1 September 2005
if ("readings" != syllabus) { ?>if ("readings" == "class topics") echo "Today's Topic: "; if ("readings" == "readings") echo "Assigned Text: "; if ("readings" == "news") echo "News: "; if ("readings" == "in-class activity") echo "In-class Activity"; ?>Dickinson [Assorted]
This entry contains three short Emily Dickinson poems. Many of her works were published long after her death, so a publication date is not immediately useful here. Dickinson's poems are typically known by their first lines, although she did not give them titles.
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if ("readings" == "class topics") echo "Today's Topic: "; if ("readings" == "readings") echo "Assigned Text: "; if ("readings" == "news") echo "News: "; if ("readings" == "in-class activity") echo "In-class Activity"; ?>Poe, ''Conqueror Worm'' (1843)
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if ("glossary" == "class topics") echo "Today's Topic: "; if ("glossary" == "readings") echo "Assigned Text: "; if ("glossary" == "news") echo "News: "; if ("glossary" == "in-class activity") echo "In-class Activity"; ?>RRRR (Read, React, Respond, Reflect)
For EL266, a four-step process that helps you prepare for a productive class discussion using the SHU weblog system.
Read the assigned text, react by posting an "agenda item" (see glossary) to your weblog, respond to 2-4 items posted by your peers, and reflect on the experience in a 200-word informal essay (see "reflection paper" in the glossary).
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if ("class_topics" == "class topics") echo "Today's Topic: "; if ("class_topics" == "readings") echo "Assigned Text: "; if ("class_topics" == "news") echo "News: "; if ("class_topics" == "in-class activity") echo "In-class Activity"; ?>Close Reading
A close reading is a careful, thorough, sustained examination of the words that make up a text.
A close reading is really a re-reading. You look closely at it.
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if ("glossary" == "class topics") echo "Today's Topic: "; if ("glossary" == "readings") echo "Assigned Text: "; if ("glossary" == "news") echo "News: "; if ("glossary" == "in-class activity") echo "In-class Activity"; ?>Agenda Item
For EL266, a brief quotation from the assigned text, together with a non-obvious question or observation, that you will be prepared to talk about if called on in class. (It's part of "React," the second "R" in the RRRR sequence.)
For readings due on Tuesday, post by 9:30am Monday. For readings due on Thursday, post by noon on Wednesday. (The same schedule holds for students taking the Wednesday evening section.)
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if ("news" == "class topics") echo "Today's Topic: "; if ("news" == "readings") echo "Assigned Text: "; if ("news" == "news") echo "News: "; if ("news" == "in-class activity") echo "In-class Activity"; ?>Room Change
Beginning next week, the room for the Tuesday/Thursday section of EL 266 will change to A 308. (Our previous room has character, but no computer.)
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if ("glossary" == "class topics") echo "Today's Topic: "; if ("glossary" == "readings") echo "Assigned Text: "; if ("glossary" == "news") echo "News: "; if ("glossary" == "in-class activity") echo "In-class Activity"; ?>Reflection Paper
For EL266, a reflection paper is an informal written statement that demonstrates that you are coming to class prepared to do your part to advance the discussion of a reading. (It's the fourth "R" in the "RRRR" sequence.)
You may post it on your class weblog, if you wish, but bring a printout to class in any case.
Requirements
- Include at least one direct quotation from the assigned reading.Engage critically and intellectually with that quotation.Refer by name to at least one peer whose online reaction differs from yours.Length: about 200 words (not counting quotations).
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if ("class_topics" == "class topics") echo "Today's Topic: "; if ("class_topics" == "readings") echo "Assigned Text: "; if ("class_topics" == "news") echo "News: "; if ("class_topics" == "in-class activity") echo "In-class Activity"; ?>Introduction to Weblogs
(Time permitting.)
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