Medaille+College+Assignments+Spring+2009


 * Assignment #1:** Medaille Students
 * Add your own bio to your page. This will be read by the students in Turkey, so include information about you that will interest them and make them want to communicate with you!
 * **This should be posted by February 5th, at the latest. We will do work in class on this posting.**

Group Posting on wiki due by February 26, at the latest**
 * Assignment #2:** Buffalo Neighborhoods
 * First Draft of Paper Due: February 19

Greater Buffalo has many neighborhoods and distinctive areas. These neighborhoods reveal something about the systems that make Buffalo function or that deter its proper functioning. Ultimately, they can tell us something about America itself. There are two parts of this assignment. In the first part, each of you will write an individual paper. In the second part, you and a group of your peers, will post an abbreviated introduction to this neighborhood, with pictures, on the wiki PART ONE: All students should do the following: a) identify a neighborhood/area that you feel will help reveal some aspect of Buffalo (and the USA) both to your peers and to the Turkish students. b) go to that neighborhood. Observe it. Take pictures. Talk to people. c.) research its history and its current status. d.) develop a thesis about what that neighborhood reveals to us about Buffalo/the U.S.A., and the systems we function within. Write a 4-6 page argument of fact, that uses a fair amount of observation to make its point. You are required to have at least 5 sources, and document this paper using M.L.A. format. PART TWO: In groups, with students who are working on roughly the same topic, you are required to: a) Share these papers, and identify some key details about your topic that you feel would help the Turkish audience get a real feel for this neighborhood/area. Post, on our "Buffalo Neighborhoods" page, your best pictures, and at least one paragraph of explanation.


 * Assignment #3:** A Taste of Buffalo (and the U.S.A.)