AGENDA WEEK FIVE
Tuesday Sept. 20
Walking In Music: "Sinclair's Defeat" Broadside ballad from 1791 performed by Roger McGuinn - Lyrics
Announcements
Tuesday Sept. 20
Walking In Music: "Sinclair's Defeat" Broadside ballad from 1791 performed by Roger McGuinn - Lyrics
Announcements
- Email Iliad reaction paper By 12:00 noon tomorrow 9/21)
- Here are some model papers (#!, #2, and #3) with evals (#!, #2, and #3)
- Continue to read Hedges. Finish the first four chapters (pp 1-122) Reaction Papers Due 9/29
- Reaction papers on the Stephan King readings (What Writing is" and "Toolbox") due 10/6
- Scheduling showing of Come and See (Sometime 9/29-10/10) Issue - communal showing or small viewing groups. Reaction papers 10/11.
- Meet in small groups (30 min,)
- Focus on one paper at a time
- Share the instructor's feedback on the first papers
- Read each paper aloud and pass it around for written comments/correction
- Suggest possible edits, particularly those that connect to the instructor's feedback
- Discuss central ideas, exploring comparisons and contrasts in topic and treatment
- Group assignments:
- Sariah, Aaron, Kathleen, Marianna
- Erika, Razhinder, Jenine, Kareem
- Malia, Megan, Yareli, Violet
- Hinano, Sam, Rejia
- Continue Discussion with entire class - Summing up as we put aside the Iliad to consider the place of war in the human psyche. Remember, of course, that the Iliad connects with every topic we address in this seminar.
Thursday, Sept. 22
Walking in Music: "Zombie" - Dolores O'Riordan (Cranberries) Lyrics
Announcements:
Essay Assignment: Due date Oct. 20.(brief discussion)
Reaction Paper feedback (brief discussion)
Tips that will be useful in writing and editing.
War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning -Reaction Papers Due Sept. 29 .
Activity: Narratives from Chris Hedges Book
“Perhaps some day I'll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.” (Sylvia Plath)
Walking in Music: "Zombie" - Dolores O'Riordan (Cranberries) Lyrics
Announcements:
Essay Assignment: Due date Oct. 20.(brief discussion)
Reaction Paper feedback (brief discussion)
Tips that will be useful in writing and editing.
War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning -Reaction Papers Due Sept. 29 .
Activity: Narratives from Chris Hedges Book
“Perhaps some day I'll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.” (Sylvia Plath)
- Hedges book is filled with stories, narratives. As a reporter, he was always on the lookout for stories. Some stories he would sent on in the the New York Times, his paper for publication as a war reporter. The purpose of these war coorespondences was to give readers a true and immediate picture of what was going on in the war zone. But as Hedges pointed out, the reporters and paper also often had the agenda of supporting the war effort. In this book, the stories do not have this agenda. In this book the stories are included to dramatize or clarify a point that Hedges is making. They also impart a compelling emotional depth to the points that Hedges is making about war.
- Choose a story that stands out in your memory of the reading
- find and review it
- take notes addressing:
- The point the story is inserted to dramatize or clarify
- your view on how effective the story is
- your reaction to the story
- In the group discussion, use what you have written as a starting place
- In the re-assembled seminar group, we will discuss narratives, their power and utility.