Claire Salcedo

Every time I start feeling despair I am reminded that many, many people want to help, actually.

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What short stories, books, TV shows, comics, films would you recommend college students think about for a project like this?

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I’m giving them an initial list of stories they can check out—things I know were either created with certain research, experience, or histories in mind, or ones that could speak to what we’re living through. The question I’m putting out into the ether:

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Practicing research, organizing it, synthesizing, analyzing—it’s all part of the project goal. But I also want students to think about why these issues are important to think about, through the lens of fiction. I’m going to let them write about fiction, TV, film, comics, etc.

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For their final project of the quarter, students will get to pick a speculative story and research ways it was either influenced by real world ideas and events in its creation or ways in which the story speaks to something happening/being discussed in our world now.

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Each year I teach English composition, I think of new ways to theme and organize their learning and projects. I’ve experimented with different ways of incorporating speculative fiction into my class before now, but this fall it turned into a class on rhetoric and meaning in speculative fiction.

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I will enable this forever

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A T-Rex shouts, “I ran out of tarragon!”

A pterodactyl shouts, “The hills are alive!!!”

Playing Flip7 with the family tonight—this is @sarah-salcedo.com ‘s incredible scoresheet, which is 100% going up in my office on Monday.

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That’s such a powerful message. I’m so proud of you, what you’ve done and made this year, and how you’ve kicked ass. I can’t wait to see even more of your work out in the world!

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Frodo, a gray and white tabby cat, sits on a blanket and looks off into the distance.

I’m a community college English instructor, writer, botany-lover, and absolutely 100% going to talk about my cat, Frodo. Hi there! ✨

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Expanding into one more social media platform, in the attempt to find one I don’t have to flee from!

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