Q Welcome to our third round of Trust Exercises! Here's how it works! The Schedule: WEEK TWELVE - by the end of Week Twelve, one member of your group will post your group's third presentation to this discussion board, including the list of the names of everyone who worked on the presentation. The presentation will be a coherent, edited report (three paragraphs should do it). It need not be formal but it must reference any sources used and include, at least, an informal list of works cited. The presentation should not be made up of paragraphs from different group members that are squished together or contain unattributed first-person perspective (unless you've truly become that close!). It should read as if written in one voice and be edited for grammar and spelling. The full prompt appears below. WEEK THIRTEEN - by the end of Week Thirteen, I ask that each of you respond to at least two of the presentations other groups have posted here. You'll do this as yourself/an individual, not as a part of your group. The instructions for this round: This is our third of four presentations. As before, you might think of these as mini-essays and doing so will be the best way to practice for our essays/research paper. Regardless, if your group would prefer to present in non-essay form, as discussed with regard to the first two rounds of Trust Exercises, that is welcome. If your group elects to present in an alternate way, it will still need to submit a short written explanation as well as an informal list of works cited. Our remaining presentations will focus on the aspect of Los Angeles covered in your first presentation from a new perspective. Address what follows fully, answering any questions posed, and, add any other details that your group finds relevant. Start with what I have offered and then make it your own. Please be sure to consider the notes offered to your group's first report (on the Trust Exercises I discussion board) and the ones arriving soon (!) on Trust Exercises II, before you begin. 1-2 Paragraphs: In the first presentation, you told us about your topic from an observer's perspective (though, of course, many of us are impacted by the issues and topics related in round one, making us more than observers). In the second, you took the stance of the person(s) your group deems responsible for the issue. For this round, I'd like you to consider the counterargument, if you will, to that perspective. That is, please share one or two paragraphs written from the perspective of the person(s) most impacted by the issue. I am asking that you step into the shoes of whomever might be considered the most impacted by the issue/topic your group is covering. Similar to my notes from the second round, put on your actor hat. Just as creating a super villain is not realistic (or useful, if we are wishing for solutions), neither is creating a super victim. Find the agency, the ability to create change, that is, for whatever reason, stifled, suffocated, disallowed, in the person(s) you are representing. Find the power. Janel Pineda's poem, "To Be a Latina Woman on a College Campus," is a great representation of the power I'm asking you to consider as you inhabit the role of the person(s) most impacted by the issue your group is focusing on this round (5+ minutes). If your group's focus is not a problem, and so, there is no victim, great. The work is the same in that the person(s) you are representing should have dimensionality and depth. Everyone is striving toward liberation and meeting obstacles along the way. 1 Paragraph: And then, tell us about your group, but this time, I'd like your group to pick a depiction of Los Angeles's light to represent its experience of itself so far. This week's look at Weschler's study of L.A.'s light will be helpful. How you choose to evoke that light, much as in our other work, is up to you. It can exist in any time and be something everyone can access or a private scene known only to your group. Describe it to us, perhaps by explaining where and when we might see it, perhaps using colors or other adjectives, and tell us a bit about why you've chosen it. Think of this as a group exercise to help prepare you for our final essay but also as a way to consider Los Angeles's deep relationship with light. This round of presentations is due at the end of Week Twelve. Working together is the ultimate goal of this assignment. Presentations posted by individuals alone will not be graded. Work with your group! At any point you are welcome to reference any of the texts we've discussed (remember to cite them if you do). I look forward to reading your presentations!