Read until page 73 of The Awakening. While reading annotate as we´ve practiced in class.
These will be graded next week.
Friday, August 28, 2015
Wednesday, August 26, 2015
For Friday
Tonight I'd like to try writing your first reading blog entry based on the first 35 pages of The Awakening you read. We'll evaluate these together in class tomorrow.
What is a reading blog?
Reading to Blog
What's more important the book or our interpretations of the book? Can there be a book without there being interpretation? We'll be able to answer some of those questions after we've recorded our relationships with the books we read.
In order to preserve paper, as well as to promote our communication with the academic world outside of CNG, we'll be keeping blogs about the books we read.
You will write your own blogs, and respond to your blogs as prescribed by your weekly homework blog entry. You should not approach each blog the same way. With variety comes varied thought; therefore, I hope you focus on different topics and take different approaches in each entry.Imagine you have been assigned "The Three Little Pigs" for homework. To write a reading blog based on this reading here are some possibilities:
-Respond to the text personally:
I never had my house blown down by a wolf, but I have felt loss. For example, I once abandoned my favorite apartment. I left most of my furniture there, some clothes, even a television!
-Connect text to another book, a film, work of art, a comic or any other creation:
The Three Little Pigs reminds me of The Matrix. When the Wolf "huffed and puffed and blew his house down" he acted just as Morpheus did for Reeve's character. Suddenly, Reeves was without the security he once felt.
You will write your own blogs, and respond to your blogs as prescribed by your weekly homework blog entry. You should not approach each blog the same way. With variety comes varied thought; therefore, I hope you focus on different topics and take different approaches in each entry.Imagine you have been assigned "The Three Little Pigs" for homework. To write a reading blog based on this reading here are some possibilities:
-Respond to the text personally:
I never had my house blown down by a wolf, but I have felt loss. For example, I once abandoned my favorite apartment. I left most of my furniture there, some clothes, even a television!
-Connect text to another book, a film, work of art, a comic or any other creation:
The Three Little Pigs reminds me of The Matrix. When the Wolf "huffed and puffed and blew his house down" he acted just as Morpheus did for Reeve's character. Suddenly, Reeves was without the security he once felt.
-Ask questions to later answer:
What might the grandmother represent? Why would the Wolf want to blow down the houses? How might I write a better ending? I would then maybe answer these questions in later blogs.
-Visual Vocabulary
Select the words you think it was important to define in the text. Match a picture to it on your blog post.
-Hyperlink
You might want to use the 21st century's answer to footnotes when you're talking about something that is not common knowledge. We'll do a demo of how to insert a hyperlink in class.
You may use any combination of these, or you can write your own type of entries. Let your reading guide your entries. We'll take a look at them next week in class and in conferences.
Take a look at this example from a student a few years ago. Here's a more satirical style and here's another more effusive style.
Monday, August 24, 2015
Crash Course in Women´s Role in 19th Century America
This might help you to better understand our protagonist.
Wake Up!
You will be graded on your notes.
Open a Blog
Go to Blogger and begin a blog for this course. Make sure to put your first name and last name in your account.
Think of what a title should be: creative, clever, original and accurate.
When finished click "Comment" on this very blog post. This way we will have an entire directory of on another's blogs. Copy and paste your url into the comment box.
Have this complete by our class on Thursday.
Think of what a title should be: creative, clever, original and accurate.
When finished click "Comment" on this very blog post. This way we will have an entire directory of on another's blogs. Copy and paste your url into the comment box.
Have this complete by our class on Thursday.
Wednesday, August 19, 2015
Exam Time (Already)
On Friday August 21st we'll have an in class timed writing assignment about Lost City Radio. You can bring in your annotated copy for the exam.
Friday, August 14, 2015
Rhyming Timing
This is the video we watched a bit of in class today:
Key terms:
end rhyme
internal rhyme
perfect rhyme
half rhyme
end rhyme
internal rhyme
perfect rhyme
half rhyme
Wednesday, August 12, 2015
Sing We Now of Music
Monday, August 10, 2015
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Welcome to Litaculous!
Don´t be scared away by the exclamation mark. This is Literature! - with a capital L and and exclamation mark because we are going to be excited by literature this semester, with everything from song-writing to acting to watching TV, oh, and in the meantime analyzing and writing about our analysis.
This class will teach you how to read and interpret anything from TV shows to interpretive dance although mainly, you will learn to understand and enjoy literature.
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