Essay 2: What is “la brega” and whose lives are shaped by its persistent inequities? 

First Draft: March 21 (in class)

Revision for Credit: March 30 (to Bb)
Required for all students. In this assignment, as in the earlier assignment, you’ll listen to, digitally annotate, verbally discuss, and respond informally in writing to seven (7) episodes of the podcast La Brega. It is available in English or in Spanish. Listen to, respond from, quote using whichever language you prefer. The objectives we’re focusing on here are learning to “utilize literary terminology, critical methods, and various lenses of interpretation.” The best way to learn about critical methods and lenses of interpretation is through reading, comprehending, and working with the concepts found in peer-reviewed academic research. But because these are open-access pieces of audio journalism, there’s going to be some terminology related to this 21st century form of literature. As a result, we’ll increase our use of digital annotation to “locate and critically evaluate print and electronic sources” that help give context to what’s in these digital stories.