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A running list of writing tips, including a definition of plagiarism and resources for responsible citations, is on the Composition Tips page! Check it out.
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In an interview with Lonnie Bunch, new head of the Smithsonian museums, two statements resonated with me when it comes to the American identity. We are defined by our histoy; what stories we tell and how we tell them. Bunch said:
"One of the great strengths of the Smithsonian is that we have different portals into what it means to be an American," Bunch says. "You can understand that through the American Art Museum or through the Air and Space Museum or American History Museum."
"I think the biggest goal of history at the Smithsonian ought to be to help the American public embrace ambiguity to understand that there's not simple answers to complex questions," Bunch says. "And if we can help the public become comfortable with wrestling with the shades of gray then we've really made a contribution."
"One of the great strengths of the Smithsonian is that we have different portals into what it means to be an American," Bunch says. "You can understand that through the American Art Museum or through the Air and Space Museum or American History Museum."
"I think the biggest goal of history at the Smithsonian ought to be to help the American public embrace ambiguity to understand that there's not simple answers to complex questions," Bunch says. "And if we can help the public become comfortable with wrestling with the shades of gray then we've really made a contribution."
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junior project - the final
Ideas/abstracts due on may 20/21, presentations start as early as June 4 for period 2, june 3 for period 5 .
NOTE - FOR 2019 YOU DO NOT NEED TO READ AN INDEPENDENT NOVEL.
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Truths of War - Catch 22, The things they carried and apocalypse now
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The Things They Carried reading schedule. Read thru the story named. Book will be completed by 5/28 or 5/29 (after the long weekend, and we'll be watching the film Apocalypse Now, so you can finish it at home while we watch)
Period 2 - read thru "On the Rainy River" for 5/22; read thru "Church" for 5/24; read thru the end for 5/28. Period 5 - read thru "On the Rainy River" for 5/23, read thru the end for 5/29 While we are reading Catch 22, we will have time in each class to do a Q&A session. But that only works if you have questions you're willing to ask. As you read, note any or all of the following (be specific and have page numbers): what amuses you? what confuses you? what frustrates you? what clarifies confusion for you? what delights you? what do you notice about "how" Heller achieves exposition? what issues of themes do you see raised? what is missing that bothers you?
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Catch 22 reading schedule. Read THRU the last chapter listed. Novel will be finished by 5/21.
Period 2 - for 5/2 thru Ch1; for 5/6 thru Ch9; for 5/8 thru Ch16; for 5/10 thru Ch21; for 5/14 thru Ch29, for 5/16 thru Ch37; for 5/20 thru the end. Period 5 - for 5/3 thru Ch1; for 5/7 thru Ch9; for 5/9 thru Ch16; for 5/13 thru Ch26; for 5/15 thru Ch34; for 5/17 thru Ch39; for 5/21 thru the end.
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American Drama - O'Neill, Miller, and Williams
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Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
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Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman
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Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey Into Night
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Harlem Renaissance and Black Identity
Above: Portrait of Langston Hughes by Winold Reiss (1927)
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Invisible Man - 161, 820 words, approximately 11.5 hours to read
Native Son - 155,150 words, approximately 11 hours to read
Black Boy - 134,850 words, approximately 9 hours to read.
Go Tell it on the Mountain - 76, 125 words, approximately 5 hours to read
Reading Schedule - For Black Boy or Native Son, 25 pages a night. For Invisible Man, 36 pages a night. For Go Tell it on the Mountain, 14 pages a night. All books done by Friday March 1.
Native Son - 155,150 words, approximately 11 hours to read
Black Boy - 134,850 words, approximately 9 hours to read.
Go Tell it on the Mountain - 76, 125 words, approximately 5 hours to read
Reading Schedule - For Black Boy or Native Son, 25 pages a night. For Invisible Man, 36 pages a night. For Go Tell it on the Mountain, 14 pages a night. All books done by Friday March 1.
Reading reminder: The texts we are reading are challenging in multiple ways, but mainly because the characters, behaviors and situations seem so foreign to our lives in Wethersfield in 2019. The following advice comes from the summer reading text, Thomas C. Foster's How to Read Literature Like a Professor: (chapter 25 in the first edition)
"Don't read with your eyes....don't read only from your fixed position in the Year of Our Lord two thousand and some. Instead try to find a reading perspective that allows for sympathy with the historical moment of the story, that understands the text as having been written against its own social, historical, cultural, and personal background."
"Don't read with your eyes....don't read only from your fixed position in the Year of Our Lord two thousand and some. Instead try to find a reading perspective that allows for sympathy with the historical moment of the story, that understands the text as having been written against its own social, historical, cultural, and personal background."
The lens texts below are simply possibilities - there are many many many others. You can find a lens text just about anywhere, and we do this kind of intertextual work all of the time. Here some other considerations:
- look at any of these books through the lens of contemporary civil rights movements, such as BLM.
- look at any of these books through the lens of religious practice - which works really well for GTOM, but could also work for any of the others
- look at any of these books through the lens of class politics
- look at any of these books through a lens of poetry or song - use art to read art
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MIDTERM EXAM QUESTION POSSIBILILITES |
Exam Questions for Hurston and Fitzgerald 2019.pdf | |
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The American Dream - James Truslow Adams.pdf | |
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Harlem Renaissance - zora neale Hurston
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Modernism 1910-1945 MODERNIST POETS, HEMINGWAY AND F. SCOTT FITZGERALD'S THE GREAT GATSBY
MODERNISM DEFINED AND POETS
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ERNEST HEMINGWAY - In Our Time, The Sun Also Rises, Farewell to Arms
FOR 2018 - ALL BOOKS MUST BE FINISHED BY MONDAY 12/3. FOR READING JOURNAL PURPOSES, READ APPROX. 25 PAGES A NIGHT TO FINISH ON TIME.
FOR 2018 - ALL BOOKS MUST BE FINISHED BY MONDAY 12/3. FOR READING JOURNAL PURPOSES, READ APPROX. 25 PAGES A NIGHT TO FINISH ON TIME.
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In Our Time 1925 edition
story list (pages 68-144 of The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway Finca Vigia Edition): The 1925 New York edition begins with the short stories "Indian Camp" and "The Doctor and the Doctor's Wife". The two are linked thematically; they are set in Michigan and introduce Nick Adams. Nick witnesses an emergency caesarean section and a suicide in the first; tension between his parents in the second. The next story, "The End of Something", is also set in Michigan, and details Nick's break-up with his girlfriend; "The Three-Day Blow" follows, where Nick and a friend get drunk. "The Battler" is about Nick's chance encounter with a prize-fighter. "A Very Short Story", which was the longest vignette in the previous edition, comes next and is followed by "Soldier's Home", set in Oklahoma, and "The Revolutionist", set in Italy. The next three are set in Europe and detail unhappy marriages: "Mr. and Mrs. Elliot", "Cat in the Rain" and "Out of Season". They are placed before Nick's reappearance in "Cross Country Snow", which takes place in Switzerland. The penultimate "My Old Man" concerns horse-racing in Italy and Paris, and the volume ends with the two-part Nick Adams story "Big Two-Hearted River", set in Michigan. The vignettes were re-ordered and placed between the short stories as interchapters.[43] |
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
"The American Dream is "that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement. It is a difficult dream for the European upper classes to interpret adequately, and too many of us ourselves have grown weary and mistrustful of it. It is not a dream of motor cars and high wages merely, but a dream of social order in which each man and each woman shall be able to attain to the fullest stature of which they are innately capable, and be recognized by others for what they are, regardless of the fortuitous circumstances of birth or position." – James Truslow Adams, The Epic of America, 1931
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Rough draft due in class 11/7 or 11/8, final draft due on 11/12 on Turnitin.
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Uncle tom's Cabin and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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ROUGH DRAFT IS DUE 10/12, FINAL DRAFT DUE 10/21
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Uncle Tom's Cabin Support Texts
Support Texts addressing both novels
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Huck Finn Support Texts
Other Supporting Texts
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Early American Voices
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