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Halloween Extra Credit: Olivia Wood
I thought it would be best if I lived up to my own assignment this time! This Halloween, I dressed up as my friend Maddie because she already owns the goth aesthetic I aspire to every Halloween, and it was a low-effort Halloween costume while still being creative and not a cop-out idea. Maddie loves cats, unicorns, stickers, and sparkles, and she is a professional poet, so I’m wearing cat ears with a rainbow unicorn horn, painted my nails sparkly, and I have stickers and silly Halloween poems that I wrote to hand out to people. Maddie is a great person, a great writer and artist, and a great friend, so she is definitely someone I aspire to be more like.
My original idea for Halloween was to be Garnet from Steven Universe in her wedding outfit. I love Steven Universe for its wholesome, loving themes, queer representation, and abundance of kickass women. And aliens! I relate to Pearl the most personally, but I love how Garnet’s outfit combines both a suit and a dress (masculine and feminine dress). I alternate between whether I like suits or dresses best depending on the day, so seeing Garnet combine both made me happy.
Note: You don’t have to write as much as I did, but you’re welcome to!
Halloween Extra Credit Opportunity
Because Halloween is a Thursday this year so we will not see each other and get to talk and write about Halloween and its rhetorics/meanings, I wanted to offer you an extra credit opportunity for Halloween instead.
And we’ll be doing it as a cross-college collaboration with my friend and colleague Eric Dean Wilson’s class at Queens College!!
What To Do (Part 1)
On or near Halloween, write a blog post on our course site that includes 1) a photo of you in your Halloween costume and 2) some writing about what your costume means to you. The writing can be rhetorical/analytical, or argumentative, or personal narrative, or really any other mode you choose. Tag your post “Halloween”
If you don’t have a Halloween costume or don’t want to write about yourself, you can also post a photo of a friend or family member in their costume and interview them for the writing instead.
If you don’t celebrate Halloween, you can post a photo of your choosing and write about your relationship with the holiday as someone who does not celebrate it.
(This part enables you to earn up to 2 extra points in either your participation grade category or your rhetorical devices category, whichever will benefit you more)
What To Do (Part 2)
On Halloween or in the few days after, visit Eric’s students in their Instagram hashtag (#fa19eng110), read their posts, and respond to several of them, answering the question, “What did their post make you think about?”
Also respond to any/all comments they leave on your blog post.
(This part enables you to earn up to 2 points in your participation grade category only.)
