Last Blog: Your Humor, Your History

Dear All,


For next week, you will prepare a write-up about how your personal history/experience makes a piece of your choosing particularly funny to you.  POST BY MONDAY. 

You may choose a cartoon, a joke, a book, a poem, a commercial, a scene from a movie, a stand-up sketch... anything!  Why does it make YOU -- the person who you are -- laugh? Think about how Ralph Ellison uses his experience to explain his extravance of laughter at the Erskine Caldwell play.



If you can provide a link to your humorous piece in your blog, do so.  You could also bring in a handout, or a dvd... whatever!  Just be ready to help your classmates understand what you're talking about -- either by showing some of it to them, or by summarizing it -- because you'll present your favorite piece of humor and your write-up to the class on either MONDAY or WEDNESDAY next week!

Have fun with this assignment, be thoughtful and deep, and write your blog with care! It's your last one!

Best,
Jennifer