be very informative.

Word Count: 300+ words each

Value: 10 points each, and an extra point of student posts on their blog

Due Date: 14 April 2010 for all responses. Responses accepted as hard copy or blog posts. Hard copy responses must be in MLA format, stapled, etc. Blog posts should have spaces between paragraphs. Any student who creates and posts on a blog must send me their main blog address, to which I will link from my blog here.