As announced in class, we will not meet as scheduled on Wednesday, March 27th. For Monday, April 1, please be prepared to discuss the stories found at the links below.
"The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin
"A&P" by John Updike
I strongly suggest students bring a printout of each story to refer to during class discussion.
Additionally, we will briefly discuss "The Race" and "Those Winter Sundays," which we did not have time for today. Please give each of these poems a quick read to refresh your memory.
Whether we have a quiz will depend on the scores on the poetry quiz.
Monday, March 25, 2013
Wednesday, March 20, 2013
Clarification
The only tasks related to the assigned poems are to 1) read the poems carefully so that you are prepared for class discussion and 2) be prepared for a quiz consisting of five basic multiple-choice questions.
Please contact me if this is at all unclear.
Please contact me if this is at all unclear.
Poems
Please read the following poems for class on Monday. A short quiz is likely.
The Red Wheelbarrow
by William Carlos Williamsso much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens.- See more at: http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15537#sthash.Q6GpOmtz.dpuf
The Red Wheelbarrow
William Carlos Williams
so much depends
upon
a red wheel
barrow
glazed with rain
water
beside the white
chickens.
The Red Wheelbarrow
by William Carlos Williamsso much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens.- See more at: http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15537#sthash.Q6GpOmtz.dpuf
The Red Wheelbarrow
by William Carlos Williamsso much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens.- See more at: http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15537#sthash.Q6GpOmtz.dpuf
The Red Wheelbarrow
by William Carlos Williamsso much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens.- See more at: http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15537#sthash.Q6GpOmtz.dpuf
The Red Wheelbarrow
by William Carlos Williamsso much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens.- See more at: http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15537#sthash.Q6GpOmtz.dpuf
The Red Wheelbarrow
by William Carlos Williamsso much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens.- See more at: http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15537#sthash.Q6GpOmtz.dpuf
The Red Wheelbarrow
by William Carlos Williamsso much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens.- See more at: http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15537#sthash.Q6GpOmtz.dpuf
Hands
by Jean Sprackland
Link to Sample Book Review
Here is Alex Stone's review of It's So Easy (and other lies) by Duff McKagan. This review should serve as a good model for the review you are writing.
Monday, March 18, 2013
Due Date
As announced in class today, the research paper's due date has been extended to Monday March 25. Keep in mind that a reading assignment (and possible quiz) will be assigned for that day, so plan accordingly.
A few groups have had difficulty contacting group members and have been given permission to proceed without these absent members. If you are concerned that this applies to you, please contact your group as soon as possible.
A few groups have had difficulty contacting group members and have been given permission to proceed without these absent members. If you are concerned that this applies to you, please contact your group as soon as possible.
Sample Text from Class
Below is the sample text we used in today's class.
Some scholars have suggested that Hughes’s childhood in
Harlem, surrounded by artists, poets, and musicians, played a major role in
developing his artistic sensibilities (Smith 14; Jones 298). What these scholars ignore, however, is that
Hughes was probably not exposed to Harlem’s cultural elite on a regular
basis. Hughes grew up on 96th
street, in the center of the most poverty-ridden section of Harlem (Williams
39). His father was a street sweeper and
his mother worked in a laundry. However,
none of Harlem’s major jazz clubs and art galleries was below 110th
street. Although Hughes spent his
childhood just fourteen blocks from Harlem’s glamorous intellectual center, he
lived in a very different Harlem—one that was riddled with crime and poverty
and was rapidly becoming a slum. Of the “two
Harlems” that jazz critic Ted Gioia suggests existed at the time (49), Hughes
most definitely grew up in the impoverished one. Although Hughes was certainly aware of the
intellectual blossoming occurring in other parts of the city, he probably did
not experience it on a daily basis.
Monday, March 11, 2013
Attendance
Absences have been on the rise, so this is a reminder that the course does have an attendance policy. Please see the course syllabus for details.
This is a particular concern this week and next, as we are working in groups. Your group members are depending on your presence in class.
This is a particular concern this week and next, as we are working in groups. Your group members are depending on your presence in class.
Quotations/Paraphrases/Summaries
We will use this article in class to see some examples of various ways to integrate and introduce outside source material. Although this article is an example of journalism, rather than academic research, many of the same principles apply.
Information on integrating sources is in section MLA-3 of the handbook, beginning on page 380.
Information on integrating sources is in section MLA-3 of the handbook, beginning on page 380.
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