What's due tonight etc.

Hi Everybody -- Time to start thinking about getting to know the Hartford group we'll be traveling with. Be sure to post a profile of yourself on the Sicily Facebook page by Thursday.

Here's what Jeremiah Patterson, a leader of the Hartford group, says about the post:

We need each of you to log into our Facebook group and spend a moment posting an entry that says something about you to introduce yourself to the others traveling in the group from both UMASS and Hartford Art School. Please complete this written entry this week. You may also post pictures if you want.

In past years, we used to have our students write an actual paper about themselves and they would be distributed on the bus as we met each other for the first time as we drove to the airport for our departure. The students from Hartford would exchange their "What you need to know about me before we get on the bus" papers with the UMASS students, and vice versa. These would be read by everyone so we had a synopsis of our group and the individual students & faculty that were traveling together.

This year, we are requiring you to write about yourself on our Facebook group page with this assignment. Please spend the time needed and tell us about who you are. Feel free to write and edit your entry in Microsoft Word or Apple Pages before posting it, and you may add photos if you want.

Everybody

--Tonight, Rick will be talking about photos on the Big Picture site after the Sicily presentations.

Photographers

-- Discuss Sontag essay and test

Writers

--Jordan and Katie to present Italian vignette

-- Continue peer editing blog posts on a memorable place (We still haven't talked about Jenna's, Sarah C.'s, Manish's and Lindsay P.'s.)

--Peer edit new blog posts. Post them ASAP if you haven't yet!

Refreshment schedule:

Tonight -- Katie C.

Thursday -- Stephanie G.