Wangechi Mutu is a Kenyan-born artist based in New York. Her art can be found, among other places, at Saachi Gallery.
Upcoming:Week of 12.7.09:
Focus: Tone, Style, and Diction
The amount of reading & writing this week is light, so I expect you can make some good headway in your independent reading groups.
12.7.09: Due: 2 column notes on “Tone and Style” (pgs. 154 – 158). In class, we will read Hemingway’s “Hills Like White Elephants” & discuss.
12.8.09: Read and prepare for SRD on Hemingway’s “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place”.
12.9.09: Read and take notes on Faulkner’s “Barn Burning”. In class I will give two assignments: “The Hemingway / Faulkner Debates” & “Rewriting Hemingway or Faulkner”
12.10.09: Present: “The Hemingway / Faulkner Debates”.
12.11.09: Read & take notes on Flannery O’Connor’s “Good Country People”
The amount of reading & writing this week is light, so I expect you can make some good headway in your independent reading groups.
12.7.09: Due: 2 column notes on “Tone and Style” (pgs. 154 – 158). In class, we will read Hemingway’s “Hills Like White Elephants” & discuss.
12.8.09: Read and prepare for SRD on Hemingway’s “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place”.
12.9.09: Read and take notes on Faulkner’s “Barn Burning”. In class I will give two assignments: “The Hemingway / Faulkner Debates” & “Rewriting Hemingway or Faulkner”
12.10.09: Present: “The Hemingway / Faulkner Debates”.
12.11.09: Read & take notes on Flannery O’Connor’s “Good Country People”
Week of 12.14.09:
Focus: Irony & Putting it all together.
12.14.09: Class does not meet.
12.15.09: “Rewriting Hemingway or Faulkner” with meta due. Read and prepare for SRD on Borges’ “The Gospel According to Mark”.
12.16.09: In class essay on TBD. You will not know which story until you arrive in class. Turn in Reader’s Notebook for Short Story Unit.
12.17.09: Paper due on Laura Chester’s “Story TBD”.
12.18.09: Set up Poetry Aloud contest.
12.15.09: “Rewriting Hemingway or Faulkner” with meta due. Read and prepare for SRD on Borges’ “The Gospel According to Mark”.
12.16.09: In class essay on TBD. You will not know which story until you arrive in class. Turn in Reader’s Notebook for Short Story Unit.
12.17.09: Paper due on Laura Chester’s “Story TBD”.
12.18.09: Set up Poetry Aloud contest.
Week of 12.21.09:
- Poetry Aloud contest
- Indie Group Reading assignment # 2 due. Groups are.
Nabokov’s *Lolita*
Dick’s *Scanner Darkly*
Plath’s *Bell Jar*
Austen’s *Pride and Prejudice*
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