Q Almost four months later... do we have closure? Or, rather, can we hope for something better than closure, something more like an opening? Welcome to our third round of Trust Exercises! Here's how it works! The Schedule: WEEK FOURTEEN - by the end of Week Fourteen, one member of your group will post your group's final 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 FIFTEEN - by the end of Week Fifteen, 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 final round of 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. 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, and for the third, you presented from the view of those most impacted. For this round, I'd like you to look back on all of that you have come to understand by moving through differing perspectives and revisit the original report with fresh eyes. Give us a recap of where you started and who you considered to be the players in your post (those responsible, those impacted). Then, tell us what you've come to understand about your issue now, almost four months later, comparing this to how you began. How has looking at the issue, really examining it, changed the issue for your group? Is it more or less relevant? Are there solutions that present themselves that you had not considered or noticed before? Is there actually even anything to solve? Are you more or less hopeful/angry/impressed/insert-emotion-here than you were at the start? 1 Paragraph: And then, tell us about your group, but this time, I'd like your group to consider the ways your group has been portrayed so far this semester (as a metaphor for functioning in Los Angeles, as a place, as an aspect of L.A.'s light) and give us one final metaphor to describe your group, this time... a trust exercise. Using your group's overall experience as a successful trust exercise, create a brief set of instructions that a group of people joining together for the first time might follow in order to cohere as a group. You are welcome to be as literal or as interpretive about your experience as you like, and both at the same time. Just give us some steps to follow. Have fun with it. (It is always possible to incorporate fun. This is the hill I will die on. Laughing.) This round of presentations is due at the end of Week Fourteen. 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!