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W: Seminar #1-- Groups 1, 2 & 3, you must have your seminar paper to attend seminar.R: Seminar #1 -- Groups 4, 5 & 6, you must have your seminar paper to attend seminar.
 F: CL. For those of you unfamilar with the writing
process please attend the Workshop where we will complete last week's prepostion work
and introduce writing elements.
The Meaning of Literary Writing"A poem or story does not mean, it simply is." True, but it does mean something to each one of us. We will examine how poems and stories create meaning, and often times, an ambivalence of meaning, through a variety of methods.
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Week 5 Family and Its Cultural Mythos M: Library Orientation
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F The Form of Poetry Every poem follows a pattern and has a form. A poem may be patterned around a central theme providing an essential form. Or a poem might utilize rhyme scheme, meter, stanza length, and graphic representation on the page as elements of formal construction. We will analyze these various formal elements paying attention to the particular established forms -- sonnet, etc. -- and how form influences content. |
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Week 6
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T: MLA Workshop! Using MLA. Embedding quotations. Citing Sources I& 2.
MLA Exercise
Wednesday: Seminar on Research I due Groups 3, 4. You
must have your paper to attend session. (30 minute non-stop writing due on your author and
book)
Thursday: Seminar on Research I due Groups 2, 1 You
must have your paper to attend session. (30 minute non-stop writing due on your author and
book)
F: Your choice. Read Chapter 16 to prepare for
Sem. 3.
Figures of Speech
Remembering our previous discussions concerning language and meaning, we will examine the various figures of speech which assist the poet in developing a specific poem.
Week 7 --
Cultural Differences
Across
Space and Time
M: Carrie lectures on Lahiri
Groups work together in Book Groups, second set of questions due from each group ten questions to the meeting. The first third of your book must be read by this day.
What's due:
answers to the 10+ questions generated by the first leader -- question and answers due to teachers at end of session
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on your own finish TJE,
Seminar 3
W: Seminar 3 due Groups 2, 3. You must have your paper to attend session.
R: Seminar 3 due Groups 1, 4 You must have your paper to attend session.
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Begin Seminar 4.
Guest
Speaker from India, Professor Mita Sen, will lecture on the lndia and its
culture through a discussion of Jumpa Lahiri novel.
The Other Literature -- Can it be called literature
?Of course, we mean the genres of romance novels, science fiction, and mysteries. We were raised with Sherlock Holmes, Star Wars, and Princess Bride?
Is this literature? This is the question each of you must ask and answer in your travels with us....M: TJE7 due.
Groups work together in Book Groups, second set of questions due from each
group.
Sentence
Combining Lecture, Practice, Exercise
T: On your own
W: Two summaries of lit resources from
the Internet due. See timelines.
Seminar 4 due Groups 1, 3, You must have your
paper to attend session. Last half of each seminar will be dedicated to
peer edit of Research 1
T: Seminar 4 due. Groups 2, 4. You must have your paper to attend session. Last
half of each seminar will be dedicated to peer edit of Research 1This is the final week to turn in
revisions (all seminar, journal and research papers can be revised with the possibility of
earning an addition five points for substantial revision)
All
rewritten work due 11:30.!!!! Wednesday,
the 28th!
Read this compare/contrast essays if you are
having trouble with the form! Jamie LaBelle
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| T: On your own -- find a partner to do Peer Edit of Seminar 5. Drop a copy of section of the book along with the assignment to Room 239. Collect book/story units from teams, along with assignment. |
| Weds. Seminar 5 give Typed 2nd draft of research paper with its Works Cited peer edit to teacher |
| Thur. Seminar 5 Teacher draft, should be a typed, pre-final draft, including works cited. |
| Fri: Use time to preparation for presentation. |
Voice & Identity
Just as poets speak poetry, poetry speaks the poet. A poem offers us insight into the voice and identity of a specific poet. The voice in fiction is often masked with the narrator, especially dealing with the uncertain narrator or one we cannot trust.
Presentations
Final paper due 6/5 and litweb, both on disk and hard copy.
How Literature Reads the World
Just a a shell impresses itself upon sand, so too, does the world impress itself upon the literary work. How does the story, poem or drama serve as an artifact of the time in which it was written?
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Wed -- 6/11 Journal due.
Final Exam 9:30, Portfolio due. Worldly Party 10:30, bring something from a culture different than your own, food, translation, whatever. |
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Extra
credit opportunity! 
Begin work on
Research 1
Hand in five questions (with answers) that you
would like to see on the mid-term.