REVISION PLAN (PLACE PAPER)
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FINAL REVISION PAPER (1 & 2)
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REVISION PLAN (PAPER 1)
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Reading for Thursday September 28, 2017- October 3, 2017
I've attached the reading for the next three sessions of class. We will be reading Zitkala-Sa's American Indian Stories, Legends, and Other Writings. Zitkala-Sa wrote her autobiography as a series of short essays for Atlantic Monthly.
- Remember to print out the work. Laptops are not allowed during discussion, so you need your text in hand.
- For September 28, 2017, please read to the end of page 17, just up to "The Snow Episode" (80min). If you, finish before the 80 minutes are up, go back and reread and/or annotate. Zitkala-sa's writing is beautiful and is packed with complex and layered ideas. Then, by Thursday at noon, write a response under our Class Discussion tab thinking about the theme of our course: power, place, and community. Questions you can consider are, What is Zitkala-Sa and her mother's relationship to space before she goes to school? How does it change? How is she and her community disempowered over the course of the narrative? (45min.)
- Everyone is required to post. However, if your last name begins with A-M, you are required to write your post in response to someone who has already posted. Hit "Reply" and start a discussion with that classmate. If you're having difficulty starting, here are some formulas: "Shokoofeh, I, too, was struck by the moment when.....I appreciate the way you've framed it as....It's also interesting to consider.......with respect to the comments you've already made. If we take [another scene] into consideration, we can also see....." This counts as your post. You do not need to post twice. If your name does not begin with A-M, then just post regularly.
- For October 3, 2017, please read up to the end of page 30-- the entire document. (80 min) Then, by Tuesday noon, write a response on bCourses thinking about the themes again: power, place, community. How is place represented? How does power operate in a space? How has Zitkala-Sa changed? (45 min)
- Everyone is required to post. However, if your last name begins with N-Z, you are required to write your post in response to someone who has already posted. Hit "Reply" and start a discussion with that classmate. If you're having difficulty starting, here are some formulas: "Shokoofeh, I, too, was struck by the moment when.....I appreciate the way you've framed it as....It's also interesting to consider.......with respect to the comments you've already made. If we take [another scene] into consideration, we can also see....."
- Come to class prepared to actively participate.
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Reading for Thursday September 21, 2017: Teju Cole, Known and Strange Things
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Labor Instructions:
Required Total labor: 80 minutes
Please read the two short essays "Far Away from Here" and "Home Strange Home" by Teju Cole from his book Known and Strange Things twice each.
Required Total labor: 80 minutes
Please read the two short essays "Far Away from Here" and "Home Strange Home" by Teju Cole from his book Known and Strange Things twice each.
- On the first read, just enjoy the stories. This collection of essays has been lauded as one of the best books of the year by multiple critics including critics from the New York Times, The Atlantic, Harper's Bazaar, The Guardian, and many more!!! 30 minutes
- On the second read, pay attention to the following:
- In "Far Away from Here," please pay attention to Teju Cole's textual field, or the body of texts that have made the piece. How many different genres of texts can you find or outside sources can you find (poetry, prose, journalism, historical document, literary criticism, memoir, etc.)? Please also pay attention to how Teju Cole is using his outside sources. Mark every time you notice an outside source in the piece as annotations in your document when you bring your hard copy with you to class. 20 minutes
- In "Home Strange Home," think about longing, belonging, and othering. Where do you see longing and othering. Underline key passages that help you think about these concepts. Also, think about sources and the textual field. What sources did Cole use in this piece? 10 minutes
- Finally, go to the Class Discussion tab on the website, and post a brief reflection/free write on the following: What was your experience of reading each of these pieces? What kind of sources does Teju Cole use in each of these essays? What effect did the sources have on your experience of reading or understanding each piece? 10 minutes
Reading for Thursday September 14, 2017 : Ibn Fadlan, The Land of Darkness
I spent hours and hours trying to choose an excerpt from Ibn Battuta, but honestly I found it a little too boring for us to read. That doesn't mean that the book isn't doing fascinating work, but given how little time we have to look at older travel narratives, I'd like us to focus on something a little more gripping. So, I've chosen this instead. Did you know that it was a 10th century Arab traveler who gave us the earliest written description of the Vikings?!?! I give to you Ibn Fadlan. The following file is his 16-page account of the Rus people or the Viking traders. You may want to skim through it earlier than next Thursday so that you can decide whether you'd like to do your close reading paper on Fadlan or Mandeville (or a combination of both)! But make sure that by next Thursday, September 14, you spend 60 minutes reading and studying these pages. Don't forget to fill in your labor log!
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Reading for Tuesday September 12, 2017
Read "How Academics Survive the Writing Grind: Some Anecdotal Advice" published today on lithub. 15 minutes
While this article refers to PhD students and academics, its advice can apply to all writers in any field doing any kind of writing. So read it in order to apply it to yourself and your own writing process.
Spend ten minutes free writing on this article, taking the following questions into consideration:
What is your writing process? What have you learned from this article? How does this article change the way you view writing? What parts of this article are you going to apply to your own writing over the course of the semester? What is the one thing you want to remember about this article? 15 minutes
While this article refers to PhD students and academics, its advice can apply to all writers in any field doing any kind of writing. So read it in order to apply it to yourself and your own writing process.
Spend ten minutes free writing on this article, taking the following questions into consideration:
What is your writing process? What have you learned from this article? How does this article change the way you view writing? What parts of this article are you going to apply to your own writing over the course of the semester? What is the one thing you want to remember about this article? 15 minutes
Reading for Week of September 5, 2017
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