Thursday, December 4, 2008
WEEK 10: (optional) final project thesis paragraphs and/or questions
This is optional but if you have questions, or are feeling proud of your theisis paragrpah, or are feeling just downright community minded and kind, please post your paper's initial paragraph here--anytime you are ready to do so.
I'll check in on the blog and try to comment when comments are asked for or seem needed.
I'll check in on the blog and try to comment when comments are asked for or seem needed.
Monday, November 24, 2008
Week 9: VACATION
Due to the Thanksgiving Holiday, you don't need to post on your personal blogs or on the community blog this week. And you don't need to leave any responses.
Those of you who have been falling behind, though, it's a good time to catch up.
Those of you who have been falling behind, though, it's a good time to catch up.
Thursday, November 20, 2008
Week 8: Comparative Reading
Find a passage that is pretty far away from the one that you read last week--maybe not even on the same topic and tell what is the same and different between it and the one that you read last week.
Ex. Brechin looks at a tall building and started reading about underground mines.
Rosa looks at the Golden Gate Bridge and started reading about the little fire symbol on Girl Scout pins.
Brittany compares subway tunnel sex in Howl to 1950's bedroom decor.
What should happen when you start asserting those violent comparisons is that a whole field of implications should start to pop up. You may want to start with by thinking: if these two things are connected, then what else is also connected...
The comparison can also help you to read for the choices that the writer of your primary passage didn't make.
Ex. Does gay sex have to be underground or is that undergroundess in Ginsberg's poem a specific reflection of the ways in which sexuality was repressed in the bedroom and an explicit connection with a political movement?
Does Ginsberg's turn to the somewhat machinic subway metahpor also make an important connection between women being forced out of the WWII industrial factories in order to give jobs back to men? Does it say something about mechanical relationships to sex?
What else could happen if we make wild connections?
Try to also have some fun with this.
Ex. Brechin looks at a tall building and started reading about underground mines.
Rosa looks at the Golden Gate Bridge and started reading about the little fire symbol on Girl Scout pins.
Brittany compares subway tunnel sex in Howl to 1950's bedroom decor.
What should happen when you start asserting those violent comparisons is that a whole field of implications should start to pop up. You may want to start with by thinking: if these two things are connected, then what else is also connected...
The comparison can also help you to read for the choices that the writer of your primary passage didn't make.
Ex. Does gay sex have to be underground or is that undergroundess in Ginsberg's poem a specific reflection of the ways in which sexuality was repressed in the bedroom and an explicit connection with a political movement?
Does Ginsberg's turn to the somewhat machinic subway metahpor also make an important connection between women being forced out of the WWII industrial factories in order to give jobs back to men? Does it say something about mechanical relationships to sex?
What else could happen if we make wild connections?
Try to also have some fun with this.
Sunday, November 16, 2008
Friday, November 14, 2008
Week 7: Close Reading For Your Project
By Sunday at Midnight
Please post a *critical* close reading of one passage from one of your sources.
i.e. don't just look at what the text says, but also what it doesn't say, and how it says what it says.
(This could be a historical or literary source the same kind of literary reading is needed).
Think about the tone of the passage, and the metaphors that it uses to make it's point and how these give force to whatever the passage is referring to.
(It's often helpful to compare your passage with some other text in order to see some of the alternative metaphors that could have been used and to draw out the specific meaning of the one that you are looking at.)
Note this assigment works for Creative Projects as well. Just think about the stylistic treatment of a theme that you are working with and think about some of the choices that were made.
Please post a *critical* close reading of one passage from one of your sources.
i.e. don't just look at what the text says, but also what it doesn't say, and how it says what it says.
(This could be a historical or literary source the same kind of literary reading is needed).
Think about the tone of the passage, and the metaphors that it uses to make it's point and how these give force to whatever the passage is referring to.
(It's often helpful to compare your passage with some other text in order to see some of the alternative metaphors that could have been used and to draw out the specific meaning of the one that you are looking at.)
Note this assigment works for Creative Projects as well. Just think about the stylistic treatment of a theme that you are working with and think about some of the choices that were made.
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