WE MOVE FROM VONNEGUT TO BRADY, known generally as the foremost photographer of the Civil War. What does Brady's war photography add to our understanding of the American soldier's experience both in war and upon returning home? How can we use visual art to develop the complexity of our thematic expertise? This week we will explore visual art, and how to indirectly cite visual evidence within our papers.

Monday

An interview with Robert Wilson on his book about Mathew Brady's photography is here.

No school on account of Presidents' Day.
HW: Reading your novel, of course. And keep looking for (and adding to your bibliography) short stories related to your theme.

Tuesday

The photography of Mathew Brady. We will read two short biographies and watch twenty minutes of a lecture on why Brady's war photography matters.
HW: Read "Ball's Bluff," the remaining Civil War poem in our packet tonight.

Wednesday

So what are we to make of Brady's photography? Writing a visual argument. We will use the above photograph as a counterpoint to the poem, "The Confederate Dead."
HW: Write a sample, argumentative paragraph that compares Brady's portrait of three confederate prisoners after Gettysburg to the poem. Due tomorrow. Please type it.

Thursday

Collect paragraphs. Shifting to the world wars.
HW: Tonight, revisit your noodle bibliography, cleaning it up, finishing any additions you didn't complete in preparation for class tomorrow.

Friday

Meeting in the library. Research time should be spent on filling in the gaps in your annotated bibliography. You should have a minimum of: 10 entries related to your novel and/or author; 5 entries related to thematically related poetry or poems; 5 entries for thematically related short stories.
HW: You have one more week to read your novel. I will collect it to check on annotations.