Basically, the notebook includes expository writing, creative writing, visual exercises and whatever else you want to put in there. Treat it like a scrapbook, but don’t take the visual element too far. What I want to see is your thinking and direct responses to the notebook assignments. Each notebook entry should be at least 600 words, and no longer than 800. Each notebook entry should demonstrate to me your writing ability at its best, though it can be somewhat informal in style. It should show me that you have read the material. Overall the student makes clear what idea they are pursuing, something like a “thesis” or angle the student has shown me that they read the entire book and not just the small portion they are writing about, the student quotes from the text to support their argument, the student is writing about both the style and the substance of what they are discussing.
Seven entries and prompt ideas on:
- The White Album-bookprompt ideas:What is the effect of Didions calm, restrained prose when describing violence, paranoia, or madness? Does the relative conciseness and impersonal nature of her descriptions amplify those effects? How do figures like musicians, actors, or public personalities illustrate the books critique of surface culture? Does she seem to revere (or revile) any of these people or are they merely tokens of some other “truth”?
- Richard Pryor-youtuberelate to erasure novelprompt:What kind of truth does Pryor claim in this performance, and how is that truth produced through comedy rather than confession? How do timing, exaggeration, and self-contradiction shape what feels honest?
3.Slow Days, Fast Company-bookprompt ideas:How does Babitzs writing treat womens freedom in a world shaped by male attention and power? Where do you see agency, where do you see constraint, and how does she navigate the difference? How do male gender identities play a role in this collection?
4. Germs Gi- Richie daggers crimePrompt ideas:How do GI and Los Angeles define punk authenticity in contrasting ways? What counts as real on each album chaos, discipline, sincerity, irony, vulnerability, speed, or precision? Is there genuine musical talent in either of these bands (i.e. mastery of the instruments and vocals) or is the music merely noise to contradict corporate music of the time?
5. The Doors first album-bandsong= light my fireprompts:What kind of Los Angeles does the album imagine, and how does it differ from the sunny pop version of California in the mid-1960s? How do sound, mood, and lyrical imagery create a city of night, danger, and trance?
6.Less than zero-bookPrompt ideas: What does the novel suggest emptiness actually isan emotional state, a social style, or a survival strategy? How does Ellis make emptiness feel lived rather than merely symbolic?
7. X ;album/song=Los Angeles -bandPrompt ideas:What kinds of futures do these albums imagine, if any? Do they feel apocalyptic, stuck, cynical, ecstatic, or weirdly hopeful and what does that suggest about late-70s/early-80s LA? How do the attitudes reflected in these albums relate to the attitudes you’ve seen in other work from this period? Is there room for love, ambition and social success in these records?
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