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Day One…
What’s on the agenda for EN102 and EN200 today? Well, I’d like to start thinking about the coursework right off the bat–it’s always best, in my book, to begin challenging the class so as to set a productive tone. Especially in composition 2, where students generally need practice with managing time and approaching tasks effectively. [...]
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Classes resume on the 11th of January for us here at Marymount, and I have to admit, last term was a bit of a supersonic blur–and the holiday “break” was anything but, given our trip to Philadelphia for a serious several days of interviews. Syllabi are due on the 4th (er, that would be today!), [...]
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Instead of lecturing on the introduction–part of my larger goals this term to avoid lecture as much as possible, in favor of stimulating discussion that works outwards from the text–I’d like to focus our class time on Petrarch’s letter in which he describes the mountainous ascent he undertakes with his brother, as well as some [...]
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Night of the Living Dead
Tomorrow in Anatomy of a Film, I’m planning to show a clip from Night of the Living Dead that should work as a good springboard for a discussion of the key elements of film form, which students should have read. We’ll discuss conventions and prior experience; the way we register emotion within the film and [...]
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I’m determined, this term, to not fall into either the 1.) going-over-the-syllabus-the-first-day cop-out or the 2.) jump-right-in-to-lecture cop-out, both of which so often become standards (usually because we’re so busy prepping courses, finishing syllabi, or participating in the pipe-dream of having all the basic course plans for the entire rest of the term in some [...]
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Fantomina and Provocation
One of my favorite readings of the term, Eliza Haywood’s Fantomina. We had three presentations, and the essays the students presented did give us a good context for discussion; however, one student used a non-scholarly source, and I’m pretty sure another didn’t actually read Haywood (at least, he didn’t have the copy with him…)! I’m [...]
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Composition 2: After the Break
Returning the exams is one of the first things I want to do, and I say “first” because I’d like to use them as a starting point for a discussion of choosing sources and ideas that make logical sense for your overall topic; many essays seemed to draw from the background information without much regard [...]
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Theater Outing, Lope de Vega
I’ve secured the tickets for Wednesday, February 11, when we’ll be seeing the 7:30 performance of Dog in the Manger, at the Shakespeare Theatre in DC. The Shakespeare Theatre has two venues–we’ll be in the Lansburgh theater. Since I’m canceling class in order to go as a group to see the play, I think we [...]
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World Literature, Castiglione
Last week in EN203, we discussed Baldesar Castiglione’s Book of the Courtier, thinking especially about the deliberate cultivation of public identity as a Renaissance trait. Students seemed a bit less enthused about this text, and they have been getting more difficult in the past weeks. Discussion has been going well, and while it’s rare that [...]
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Two Comp Classes
My comp students have been a little lackluster in discussion this past week, despite having seen the magnificent Chaplin’s Gold Rush (1925). Last Monday, we went over Project 2, which is a film analysis essay; in discussion, I sought to tie a few prefatory clips from the film to our background reading in order to [...]
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