Please read ALL the following guidelines carefully
After you have read this week's discussion assignment and are prepared to enter the forum, log on to the forum between noon each Wednesday and noon each Friday and post your responses to the assignment, and to observations made by your classmates.
Initial forum discussions must be posted before midnight on Thursday to qualify for full credit. Initial posting after 10:00am on Friday will receive little to no credit depending on quality.
I recommend that you log on more than once during the forum session to view additional postings made by other forum members, and to add further responses. Each forum counts as a full class session and therefore full class credit, so you must put in the equivalent time and effort. Please note that these sessions do count towards class attendance.
I encourage you to actively engage in discussion with your classmates, but please think about what you are saying before you send a posting (use the preview option). Remember, this forum is not anonymous and you will have to sit in class with these folks every Tuesday.
Read "Making a Memory of War: Building the Vietnam Veteran's Memorial." Then, do an online search for information about other controversial war memorials. For this forum, generate discussion about how we memorialize war and construct historical representations of it.
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For Tuesday, November 10
Do an online search for stories and details about the controversy surrounding the Arizona 9/11 memorial at Wesley Bolin Plaza near the Phoenix State Capitol. Try to find sources that provide varying points of view. Then, write a one page analysis identifying how claims and arguments in these various texts reveal their subject positions and attempt to construct ways of seeing the memorial.
Additional: Look ahead to Report #3 Come to class prepared to ask questions and discuss strategies for this next research project.