Update and Short Work for Monday

In order to prepare ourselves adequately for Monday's class, I have drawn up a number of discussion questions regarding the three speeches you have been assigned to read. Please note that these questions are attached here as a PDF file. I would like you to answer these for Monday by typing your responses. Also, I encourage you to watch or listen to these speeches while you read and annotate the paper transcription I have provided you.

Overall, I want to express how productive our class discussion was this past Wednesday. I really was pleased with the responses you shared and I feel that many of the initial connections we made have foreshadowed most of the topics, issues, and themes we will encounter as the semester's reading progresses. So, keep up with your readings and keep the in-class participation active and engaged!

To guide you in the right direction, let me point you to a number of key passages in Duncombe's reading that we did not have enough time to cover this past week:

1) Identify the importance of D-I-Y politics on page four.

2) Consider this statement: "Punk didn't work unless it was performed, and by writing songs, dressing up and playing out I learned to perform my passions. That is, I learned how to transform ideas into action."

3) From the middle of page five until the top of page eight, Duncombe outlines a number of key definitions and meanings of culture and cultural resistance. In class Wednesday I asked you questions regarding the things he discusses amongst these pages. Review this material and annotate the significant things you notice. Also, be sure to examine page eight closely, as he provides a nice, bulleted summary of this crucial section of his Introduction.

Lastly, please note that I have posted the rubric for Formal Paper One. If you have questions regarding this assignment, or others, please email me and I will reply as soon as I can.

I wish you all a nice weekend. See you Monday.
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