歐書華博士 Dr. Anna O'Brien's Classes > f18 Semester > f18 LIT1| Class Number | Date | Class Activities and Homework | | 1 | 9/13/18 | Class Introduction.
| | 2 | 9/20
| HOMEWORK DUE TODAY: Please read 'The Story of an Hour' by Kate Chopin, an American woman author. Please print out, read, and bring to class 'The Story of an Hour' 1. 'The Story of an Hour,' and 2. the basic introduction to first and third person narrators. 3. Related to yesterday's holiday 'National Talk Like a Pirate Day': | | 3 | 9/27
| HOMEWORK DUE TODAY: I'll give you some handout to print out and work on with a small group of classmates, about plot and chronological order. CHANGE OF PLANS: instead of that, here is the group of plot-ordered points. In class, we can break into groups and work on putting all this into chronological order.
IN CLASS TODAY: Plot order vs chronological order in 'The Story of an Hour'
Introduction to characterization
https://www.theatlantic.com/sexes/archive/2013/01/dads-caring-for-their-kids-its-parenting-not-babysitting/267443/ | | 4 | 10/4 | HOMEWORK DUE TODAY: Please read 'The Street that got Mislaid' by Patrick Waddington. It's a super story!!!!!!!
After you've read this short story once, go back again and consider the personality of Marc Girondin, the main character. How do you feel about him? What's he like?
After you have a few adjectives for him, go back into the story and find the clues that will tell you how you came to these impressions. Look for these three types of clues:
What the character SAYS (or thinks, feels, etc.) What the character DOES What others (including the narrator) says or thinks about the character
IN CLASS TODAY: 'The Street that got Mislaid' | | 5 | 10/11 | HOMEWORK DUE TODAY: Please read chapters 2 and 3 of 'The Bad Beginning' by Lemony Snicket. Consider the personalities of the characters Count Olaf, Violet, and Klaus, and pick some adjectives to describe one of the characters. Consider these adjectives and pick one that you believe you can support in the three ways listed above for 10/4. Give at least one example of information from the story, quoting it exactly, to support your adjective.
IN CLASS TODAY: Characterization. It's a good idea to bring your cheat sheets today.
Also introducing more about Narrative point of view. | | 6 | 10/18 | HOMEWORK DUE TODAY: This worksheet on Narrative point of view. Please print it out first and fill it in in small groups of 3-5 people, and hand it in when you come in to class, one worksheet per group.
IN CLASS TODAY: More on narrative point of view, such as the Unreliable first person narrators (including the Innocent Eye) and also Stream of Consciousness. Working with the homework sheet.
Talking about fiction-related vocabulary words from the Cheat Sheet.
The typical elements of a fictional plot, including exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and denouement, among others. | | 7 | 10/25 | HOMEWORK DUE TODAY: Please read the short story 'The Canterville Ghost' by the Irish writer Oscar Wilde, considering after you read it for the first time how the plot-related terms we have studied and talked about can be applied to this story. Not all the terms might be used. You should print out the story and mark where the exposition, climax, and so forth can be found, in your group's opinion, in the story; to make sure the page numbers are the same for everyone, I'll use a PDF version. Bring the printed and marked-up story with you to give me as homework.
IN CLASS TODAY: Beginning 'The Canterville Ghost.' | | 8 | 11/1 | HOMEWORK DUE TODAY: Please bring a printed copy of 'The Canterville Ghost' with you today, marked up as I described last week.
IN CLASS TODAY: Continuing our story from Chapter 3
Review and discussion for the Mid Term. | | 9 | 11/8 | HOMEWORK DUE TODAY:
IN CLASS TODAY: Mid-Term Exam, which starts at 10:30 AM.
You may work in small groups of up to three people or alone. You can bring along, either on paper or on your cell phone, laptop, or similar, the literature and notes from this semester so far, just please do not access the Internet during our exam. You can also use a dictionary. I do recommend bringing our Cheat Sheet.
I plan for the exam to be multiple choice questions, with maybe a few short answer questions.
Contents:
LITERATURE:
- The Story of an Hour
- The Street that Got Mislaid
- Chapters 2 and 3 (excerpt) from The Bad Beginning
- The Canterville Ghost
- Basic information from class lectures about these writers
LITERARY TERMS AND CONCEPTS (Recognizing and Applying these)
- Plot order vs. Chronological Order
- Characterization: including the application of the ability to analyze this
- Different Narrative Points of view: including recognizing and identifying them and supporting this with evidence
- Terms and concepts related to Plot, including exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, denouement, conflict (and types of conflict)
| | 10 | 11/15 | HOMEWORK DUE TODAY:
IN CLASS TODAY: Review of the exam, clarification of the idea of Characterization
Irony, allusion, foreshadowing, flashbacks and flash-forwards, breaking the fourth wall, and other media terms, with examples. 'A Psalm of Life' used as one example of allusion. | | 11 | 11/22 | HOMEWORK DUE TODAY: Here is the 'second chance' exercise for you on characterization, for you to print out and give to me at the beginning of class today. Please copy and paste into a word processor, then print it out and answer the items by hand:
Student English and Chinese Name: ________________________
Student Number: _________________________________________
Favorite Color: ___________________________________________
For “The Canterville Ghost,” please provide an analysis of either the little girl character or the ghost’s personality as we have practiced in class for characterization. Select ONE suitable adjective and support it with direct examples of text from the story. For each kind of support you use, identify the type of support you’re using clearly—as we have done before. (10%) Character’s name: _____________________ Adjective describing them: ___________________ Three methods for the writer to communicate this character’s personality: 1. __________________________________ Textual example of this:
2. __________________________________ Textual example of this:
3. __________________________________ Textual example of this:
IN CLASS TODAY: Today we'll read and discuss a short story by one of my favorite writers, Roald Dahl. He wasn't quite a wonderful man, but he was an exquisite writer. | | 12 | 11/29 | HOMEWORK DUE TODAY:
IN CLASS TODAY: Finishing 'The Landlady.' Discussion and comparison of the story and the adaptation.
The 'Tales of the Unexpected' playlist
Beginning to introduce the next genre: Poetry. | | 13 | 12/6 | HOMEWORK DUE TODAY: Please check out this handout on different kinds of rhyme.
IN CLASS TODAY: I'm also expecting to be able to hand your midterm exams back to you. I was really surprised that so few people took advantage of their 2nd chance to do the 'characterization' section over, but I accept your decisions. It's too late to redo now. | | 14 | 12/13 | HOMEWORK DUE TODAY:
IN CLASS TODAY:More practice with rhyme, including rhyme schemes practice. The introduction to meter. Please bring your Cheat Sheets with you.
On MONDAY, 12/17/2018, the DAFL English musical drama will be performed. Its name is Jasper in Deadland, and it starts at 6:30 in the Student Center Performance Hall on campus. It's going to be SUPER! And I'll give bonus points to every one of my students who attends the show... if you're in more than one of my classes, I can give you bonuses for BOTH CLASSES cos I'm so cool.
To get the bonus, simply take a picture in the Performance Hall with someone who worked on the show, an actor or backstage person, and show it to me. :D | | 15 | 12/20 | HOMEWORK DUE TODAY:
IN CLASS TODAY: Recording bonuses today for attending the drama!
More work on rhyme and rhyme schemes.
A deeper introduction to meter, with practical examples to examine and practice on in small groups. | | 16 | 12/27 | HOMEWORK DUE TODAY:
IN CLASS TODAY: More on meter and exercises on that and rhyme schemes.
The ways that poets can add or subtract syllables to make the meter fit better in a poem
Christmas music | | 17 | 1/4/2019 | HOMEWORK DUE TODAY: Here's some practice poetry for you to examine so you can get familiar with identifying meter and rhyme, including rhyme schemes.
IN CLASS TODAY: Review for the final exam | | 18 | 1/10/19 | HOMEWORK DUE TODAY:
IN CLASS TODAY: Final Exam!
You can work in small groups of four students at the MOST, no groups of five. Bring the Cheat Sheet, any works we studied, class notes, a dictionary, whatever you might need. However, please remember that you must not access the Internet during the exam, which starts at 10:30 AM.
Contents will include:
- Fiction-related concepts and vocabulary from the Cheat Sheet, including allusion, flashbacks, flash-forwards, foreshadowing, etc.
- The poem 'A Psalm of Life' as allusion and in general (please bring the poem to your exam!)
- 'The Landlady,' partly analysis for foreshadowing
- And some basic information about its author, Roald Dahl
- Differences between the story and the adaptation we watched in class
- Characterization
- Rhyme: types of rhyme, including
- Perfect, half, eye, no rhyme
- masculine and feminine, the latter including triple rhyme
- Masculine and feminine endings (to a line of poetry)
- Rhyme schemes. Remember, the first line is always labeled either A or X
- Meter:
- The feet: iambic, trochaic, anapestic, or dactylic
- How many feet per line, such as monometer, dimeter, trimeter, tetrameter...
- The name of the meter has two words: the first is the name of the feet used, and the second is the number of feet in one line, such as 'iambic pentameter'
- Practical: examining short poems to determine if they are Shakespearean Sonnets or Petrarchan Sonnets or Not a Sonnet.
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