RECOMMENDED JOURNAL COMPONENTS

RECOMMENDED FIRST-HALF COMPONENTS

• LETTER OF INTRODUCTION

• REMEMBERING SEPTEMBER 11TH ENTRY

• JAPAN AND WORLD WAR II MINI-PROJECT

• ART OF WAR

• TOMB OF THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER

• 1+ DISCUSSION TOPIC COMMENTARY

• MAUS READING RESPONSE (3+ pages)

• 1+ READING RESPONSE (based on assigned or supplementary article readings)

• 1+ AUDIO RESPONSE AND/OR 1 VIDEO RESPONSE (1+ pages based on one or more audio links)

• OTHER ENTRIES OF YOUR OWN DESIGN

RECOMMENDED SECOND-HALF COMPONENTS

• REMEMBERING WORLD WAR II MINI-PROJECT

• THINGS THEY CARRIED READING RESPONSE (3+ pages)

• WAR AND FAMILY MEMORY (2+ pages)

• ***SITES OF WAR MEMORY ASSIGNMENT (6+ War Memory Sites/ 10+ pages)

• 1+ DISCUSSION TOPIC COMMENTARY

• 1+ READING, AUDIO OR VIDEO RESPONSE

• 1+ WAR MEMORY  IN THE NEWS ENTRIES (each based on at least two news articles)

• 1 WEB-SITE REVIEW

• OTHER ENTRIES OF YOUR OWN DESIGN

• REFLECTIONS ON WAR AND MEMORY (1+ pages in which you offer some concluding thoughts about the course and about War and Memory)

***The above list is offered as a basic core structure for your journal.  You are not required to complete each of the above entries, though you are encouraged to do so.  Try also to come up with your own ideas for entries based upon your own interests and learning style.  Documentaries, movies, class discussion, lectures, audio links and supplementary reading can serve as possible source material here.  The Reading Response, Audio Response, and War Memory in the News formats have been designed so they can serve as the model for multiple or expanded entries.  Strive to make analytical comparisons between topics as you move through the course.  This is a writing-intensive assignment, but one for which solid effort should lead to a good grade in the course.  The point of this exercise is to help you to engage with the curriculum and to offer on-going critical commentary rather to sweep you up in the relentless pursuit of cranking out as many pages as possible.  Most strong journals in the past have been 30+ double-spaced pages and you are not discouraged from turning out considerably more than that if a careful approach to the course leads to that result.