LOST GENERATION LIT: FALL 2017

INSTRUCTOR: CHRISTINE NEY OFFICE: Elliott B009D

E-MAIL: PHONE: 285-7463

OFFICE HOURS: Mon: 1—4; Tues: 10:00—12:00 and 3:30—5:30; Thurs: 10:00—1:00

COURSE DESCRIPTION

Literature of the Lost Generation focuses on the literature that was written by those writers in Paris during the Jazz Age or the Roaring Twenties. Gertrude Stein called these Americans, “writers of a lost generation,” but the course includes more than American writers. This course is designed as an interdisciplinary course where students study the work of many types of artistic people who gathered in Paris during the twenties. Jazz musicians, classical composers, dancers, artists, photographers, designers, publishers, and writers congregated in the Latin Quarter and along the left bank of the Seine in the city they called “the great good place”—the city where everyone went, where everything was happening, where life was at its peak. Paris in the 1920’s was cheap, unfettered, exhilarating, a haven for geniuses and crackpots, a seedbed of artistic accomplishment. Seldom has so much creative energy erupted in one place at one time, and students who take this course will not only be reading the great literature that came out of this time period, but they will become the personalities of these creative geniuses at simulated Parisian salons.

COURSE GOALS AND OBJECTIVES

  1. To challenge students with readings from the complex body of literature written during the twenties by authors called the “moderns” or “the lost generation” expatriates in Paris.
  1. To encourage students to analyze, synthesize, and evaluate coursematerial and ideas, and to express them in class discussion andthrough papers, projects, and simulations.
  2. To encourage students to develop the practice of close textual reading.
  3. To encourage students to see relationships between literature and history, between authors and other authors, between authors and other artists, and most of all between ideas
  4. To encourage students to appreciate and understand the many

disciplines encountered in the course.

  1. To expose students to the many geniuses of the time period so that they are better able to understand their own genius.
  2. To encourage integration of ideas into student simulations of the writers and artists and their art forms at the salon parties.
  3. To broaden students’ minds in terms of literary styles, artistic and philosophical beliefs, and cultural diversity.
  1. To allow students to creatively and passionately express

themselves through the many talents they possess.

  1. To provide students with challenging research and writing

assignments that allow them to explore areas in which they are

interested.

LOST GENERATION SYLLABUS NEY 2

CLASS TEXTS:

  1. The Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Fitzgerald
  2. The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald
  3. A Moveable Feast, Hemingway
  4. The Short Stories, Hemingway
  5. A Farewell to Arms, Hemingway
  6. Winesburg, Ohio, Anderson
  7. Dubliners, Joyce
  8. Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Joyce
  9. Selected Writings of Gertrude Stein, Stein
  10. Women of the Left Bank, Benstock
  11. The Gender of Modernism

METHODS OF EVALUATION:

  1. Daily discussion: individual and group discussion
  2. Quizzes; short in-class essays; long in-class essays
  3. Tests that are both in-class and take-home essay tests
  4. Creative Writing: Hemingway's lost epilogue to A Farewell to Arms
  5. 2 portfolios containing research on a Parisian writer and an artist of the Lost Generation period.

Students will also gather resources, read material and prepare a presentation of an artist, dancer, musician, photographer, fashion designer etc. who was famous in Paris during the twenties This material is in preparation for student- teacher conferences and two salon simulations that are the final exam

  1. Simulations of Gertrude Stein's and Sylvia Beach’s Parisian

salons. Students will become a famous writer at one salon and an

artist from one of the other disciplines at the other salon

7. 2 Conferences with the teacher regarding salon research.

GRADE: A point system will be used: the following are approximations in terms of pts.

Discussion: 100pts. for each 9-week period

Quizzes and short in-class essays: 10—50 pts.

Long In-class essays: 100 pts.

Tests: 100

Take-home test: 200 pts.

Creative Writing Epilogue: 100pts.

2 Portfolios: 200 pts.

2 Salons: 200

2 Conferences: 200

GRADING SCALE:

A 94% - 100

A-90% - 93.9%

B+87% - 89.9%

B84% - 86.9%

B-80% - 83.9%

C+77% - 79.9%

C 74% - 76.9%

C-70% - 73.9%

D*69% and beow

LOST GENERATION LITERATURE: FALL 2017

SCHEDULE OF ASSIGNMENTS

INSTRUCTOR: Ms. Christine NeyOFFICE: Elliott B009D

PHONE: 285-7463E-MAIL:

OFFICE HOURS: Mon: 1—4; Tues: 10:00—12:00 and 3:30—5:30; Thurs: 10:00—12:00

(Assignments are due on the date listed. Syllabus is subject to change at any time due to circumstances)

Tues. 8/15:Intro to the course, Jazz Age personalities and salons; video: The Jazz Age

Assign Jazz Age characters for

Th. 8/17Fitzgerald: “The Diamond as Big as the Ritz,” “Bernice Bobs her Hair”

Tues. 8/22Fitzgerald: “Ice Palace” “Last of the Belles”

Th. 8/24: Salon personality presentations (power pt). Please forward your power pt. to Ms. Ney prior

to class.

Tues. 8/29“Babylon Revisited”

Th. 8/31 : Introduction to modernism: Bring laptops:

Modernist poets:

Ezra Pound: “In Retrospect” and “At a Station at the Metro”

H. D. Imagist: “Mid-Day”

Yeats: “The Second Coming”

Cummings: “In Just”

LABOR DAY EXTENDED WEEKEND

Thurs 9/7:Bring laptops and copies of poems

Wm. Carlos Williams: “Red Wheelbarrow” “Spring and All” “The Crowd at the Ball

Game” “This is Just to Say” (online)

T. S. Eliot: “The Hollow Men” (online)

Tues: 9/12:T. S. Eliot: The Waste Land (Parts I, II, and III) Make sure your online copy has footnotes.

Th. 9/14STRATFORD TRIP: Work on Portfolio I in class

Tu. 9/19Eliot: The Waste Land: Parts IV and V.

Th. 9/21Women of the Left Bank: Stein: 154—161; 168

Stein Writings: Tender Buttons: Food, Portraits

Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas “After the War: 1919—1932” (182—237)

ASSIGN Women of the Left Bank

Tu. 9/26Women of the Left Bank: Flanner, H. D. Cunard, Beach, Barnes, Loy

TAKE-HOME TEST Assigned

Th. 9/28Sherwood Anderson: Winesburg, Ohio: “Hands,” “Paper Pills,” “Mother”

Tu. 10/3Anderson:“Respectability” “Teacher

TAKE-HOME TEST DUE

Th. 10/5:Hemingway lecture

FALL BREAK

Th. 10/12Hem. Short Stories: “Indian Camp,” “The Doctor and the Doctor’s Wife,”

Tues. 10/17:Hem. SS: “The End of Something,” “The Three Day Blow”

Th. 10/19:Tues/Thurs switch HSS: “Up in Michigan” and “Fathers and Sons”

Tues. 10/24:Hem. SS: “Big Two-Hearted River” Parts I and II

Thurs. 10/26:Hem. SS: “Snows of Kilamanjaro”

Tues. 10/31Hemingway: A Farewell to Arms: Book 1

Wed. PORTFOLIO #1 DUE

CONFERENCES OVER FIRST PORTFOLIO

Students are to come to their conference dressed in the salon

attire of their minor character

Thurs. 11/2 Hem: AFTA: Book 2

Tues. 11/7Hem: AFTA: Book 3

Assign Epilogue to AFTA

Thurs. 11/9Hem: AFTA: Books 4 and 5

Tues 11/14James Joyce: Dubliners: “The Dead” video

AFTA Epilogue due

Thurs. 11/16Joyce: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: Ch. 1

THANKSGIVING BREAK: 11/18--26

Tues. 11/28Joyce: Portrait: Ch. 2

Thurs. 11/30Joyce: Portrait: Ch. 3

Tues. 12/5Joyce: Portrait: Ch. 4

Thurs 12/7Joyce: Portrait: Ch. 5:

Tues 12/12Hem: A Moveable Feast discussion (You might want to read this over

Thanksgiving break)

Thurs 12/14TEST

DECEMBER 14—17: FINAL EXAM WEEK

PORTFOLIO # 2 DUE: Individual conferences will be held Monday night of this week where students will present information in their second portfolio and come dressed as major character.

Salon simulations will be scheduled on the exam schedule ( hopefully, near the end of exam week).

SPECIAL ENGLISH DEPARTMENT POLICY: PLEASE READ CAREFULLY:

If you are concerned about the material in any of the listed works on the syllabus and think it may offend you because of religious, ethnic, or gender issues, please talk to Ms. Ney and, if necessary, another work for you will be substituted for the work on the syllabus.

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CLASS POLICIES AND PROCEDURES: 2016

MS. NEY’S CLASSES

THE SYLLABUS ASSIGNMENTS

You are personally responsible for following the syllabus. There are going to be times when you will not be reminded by the teacher of what is due for the next class. Please keep a copy of your syllabus on your computer and/or in your notebook (whatever works best for you).

ATTENDANCE

  1. It is of extreme importance that you attend class regularly. Not only is part of your grade dependent upon your participation in discussion, but other class members and the teacher want and need to hear your ideas. Don’t rely on others to carry the discussion; indicate that you have read the material by participating in discussion and citing passages. Pop quizzes may be given on any given day. Written quizzes are not given daily, but your contributions to daily and group discussions are noted for the grade you will receive at the end of the semester. Excessive absence will affect this final discussion grade unless there are unusual circumstances surrounding your case.

2. Sleeping in class will be counted as an absence. A tardy that is 30 minutes late will count as an absence.

  1. If you know that you are going to be absent prior to your absence, please inform the teacher and be sure to hand in any assignment that is due while you are gone before you leave. You are responsible for material that was covered in your absence so please see a reliable student for notes or information you missed.
  1. You cannot be absent on the day you are scheduled to present an oral project to the class because there is not enough time in the schedule for rescheduling; your only option is to find someone to switch presentation times with you.
  1. If you are absent on the day of a test, please see the teacher as soon as possible about making up that test. You should plan on making it up within 2 days. If you are absent for more than one test, you need to see the teacher about your absences.

LATE ASSIGNMENTS:

Assignments must be handed in at the time specified. If you are late and put it in Ms. Ney’s mailbox, you need to see a teacher to date it, put the time on it, and sign it in order to confirm the time on which it was handed in. POINTS ARE DEDUCTED FROM LATE PAPERS ACCORDING TO HOW LATE THEY ARE. A PAPER ONE DAY LATE WILL GO DOWN AN ENTIRE LETTER GRADE. Field trips, computer problems, absence from class, sudden illness, imaginative disasters etc. will not suffice as excuses. Please see Ms. Ney only if there are very special circumstances surrounding the lateness (eg. long term illness). She will determine whether or not the grade will be lowered. Don’t wait until the last minute to begin a semester project! Students who are consistently late with assignments need to see Ms. Ney after the second late assignment occurs

CLASS DISCUSSION: (This grade involves more than just talking in class)

Your grade for both CLASS and GROUP discussion is determined by the following:

  1. Answering questions clearly and thoughtfully in both group and class discussions.
  2. Citing textual evidence to support ideas in class or group discussion.
  3. Generating your own ideas withoutmonopolizing the discussion or attacking someone personally
  4. Listening to other students and responding to their ideas by using their names; agreeing or disagreeing with them; and adding or connecting or expanding on their ideas.
  5. Focusing on the question on the floor or handout and not digressing into long semi-unrelated topics. This also includes group discussions where totally straying away from the question is even more likely to happen.
  1. Respecting the person who has been recognized as speaker.

Side conversations are not only rude to the speaker, but they are distracting to others. Raise your

hand to speak. (On occasion this will not hold true, and we will lapse into open discussion. This

usually happens when the discussion dynamic changes and raising hands deters a rapidly moving

and exciting discussion. However, never raising your hand and always blurting out answers is not

only annoying, but is inconsiderate of other class members who deserve the right to speak as

much as you do.

Written Work: Please see previous information spelled out about this.

  1. The official humanities style manual is The Modern Language Association style manual (MLA) ALL PAPERS FOR ENGLISH CLASSES SHOULD BE PREPARED IN THE MLA STYLE. Directives are in A Writer’s Reference, your official Academy handbook.
  1. Written work should be PROOFREAD not just spell— checked. Please correct both printing and mechanical errors before handing in the paper. It goes without saying that you should be using good grammar, spelling, and punctuation. Your grade will be lowered if you do not edit or proofread. I am fond of giving extra points or subtracting them because of style.

CHEATING AND PLAGIARISM POLICIES

Please read the Academic Dishonesty policy in the Student Handbook. You will be held responsible for reading and being attentive to all of these policies regarding cheating and plagiarism.

I also would like to comment on students who think they can read Spark or Cliff’s Notes in place of the actual text. This is a form of cheating, and you are not fooling anyone.

If you don’t read the books, you are not going to be able to do the papers or cite passages in class (an indication of having read). Details needed for quizzes and tests will also escape you in the short and long run. It is very obvious to the teacher as to who has done the actual reading. This is an excellent way to lose the respect of both your teachers and your peers. You are at the Academy because you are bright, and you have a fine mind. significant and original ideas. Let us hear those original and significant ideas! Most importantly, if you don’t read the text, you are depriving yourself of reading something wonderful--a significant work written in the author’s style. You cannot substitute a writer’s work of art with a plot outline.

CLASSROOM BEHAVIOR: Please be mindful of the fact that many of you came to the Academy to escape environments where classroom behavior was less than desirable.

YOU MUST BRING YOUR TEXT TO CLASS

I want you to be able to find page numbers, so do not use online texts. Your arguments need to be supported with textual evidence. This also enables the teacher to give you credit for reading the assignment if there is no quiz. If you don’t cite passages, it is a good indication that you did not read the material.

Please be respectful of each other, your teachers, and the property in the room. If

you have drinks or food , lease deposit refuse in the waste baskets. Also refrain

from putting your feet on the tables.

LAPTOP POLICIES AND PROCEDURES

  1. Laptop use will not be permitted during class unless the teacher gives an assignment where it is necessary to use it. Likewise, there should be no cell phone use or textingduring class. You are required to have the assigned texts with you each day.
  1. You should carry your laptop with you to class each day. Occasionally, I will ask you to look up material on the internet or even to look up a word. There will be days when you will be told that you MUST have your laptop with you for use during class. Please be responsible about bringing them and having in working condition.
  1. Not turning in an assignment on the due date because of computer or printer will not count as an excuse for lateness. You know that various floors have printer problems so finish your assignment with enough time to find a working printer. There are printers in the Burris library as well as at Bracken.
  1. The Internet is a wonderful source of information when used properly. Scholarly sources are available on data bases mentioned by us and by librarians on your library tour. When using sources from the Internet, you must evaluate the credibility of the information before using it All materials found on the Internet must be properly documented like any other sources of information to avoid plagiarism. If you are unsure of whether an internet source is acceptable for use in a certain assignment, be sure to ask your teacher. I will accept some scholarly internet articles, but they need to be approved before you can use them in formal research. The policy will vary in Ms. Ney’s classes according to the specific assignments.
  1. When writing essays, save and name all drafts. You may be asked for drafts with your final draft in order to see how the piece has improved

VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION REGARDING HARD COPIES OF TESTS:

When you take an in-class test on the computer, you are required to e-mail it to me before you leave the classroom so that I know you have not made any changes between the class time and when I get the hard copy. You are then responsible for putting a hard copy in my mailbox so that I do not have to print out every paper. The problem that arose last year is that students were not responsible in handing in the hard copy of their test on the day the test was taken (and sometimes entirely forgot to do so until the end of the grading period). I eventually had to establish the following policy: YOU MUST GET THE HARD COPY TO ME ON THE DAY OF THE TEST OR YOU WILL BE PENALIZED BY DEDUCTION OF POINTS FOR EACH DAY LATE!

YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR HAVING READ THE INFORMATION ON THE SYLLABUS INCLUDING THESE POLICIES AND PROCEDUDRES. PLEASE E-MAIL Ms. Ney stating that you have read and that you understand the above policies. You do not want to suffer any type of penalization such as loss of points, grade reduction, or suspension due to failing to follow these procedures.