Journal 10

Assignment

Early in each response, you should have an arguable and significant claim. That makes it much easier to find and use specific textual evidence and examples to support your ideas. Using quotes in summaries doesn't open texts up, and that's ultimately what we want to do. We want to read critically. Keep the analysis sandwich in mind. 

I won't bother you with a prompt this week. If you like the prompts, last week's will work for this week as well. That said . . .

Some of you might find The Hasty Pudding difficult to read. It's old and written in language that's aiming to sound old even for readers in the 1790s. If you find yourself completely flummoxed, think about it this way: Look for places where Barlow is talking about the relationship between corn meal mush/hasty pudding and the essential identity of the United States of America and its people. What is the future of a country that eats this type of food? What is the relationship between food and the ultimate success or failure of the republican experiment?

If you do any research, you need to be transparent about it. There is no shame in reading about a text. However, omitting that information and/or pretending that the ideas you gleaned from the research are your own puts you on the wrong side of the Academic Integrity and Dishonesty Policy. Over the years, I've seen quite a bit of plagiarism in this course–especially when it comes to The Hasty Pudding–and nothing makes me grumpy as quickly as plagiarism does. 

Technically, we are reading six selections this week, but you can treat the three chapters from Kitchen Confidential as a single text if you would prefer. 

Jane Black, “Revenge of the Lunch Lady” https://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/school-lunch/ (Links to an external site.) (Links to an external site.)

-Anthony Bourdain, excerpts from Kitchen Confidential, “Who Cooks?”; “A Day in the Life”; “So You Want to be a Chef” (pdfs on WebCampus). 

-Joel Barlow, “The Hasty Pudding” https://www.bartleby.com/400/poem/608.html (Links to an external site.)

-The Brothers Grimm, “Sweet Porridge” https://americanliterature.com/author/the-brothers-grimm/fairy-tale/sweet-porridge (Links to an external site.)  (Links to an external site.)or https://www.grimmstories.com/en/grimm_fairy-tales/sweet_porridge (Links to an external site.) (Links to an external site.) or https://www.pitt.edu/~dash/grimm103.html (Links to an external site.)Criteria for Evaluation