Assignments schedule

 

Assignments/Grading

• Two reaction papers to any course material, 3-7pp 20/20 40%   DUE June 11 respectively
• Artistic Work: 20% June 16
• Create a spell  20%  June 22
• Blog Presence: 20% all semester, leave comments, min. 2/week=70%(average)

Assignment Guidance

 

Reaction Paper:  There has got to be something in this class that gets your gears grinding.  This assignment is designed to encourage you to sort out your thoughts and how to support them in writing:

1. Establish your thesis.  Explain what you are writing about and why in our opening sentence(s). 
2.  Give a summary discussion about the topic; expect that the reader needs to know the basics about the situation, the context, its history, the theories that support it, etc. 
3. Discuss.  Write this section with all the fire that catalyzed your interest in the first place.  If it helps, write this as though you were writing an email to a good friend and then go back over the paper and adjust it to an academic paper.  This way I can really hear your voice. 
4. Wind it down with another summary, this one including the new information and a re-support of your original position. 
5. Write a nice, satisfying closing statement.                                                                                      

Some fundamental components of your Spell to help shape it:

Phase of the moon

Day of the Week

Ruling Hour, Ruling Planet

Herbs

Day(s)/Night(s) of Spell

Intention

Colors, Symbols

Appropriate gods

Tools, Altar Plan

Chant(s)/Rhyme(s)

1.  Introduce the intention of the spell. (This acts as your thesis statement)

2.  Discuss what motivated your choice for this spell.  This can be anything at all from "i'm currently suffering from a broken heart" to "(you) saw something on the internet that seemed simple enough to do in one night."  

3.  Examine briefly your motivation(s) and determine what higher purpose, if any, it serves.

4.  Begin writing out the step by step process of the spell, explaining at each step what you are choosing (a tool, a time of day, etc) and why you chose it.    

5.  Yes, go ahead and put in pictures, props, ribbons, anything at all. Go for it.  Make a great spell.

6.  Bind it all together in a thoughtful cover.   The final product should look like a Book of Shadows, but online.

Artistic Project:  Express learning through a creative medium.  For example, write and record a song about the Witches' Holocaust.