CONSIDER THE LOBSTER is the title work of a collection of essays by David Foster Wallace. Last week, we finished reading his essay, and also watched two documentaries about interesting subject matter, Crumb and The King of Kong. This week we workshop the "Consider" essays that we've written.

Monday

Continuing the documentary, The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters.
HW: You can watch the last 7 minutes of the documentary in the post just prior to this one. There's also an interesting article going into greater depth about the rivalry. Tonight, you should print the first five essays, read them, and provide feedback to the five writers tomorrow in class.

Tuesday

Today we will read the first five "consider" essays. Each writer will have seven minutes to gather feedback.
HW: Read the next five essays tonight. Your revised verb essay will be due on Friday. Tonight, Wednesday and Thursday night, work on that. The revisions to your "consider" essays will be due Wednesday.

Wednesday

The next five essays will be work-shopped.
HW: Remember, the verb essay revision is due Friday. If we workshopped your essay today, or yesterday, should should start revising. Read and annotate the next five essays.

Thursday

The next five essays will be work-shopped.
HW: Verb revisions are due tomorrow. Read and annotate the next five essays. Remember, your non-fiction book should be read by the end of April!

Friday

I will collect your verb essays, and we will then work-shop the next five essays.
HW: Reading your non-fiction text, revising your consider essay. Those revisions are due Wednesday of next week.