The Movie to Review (3rd essay): Toy Story

Maybe I shouldn't be surprised, but both classes, Writing IVc1 and Writing IVc2, expressed weighted majority preferences to review the same movie. Unfortunately, the data that I collected on preferences that you expressed in class is not available on this computer, because I left my memory stick at work.

Nevertheless, both classes predominantly favored the first (unnumbered) production of Toy Story. So, for practical purposes, I have assigned this movie as the focus of reviews for your third essay this fall semester. Everyone should review the same movie, in an original fashion, and post individual reviews on their own blogs. Individual movie reviews are due by November 11.

In both classes today - no, yesterday (now), content suggestions emerged. Though I will not attempt here to compile them all in a working outline, I hope that you will consider each possibility as you compose your own outlines and essays. Some of the most memorable suggestions for predication in introductions, development in body paragraphs, and summarization in conclusions include:

• movie production details (including genre and studio history);
  
• main characters in the movie; and
  
• main themes of the movie

Before you finalize your outlines and compose them as essays, I would like to highlight possible interactions between characters and themes. One way to represent them would be to focus on characters; another would be to focus on themes as main points. Nevertheless, the organization of your essays is up to you. I look forward to reading them next Monday (Nov. 12).

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