March 21
Open With A Poem: (Eduardo)
1. Review the work on Intro to LiteraryTheory from links in Week 2. Be ready to write briefly but confidently about: Literary theory, feminist theory or gynocriticsm
Discuss EF Ch. 1-3: Students read and reread a passage combining independent, pair, and whole group work to work through details and get the big picture idea.
- Chapter 1, 2, 3 is about --details: bullets, notes, people, places, things
- Chapter 1, 2, 3 is about --main ideas: (1 or 2 bullets, combined from details)
- Chapter 1, 2, 3 is really about--big picture: (themes, emotions, conflict, etc.)
- Summary of Chapter 1, 2, 3 (25 words or less abstract--full sentences)
TODAY, COMMON HOUR, InfoCommons BOOK TALK with NYPL Librarian Ricci Yuhio:(you can use this for a review of a course-related workshop or event --see above!)
ASSIGNMENT:
1. Meet with Librarian BY 3/23. Signed Service-Learning Agreement due 3/28.
2. Read EF Ch.4-6 by 3/28.
March 23
Open With A Poem: (Farmata)
Literary Devices:
- Look at the Literary Terms in your syllabus. Let's see which ones we may already know: https://www.quia.com/rr/482059.html Write down the ones you miss in this review to study the definitions of them. You'll need a basic understanding of these terms in writing and speaking about the texts we'll read this semester.
- http://literary-devices.com/
- Gynocriticism: "the study of women writers as a distinct literary tradition, refering to a literary criticism that constructs "a female framework for the analysis of women's literature, to develop new models based on the study of female experience, rather than to adapt male models and theories." Showalter, E. )
Pre-reading activity: Flim Bullied 26:32
Introduce annotation tools (see tab above) by choosing a short story from InfoCommons EN 214 King E-Reserves and use it to annotate the following short story:
Read : "The Girl Who Would Not Assert Herself" from My Childhood Among Ghosts by Maxine Hong Kingston (e-Reserves in InfoCommons from your Guttman dashboard-- (King, EN 214 Password: Guttman)
Take notes on all short stories in YOUR ePortfolio! You will use your notes to write your character analysis. You can use this template (cut and paste into your ePortfolio) as a way to categorize your short story notes while reading:
Title, Author
Plot/Structure
Characters
Setting
Narrator/Point of View
Images, Symbols
Style, Diction
Theme
ASSIGNMENT:
1. Have read Ch 4-6 EF for Tuesday's class
2. Bring signed S-L Agreement to Tuesday's class for Claire to review
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