The Sacks

Read the Sacks chapter. Then read it again.
Look up terms or ideas you don’t know. Make sure you fully understand the piece before you start thinking critically about it.
Because this is a response, no research is needed beyond helping yourself to understand what you’ve read. Every single word should be your own — it may not come from (or be based on) anybody else’s writing.
Begin by explaining, in the simplest and most concise way you can, how the accident shifted Mr. I’s perception, and how this manifested in his art. Always use specific examples. Don’t write “his sense of color disappeared,” instead, write “in the painting Mr. I made four weeks after his experiment, he used black and green interchangeably, responding only to their shade and not their chroma.” Your research question is “how does Mr. I’s experience shed light on the role of color and color perception in art?”
Then, discuss the facts Mr. I considered in the regaining of his color vision. Why did he ultimately decide (citing specific pages in the Sacks chapter) not to do so?
Check your spelling. Read over your work to make sure it is as clear and simple as it can be. Could something be clearer? Does something need a bit more explanation? Read it aloud, ideally to someone else — and ask if it made sense. Make it clearer and simpler.
Save this as a PDF, and label it 9_1_LastNameFirstInitial.pdf.
Submit that document to TurnItIn.com (TII). Get a PDF of your originality report once it’s ready, label it 9_1_LastNameFirstInitial_Originality.pdf. You must submit BOTH FILES.

TIPS & TRICKS

The most successful responses in the past have come from a very close reading of the chapter in the first place. Consider that the aim — as with the previous assignment — is not summary or description, but a discussion of the broader themes of the course through the lens of this particular phenomenon as described by Sacks. How does I’s decision to remain as the accident left him shed new light on the question of the role of color in art?