1/28/11

D2L is active!!! All powerpoints have been uploaded to the content section, as has the practice outline we did Wednesday (Poe's devil eye). Please e-mail me ASAP if you still cannnot get on D2L!

Today we discussed "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gillman and also had our grammar lesson (clauses!).

Homework for Monday:

• Read "Young Goodman Brown" by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Read "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson
• Blog your reactions to the story
• Also blog about your tentative paper topic
• Grammar Worksheet

See you all on Monday! Enjoy the warm weather!

1/26/11

I think I've figured out the D2L problem and it should be up and running in a couple days, so I'll upload our "Demon Eye Outline" on there when it's up. I think that would be easier than emailing it out to everyone, and we wouldn't run the chance of losing the outline because it would always be there.

Homework for Friday:

• If you haven't submitted the comparative analysis, do so now.
• Read "Setting". It's the opening bit of chapter 4.
• Read "The Yellow Wallpaper" and blog about the story.

Remember to keep thinking about your paper topics. By Wednesday, I'm expecting a tentative paper topic. You can write on any one or two of the stories we read in class and you can write about anything. Feel free to be creative! Writing should be fun!

1/24/11

We talked about "A Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allen Poe (and had an interesting discussion!) and learned about point of view!

I'm also working on getting the D2L issue taken care of.

The homework for Friday is:

· Read “Character” (pages 75-77)

· Write a comparative analysis (1-2 pages long) that examines the characters of Poe’s narrator and Emily from “A Rose for Emily.” Submit to Turnitin.com

· Read “Reader-Response Criticism” and “An Eskimo ‘A Rose for Emily’” (pages 1490-91)

This the first time we’ve read anything about criticism so think about the following questions: What did you understand from the articles we read? What do you think reader-response criticism is?

1/21/11

210ers,

Today we talked about "A Rose for Emily." I enjoyed our discussion of some of you even made me rethink what I had read!

We also covered elements of plot and subject/predicate. I will upload those PowerPoints onto D2L sometime this weekend.

Homework:

• Grammar Worksheet
• Read "A Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allen Poe
• Blog your response to Poe's story

Enjoy your weekend!

1/19/11

Finally, we're done with the syllabus and class can really begin!

Homework for Friday is as follows:

• Read the "Reading Actively" article I handed out in class
• Read "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner
• Blog about "A Rose for Emily"

Remember, you'll get the most out of the literature if you read actively!!! I cannot stress the importance of this enough. It's ESSENTIAL!!!

It's that time again!

Welcome 210ers! I'm looking forward to this semester and I hope you are too!

For our first day of class, we had a fun icebreaker and learned some interesting things about our fellow classmates. We also learned about the blogs we will be creating this semester (a project I'm very excited about!) and we covered a few things from the syllabus.

Your first assignment is as follows:

• Blog about what you covered in English 101. What concepts did you learn about? how to structure a paper? the rhetorical triangle? other things? What kind of papers did you write? Did you work a lot with grammar? The more I know about what you already know, the better I'll be able to structure this class and keep repetition of materials to a minimum.
• Tell me about yourself. Do you like to write in your free time? Do you like to read a lot? What are some of your hobbies? Are you involved in lots of extracurricular activities? What's your favorite subject? What's your least favorite? What are some things you hope to experience in this class? Feel free to answer some or all of these questions or, if you prefer, to tell me about completely different stuff!