JOURNALS Fall 2011

JOURNALS fall 2011

Triple-Entry Journals:

1. What is (L)iterature?
2. Antigone 1st half
3. Antigone 2nd half
4. Philly: cities
5. Philly: your role
6. Philly: class performance
7. “Things Carried”
8. “GCP”
9. “Lottery”
10. “Everyday Use”
11. “Hunters”
12. “A&P” (reading checklist)
13. “Chrysanthemums” (reading checklist)
14. “Hour” (reading checklist)
15. “Rose” (reading checklist)
16. Fiction Paper BS (?)
17. “My Papa’s Waltz” (reading checklist)
18. “The Ruined Maid” (reading checklist)
19. “The Unknown Citizen” (reading checklist)
20. “Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day?” (reading checklist)
21. single journal:
22. “My Son, My Executioner” (489)
23. “anyone lived in a pretty how town”
24. war poetry
25. “To an Athlete Dying Young” (reading checklist)
26. “I'm Nobody, Who Are You”(reading checklist)

Extended Journals:

1. Antigone: tragic hero
2. Antigone: theme
3. Eveline: letter
4. WRUG: CI
5. Go Poe
6. Poetry Elements Wiki
7. your war poem

EMAILS fall 2011

• For Tuesday:
• read Chapter 17
• -- before & after the play
• read the first 700 lines of _Antigone_
• - look over the attached PPT (also on our drama page)
• - type a triple-entry JOURNALfor the play reading
• -- response
• -- plot summary
• -- greatness:
• --- great line, image, idea, message,....
• --- something you'd underline or write about in the margin

• 2 Extended Journals:
• -typed
• -proper header
• -length = 2 pages
• *will be collected & graded
  (1) discuss who you believe is the TRAGIC HERO of the play
  -Antigone
  -Creon
  Be specific in your answer; see the length above.
  Think about the positive & negative traits of each (characterization). The plot & structure of the play. Consider the definition of a TH.
  -Tragic Flaw or Tragic Error
  -Reversal (fall)
  -Recognition
  -role in play (catalyst)
  According to Aristotle, the traits of a TH =
  -- not too good (perfect); not too evil
  -- realistic (true to type/character)
  -- self-consistent
  -- fall from happiness (prosperity, glory) to misery
  -- tragic error or tragic mistake (not necessarily a moral issue)
  (2) analyze a single THEME of our play:
  -pride
  -lack of judgment
  -duty
  -justice
  -public policy vs. individual conscience
  -gender conflict
  -(one not on this list)

1) read the play, The Philadelphia, handed out in class & backed up online @
2) Journal: discuss the traits of each city mentioned in the play: describe the attitude, philosophy of living, the mindset, for each city
3) Journal: discuss your assigned role (attached): what's your approach to this role, what will you do in class specifically, what would you do in an ideal situation (where money, time, & such were no object)
-typed
-stapled/paper-clipped
-1 page per journal
We'll discuss the play's dramatic elements at the start of class & then perform the play in class after that....so come prepared for your part (which will be graded).

• JOURNAL: react to today's performance of _The Philadelphia_
  -seeing it live
  -acting it
  -being a part of it
  -what did you gain from this
  -what did you see differently
  -appreciation, understanding
  -about this play, about plays in general
  -the whole production OR just your part
  -maybe tie in the "wish list" from the previous journal
  
• READ Chapter 1, esp. "Eveline" our 1st short story
• EXTENDED JOURNAL #3:
  -p.8 assignment
  -write a persuasive letter to Eveline, Frank, OR Eveline's father
  (not 3 letters, but 1 to 1 character)
  -page, page & half -- be persuasive!
  -submit for grading
  ** DRAMA ESSAY **
  = due next Tuesday
  sheet attached

• drama essay = due
• read "The Things They Carried" & complete a triple-entry JOURNALfor it

-- read FOC's "Good Country People" & complete a triple-entry JOURNALfor the work
-- the revisions for the drama paper are due next Tuesday, before break (only that day)....ask if I can make anything clearer - glad to
-- extra credit for the drama paper = Merry Wives production (info attached)

1) REVISE your Drama Essay
-- ask if you have any questions
** biggest problems: no research & no citations
-- use the MLA links on our class Web site for help with the in-text citations & Works Consulted page
-- cite each & every time you borrow (exact words or paraphrasings)
** other problems: lack of a thesis & grammar
-- choose a work & develop a clear argument/claim (thesis) concerning it
-- see the text book re: thesis-making
2) READ "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been" (208)
- in an Extended Journal (to be submitted & graded) discuss ONE of the "critical interpretations" that follow the story
-- react to the CI -- support it, defend it with textual evidence
--if you want to disagree with it, fine, but use textual evidence
3) for EXTRA CREDIT: see the play at KC over the next few days & draft a 1-page response to it
-- evaluate the production
-- discuss A dramatic element in the play
-plot, characterization, structure, climax, conflict,...
-costuming, casting, music, atmosphere,...
PLEASE NOTE: I'll be unavailable through email this weekend; there's an event Sunday morning in Scranton that will take my full attention....so if you have any questions, please ask soon rather than later (or wait until Monday). Thanks.

• Thursday: FALL BREAK
• no class
• (safe & sober)
• Tuesday: MID-TERM EXAM
• Mid-Term grades = due the next day
• fodder for exam = stories & literary elements
• be prepared to define the literary elements AND apply them to the stories
• (the chapter titles/foci)
• (the Group Presentations sheet lists many of the elements)
• To illustrate, if we read a highly symbolic story, an appropriate test question would read: Define symbolism AND discuss one significant symbol from "A Highly Symbolic Story."
• Plot
• Exposition
• Epiphany
• Crisis/Turning Point
• Climax
• Flashback
• Chronology
• Characterization
• Setting
• Theme
• Point-of-View (1st, 2nd, 3rd)
• Foreshadowing
• Imagery
• Irony
• Symbolism
• Style
• Conflict (person vs. self, person, Nature, ...)
• Grotesque
• Juxtaposition
• see attachment
• Thursday: GROUPS
• we'll start the Group Presentations
• the sheet is on our Fiction page
• group assignments
• short story per group
• we'll do one story per day
• that's how material you must prepare for
• we'll follow the order of groups on the sheet
• Our Fiction Site

If you weren't in class on Tuesday but completed the drama essay revision, I'll accept it on Tuesday ... with a doctor's note only. That's only fair, to me & to the others.
PS: Everybody, don't forget to study for the Mid-Term Exam that's scheduled for Tuesday.
-the plots of our stories
-the literary elements
-the literary elements applied to our stories
-our class discussions
(no, no Billy Joel questions)

1. *Read the John Updike SS, "A&P."
2. *Complete as a JOURNALthe "Reading Checklist" that's on our FICTION PAGE.

• Fiction Presentations start Thursday; the list, in order, is on our site.
• presentations will take the entire class time
• Again, most students use their research for the Fiction Presentation for their Fiction Essay;
• you don't "have to" but it is a good idea to consider.
• THE DES "Writing Competition" that I mentioned in class & gave a handout on will count as extra credit on your Fiction Essay;
• later, an Extended Journal will be to write a Poe-like story (related to "The Cask of Amontillado")
• .... so perhaps you use that as your submission. Perhaps.

• "Chrysanthemums"
• reading checklist as JOURNAL

I was looking for the page number for Stephen Crane's "The Open Boat" & found that the story isn't in this edition of the text book!!
Oops. You're right, I should have checked before.
No problem.
For Thursday, read Kate Chopin's "The Story of an Hour" on p. 246 (there's another Chopin story before it, but we'll read this one)
AND complete a Reading Checklist for a JOURNAL.

*We're making a switch .... reading Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily" next (& then Poe's "Cask" for Thursday).
- as usual, complete a JOURNALchecklist

1. read Poe's "The Cask..."
2. write an Extended JOURNAL for grading (submit in class on Thursday only):
3. "GO POE" on somebody
4. tell a 2-page story of revenge, like Poe’s “Cask”
5. hopefully, it will be fiction
6. (but it can have elements of reality, just not the murder part)
7. tap into the dark recesses of the human mind
8. seek revenge upon your enemy (real or imagined)
9. for some slight (real or imagined)
10. revenge should be planned, well-thought
11. revenge should involve some basic human fear (as in “Cask”)
12. utilize some fundamental human fear
13. one our common phobias
14. such as being buried alive (taphephobia)
15. (it's a story, not a paper)

PS: If I don't have your presentation, make sure I get it on Thursday - or no presentation grade.

1. brainstorm (on paper) your ideas for your Short Story paper
2. typed or handwritten
3. I will meet with each of you in class on Tuesday to discuss in detail your plans for this paper
4. the handout from class is also on our Fiction page
5. along with ideas for the paper
6. along with an updated "The Themes We Carry"
7. we won't have the opportunity to revise this paper, so this meeting will avoid that necessity
8. don't bother showing up w/o this brainstorming
9. we're moving on to poetry next
10. the 1st assignment will be a collaborative Extended JOURNALdue Thursday
11. the assignment sheet is on our Poetry pageas the "wiki" (attached)
12. essentially, you & your group-mate will define a set of poetic terms
13. SO for Tuesday, look over the listto see who your partner is & to see what elements you have to cover
14. bring whatever material you can find on those terms
15. while I am meeting with you individually to discuss your fiction paper
16. you will be working in your group
17. please remind me that I owe you 5 minutes from today's class; thanks for patiently waiting

• read chapter 12 @ reading poetry
• Poetry Elements Wikis:
• email BEFOREclass your group wikis
• "before" as in no later than 8AM Thursday
• (again, this assignment is on our poetry page)
• (counts as an extended journal)
• Fiction Paper:
• I heard some very good paper ideas this morning; I'm excited to read the final products.
• If you have any questions or run in to any problems, let me know.
• (paper= due next Thursday)
• Remember, this = a research paper, so you'll have textual evidence (quotes from the story or stories) ANDquotes from secondary source (at least one quote from a secondary source per body paragraph).

• read the following poems AND complete a Reading Checklist for EACH (JOURNALS):
  -“My Papa’s Waltz” (467)
  -“The Ruined Maid” (468)
  -“The Unknown Citizen” (469)
  -“Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day?” (487)
  PS:
  follow-up to class discussion:
  
• UPDATE: Title = Harlem, change to another city/country to reflect social, political, religious repression
• personalize (what is your “dream” & how would you feel if it were deferred)
• gays & marriage
• illegal immigrants
• Middle East:
• Tunisia, Egypt (“successful” “explosions”)
• Iraq (w/Saddam), Syria, Libya (w/Khadafy)
• Occupy Wall Street (non-violent “explosion”)
• PennState football scandal (moral responsibility to do something)
• PSYCHOLOGY:
• repression, riot, explosion, anger management
• reaction formation
• how to deal
• FAMILIAR THEMES:
• Things They Carried (how to deal)
• Antigone, Lottery, Things Carried, Eveline, Rose, A&P, Chrysanthemums, Hour (take a stand, do something, moral obligations)
• Antigone, Chrysanthemums, Cask, A&P, Eveline, Rose, Hour (repression, trapped)

1. fiction paper = due (only day it's accepted)
2. read
3. “My Son, My Executioner” (489)
4. “anyone lived in a pretty how town” (507)
5. write a brief response to each (1/2-page each)JOURNAL

You'll get a kick out of this: Immediately after class, as I was turning into the stairwell, all of us on the floor heard a girl shout to her friend - in the voice of the country girl in Hardy's poem: "Well, look at you, sexy girl!" It was like the scene playing out, right on campus!

• read the WAR POETRY
• on our site
• read all, JOURNALon one:
• Homage (Pete & Matt)
• Ball Turret Gunner (Dan)
• War Is Kind (Cat & Sam)
• Dulce et Decorum Est (Kyle & Marco)
• Hardy's Man He Killed (Stephen & Jillian)
• journal =
• 1 typed page
• rhyme scheme
• setting
• "plot"
• theme
• great lines
• something personal

1) if you're going to revise your Fiction Essay, do so & submit on Tuesday when we return
2) complete the ee cummings quiz (HONOR SYSTEM: do alone, no research)
3) write your war poem (counts as an extended journal)
-- all of these are due Tuesday & Tuesday ONLY --
I cannot & will not accept any assignment after it's due date.
* attached = poetry essay
* attached = poetry presentation groups & dates & poems
* attached = ee cummings quiz
* attached = your war poem assignment
-- each of these is on our poetry page, too --
REMEMBER: Your Poetry Essay = due when you present your poem. That day you'll submit 3 items: a copy of your PPT, a marked-up copy of your typed poem, & your paper.
PLEASE: Have a safe & sober Thanksgiving ... and may all of us be truly thankful for those in our lives.

1. read
2. "To an Athlete Dying Young"
3. & "I'm Nobody, Who Are You"
4. AND write your final 2 JOURNALS:
5. reading checklists
6. 1 for each poem
7. *JOURNALS = DUE*
8. (tell a friend)
9. #, ORDER:
10. no, I won't tell you how many there are or what order they're in
11. but you can confer w/your colleagues
12. FORMAT:
13. you'll have all of them completed
14. printed out (typed)
15. arranged in order, 1st to last
16. place in a folder/binder
17. (you'll get it back)
18. (plain manilla will do)
19. WORTH:
20. test grade
21. (easy A)